We’ve been remiss in updating the Daily Report because of the all–consuming project mentioned in The Dot Com Chair. That project has been approved and may go live as early as next week.
        We’ve also been hustling to prepare for our talk and panels at Web Builder in New Orleans next week, and to make ready this Friday’s A List Apart, featuring a lead story on graphic design by the inimitable Dean Allen of Textism.

Readers, including W3C folks, continue to fill in the 14–15 November Daily Reports about Netscape 4 “upgrades.” Some have hinted that iPlanet, owned jointly by Sun and AOL/Netscape, may grind out new versions of Netscape 4 not merely to fulfill maintenance contracts, but perhaps also to slow down the adoption of CSS and other W3C standards, which might be wrongly perceived by the Sun/Netscape camp as “Microsoft technologies.”
        For those who don’t know, here’s one reason Netscape 4, no matter how many times it’s “upgraded,” will never properly support the CSS web standard. Netscape 6, of course, does.

Smart blog: youngpup.net. It’s all in the details.

“Easy XHTML,” our Web Publishing Secrets column, is in this month’s Macworld Magazine and should be available on the Macworld site soon. The previous column, “Make Web Sites that Work for All,” may be read online.
        A Zeldman interview conducted by Hans van Dijk of skipintro.nl appears on page 20 of Credits Magazine #3/2001. It’s in Dutch, a language we don’t speak, which enables us to pretend we said clever and useful things in the interview.

Oops! There’s an English translation. Never mind about that “clever, useful” business. (For the jaded and/or masochistic, additional interviews are available.)

Speaking of translations, Chiedilo al Dottor Web is an authorized Italian translation of our ancient, humble Ask Dr Web. Dr Web may be the only “web design” tutorial from 1995 that failed to generate a school, conference, book series, lecture tour, CD–ROM series, buyout offer, or distance learning e–business.

Still speaking of translations, Ken Westin of sozoweb.com says this about the Japanese translation robot referred to in the 17 November Daily Report:
        “The grammar is awkward and the wrong kanji are used quite a few times. These little robots are handy ... but not an end–all solution to translation on the web.... Metaphors and comparisons are culture–centric, and grammar is completely different.”

Where were you on 11 September 2001? :::

My Glamorous Life No. 67: The Dot Com Chair. In which we sit and spin.

For your international pleasure, here’s a instant Japanese translation of this morning’s Glamour. (Geeks, View Source for more.) :::

My Glamorous Life No. 66: Room for Living. My Glamorous Life is an Instant Memoir, delivered on the installment plan. It’s personal, but it’s not a tell–all. (Would you tell all?)

After five years of artistic and literary collaboration, Born Magazine is throwing a party. With 200 creative projects to its credit, Born remains one of the web’s best and most important independent sites. :::