BGM Interactive, one of the heavyweights in the Canada Internet content game, has cut about 10 percent of its workforce. The company — my employer — operates The Globe and Mail Web sites, CTV’s Web sites, and Sympatico, among others.

A new mark-up validator is coming from the W3C. Along with bug fixes, there are (much needed) improvements to the error messages, better support for a variety of character encodings, and more Document Types are supported.

Although no release date is yet scheduled, you can test it now, but be warned: “the code is not ready for use in a production environment.“