The last couple of times I’ve gotten together with former co-workers at the Jersey Giant, the bar seems to be giving away free beer and related tchotchkes. Last time it was Guinness, this time, though, it was Canadian. Nevertheless, I did manage to have a good time.

One of the great things about CSS, is a page’s appearance can theoretically change based based on the medium it’s being displayed on (but you knew that already). CodeBitch has assembled a guide to CSS2 support in the next frontier: PDA and handheld browsers. Support is almost as good as it was for desktop browsers four years ago.

Al Sparber, of PVII, has begun a series of articles on CSS. The first of which (published last month) is a great tutorial on developing clean, cross-browser CSS-based pages that work in most modern browsers. Worthwhile reading for both novice and experts.

Steve Champeon may have rediscovered the first reference to “graceful degradation” for Web design in a post by Joe English in comp.infosystems.www.misc, on October 17, 1994.

WIPO weighs in on intellectual property on the Internet.