The Dutch government passed a law last year that all government sites conform to some extremely tight specifications – W3C validation is just a small part of it. It’s great to see this kind of thing happening at such a high level. Now we just need to get the UK and EU to follow suit. There’s an english translation here and an article on 456 Berea Street.
Rectangular text selections in OS X
i just found a nice OS X feature by accident. Hold down command and option (you’ll see the cursor change to a crosshair) then drag-select some text in a web textarea. It will select a rectangular area, just like a cmd-opt-4 screen grab, but for text. Not sure if this works in any other contexts.
Another neat feature I read about recently is very cute: place your mouse over a word (in pretty much any app), then hit command-control-d, and it will pop-up a neat little word definition panel.