I’ve decided to embark on a little project I’ve been wanting to do for some time. Sort of my version of Tidy, except covering some really old proprietary tags also. The other benefit of this, aside from the obvious, is that this will (ideally) also…
Category: Standards
High school and college instructors who teach poor web design standards are probably one of the things that I find the most frustrating in this industry right now. It truly is disturbing to think of how it is working, and sometimes it feels like the…
Since I recently wrote an article on the benefits of a tableless layout, I felt it prudent to express my views on it in practical application. I personally know many many web developers who work in the industry, and whether these people have multiple clients,…
Recently Kalle asked me to write up an article on why people should stop using tables, and show a simple example of tableless design. The reason was not because he doesn’t know how to create them, nor because there are not many examples on the…
As anyone who has tried to validate a website to a Strict doctype knows, the target=”_blank” attribute is no longer allowed. The most common question is Why? and there is a simple answer. In web standards, (X)HTML is for content, CSS is for style, and…
As this came up in a recent discussion, I think its prudent to at least briefly list the ideal doctypes to use for the modes you want to trigger in a browser. Keep in mind that there are three termed modes: Quirks Mode, Almost Standards…
CAPTCHA – What are the Alternatives? In a very interesting document published by the working group over at W3C, it was discussed in detail how CAPTCHA’s are very bad for accessibility. In case you don’t recall, CAPTCHA is that nice acronym for the terribly long…
What is Accessibility Compliance? As was mentioned in the previous discussion on code compliance, there is some substantial overlap between code and accessibility compliance. However, the one distinction is that code compliance is more geared toward coding a webpage in a way that it will…
What is Standards Compliant Code? Well, it actuall is more of an overall category than a single thing, however, I’ll define it as this: “Standards Compliant Code is the utilization of the current standards combinations, as set forth by the W3C Recommendations, in order to…
“The Overview” The Internet is chock full of webpages, and it is growing at an amazing rate, but I think that most people can agree that not everyone has an eye for good web design. I bet you have run across many webpages that just…