The Elementary Standards

The Elementary Standards may be found in Utopia. [See photograph.]

The principle author is Sean Fraser whose background falls in graphic design and literature and analytics. He has developed websites since 1998. He sussed Search Engine Optimization with simple analysis in 1999. And, was previously an Invited HTML Working Group Expert. ^[1] Otherwise, he does contract work-for-hire: wileyluxe [at] gmail [dot] com.

“Theories should be as simple as possible,
but no simpler.”

[Note: This tenet is Occam’s Razor simplified by Albert Einstein which has been commonly paraphrased as above. Or, if you’d like, complicated issues are reduced to simple complexities.]

The structural elements and attributes of HTML 4.01/Strict and HTML 5 were used. Presentational CSS was used; tabular data was placed in tables. Vendor-Specific extensions are used knowingly; CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 selectors are used with foreknowledge of their results: this site will not render pixel-perfect across all User Agents (UAs) nor intended [Note: That would be Malarkey’s Two Tone influence.] and will not pass validation services. However, this site remains compliant.

This site uses the HTML 5 DocType utilizing the well-formedness requirements of “XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition): A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0.” (excepting those XHTML-specific requirements found Appendix C, i.e., C.1, C.2 and C.3) and all applicable requirements found in Section 4. Differences with HTML 4.

And, this site meets Accessiblity's intent. Further, WCAG Samurai Errata for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 recommendations are followed, when possible. And, selected roles from Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Version 1.0, 3.4 Roles are used as document landmarks which—Presently— cause errors in validation with W3C Markup Validation Services.

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