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Site Standards

A Directory of those things relevant to the furtherance of Web Standards.

Web Standards

  1. A Proposed W3C Validation Icon

    An illustrative article about seemingly authoritative icons which lack substance and how they may be used for sites which fail Web Standards.

  2. Progress Reconsidered

    Commentary on Web Standards as it has progressed and its state in late 2008.

  3. An Excellent Web Standards Checklist

    Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, List of Best Practice Statements and reasons by which it should be used as a Web Standards Checklist.

  4. Character Sets and Character Coding Mismatches

    CSS Reboot Spring 2006, Character Sets, Character Coding Mismatches and .htaccess files for the correction of those mismatches.

  5. CSS Reboot as Web Standards Validation Indicator

    How using CSS Reboot Spring 2006 as a Web Standards HTML and CSS validation indicator illustrates the need for all web developers to understand Web Standards.

  6. CSS Spring 2006 Reboot Errors Afterword

    An afterword which posits the Web Standards Community with responsibility for HTML and CSS validation failures experienced by the CSS Reboot Spring 2006 participants.

  7. Evangelism induced by Fundamental Errors

    A small article about aversions with errors found on web sites and the resultant need for eradication of those errors.

  8. HTML Italic and Bold Elements as regards Web Standards

    HTML presentational elements, Content Management Systems (CMS) use thereof (with eBay as a use case for burgeoning standards), HTML5 backwards compatibility requirements and Web Standards all are noted in this article regarding italicized and bolded text.

  9. Microsoft Staff Web Logs fail Validation

    An article regarding web standards, Microsoft Staff blogs and Community Server.

  10. Site Object Recognition

    An article about the benefits of accessibility, usability and visibility obtained from favicons and gravatars.

  11. Standard Compliance has Two Different Meanings

    A brief explanation about web standards and standards-compliant mode with an illustrated example of what could happen in quirks mode.

  12. Standards Reboot Spring 2007 as Standards Indicator

    One year after CSS Reboot Spring 2006, site authors and web developers are understandard regarding validation as an aspect of Web Standards (as results from a study of Standards Reboot Spring 2007 participating sites illustrates).

  13. Time Magazine promotes Web Standards Sites

    An article regarding Time Magazine's '50 Coolest Websites (2006)' list as reason for continuing Web Standards education efforts.

  14. W3C HTML Reinvention

    Commentary on the article by Tim Berners-Lee regarding W3C reinvention of the HTML Working Group.

  15. Web Standards, Validation and CSS Reboot Spring 2006

    The collected articles written about web standards, validation, common HTML errors, common CSS errors, character sets and HTML 4.01 after researching CSS Reboot Spring 2006 websites.

  16. Error Handling in Browsers make Web Standards Difficult

    The W3C stated XHTML would solve all the ills of faulty markup languages but User Agents did not follow that specification when it came to error-handling. Anne van Kesteren's site mod illustrates it.

  17. HTML 5 shall not murder Web Standards

    A Reply to those Standardistas who believe that The W3C HTML WG, HTML5 and The WHAT WG have conspired against The Web Standards Movement by allowing graceful error handling and supporting existing nonconforming content. They haven't.

  18. What makes Valid Code Valid?

    A minor article musing on the difference between writing valid code and writing code which validates.

  19. What Web Standards Crisis?

    An article about the significance of Web Standards and the need for continuous education.

  20. Which Character Set Encoding should be Used?

    An article regarding character set declarations and which set should be used based on a review of fifty web standards compliant websites.

  21. Why Bother?

    A small sample of a quality assurance study regarding Alexa’s Top 200 Global Sites as performed on behalf of the W3C HTML Working Group in their efforts with HTML 5 and it’s acceptance.

  22. (x)HTML Well-Formedness requires Validation

    A brief article regarding web pages with ill-formed markup which includes an example of the error-handling of said pages by browsers (or, User Agents).

  23. Yahoo gets Standards with the New Professionalism

    A small review of the site redesign by Yahoo on May 16, 2006.

HTML

  1. And All That HTML5 Malarkey

    A case study wherein Andy Clarke's “And All That Malarkey” XHTML undergoes six interations before it becomes HTML5 compliant.

  2. HTML and XHTML are Identical in HTML5

    The WHAT WG has devised a simple method of document handling which mutes the argument between use of HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0.

  3. HTML5 Anchor Difference

    A small difference between HTML 4.01 and HTML 5 as regards anchors, significant text and embedded content.

  4. HTML5 Doctype is Unrecognized

    Web Application 1.0 (or, HTML5) has simplified the Document Type Declaration whereby it renders web pages in standards-compliant mode, does not require definition and is unrecognizable.

  5. They aren't HTML5 docs in the first place

    Document Type Delcaration (DTDs) are incidental elements when validation efforts are performed. Validation occurs from valid content: markup languages and stylesheets. Occasionally, valid content will be HTML, XHTML and HTML compliant regardless of which.

  6. HTML5 Image Difference

    A small difference between HTML 4.01 and HTML 5 as regards images and embedded content.

  7. The Most Common HTML Markup Errors

    The most common and prevalent errors found in HTML Markup code of sites which participated in CSS Reboot Spring 2006.

  8. WHAT Working Group boils Ocean!

    The Web Hypertext Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group (WG) Mailing List has this thread. Everyone should read this thread. It's titled “HTML5 should allow for the empty element syntax.” It's very informative.

  9. Why do You use HTML 4?

    Web developer replies from a small questionnaire sent to CSS Reboot Spring 2006 participants and commenter's on 456 Berea Street regarding the use of HTML 4.01 on their sites.

  10. HTML5 and http-equiv Difference

    An article regarding one difference - http-equiv - between HTML 4.01 and HTML 5 which concludes with <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"> and its deprecation by HTML 5.

  11. The Philosophy of HTML 5 as Explained by Ian Hickson

    The Philosophy of HTML 5 as Explained by Ian Hickson.

  12. Why Use HTML 5?

    The purpose of this article regards using WHAT WG HTML 5 (as it existed on January 24, 2007) which includes a selected History Lesson as to how it originated and what may occur.

  13. (X)HTML5 Character Encoding

    Ian Hickson offers clarification regarding a present-day misconception of the (X)HTML5 speicification's allowance for UTF-8 character sets only.

  14. Yahoo! recommends HTML 4

    The Yahoo! Developer Network offers its recommendation that all sites should be constructed with HTML 4.01/Strict for rendering standards mode in user agents.

  15. Why XHTML™?

    Which DTD should be used? Persuasive arguments abound. This article represents a less academic resolution of this web standards conundrum.

  16. XHTML's Gift

    An Introductory Article regarding websites that use HTML 4.01.

CSS

  1. CSS Validator-Induced Errors

    The most common and prevalent CSS Validator-Generated errors found in cascading style sheets code of sites which participated in CSS Reboot Spring 2006 wherein some errors are governed by CSS level selection.

  2. CSS Vendor-Specific Extensions fail

    The most common vendor-specific extensions found in Cascading Style Sheets of CSS Reboot Spring 2006 participants. Vendor-specific extensions fail CSS validation.

  3. How Things Change

    What ever happened to those authoritative albeit historical tutorials regarding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that Everyone read years passed. More importantly, how does Web Standards promote them as one of the fundamental foundations of Web Standards.

  4. Mobile Web Best Practices and CSS Image Replacement

    A slight disagreement with the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices and its CSS image replacement statement.

  5. The Most Common CSS Markup Errors

    The most common and prevalent author-induced errors found in the cascading style sheets of sites which participated in CSS Reboot Spring 2006.

  6. Why Validate Cascading Style Sheets?

    Why web developers should validate their cascading style sheets before publishing content on websites according to W3C CSS specifications.

  7. Errors found in Yahoo! UI Library Templates

    This page details errors found in Yahoo! UI Library templates as referenced in an article - Yahoo! Templates fail CSS Validation - written in 2006.

  8. Yahoo! Templates fail CSS Validation

    Everyone may have difficulties with cascading style sheets and web standards like Yahoo.

Design

  1. The Lesson of Vitaphone Cartoons as regards Web Design

    This article regards Standards Reboot Spring 2007, Vitaphone cartoons and notes Jon Hicks twice as regards web design for visual aesthetics.

Typography

  1. Site Typography Elements, Widths

    A Typographic Style Elements reference from The Elementary Standards.

  2. [ Text Indent ]

    How to study typography and composition by empirical methods with printed matter from 1927.

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