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Web Standards

A Directory of those things relevant to the furtherance of 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.

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