#standards (167 links)
- W3C mobileOK Checker [BETA] validator.w3.org
- IANA | URI Schemes iana.org
URI Schemes and descriptions.
- views from space: Faust: Flash Augmenting Standards blog.space150.com
In Faust, content for Flash is a single source of data: the HTML. You don’t need a new XML structure. The same lists, images, and links you display for users without Flash are consumed for users with Flash.
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum opera.com
"A complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics." Great, but picked up a couple of things I disagree with already.
- The JavaScript Manifesto - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
This sums things up quite nicely.
- XHTML 2 vs. HTML 5 - I’m Mike immike.net
Good comparison of the two specs.
- Looking for open source CMS and portal software options | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
To summarise this little call for input: any suggestions, hints, and recommendations on open source content management and portal software are welcome.
- The B-List: Legacy. b-list.org
Great article on the whole IE Version Targeting thing, including some excellent point on Mac/Safari user base and not relying on pure percentages when deciding on browser support.
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers.
- DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards dataportability.org
"Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors." Not sure how I missed this.
- Home | Email Standards Project email-standards.org
Works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
- YUI Theater — PPK on the Professionalization of Frontend Engineering » Yahoo! User Interface Blog yuiblog.com
PPK has embarked recently on a project to create a professional organization for frontend engineers in his native Holland. The organization is called “Fronteers” (frontend engineers)
- Helping your client maintain markup quality | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"Make any errors or suspicious markup obvious to the person working on the document." Been doing this for a while - had lost the original source.
- Javascript Tooltips on Steroids - Javascript Tutorials - 15 Days Of jQuery 15daysofjquery.com
- CSS - the antithesis of frameworks « AlastairC alastairc.ac
There are certainly situations where CSS frameworks are useful, but it just doesn’t seem right to change the HTML to use them (for production sites).
- JeffCroft.com: The myth of content and presentation separation www2.jeffcroft.com
The idea that a redesign of anything more than the most basic of sites will not require changes to (X)HTML markup is simply a myth.
Here are some of the general and sobering situations I’m running across the deeper I go into under-represented countries when it comes to educational opportunities and resources.
- HTML5 differences from HTML4 dev.w3.org
Describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes. This document may not provide accurate information as the HTML5 specification is still in development.
- Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them | Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
This post is supposed to give you an idea, what Microformats actually mean, which advantages they have and how you can use them to enrich your content and make it more visible and understandable for search engines.
- posh - Microformats microformats.org
POSH encapsulates the best practices of using semantic HTML to author web pages. Semantic HTML is the subset of HTML 4.01 (or XHTML 1.0) elements and attributes that are semantic rather than presentational.
- Lame excuses for not being a Web professional | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
If you do like rants and have an interest in creating websites that work for as many people as possible, you might enjoy this.
This article will first introduce persistent UI pitfalls of the 1990s, then outline the benefits of Web standards-based Web site development.
If you want to become involved in something worthwhile and whose purpose has been woefully mischaracterized, become a Web quality activist and lend some of that communication skill to this worthy social cause.
- A List Apart: Articles: Where Our Standards Went Wrong alistapart.com
"We can all agree that the realities of the web make it hard to build a standards-compliant site. Once the client’s CMS, outdated WYSIWYG editors, and third-party advertising code have finished with once-valid markup, things begin to look ever-so-ugly u
- Web Browser Standards Support webdevout.net
This document will summarize the level of support for web standards and maturing technologies in popular web browsers. It covers the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera web browsers, with focus on the HTML, CSS, DOM, and ECMAScript technologies.
- Seven accessibility mistakes you don't want to make | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
In a two-part article (Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1), Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2)) published on Digital Web Magazine, Chris Heilmann explains some accessibility mistakes he has encountered and how Web developers can avoid them.
- A List Apart: Articles: How to Grok Web Standards alistapart.com
For the visual designer, really understanding web standards means you’ll have to change the way you think about design.
- 24 ways: Marking Up a Tag Cloud 24ways.org
The problem is, everyone’s doing it wrong.
- Microformats Icons -- The brilliant work of Wolfgang Bartelme factorycity.net
Make your own microformat icons and add them to the wiki with Wolfgang's excellent Icon DevKit. Contains both Photoshop and Illustrator vector content.
- sitemaps.org - Home sitemaps.org
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL.
- Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Agree to Standard Sitemaps Protocol techcrunch.com
"Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org, the system instructs web masters on how to install an XML file on their servers that all thr
This article highlights and answers some of the most frequently asked questions about HTML. HTML is the foundation of the Web, and both developers and designers need to understand it.
- isolani - Web Accessibility: Accessibility in Trouble isolani.co.uk
Its clear that the web accessibility community has been on a downward spiral for over a year now, but its not entirely clear why.
- No more Transitional DOCTYPEs, please | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Unless you have lots of legacy content that contains presentaional markup and cannot easily be converted or cleaned up, go Strict
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
You may not be aware, unless you’ve read the actual DOCTYPE documents themselves (and frankly, who wants to do that?) that the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE tells you to avoid using the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE if you can.
- Digital Web Magazine - The Big Picture on Microformats digital-web.com
How are microformats faring a year or so after their coming-out party?
In their eagerness to be good Web citizens, people sometimes use semantic markup when they shouldn’t. Most commonly, this happens with bold and italics.
- Flash, JavaScript, and web standards: like sodium and water? - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
In my previous post I related my experience with implementing markup-only solutions to the task of incorporating multimedia into web sites, and later asserted a low opinion of a popular tool used for publishing SWF files.
- IEBlog : Details on our CSS changes for IE7 blogs.msdn.com
Thank the lord!
- CSE HTML Validator Firefox Extension htmlvalidator.com
Lets you easily validate documents from within Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.5 using the CSE HTML Validator Engine.
- Tantek's Thoughts — 2006 July tantek.com
Here is a summary of 8 steps any web developer can take to improve their page code