web standards
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Web standards are like the building regulations of the Internet. The W3C is dedicated to defining and promoting Web standards, although in recent years the group has received criticism.
In theory, all parties participating in making information available on the Internet are supposed to adhere to Web standards, ensuring that tools, code, and information are all compatible. In reality, Web standards are still struggling to gain full acceptance although progress is being made.
Some browser manufacturers are notorious for only following standards partially, while some Web developers have opted to ignore standards and write non-compliant code. This lack of full support hampers the standards movement and, especially in the case of mixed support by browser makers, imposes unfortunate limits on the benefits achieved by adhering strictly to standards.
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “web standards”
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Font Size Matters
oz: the blog of glenda sims ( the goodwitch) —
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If you want people to actually read the content on your web site, what font size should you use? How I long for a guideline for minimum font size for both usability and accessibility. Font Size and Accessibility The good folks at WebAIM have added an alert to the WAVE for any font rendered at 9px or below. ...8 hours ago -
Google Moving from Gears to HTML5
The Command Line —
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I have admitted to being mystified by some of Google’s recent releases with regards to existing projects, especially open source and open standards. According to ReadWriteWeb, the search giant appears to be making the right move with regards to its browser plugin, Gears. As the article explains, much of what ...1 day ago -
Google Places Vote of Confidence on HTML5
Standard Web Standards —
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Chalk one up for Web Standards.Google has decided to retire Google Gears and is moving forward with HTML5. This isn’t really exciting news for the everyday web user but for the standardistas out there (*chirp* *chirp*), this is exciting news. Heck, HTML5 is still not even done a formal specification! With this ...1 day ago -
Selective Degradation of Modern CSS for Internet Explorer
Adam Darowski —
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Progressive enhancement. Graceful degradation. Progressive enrichment. There are a lot of terms out there for “making sure things work nicely in every browser, even if it doesn’t work or look exactly the same in all of them”. I was thinking about the approach I took on a recent project, the Criminal Justice ...1 day ago -
why open video?
Christopher Blizzard —
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The open video alliance has put up a wonderful little video up that tries to talk about all of the issues around open video and why it’s important. It’s based on Interviews that were done at the recent Open Video Conference . video platform video management video solutions free video player2 days ago -
Bali Hi, Bali Bye
Bruce Lawson's personal site —
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Whew. The Opera Indonesian University tour finished after five cities, ten universities, 2600 students, 49 kilos of nasi goreng and 770,000 spontaneous Asian Poses . Serendipitously, we ended at Udayana University in Denpasar, Bali so I decided to get two day’s downtime in Bali before returning back to the ...2 days ago -
XHTML 1.0 helped improve the Web
456 Berea Street —
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Jeffrey Zeldman on how the stricter and clearer rules of XHTML 1.0 made many web professionals improve their markup: A Zing Too Far . Read full post Posted in (X)HTML , HTML 5 , Web Standards .2 days ago -
Review: Fancy Form Design
Web Teacher —
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product A review by Web Teacher of (rating: 5 stars) Fancy Form Design by Jina Bolton, Tim Connell and Derek Featherstone is from Sitepoint Book (2009). This is really an excellent little book. It gives you tips on planning and designing a form that is both attractive and usable. It provides ...2 days ago -
Blue Beanie Day 2009
Chris Casciano's Place Name Here —
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Today, November 30, is the 3rd annual Blue Beanie Day — a celebration and visible show of support for Web Standards & semantic, accessible markup. Web designers, developers, and users around the world are sporting blue beanies on their avatars to show their support for doing things right. To learn more about ...2 days ago -
Everyone is doing it.
noel.io —
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Blue Beanie Day 2009
noel.io —
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Monday 30 November is International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards. Get your toque on , post a photo , and pop a beanie on your Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook avatars to help spread the word. Blue Beanie Day 2009 (#bbd09) on Flickr – Photo Sharing! .2 days ago -
third annual blue beanie day
Letters from Grenada —
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Tomorrow is the third annual International Blue Beanie Day in Support of Web Standards . Click here for more info . Here’s mine. DON’T MAKE FUN. (I’m very sensitive about my big noggin. AND my drawing skills. Or lack thereof.) Similar Posts: on the nobel peace prize on the equinox whilst ...2 days ago -
How to Evaluate What CMS to Use
TuVinhSoft .,JSC —
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Content Management Systems (CMS) have evolved into more than just publishing content, but managing your workflow as well. CMS’s nowadays allow you to easily conceive, edit, index, and publish content, while giving designers and developers more flexibility in customizing their look and functionality. Although there ...2 days ago -
Blue Beanie Day
Innocent Bystander —
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Today is Blue Beanie Day . Where all people involved in web design, development and other sub-industries are asked to wear a blue beanie on their heads (digital or otherwise) to show support for web standards. There’s even a Blue Beanie Day Photo Pool for those who enjoy taking photos of themselves.2 days ago -
TCLP 2009-11-29 News
The Command Line —
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This is news cast 198. In the intro, a quick Philcon recap. See my earlier post for more. This week’s security alerts are details on an exploitable flaw in older versions of MSIE including news of an actual exploit and the latest iPhone worm snags bank credentials . In this week’s news research ...3 days ago -
Blue Beanie Day 2009
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report —
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B onne journée du chapeau bleu! Now you know how to say “Happy Blue Beanie Day” in French. Monday 30 November is International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards. Get your toque on , post a photo , and pop a beanie on your Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook avatars to help spread the word. Let’s take ...3 days ago -
Manu Sporny recommends me on LinkedIn
Mabblog —
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I hope you will forgive me for immodesty repeating Manu Sporny’s kind and fulsome recommendation of me, from my LinkedIn profile , for the benefit of those of you who don’t have accounts there: I had worked with Andy in the Microformats community, developing international standards for the Web. During this time ...4 days ago -
A Zing Too Far
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report —
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Fred Blasdel said : You’ll always draw ire for having stumbled into being the Chief of the cargo-cult side of Web Standards, with so-called ‘XHTML’ as the false idol. You did a lot of good, but not without ambiguating the nomenclature with a lot of feel-good bullshit. You often find yourself as a mediator ...6 days ago -
Apple documents iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for developers
Family Learning Center —
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Safari on iPhone gets competition from a $1 browser app
The Mobile Fun Blog —
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By Paul Hartsock, MacNewsWorld If you search for “browser” in the App Store, you’ll get dozens of applications, each purporting to be an alternative to the iPhone and iPod touch’s built-in Safari browser. In a sense, they are alternatives, since they look different and might have a few unique features. But ...1 week ago
