I am incredibly impressed with this dude’s ability to rhyme about web standards. Not that his rhyming skills are hot, mind you, but the subject matter isn’t exactly the stuff of legendary hip-hop.
[27 Mar 2008]
Three years after the Acid2 test was released, the WaSP has developed Acid3. What’s Acid? It’s a reference test designed to help browser developers determine whether they are complying with W3C specifications, and how well they handle invalid code. Acid1 and Acid2 tested for compliance with CSS 1 and CSS 2 specifications. Acid3 also tests [...]
[3 Mar 2008]
For some background on this post, please start by reading Aaron Gustafson’s Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 on this week’s edition of A List Apart, or any of the links from my Internet Explorer 8 round-up post. This post is an extended version of my comment there. About 6 years ago, I [...]
[25 Jan 2008]
My take: On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it UPDATES: Microsoft versioning: accessibility implications What Internet Explorer’s change means for accessibility. Best Standards Support Sam Ruby offers a server-side suggestion for handling IE8 content requests. Mike Davies argues that this should and perhaps could be the end of the line for [...]
[22 Jan 2008]
Ever need to validate your HTML files without an Internet connection? Or maybe you just weren’t quite ready to upload your files to a server, but still wanted to check them. That’s where Validator S.A.C. comes in handy. Validator S.A.C. is a Mac-only, stand-alone version of the W3C Markup Validator. With it, you can check [...]
[16 Oct 2007]
Get up to speed on web standards and design techniques with some of the industry’s top names. Just based on the speaker list, this could be the web conference to attend if you can’t make it to South by Southwest next March. Speakers include Molly Holzschlag, Garrett Dimon, Stephanie Sullivan, and Jared Spool. It’s really [...]
[7 Aug 2007]
The Cascading Style Sheets Working Group has a blog. And they’ve used that blog to announce that CSS 2.1 is a Candidate Recommendation (Via Molly). Finally, researchers are starting to debunk the above-the-fold/scroll myth. You may also want to read Unfolding the Fold. Indiana University researchers show that phishing is easier when you spoof a [...]
[24 Jul 2007]
I’m a big fan of conditional comments. I agree with Jens Meiert that they are non-standard, and don’t adequately separate content and presentation. However, I think they’re the best option we’ve got for one huge reason: it is the only reliable workaround for Internet Explorer that does not also affect other browsers. The LitePacific hack [...]
[29 Jun 2007]
If you were going to help friend get started with front-end web development, where would you start? Which books (or Video tapes / DVDs) would you suggest they buy? Two of my picks: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan and CSS: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer. And you?
[22 Jun 2007]