#xhtml (135 links)
You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what HTML is supposed to look like. Neither does this parser.
- Perfection kills » Optimizing HTML perfectionkills.com
Via paul.irish.
Why Dave Shea is switching from XHTML to HTML.
One key real-world benefit of this separation is that come redesign time, one only needs to change or replace the CSS stylesheet, and needn’t lay so much as a finger upon the hallowed grounds we call markup. I’m here to say that this mantra isn’t much more than a fairy tale.
Interesting rant about microformats.
Via jerakeen.
FireScope is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.
Interesting way of using twitter to conduct polls, plus a debate that goes on and on (2p: main title, not logo! Otherwise you have the same h1 across all pages on a site).
- Extensible CSS Interface I: The Foundation ~ Authentic Boredom cameronmoll.com
"Throughout the duration of this series, we’ll be speaking extensively about markup — XHTML, CSS, and a little scripting. Marking up a website is akin to speaking Spanish. There’s more than one way say something, and there’s certainly more than on
Good comparison of the two specs.
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.
- HTML elements index – Jens Meiert meiert.com
- Adactio: Journal - Natural language hCard adactio.com
Places where microformats can be insterspersed in the flow of natural English sentences.
- Digital Web Magazine - Markup as a Craft digital-web.com
Nothing new but that's not a criticism; good to have all this in one place!
- 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.
We are averse to using one of the most powerful features of XHTML: the ability to extend the nodes we use with customized, semantically meaningful attributes.
- 24 ways: Marking Up a Tag Cloud 24ways.org
The problem is, everyone’s doing it wrong.
- 24 ways: The Mobile Web, Simplified 24ways.org
Considering a foray into mobile web development? Following are four things you need to know before making the leap.
A web-based WYSIWYM editor.
This technique, CSS production notes, places your page production notes in one convenient place within an XHTML document and uses nothing more than meaningful markup and CSS.
A very clever way of using an object element to insert an external HTML document into a page. [instead of using iframe]
- Nidahas » Forms markup and CSS - Revisited nidahas.com
A flexible, semantically correct, and dare I say, accessible template to which such features could be readily applied.
- XFN - XHTML Friends Network gmpg.org
A simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks
- Adactio: Extras: Getting Microformats adactio.com
Big list of microformats resources
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.
Unless you have lots of legacy content that contains presentaional markup and cannot easily be converted or cleaned up, go Strict
A very early iteration of a microformats cheat sheet. It lists the properties by format and also lists each format and the hierarchy. This includes elemental microformats, compound microformats and some of the standard design patterns used.
- Juicy Studio: Using the title Attribute juicystudio.com
Current user agents provide very poor access to title text information, and what access they do provide is typically inaccessible for people with disabilities.
- 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.
A quick look at what microformats are and aren’t, then we’ll look at some very significant organizations already using them. Then we’ll take a look at just how easy it is to use them.
- Bare Naked App » Blog Archive » Displaying percentages barenakedapp.com
"No matter how many percentage bar’s will be displayed on the page the user will only need to wait for two images to be downloaded". Handy.
- Tantek's Thoughts — 2006 July tantek.com
Here is a summary of 8 steps any web developer can take to improve their page code
- Garrett Dimon / Front-End Architecture: Markup is the Technical Foundation garrettdimon.com · Archived on
Trying to build a scalable, maintainable, and extendable user experience on bad markup is like building a house on quicksand.
- Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS developer.yahoo.com
A suite of seven web page templates and the ability to nest grids of one to four columns within the content area of those templates.
- Opera Mini™ for Mobile opera.com
A live demo of Opera Mini that functions exactly like it would when installed on a handset. Be advised that clicking on the screen does not work, instead use the phone's keypad.
- Bruce Lawson’s personal site : New windows in xhtml strict brucelawson.co.uk
Marked “considered harmful” [...] the comments are good, though
Top 5 reasons why you should beware of opening links in a new window.
- Semantics and design | And all that Malarkey stuffandnonsense.co.uk
There is a danger of adversly effecting semantics through incorrect use of CSS.
The prime rule is: Consider what the page looks like or sounds like when images are not shown. Then, write for each image an alt text that best works as a replacement.
- Using size to size inputs | Bite Size Standards bitesizestandards.com
Due to its seemingly presentational nature not many designers use it, opting to set the width using CSS instead. [However], 'size' is not presentational.
- Skip Navigation jimthatcher.com
"An analysis/study of techniques for "skip navigation" links (also "skip to main content" links) which resulted from an assignment I had in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines working group, Techniques task group."