The “Valid HTML/CSS” Bug

Feb 4

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When you’re proclaiming valid HTML & CSS on your web site, just make sure it actually is valid and not just some trendy attempt to look the part. e.g. this web site. Close your meta tags, clean up the little oversights and you got yourself a gem dandy of a site, then you will be in fact, 100% valid.

It compares to sticking a gas mileage number on a car, say 30 MPG and in fact only getting 25 MPG. Close, but not close enough.

Also, to the owner of the above link, should you be reading this, please switch your charset to utf-8 instead of iso-8859-1. The presentation of some characters in copies of this document may be defective. e.g. due to lack of font support. There may be an argument as to which is best, but;

In theory, any character encoding that has been registered with IANA can be used, but there is no browser that understands all of them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the chance that a browser will understand it. A Unicode encoding such as UTF-8 is a good choice for a number of reasons.

What are those reasons?

http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/#Slide0110

You can read about them at the above link. The moral of this story? Don’t throw that little graphic, or any little graphic on your site that says it’s valid, when in fact, it isn’t. Make sure it throws back no errors first. Then, you can hang that passé .gif or .png on your site and be proud that indeed, your code has no errors.

NetworkedBlogs on Facebook

Feb 4

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I recently put this blog on the NetworkedBlogs list on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account and have NetworkedBlogs and find you like what I rant and rave about, then please add six03 as a favorite, add us to your list and follow me!

I’ll have another article up in a few days, I have a lot of time now to write another one, this one is going to be about standards and the battle of why they don’t “suck”, as some people would have you led to believe. A little hard work never killed anyone did it? Well, with regards to web design anyways.

WaSP InterAct Curriculum

Feb 4

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I joined the WaSP InterAct Curriculum site awhile back, I would make the suggestion to others that want to join a movement to better the web experience for everyone to do so also, it will benefit everyone in the long run and there are many great people there that not only run it and have organized it, but know a thing or two about the web and where we need to push things.

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