Archive for the 'web standards' Category

Web Design Survey by ALA

by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ July 27th, 2008.

Jeffrey Zeldman posted a teaser in his daily report announcing another web design survey by A List Apart.
33,000 web developers took part in the first annual survey done in 2007 and I can only assume that this one will reach the new heights. Web-standards community is growing and actions like this help this growth too. [...]

Web Standards - Separation of content, presentation and interaction

by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ January 18th, 2008.

Before writing semantically correct (X)HTML and CSS code, you should think of separation of content, presentation and behavior. Reasons for this are numerous. Although it is possible to have all (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript code in every web page you are serving, long time ago it has been adopted as best practice to separate these.
While [...]

Web Standards - Writing semantically correct code

by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ January 17th, 2008.

Quite often semantic aspect of web design and development is neglected, either because of not even thinking about it or because of wrong impression that there is no time to cater for semantics when working under pressure of meeting the project deadlines. In either case, it is not an excuse. Time has come to change [...]

Web Standards - Valid (X)HTML and CSS code

by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ January 16th, 2008.

When creating a new web page, the first thing to do is to define a doctype. What is a doctype? It is a declaration of layout mode that is activated within the browser when it renders the page. Therefore, having a valid HTML/XHTML and CSS code means that the way web page is written complies [...]

Introduction to Web Standards

by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ January 16th, 2008.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome The Web Standards!!!
If you are a tech savvy user and you surf the Internet following web design and development related topics, you must have heard about Web Standards.
So what is all the fuss about? In short, it is a set of recommendations and guidelines put by W3C organization to browser [...]