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HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2: The Future of Web Standards

I recently gave a presentation by this title at the Dayton [Ohio] Web Standards Group Meetup. Here are the slides that I presented as well as my references for the presentation. We also have a new Google Group for all designers interested in standards-based development regardless of location. Further Reading Comparisons XHTML 2 vs HTML 5 Preview of HTML 5 (X)HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2 HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web Specifications XHTML 2 HTML 5: W3C and WHATWG (read more...)

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Objectives in User Interface Design II

I just came across a fantastic document published very recently from the W3C that talks about “best practices” in web design. The document is called “HTML Design Principles,” and I believe it contained a few things that I left out of my last list. Internationalization Under the heading of “Support World Languages” is the topic of internationalization. This is extremely important especially if you want your product/application to be usable by the vast majority of the modern world! This doesn’t mean that you need to translate into every language, but there are certain principles such (as mentioned) supporting Unicode (read more...)

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