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Tag: Standards

  • SharePoint 2010 and XHTML Validation

    SharePoint 2010 declares a strict DOCTYPE and IE 8 standards mode, then fails validation with deprecated attributes and inline everything.

  • SharePoint 2010 System Requirements and Browser Support

    SharePoint 2010 drops IE 6 support and targets standards-based browsers. Even Microsoft considers it a dead technology now.

  • IE 8 Compatibility Mode and SharePoint

    IE 8’s compatibility mode defaults intranet sites to legacy rendering, likely under pressure from the SharePoint team. That’s a bad sign for what comes next.

  • Form Layouts With CSS

    Developers who have made peace with CSS layout still reach for tables when they hit a form. A worked example that lays one out with semantic markup and the clear property instead.

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

    Slides from a talk I gave at the Dayton Web Standards Group comparing the two competing futures for markup, with the specifications and further reading I drew on.

  • Objectives in User Interface Design

    Rebuilding the UI layer at work made us define what we were aiming for. The seven objectives we settled on, and the difference between the information architecture and the technical architecture beneath them.

  • Creating Rich Anchor Tags

    The anchor tag is the first thing anyone learns and the most undervalued. A short tutorial on writing links that are meaningful, accessible and well-formed, starting with never writing click here.

  • PHP Navigation with XHTML/CSS

    A downloadable example of including site navigation dynamically with PHP, in both text and image versions, written to validate as standards-compliant XHTML and CSS.

  • Proper Design with Web Standards

    Inefficient markup costs bandwidth, scalability and maintenance. I make the case for W3C standards and for the separation of structure, presentation and behavior that HTML was always meant to have.