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

    Laying out forms with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a complex topic. In light of many developers doing their first overall CSS layouts they often…

  • 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…

  • Objectives in User Interface Design

    At work we are currently re-doing the architecture of our user interface (UI) layer. We sat down to discuss what our objectives should be in…

  • Creating Rich Anchor Tags

    The most important, and yet often under-valued tag in XHTML, has to be the anchor tag. It’s usually one of the first tags learned in…

  • PHP Navigation with XHTML/CSS

    This file illustrates the way to include navigation dynamically to streamline your efficiency when updating your website. The code shows how to include navigation both…

  • Proper Design with Web Standards

    As the web continues to grow the concern over how inefficient our web design practices and procedures are is becoming very evident. Technologies such as…