Web Design and Implementation (Fall 2004)


Web Standards (14 September 2004)

Today's discussion will be on web coding standards, which tend to generate almost as many religious battles as operating system choices.

We'll cover the HTML standards development process, existing HTML and XHTML standards, problems with existing standards, and browser support for standards. We'll also discuss the issues surrounding separation of presentation and content, and the importance of CSS in standards-based web development.

Comments

Haha! Microsoft isn't validated. :P

Posted by: Jeremy P on September 14, 2004 02:47 PM | Permalink to Comment

I am viewing this page on 800x600 on an eMac in the lab - I see what you mean about it being a pain to scroll across the page and such. The page with the list for readings has all the text aligned to the right instead of left (thus looking like a blank page).

Posted by: Julie Mason on September 15, 2004 12:41 PM | Permalink to Comment

I looked at the following sites and none of them validated. Interesting. ;-) hehe

Below is a list of the sites and the problems I have found.

CNN- there is no attribute "VALIGN", document type does not allow element "FORM" here, reference to non-SGML character

MTV--no character encoding, required attribute "TYPE" not specified,there is no attribute "LEFTMARGIN"

APPLE- there is no attribute "TOPMARGIN", there is no attribute "BACKGROUND", entity was defined here

Posted by: Milli Ahluwalia on September 16, 2004 01:59 AM | Permalink to Comment
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