Tag Archives: xhtml
Behind the Websites: Valid Isn’t Best Practice
June 9, 2010
Not long ago, on the @soupgiant account, I tweeted “Vaild html / css doesn’t indicate your code is best practice; it may even indicate the opposite. #css3″. Neither the xHTML nor the CSS on this site validates, we consider it to observe best practices.
Tags: Accessibility, browsers, html5, input types, standards, xhtml
Behind the Websites: Why I will not be dropping support for IE6
January 7, 2009
Increasingly I’m reading of web developers deciding to drop IE6 from their list of supported browsers, usually, because of its creative interpretation of CSS standards, besides IE7 is over a year old, and, IE8 about to be released.
Tags: CSS, doctype, ie6, internet explorer, quirks mode, standards mode, xhtml
Behind the Websites: Links opening in new windows
July 8, 2008
Yes I have firm views. Take that as a given. Since long before I could code, however, I’ve always been critical of websites that open their links in another window.
Back in the days before browser tabs, a whole new window would open either above or below the window you were currently working on. It was terrible and unstoppable.