Web Standards

Web standards are the foundation that we use to build the Web. Unfortunately many still do not use Web standards properly, so many of these articles attempt to help people learn more about the benefits of using Web standards.

Forcing ASP.Net towards standards

In the recent Web Standards Project Buzz post ASP.Net & Standards Part II, Chris Kaminski writes a whole lot about…

Posted on October 22, 2004

In Search of Validation

WaSP follow-up to the recent validation debate.

Posted on October 18, 2004

Valid Flash embedding

Web standards compliant Javascript Flash detect and embed.

Posted on October 16, 2004

Web Standards: A Business Perspective

A non-technical article on the business benefits of web standards.

Posted on October 14, 2004

Doing One’s Best

Can you claim to be standards-compliant if your documents are invalid?

Posted on October 13, 2004

ABC News: All That Glitters

WaSP member Ethan Marcotte comments on the recently redesigned ABC News website.

Posted on October 12, 2004

The XHTML Way

HTML vs XHTML and separating data from formatting explained.

Posted on October 11, 2004

Visual vs Structural

Two very different approaches to creating websites.

Posted on October 8, 2004

The case for XHTML

Why using XHTML is good, even if you serve it as text/html.

Posted on October 6, 2004

Apple’s web professional market share

When computer market share statistics are mentioned, Apple is usually said to have something like 2-3 % of the PC…

Posted on October 5, 2004

Web Essentials 04 Keynote

Slides from Dave Shea’s keynote at Web Essentials 2004.

Posted on October 4, 2004

The Beauty and Business of CSS

Slides from Douglas Bowman’s presentation at Web Essentials 2004.

Posted on October 2, 2004

Accessibility vs Branding

The other day I came a cross a pretty strange discussion, at least from my point of view, in a…

Posted on September 22, 2004

Web Standards Planet

Connecting web standards related bloggers and sites.

Posted on September 20, 2004

Web standards religion? What religion?

In a recent ZDNet column, John Carroll tells makers of alternative (meaning non-Internet Explorer) browsers to drop the religion. What…

Posted on September 20, 2004

Converting your team

Being the only person on a team of web designers and developers who knows or cares about web standards is…

Posted on September 15, 2004

Why we are so zealous

Some reasons why high code quality is important.

Posted on September 14, 2004

Standards Savings

Eric Meyer comments on Rakesh Pai’s article The Economics of XHTML.

Posted on September 13, 2004

The Economics of XHTML

Why using strict, semantic XHTML will save and make your business money.

Posted on September 11, 2004

The perversion of Web Standards

Comments on the comments on my post about Web development mistakes.

Posted on September 9, 2004

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