MetaFilter posts tagged with webstandards

The Free Site Validator

sciurus — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:13:23 -0800

The Free Site Validator is for all y'all web designers who are tired of putting each and every page through the W3C Markup Validation Service. Enter the URL you'd like checked, start the report and you'll soon have every page of the site examined for valid markup and link rot. It also uses OpenID so you might already have an account! [via 456 Berea Street] The site runs a bit slow at the moment due to heavy traffic.

WARNING: This page may be altered in transit!

loquacious — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:44:51 -0800

ArsTechnica is reporting on the practice of altering and editing web-traffic enroute from the server to your client/browser. Is your ISP, work or connection path altering your requested documents? Find out here.

The Cascadian Order of the Strict Conformance

brownpau — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:07:38 -0800

CSS Trappist Monastery. Like the Zen Garden, but without any images (other than the "chosen twelve").

WaSP Calls for MS to Fix Standards Bugs in Discontinued IE

setmajer — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:03:47 -0800

IE in bug fix mode? Then fix the bugs! As was mentioned here before, MS is discontinuing the free version of IE for Mac, and offering it only as part of the MSN service instead. They also appear to be doing the same with IE for Windows. The Web Standards Project is demanding that they include standards bugs in the list they are going to fix, because MS has always advertised IE as standards-compliant.

Cynthia Says

riffola — Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:17:42 -0800

Cynthia Says™ is a web content accessibility validation solution, it is designed to identify errors in design related to Section 508 standards and the WCAG guidelines. The main purpose of this portal is to educate web site developers in the development Web Based content that is accessible to all. Cynthia runs more tests than Bobby and is free. I think the site itself fails the accessiblity test, 'cause it doesn't have "WCAG" in an <abbr> tag, nonetheless it's a good tool. [via zeldman].

poopy — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 06:51:07 -0800

99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete An excerpt from an upcoming book by Mr. Zeldman in which he continues to argue the practice of standards compliance - "Held up as a Holy Grail of professional development practice, backward compatibility sounds good in theory. But the cost is too high and the practice has always been based on a lie." I enjoy his writing but he seems to be repeating himself as usual. Still, it is a good argument: where do we focus our priorities for future development - pure standards compliant CSS models, backwards compatibility, or somewhere in between? I know this has been discussed before but thought it postworthy due to the new book and all.

gazingus — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:04:15 -0800

The Web Standards Project is back, now in easy-to-swallow blog form. Stand up straight! Close that HTML tag! And wipe that silly browser off your hard drive, mister! And the other one.

gazingus — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:43:55 -0800

The Web Standards Project calls it quits, for now.

bragadocchio — Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:42:18 -0800

W3C and Fee-based Standards for the Web The last call review period is over today. If you have an opinion that needs to be heard by the W3C, get it to them now. At last check, they had received 396 comments. What's your take on the proposed policy change? Will the W3C survive?

jfuller — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:11:26 -0800

Take that, web-standards maniacs! "After Windows XP is launched in October, users will be directed to download a plug-in from Microsoft's Web site (www.microsoft.com) to make Java-based programs work. Without this step, 'any Web page that contains Java applications will not run -- it will be a dead page'" Put that in your "this page viewable in v5.0 browsers or later" crackpipe and smoke it. (Shamelessly swiped from that Other Site...)

bkdelong — Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:56:24 -0800

Nokia Takes a Step Towards Web Standards I was incredibly impressed this morning to have someone send me this link. It looks like Nokia phones of the future will use XHTML (My guess is XHTML Basic) + CSS. I hope it supports media typing as well.

ericost — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 06:47:27 -0800

Zeldman responds to the the many concerns people have expressed over the WaSP's recent Browser Upgrade Campaign. Read it if you love the web.

geir — Thu, 22 Feb 2001 04:09:24 -0800

A spectre is haunting the Web - the spectre of standards. Jeffery Zeldman takes a bold step and stops supporting "bad browsers". Will the Web follow?

bkdelong — Fri, 16 Feb 2001 06:53:03 -0800

Time to toss the 3.0 and 4.0s in the trash - and I'm not talking about GPA. The biggest problem for Web developers right now is the prevalence of old browsers that don't fully support standards like HTML 4.0 and CSS 1 & 2. Now that we have at least 3 browsers that can handle most of these standards, why not encourage a move from the less standard browsers to ones that will allow us to more easily design sites. Write once view anywhere....Woo hoo!

patricking — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:39:09 -0800

what will be supported now that browsers are a-changin' again? handy resource from a Netscape product manager.

anildash — Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:51:59 -0800

Proprietary URLs? How many of these non-standard prefixes does your system support?

Just off the top of my head with the programs I have running right now, I can handle nap: aim: hotline: and a few others, not counting all the ones built into my browser.

More inside...

Foaf — Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:44:07 -0800

The CSS Anarchists Cookbook How to ruin a designers pride and joy with with one simple file

ericost — Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:57:24 -0800

More from the WSP on IE5.5, "a browser that strikes out on complete support for any standard." Things are getting ugly.

Zeldman — Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:16:53 -0800

The Web Standards Project blasts Microsoft's "arrogant" break with standards in IE 5.5/Windows Edition. Please read the press release and, if you agree, post it to your favorite mailing lists and news groups. This must not stand.