Guymon

XHTML — myths and reality

Tina Holmboe erklärt die Geschichte, Vor- und Nachteile von XHTML. Ganz spannend zu lesen.

• If you don’t have any specific need to deliver XML–based structures to the client,

  e.g. due to mixing namespaces such as having MathML content in your pages, using

  Ruby (XHTML 1.1) or techniques such as ACCESS (XHTML 1.2) then consider whether

  you won’t be better off simply by using HTML 4.01 Strict.

• Even if it is problematic to deliver XML to clients, there is nothing preventing you from,

  for instance, keeping your content in an XML–based language such as XHTML or DocBook

  on the server, but transforming into HTML 4.01 Strict before delivery.

• If you do want, or need, to use XHTML, consider using the method outlined in

  the section on content negotiation

  so as not to exclude any visitors.

• Consider that while XHTML processed by an HTML parser is, theoretically, still XHTML it

  is never treated that way on the client. With this in mind evaluate whether it is cost–effective

  for you and your organisation to move towards XML on the client side at this stage.

Opera Web Standards Curriculum

Opera startet das Opera Web Standards Curriculum.

Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. (…) The first 23 articles are currently available, with about 30 more to be published between now and late September.

(X)HTML5 Validator

Experimenteller (X)HTML5 Validator

Data Visualization with Web Standards

Wilson Miner zeigt einige sehr coole Beispiel wie sich Daten mit Web Standards visualisieren lassen. Absolut lesenswert!

I’m going to cover three basic techniques for incorporating some simple data visualization into standards-based navigation patterns. All of them start with the building block of HTML navigation: an unordered list of links. We’re going to tweak the markup a bit and add in some data points and a few hooks for styling, but in each case, the basic pattern is the same familiar one.

Since we don’t have the pure data semantics of a table to rely on, we’ll use semantic class names in the tradition of microformats to preserve as much of the data’s structure in our markup as possible.

Nützliche Definitionslisten

Boris Stumpf erinnert an die selten genutzten Definitionslisten für die Gestaltung im Web.

Ich kann mich da nur anschliessen: Definitionslisten können soo praktisch sein.