Standardistas? Are you serious?
3 August 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 2 comments
I probably shouldn't be so critical, but it's Saturday night and I'm at home working. During a brief Wikipedia break (computer jargon), I decided to read the standardista entry and followed an external link to webstandardistas.com.
I'm not sure what I expected to find, but I guess it wasn't a placeholder for a forthcoming Friends of Ed book. Regardless, it was disappointing to see that while these standardistas did have a valid DOCTYPE, it was neither HTML 4.01 Strict nor XHTML 1.0 Strict, but XHTML 1.0 Transitional. It was also disappointing to see inline JavaScript and CSS in the head instead of an external stylesheet.
And, while it was only a single error, it was the use of an incorrect inline JavaScript onsubmit (they have it incorrectly specified as onSubmit) handler that causes the page to not validate!
I'm also not sure how I feel about the use of h3 and p tags within unordered lists. Is this really necessary? Why not just have multiple uls below the headings? Or instead of the li with child p construct, use definition lists?
Finally, there's no server side validation on the "Keep me posted form"!
Opera Web standards curriculum
8 July 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments
Very cool: "Opera's new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach [one] standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. It already has support from many organizations (including Yahoo! and the Web Standards Project) and universities. The first 23 articles are currently available, with about 30 more to be published between now and late September."
The first 23 articles cover the history of the internet and the evolution of Web standards, Web design concepts, HTML basics and the HTML body. Authors include Roger Johansson and Christian Heilmann.
