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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"!

Am I a greater or lesser standardista? Are you? I'm not sure, but you can read about it and let me know…