[Web4lib] Resources? -- Web Standards and Semantic Markup

[Pons, Lisa (ponslm)]

I agree...if you dont know what the standards are, you can't know how/when to deviate without breaking something for one group, or one OS, or one Browser.

I got our pages to the point of validating- xhtml and css-hooray! I tested on browser cam, etc...hooray!

However, I have about 36 people using Contribute.  I have my templates locked down as much as possible, I separated my css into two separate sheets, one for formatting content,  and  hid the other layout styles from Contribute so they can't be applied incorrectly.

Even with that, I still get some garbage which is just enough to break the xhtml. Until we get a CMS, I've learned to live with it (left eye twitching!!)- but I feel like at least I went as far as I possibly could to be "up to standards".

Lisa Pons-Haitz
University of Cincinnati

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of K.G. Schneider
Sent: Tue 5/1/2007 5:34 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Resources? -- Web Standards and Semantic Markup
 
> I'm in hearty agreement with you on this, Tim.  The Champeon article is
> particularly good on how you can get it wrong despite complying with
> standards.  If good design were easy, everyone with a validator would be
> doing it.  The danger is in thinking you can get by without knowing what
> your doing by merely following the letter of standards and using
> "friendly" tools.

The practice in most disciplines is to learn the rules so you know what
you're deviating from. 

K.G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com 

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