March 9, 2005
by Kay
Stop the press! Found an amazingly useful extension, thanks to Andy Jarrett – a HTML validator based on Tidy that runs in your Firefox status bar, giving you a count of errors and warnings on the current page. Now, even … Continue reading
November 23, 2004
by Kay
Or, why I still haven’t changed the look of this site yet. I had a new design ready to go. It used a funky photo I took and some funky colours as well as a more elegant and subtle design. … Continue reading
October 13, 2004
by Kay
“Can a site claim to be web-standards-compliant if it doesn’t validate” seems to be the question of the moment. I think so, if it was built in the “spirit” of web standards. The real world intervenes, third party components and … Continue reading
August 17, 2004
by Kay
As PerthWeb’s resident standards nazi and quality enforcer, I feel that today’s Dilbert almost perfectly describes my life. Poor Dilbert. I know that if something doesn’t validate, it’s not the end of the world. But we have processes and checklists … Continue reading
August 15, 2004
by Kay
John Dowdell applauds Russ Weakley for attempting to define the term “web standards”. Russ says that “a site built to web standards should ideally be lean, clean, CSS-based, accessible, usable and search engine friendly.” I would like to point to … Continue reading
July 1, 2004
by Kay
Anyone who knows me will tell you it’s no great secret that I’m not a big fan of JavaScript. To me, it seems really flaky and prone to problems… plus, it’s so often used for evil instead of good. And, … Continue reading
June 16, 2004
by Kay
John Allsopp’s girlfriend has written up a really cute post about Catching Web Standards. She calls her conversion from the “clueless majority” as “sexually transmitted web standards”. Now that’s funny. I didn’t get web standards quite like that… but I … Continue reading
May 30, 2004
by Kay
There’s been a lot of discussion and hot air in the blogosphere the last couple of weeks on the issue of table-based layouts vs css layouts. I think Andy Budd started it with his Objective Look at Table Based vs … Continue reading