Posts Tagged ‘standards’

First step in throwing your XHTML document into Quirks Mode

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

A lot of websites pursue XHTML as their document type, which is really cool. But a lot of them end up not validating with one little mistake. Even worse, with this mistake, documents that are made to run in “standards mode” are immediately thrown into quirks mode by browsers because web developers don’t know how to do their jobs.

Read on to find out how to avoid this all-too-common mistake.

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XHTML 2/HTML 5 comic

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

If you haven’t seen it yet, Smashing Magazine posted a comic called Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5. I’ve been wondering what’s been going on with the standards and what it’ll ultimately mean for me. And a comic addresses my questions and laziness quite nicely. I win!

At risk of infringing copyright, I’ll rape and paste it below.

HTML Comic

Read on for the rest of the comic. This isn’t the whole thing.

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