A List Apart: Articles: Where Our Standards Went Wrong - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 Mar 08
  

  Egon Bianchet

  webdesign webstandards

  • Toward the end of my first year in business, I noticed that more and more of my time was spent working around invalid code. Layout issues that would have been trivial to fix in a valid, error-free template would take significantly longer to debug in a live page that had a few hundred validation errors. It was a matter of figuring out which parts of the page weren’t causing the errors, so I could focus on fixing the problematic section. But when the page’s markup has three or four hundred validation errors, this process quickly becomes a time sink. A necessary one, but a sink nonetheless.

      

    So by year’s end, I found that approximately fifteen percent of my time was spent mired in invalid code
• 21 Mar 07
  

  Paul Henman

  webdesign standards

• 18 Mar 07
  

  meratspain Reina

  css sales salespeech standards

  • • shorten development cycles, as we no longer have to slog through through six layers of nested tables to build site templates.
     
    • lower maintenance costs, as the CSS Zen Garden showed us.
     
    • decrease page weight, which in turn reduces page load times and dramatically lowers bandwidth costs (we’ve Mike Davidson’s excellent ESPN.com interview to thank for those metrics).
  • • A proven increase in a site’s accessibility,
     
    • The promise of device independence,
     
    • The presence of a metric against which an individual or a team’s production can be measured, and
     
    • The knowledge that your site is future-proof, displaying in any standards-compliant browser yet to be invented.
• 08 Mar 07
  

  Ben Gilmore

  webstandards standards accessibility Usability

• 05 Mar 07
  

  Renata Verloop

  webstandaarden

• 28 Feb 07
  

  Brian B

  alistapart webstandards design css html validation

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  Thomas Vander Wal

  Ethan Marcotte provides a great overview of the selling points for standards

  article css design html standards xhtml webdev webdesign web accessibility business

• 27 Feb 07
  

  Bob Carr

  webstandards

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  David Foltz

  problems with and solutions for putting web standards into practice

  webstandards webdev css xhtml

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  Alex Jones

  Validation isn’t an end result or a final deliverable; it’s an ongoing process that continues long after a site launches. If we don’t put the proper tools and commitment in place, our work will start looking like a late ‘90s throwback, and if we d

  web_design web_standards css

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  Kazuhito Kidachi

  明日の話（何）のネタ。"In a perfect world, clumsy software and bad workflows wouldn’t break our code, and validation would just happen."

  standards

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