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21 Mar 08
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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
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21 Mar 07
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18 Mar 07
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- 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).
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- 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.
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08 Mar 07
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27 Feb 07
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David Foltzproblems with and solutions for putting web standards into practice
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Alex JonesValidation 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
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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."
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