http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/standards/ Covers W3C activity and recommendations, especially related to CSS, HTML, XHTML, SVG, the latest with the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Web-related standards news, tips, tutorials, browsers and standards compliance, trends, resources. en-us Standards Copyright 2000-2008 Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns. All rights reserved. Shirley Kaiser 2007-12-06T08:31:24-08:00 720 daily 2 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://brainstormsandraves.com/xml/brainstorms88.gif http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/standards/ 88 31 Covers W3C activity and recommendations, especially related to CSS, HTML, XHTML, SVG, the latest with the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Web-related standards news, tips, tutorials, browsers and standards compliance, trends, resources. Fascinating reading to be had about the upcoming IE8 via a new interview of Bill Gates by Molly Holzschlag: Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency. Not long after the interview, the official IE Blog also announced the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. Check out the complete post that covers that interview, the IE Blog's announcement, an earlier interview with Chris Wilson (IE's platform architect), other information about the upcoming IE8, and IE's current CSS support. Also included are links to lots more resources. (907 words, 26 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/12/06/ie8/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/12/06/ie8/ Shirley Kaiser 2007-12-06T08:31:24 Do you ever wonder what goes into brainstorming sessions and creative ideas from some of the top names in the Web design field? You'll find that and much more with blog posts earlier this week by three creators of the latest redesign of Happy Cog's website - Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Daniel Mall. (328 words, 13 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/02/10/happycog/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/02/10/happycog/ Shirley Kaiser 2007-02-10T10:34:15 There are lots of great new and recent articles, tutorials, and tips about Web accessibility. Today's post includes links to articles and tutorials on Web accessibility in general, accessible forms, accessible style switching, including my own site's style switching, accessibility and the blind and low vision users, helpful accessibility tools for Web developers, and more. (1412 words, 42 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/10/12/accessibility/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/10/12/accessibility/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-10-12T15:29:40 As I was doing final cross-browser testing for a redesign of SKDesigns, my website design business, the design implementation was working quite well in nearly every mainstream browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even the Lynx text-only browser. Unfortunately, though, I found problems with three old or little used browsers, such as Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac that destroyed the CSS-positioned layout. I toiled over how to best handle these browser bugs, especially since my upcoming Web design book -- currently in production at my publisher -- stresses the importance of usability, readability, and degrading gracefully for older browsers. Today's post covers part of my decision-making journey and choices of approaches for dealing with these CSS bug-riddled old and little-used browsers. (2731 words, 53 links, 5 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/14/csstesting/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/14/csstesting/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-08-14T21:08:16 The WaSP (Web Standards Project) website today reported on two recent face-to-face meetings between WaSP and Microsoft as part of a new collaboration to promote Web standards and help developers build standards-conformant Web applications. The initial indications are incredibly positive, and I'm more than a little thrilled to see this giant leap forward. Read the complete post for more on this. (302 words, 6 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/21/standards/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/21/standards/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-07-21T19:40:57 WebVisions 2005 is coming up next week already in Portland, Oregon. I attended this fabulous conference a few years ago, so I can speak from firsthand experience that it's a terrific time to learn a tremendous amount, meet fascinating people with common interests, and have a lot of fun. (177 words, 18 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/07/webvisions2005/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/07/webvisions2005/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-07-07T17:34:24 Robin Good reported last week that Internet Explorer has now lost 30% of the browser market and the trend is on a continuing roll. In addition, Robin predicts that by December 2005 that Internet Explorer will no longer be used by the majority of Internet users. (258 words, 6 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/01/05/browsers/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/01/05/browsers/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-01-05T20:02:16 If you haven't commented yet or wish to comment on the latest working draft of the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), the comment period is now extended to Monday, 10 January 2005. See Judy Brewer's post yesterday, Extension of WCAG 2.0 Comment Period to 10 January 2005 [was: Fwd: Call for Review: Working Draft of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0] for details and how to comment to the public mailing list. As Judy also states, the WCAG 2.0 "will apply to a wider range of Web technologies than WCAG 1.0 and is intended to be understandable to a wider audience." Here are some links to the working drafts and related techniques: (217 words, 7 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/01/04/wcag2/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/01/04/wcag2/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-01-04T10:14:16 Molly Holzschlag has written an exceptional and fascinating post on her perceptions from Web Design World 2004 conference in Boston, web design world cool-down. The great news is that she sees a positive shift happening in overall mood, feelings of job security, and there was a good turnout, as companies seem to paying for conferences again. In her post, Molly also clarifies many of the misconceptions she found at the conference. (98 words, 1 link) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/12/19/misconceptions/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/12/19/misconceptions/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-12-19T12:19:34 Trenton Moss recently wrote a new article for evolt.org with helpful CSS tips, Ten CSS tricks you may not know. Tantek Celik follows up with Ten CSS tricks --- corrected and improved. I suggest opening them both in your browser and reading each tip by Trenton Moss along with Tantek's corresponding comments. In addition, there are plenty of good comments, discussions, and links. (66 words, 2 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/10/12/css/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/10/12/css/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-10-12T10:30:05