HTML - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about best practice application of HTML.
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HTML - Archive
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Articles and resources about best practice implementation of HTML - HyperText Markup Language - in website design.
- HTML Reference (beta)
- by Ian Lloyd. SitePoint, 2008. Learn html with full descriptions, working examples, and browser compatibility information on the html markup language.
- Coding guidelines for HTML and CSS
- Written by Jens O. Meiert, Senior Web Architect, Google Webmaster Team Google Webmaster Central Blog, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. "Great code has many attributes. It’s effective, efficient, maintainable, elegant. When working on code with many developers and teams and maybe even companies, great code needs to also be consistent and easy to understand. For that purpose there are style guides. We use style guides for a lot of languages, and our newest public style guide is the Google HTML and CSS Style Guide..."
- HTML5 and Accessibility
- By Andrew Arch - AGIMO Blog, 21 June 2011. "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently invited a broad review of HTML5 and related specifications to help resolve outstanding issues. The review is being undertaken to ensure that the specification meets W3C's commitments in areas such as accessibility..."
- Why the web needs HTML5
- by Samantha Amjadali. The Age, June 27, 2011. "... HTML5 drags HTML into the 21st century, allowing programmers to create richly interactive environments natively within browsers, effectively side-stepping the need for proprietary plug-ins from companies such as Adobe and Microsoft..."
- Scotland Trailblazes the Use of HTML5 in Museums
- By Curt Hopkins. Read Write Web, November 8, 2010. "The National Museums of Scotland have become the first major museum organization in the world to fully implement HTML5..."
- HTML5 accessibility - a work in progress
- by Steve Faulkner. paciellogroup.com, October 2010 . "This site is a resource to provide information about which HTML5 user interface features are accessibility supported in browsers, making them usable by people who rely upon assistive technology (AT) to use the web. It is not intended to dissuade developers from using HTML5 features. Sometimes there are better choices, sometimes developers have to add a little extra to make the feature useful or usable, and other times features have simply not been implementedby any browser or only by browsers that do not yet support assistive technologies. As a consequence it may not yet be practical to use a particular HTML5 feature. Example work arounds for lack of implemenation or lack of accessible implemention are linked from the Solutions page..."
- Resources for Converting Microsoft Word Files to HTML
- Productivity Portfolio, 7 September 2009. "Few people would argue that Microsoft Word is a versatile program. The problem is that the software may not be the best tool for converting your Word documents to HTML. This is true if you need watch files sizes as it adds code that increases page size. It may also include information you don't expect. If you need to get your Word content to the web, we've got some tips and alternatives..."
- Why is valid HTML important to everyone?
- by Vlad Alexander. Rebuilding the Web, 16 December 2009. "The Web works with valid and invalid HTML. So why is valid HTML important? And how does invalid HTML affect everyone who uses the Web?..."
- HTML 5 Drafts Published
- W3C, 26 August 2009. "The HTML Working Group has published Working Drafts of HTML 5 and HTML 5 differences from HTML 4. In HTML 5, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. "HTML 5 differences from HTML 4" describes the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes..."
- The long road to HTML 5
- New version will bring the Web into the modern era—eventually, By Joab Jackson. Government Computer News, August 31, 2009. "... W3C is working on HTML 5 to meet those new demands, promising that the new version will offer the tools to build rich Internet applications without requiring plug-ins from a vendor..."
- XHTML 2 language dumped in favor of HTML 5
- W3C looks to focus efforts on HTML upgrade geared to Web development, By Paul Krill, San Francisco. Computerworld, Friday, 3 July, 2009. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is focussing development on the HTML 5 specification, and discontinuing further development of XHTML 2.
- Marking Up a Tag Cloud
- by Mark Norman Francis. 24 Ways to Impress your Friends, 9 December 2006. "Everyone's doing it. The problem is, everyone's doing it wrong. Harsh words, you might think. But the crimes against decent markup are legion in this area. You see, I'm something of a markup and semantics junkie. So I'm going to analyse some of the more well-known tag clouds on the internet, explain what’s wrong, and then show you one way to do it better..."
- HTML Playground
- Provides sample html and css code and gives you examples of how to use it correctly.
- 4 Easy Ways To Spruce Up Your HTML Markup
- by Kevin Yank. Site Point Blog, July 1, 2008. "In the last issue of the Tech Times, I mentioned I was hard at work with the team here on a new front page design for sitepoint.com. While most of our time has been split between tweaking the CSS styles and crafting the PHP code that will generate the page, any major redesign brings with it the opportunity to improve the HTML code at the heart of your site. Of course, any newly-written HTML code these days should validate. But there's more to good HTML code than validation. Validation is the bare minimum you should be doing to assure the quality of your code. This issue, I'd like to take a look at four simple things you can do to make sure your HTML has that nice, new markup smell..."
- Three HTML 5 Related Drafts Published
- W3C, 10 June 2008. "The HTML Working Group has published three documents: HTML 5, HTML 5 differences from HTML 4, and the first public draft of HTML 5 Publication Notes. HTML 5 introduces features for Web application authors, new elements based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability..."
This category last updated: 7 May 2012