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Standards, Guidelines, & Patterns

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Web Standards:
- (Benefits and ROI,
- Browsers,
- Case Studies and Examples,
- Comprehensive Sites,
- Definitions and Overviews,
- Education and Professionalism,
- Semantics,
- Separation,
- Structure,
- Tag Soup,
- Validation,
- Related Standards Info )
Guidelines and Best Practices
Patterns

Standards

Benefits and ROI (Why Standards?)

10 Reasons for Web Standards - Simon Jessey
3.2 Create documents that validate to published formal grammars
- Example for Checkpoint 3.2
5 questions to ask your web development team - John Allsopp
99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete - Jeffrey Zeldman
Benefits and ROI (Why XHTML?)
Benefits of CSS - Cameron Olthuis
Better Control and Cost Savings with Style Sheets - Robert Nyman
Built Like a House - Mike Cherim
Business Benefits of Web Standards - Paul Boag
Business Case for Web Standards Wiki - Created By Chris Heilmann
Buy Standards Compliant Web Sites - Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Code to Standards for Cross Platform Compatibility - Jim Byrne
Client Guide to Web Standards: What They are and Why They Are Important - Andy Budd
CSS Based Design - Jeremy Keith
Do Interface Standards Stifle Design Creativity? - Jakob Nielsen
Do Web Standards Have a Future? - John Allsopp
Evangelizing Outside the Box: Web Standards and Big Companies - Peter-Paul Koch
Forward Compatibility and Web Standards - Peter-Paul Koch
Guess What? Your Clients Have Learned About Web Standards - D. Keith Robinson
HTML Standards Compliance - Why Bother? - Alan Richmond
How CSS Benefits in SEO - Harry Smith
In Search Engines, Web Standards and Semantics Rule - Straight Up Search
More Than a Set of Rules: Consider Human and Social Factors Alongside Technical Guidelines - Glenda Watson Hyatt
My Web site is standard! And yours? - Karl Dubost
Non-Standard Code Hurts The Bottom Line - D. Keith Robinson
Real-World CSS Zen For Your Site - Mani Sheriar
Standard Practice: Weighing the Risks And Rewards of Standards - Aaron Walsh
Standards Savings - Eric A. Meyer
Standing up for standards - Adrian Holovaty
Supporting Web Standards - Heidi Voltmer
SxSW Notes: How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Standards - Stuart Colville
Ten Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards - Roger Johansson
The Benefits of Web Standards to Your Visitors, Your Clients, and You! - Russ Weakley
The Business Case for Web Standards Wiki - Christian Heilmann
The Business Value of Web Standards - Jeffrey Veen
The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards - Alan K'necht
The Need for Web Design Standards - Jakob Nielsen
The Train Track Gauge of the Future: Solving Usability Problems with Web Standards Today - Tara Cleveland and Stephanie Troeth
The Web Standards War is Far From Over - Robert Nyman
Top 10 Reasons to Learn CSS - Christopher Schmitt
Turning the Tables, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Web Standards - Drew McLellan
Usability and Standards - Who Cares? - Stephanie Sullivan
Using XHTML/ CSS For an Effective SEO Campaign - Brandon Olejniczak
Using standard markup to increase accessibility - an introduction - Jim Byrne
W3C Compliance and SEO - Dave Davies
Web Blandards - John Allsopp
Web Pages Aren't Printed on Paper - John Allsopp
Web Standards Do - The Way of Web Standards - Olivier Thereaux
Web Standards for Skeptics - Michael Montgomery
Web Standards and Accessibility - Ricky Onsman
Web Standards Can Save, and Make You Money - Steven Champeon
Web Standards For Business - Francois Nonnenmacher
Web Standards ROI - D. Keith Robinson
Web Standards. Should my Business Website be Compliant? - Thomas Ashworth
Web Standards: User Interface Makeovers
What are the advantages of using web standards? - Web Standards Project
What Makes CSS So Great? - Eric Meyer
Whatever For...So, why bother? - Owen Briggs
Why Adopt Web Standards? - Christian Vinten-Johansen
Why Don't You Code for Netscape? - Jeffery Zeldman
Why CSS - css-discuss Wiki
Why Size Doesn't Matter in Setting Web Standards - Daniel Champion
Why Standards? - Jim Waldo
Why Standards-Compliant HTML Matters - Raphael Mazoyer
Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered - Bill Merikallio and Adam Pratt
Why Web Standards Matter - Carrie Bickner
Why Standards Still Matter - Roger Johansson

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Browsers

Acid2 Supported in Opera One Year Later - Molly E. Holzschlag
Acid (3) Drops - Charles McCathieNevile - Eric A. Meyer
Acid 3 Browser Test Completed, Available Now - Nicholas Shanks
Acid Redux - Eric A. Meyer
Acid3: Putting Browser Makers on Notice, Again. - Drew McLellan
Because IE6 is the new Netscape 4.7x - Jeff Atwood
Beyond the Browser Upgrade Campaign - The Web Standards Project
Browser bug swatting - Craig Saila
Browse Happy - A WaSP Initiative
Browse Happy Now Part of WordPress as WaSP Refocuses Mission - webstandards.org
Can Your Site Survive Firefox? - Brian Livingston
Change in Internet Browsers Recommended - Penn State University
CNet Discovers Browser Incompatibilities - Chris Kaminski
Criticisms of Internet Explorer - Wikipedia
Dear one-browser Web designers: Don't say I didn't warn you - Robin 'roblimo' Miller
Developers gripe about IE standards inaction - Paul Festa
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Unrestricted - Cameron Adams
Firefox 3.0: Passes Acid 2 CSS Test - Dion Almaer
Got Browser Woes? Think Again - Molly E. Holzschlag
Graded Browser Support - Nate Koechley
In All Fairness - Internet Explorer Still Stinks - Kevin Yanks
Opera 9.0 Fully Passes ACID2 Test - Rob Malda
Opera to MS: Get real about interoperability, Mr Gates - Hakon Lie
Public Consultation on Browser Standards for Public Sector Web Sites: Opera's Response - Bruce Lawson
The End of Free not the end of Web Standards - The Web Standards Project
Ending the upgrades - Craig Saila
Firefox Investigation - Robert Nyman
IBM Backs Firefox In-House - Martin LaMonica
IE
- Compatibility and IE8 - Chris Wilson
  - 5-A-Side Jargon Busting - Jack Pickard
  - A Kiss Chris Wilson Unconference - Virgina DeBolt
  - A Reasoned Response to X-UA-Compatible - nevali.net
  - Almost Precedent - Henri Sivonen.
  - Almost Target - Eric A. Meyer
  - Asymptotically Converging on Standards - Sam Ruby
  - Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 - Aaron Gustafson
  - Bobbing Heads and the IE8 Meta Tag - Shelly Powers
  - Breaking the Web - Jonathan Nicol
  - Broken - Jeremy Keith
  - Common Bonds - Eric A. Meyer
  - Compatibility and IE 8 - Jens Meiert
  - Doctype Switch 2.0 - David Dorward
  - Doctype Switching for IE 8 - Roger Johansson
  - End of line Internet Explorer - Mike Davies
  - From Switches to Targets: A Standardista's Journey - Eric Meyer
  - Has Internet Explorer Just Shot Itself in the Foot? - Andy Budd
  - HTML5 DOCTYPE - John Resig
  - IE8 and Doctype Switching - Emil Stenstrom
  - IE8 and Opt-In Versioning Mechanism - Karl Dubost
  - IE8 and the Future of the Web - Rachel Andrew
  - IE 8, Shooting Browsers and What To Do - Robert Nyman
  - IE8, Version Targeting, and the Ruckus it’s Causing - Jonathan Christopher
  - IE8 Version Targeting: Microsoft Considers Feedback - Kevin Yank
  - In Defense of Version Targeting - Jeffery Zeldman
  - Internet Explorer Reality - Mike Davies
  - Martian Headsets - Joel Spolsky
    - Joel Spolsky: Crap is Good - Shelley Powers
    - Reality Distortion Fields - Henri Sivonen
  - <META HTTP-EQUIV="X-BALL-CHAIN"> - Robert O'Callahan
  - Me, IE8 and Microsoft Versioning - Molly E. Holzschlag
  - Meta Madness - John Resig
  - Microsoft: Fish, or Cut Bait - Shelly Powers
  - Microsoft Koan - Mark Pilgrim
  - Microsoft Versioning: Accessibility Implications - Bruce Lawson
  - Mistakes, Sadness, Regret - Ian Hickson
  - .net/may2008 Article Browser Version Targeting - Patrick H. Lauke
  - Not Your Father's Standards Switch - Jeffery Zeldman
  - On IE8: Pragmatic and Practical, But I Still Don't Like It - Tiffany B. Brown
  - On IE8 Version Targeting - Bruce Lawson
  - Standards Mode is the New Quirks Mode - Roger Johansson
  - Still Broken - Jeremy Keith
  - So What Happens Now? - Rachel Andrew
  - Speaking of Tanking - Shelley Powers
  - Sunsetting Quirks Mode - Sam Ruby
  - The Default Value of the Versioning Switch - David Dorward
  - The Importance of Being HTML5 - Jonathan Snook
  - The Internet Explorer Lock-In - Anne Van Kesteren
  - The Meta Freeze IE Drops the Bomb (again) - Niels Matthijs
  - The Versioning Switch is Not a Browser Detect - Peter-Paul Koch
  - The Versioning Switch's Default is Correct - Peter-Paul Koch
  - The War Within Web Standards: Pragmatists Versus Purists - Jeff Croft
  - They Shoot Browsers, Don't They? - Jeremy Keith
  - Thoughts on Browser Version Targeting - Richard Rutter
  - Tyranny of Microsoft - Shelley Powers
  - Version Targeting and JavaScript Libraries - Drew McLellan
  - Version Targeting in IE 8, and an Alternative Path for Microsoft - Robert Nyman
  - Version Targeting: Threat or Menace? - Jeffrey Zeldman
  - Version Two - Eric Meyer
  - Versioning, Compatibility and Standards - Maciej Stachowiak
  - WaSP Round Table: IE8's Default Version Targeting Behavior - Aaron Gustafson
  - What Should Microsoft do Instead? - David Baron
  - What's Best for Web Standards? - Mike Cherim
  - Why the DOCTYPE Switch Isn't Broken - Joe Dolson
  - X-UA-Lemur-Compatible - Kate Bolin
  - X-UA-Compatible: Moving Past Thoughts of the Children - Lachlan Hardy
- Don't Be a Beta Hater - Jeffery Zeldman
- Frequently Asked Questions for the IE7 Beta 2 Preview - Al Billings
- IE and CSS 'Compliance' - Chris Wilson
- IE7 Beta 1 - A Few Details.. - Chris Wilson
- IE 7 Beta 2 - A First Test Drive - Robert Nyman
- IE7: Details - Dave Shea
- IE7 Not CSS Compliant - Argh, Here We Go Again! - Richard MacManus
- IE 7 Preview - Eric Tribou
- IE7: Were They Ready? - Simon Griffin
- IE7 Will Not Support W3 Standards - Bynet4now
- Installing and Uninstalling IE 7 Beta 2 - Peter-Paul Koch
- Just What Has Microsoft Been Doing for IE 7? - Slashdot thread
- Latest Update from Molly - Molly E. Holzschlag
- Microsoft and Internet Explorer vs. Web Standards - Roger Johansson
- Microsoft, IE and the Web Standards Project - Chris Wilson
- Microsoft IE7 Progress: Sneak Preview of MIX06 Release - Molly E. Holzschlag
- Misstep - Shelley Powers
  - Grace in Winning - Shelley Powers
- Molly Holzschlag, Will the Standards Battle Ever be Won? - Vitamin
- Please Test Your Sites With IE7 - Chris Wilson
- Talking with Microsoft about IE.next - Aaron Gustafson
- Why XHTML Can Save Internet Explorer - Kurt Cagle
IE 8
- Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency - Molly E. Holzschlag
- IE and Standards: Chris Wilson Talks - Kevin Yank
- 'IE8 Compatible' - The Cure for Web Standards Headache? - Gavin Clarke
- IE8: The Bad - Anne Van Kesteren
  - IE8: The Bad (Update) - Anne van Kesteren
- Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone - Dean Hachamovitch
- Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Kit - Microsoft
- Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8 - Dean Hachamovitch
  - Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards - Ray Ozzie
  - Celebrate, C'mon! IE8 Standards Mode To Be Default - Molly E. Holzschlag
  - IE8: Standards Mode by Default - Shelley Powers
  - IE 8 will use Standards Mode as the default rendering - Robert Nyman
  - IE Team Changes Its Mind on IE8 Default Behavior - Peter-Paul Koch
  - Internet Explorer 8 Standards-Compliant by Default - Stuart Langridge
  - Meta-Change - Eric A. Meyer
  - Microsoft Backflips on Browser Version Targeting - Matthew Magain
  - Microsoft Rethinks IE8's Default Behavior - Aaron Gustafson
  - Microsoft Reverse Versioning Decision in IE8 - Mel Pedley
  - Surprise of the Year: IE8 will use Standards Mode by Default - Roger Johansson.
  - Unbreaking the Web - John Resig
  - Principles and Legality - Eric Meyer
Internet Explorer and Standards - Chris Wilson
Internet Explorer Has Now Lost 30% of Browser Market - Robin Good
Internet Explorer Too Risky - Molly E. Holzschlag
Internet Explorer - Where are Users Going? - Shirley Kaiser
Opera's Acid 2 challenge to Microsoft - Hakon Wium Lie
- That Acid Buzz - Eric A. Meyer
Opera Files Complaint - An Open Letter to the Web Community - Hakon Wium Lie
- Bad Timing - Eric Meyer
- Complaint Update - Hakon Wium
- Conversation with Opera on Web Standards - Vlad Alexander
- IE8, Opera, CSS and Standards Getting in a Tizzy - Bruce Lawson
- Opera CTO Talks About Opera's Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft (Video) - Daniel Goldman
- Opera Files a Complaint to the European Commission About Internet Explorer - Robert Nyman
- Opera Files Antitrust Complaint with the EU - Opera
- Opera Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft - Joost de Valk
- Opera's Lie Blasts Microsoft on IE and Web Standards Support - Mike Paciello
- Opera vs Microsoft - Andy Budd
  - Opera vs Microsoft Reprise - Andy Budd
- Reigniting the Browser Wars - Stuart Langridge
SXSW: Browser Wars Become Browser Peace? Not Quite - AppScout
The Acid2 Browser Test - WaSP
The Cost of Supporting Non-Standards - Mike Davies (Isolani)
The Fallout of Netscape's demise - Mike Davies (Isolani)
The Door Is Ajar - Tim Bray
The Great Microsoft Blunder - John C. Dvorak
WHAT about Internet Explorer? - Mike Davies (Isolani)
Web Browser Standards, 2005 - Taran Rampersad
Web Icon Set to be Discontinued - BBC
Why Mozilla Shouldn't Implement SVG (or at least not too much of it), and What We Should Do Instead - David Baron

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Case Studies and Examples

24sata.hr Goes Non-Standards - Marko Dugonjic
A Comparative Investigation of the Accessibility Levels of Irish Websites - Vivienne Trulock
A Look at Internet Banking Accessibility in Australia - Sofia Celic, Steven Faulkner, Andrew Arch
ABC News Redesigns - Mike Davidson
Another Failed Redesign: IEEE - Kimberly Blessing
The New Path - Douglas Bowman
Canadian election Web sites flunk standards test - Joe Clark
Corporate Web Standards - Scott Gledhill
CSS, Markup and Standards: Back to the Future - Mark Newhouse
Design sites do Web standards. Or rather, they don't do Web standards, either - Joe Clark
eGovernment Site Credibility: Comparing Speed, Accessibility, Typos, and Validity - Andrew B. King
ESPN redesigns with web standards - Jeffery Zeldman
Failed Redesigns - Joe Clark
- Failed Redesigns Update - Joe Clark
- Failed Redesigns III - Joe Clark
- Failed Redesign: Metrolinx - Joe Clark
FEMA Locks Mac Users from Hurricane Relief - Jonny Evans
From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer's Journey - Jeffrey Zeldman
Google Can't Code - Joe Clark
Google Gives in to the Dark Side - Peter Van Dijck
Google Strict vs Google Deprecated - Philipp Lenssen
- Google Valid and Strict - Roger Johansson
Government Web Standards Usage: People's Republic of China - Peter Krantz
Government Web Standards Usage: U.S.A - Peter Krantz
Inspiration
KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan) Goes Web Standards - Emil Stenstrom
Leading By Example - Ben Henick
Making News with Web Standards - Jim Ramsey
MSN goes CSS - Douglas Bowman
ONOFF: Another Failed Redesign - Roger Johansson and Robert Nyman
Party like it's 1997: Microsoft has redesigned - Jeffrey Zeldman
Rebuilding a Site With Standards - Eric A. Meyer
Redesign Watch - Eric A. Meyer
Searching for Standards - Molly E. Holzschlag
Survey Reveals Only 14 Percent Of America's Best Colleges Compliant With Web Standards - Enterprise Content Management Connection
The Changing Face of University Websites - Maish Nichani
The State of the Art in Australian Web Development - John Allsopp
Throwing Tables Out the Window - Douglas Bowman
Walgreens Recruits Employees With Disabilities Through Highly Accessible Website - Michael McCarty
WaSP Interviews Todd Dominey on the redesign of PGA.com
Web standards improve 2theadvocate.com navigation - Adrian Holovaty
Web Standards in Action - D. Keith Robinson
Webby Award Validation Woes - Molly E. Holzschlag
Worst Redesign of the Year - Joe Clark
Web Standards to the Rescue - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Why Web Standards Matter (Case Study) - Jesper Ronn-Jensen

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Comprehensive Sites

MACCAWS (Making a Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards)
The Access Board - This is the official home of Section 508 provisions of the standards. The full set of their requirements is available at this site in the document Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (1194.22).
The Web Standards Project
W3C - THE place to go for official web information. It is the authoritative source for web standards.

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Definitions and Overviews

9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards - Philipp Lenssen
A Beginners Introduction to Standard Markup and Accessibility - Jim Byrne
A Roadmap to Standards - Dave Shea
A Three-legged Stool - Mark Newhouse
ALPHABET SOUP: A web designer's journey to standards and accessibility - Randal Rust
Define Web Standards in a <p> or Less - Molly E. Holzschlag
Designing With Web Standards Video for Molly Holzschlag - Patrick H. Lauke
How to Grok Web Standards - Craig Cook
Information technology - Document description and processing languages - HyperText Markup Language - ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission)
Introduction to W3C - W3C Schools
Living in a Dream House: Or How to Bring Web Standards to Your Web Sites - Sheri German
Notes: an introduction to standard HTML and accessibility - Jim Byrne
Raise Your Standards - Molly E. Holzschlag
Spelling and Grammar not the Same - Jeffery Zeldman
The Four Essentials of Modern Web Design - Jason Foss
The Meaning of Web Standards - Derek Featherstone
Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages - Simon Paquet, Marcio Galli, Ian Oeschger, Jim Ley, Daniel Ulrich, Mike Cowperthwaite
W3C Web Standards - Justin Cook
Web Misunderstandards - Andy Rutledge
Web Standards: It's about Quality, Not Compliance - Andy Rutledge
Web Standards, the Three-Legged Race - Porter Glendinning
What Are Web Standards? - Robert Nyman
What is a Good Standard? An essay on W3C's design principles - Bert Bos
What is a 'Web Standard?' - Molly E. Holzschlag

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Education and Professionalism

Accessibility First! A New Approach to Web Design - Brian Rosmaita
Acting locally (Draft): Challenges in Web Standards Evangelism - Tristan Nitot
Announcing the WaSP Curriculum Framework - Steph Troeth
Become a Better Standardista - Stuart Colville
Being Professionals - Eric A Meyer
Beyond New Professionalism - Holly Marie Koltz
Computer Science Majors Get Tools To Build Accessibility Into Software - K. C. Jones
Curriculum Survey Results - Rob Dickerson
Educated - Dan Cederholm
Education Task Force Curriculum Survey - Rob Dickerson
Educating the Educators - Vicki Berry
EduTF Report Highlights Curriculum Project - Holly Marie Koltz
Encouraging Web Standards - Vicki Berry
Go Out, Be Loud, Be Positive. Build a Profession - Cameron Adams
How to Sniff Out a Rotten Standardista - Molly E. Holzschlag
Introduction to The Web Standards Curriculum/Table of Contents - Chris Mills
Joe Dizon on Starting Your Web Standards Journey - Andrew Faulkner
Keeping Up - Andy Rutledge
Knowing Our Craft - Mike Davies
Learning and Teaching Web Standards - Julian Rickards
Levels of CSS Knowledge - Emil Stenstrom
My Workshop Dilemma - Donna Maurer
Oh That Elitist Smell - Molly E. Holzschlag
On Quality Education - Holly Marie Koltz
Professional Body for the Web Design Industry? - Mark Boulton
Professionalism and Best Practice in Web Design and Development - John Allsopp
Real Hackers Don't Use CSS - Emil Stenstrom
Teaching Web Design, Part 2 - Christian Montoya
Ten Checkpoints of a Web Standards Based Curriculum - Virginia DeBolt
The Learning Curve of Web Standards - Bobby van der Sluis
The New Amateurs - Peter-Paul Koch
- The New Amateurs - part 2 - Peter-Paul Koch
The Survey, 2008 - A List Apart
Warning! This Book Could Be Hazardous to the Web! - WaSP Street Team
WaSP Street Team - Web Standards Project
WaSP Interviews Blake Elshire - Rob Dickerson
Web Professional's Code of Ethics - Molly E. Holzschlag
- Web Professionals Code of Ethics Wiki - Launched by Meri Williams
Web Standards and the Educations - Faruk Ates
Web Standards and The New Professionalism - Molly E. Holzschlag
Web Standards Documentary Project - Aarron Walter
Working for Standards - Lauren Wood

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Semantics

Borderline Semantics/Crossing the Line - Niels Matthijs
Built in Semantics in HTML - John Allsop
But It Validates! - Jon Christopher
Categories of Semantics - Joe Clark
Emergent Semantics - Eric A. Meyer
Explaining Semantic Mark-Up - Robert Nyman
HTML: More structural than semantic - Simon Willison
HTML, XHTML, Semantics and the Future of the Web - John Allsopp
Markup, Namespaces, and Meaning - Tim Bray
- Microformats, GRDDL
  - ABBR Pattern Accessibility - Alastair Campbell
  - Add Microformats Magic to Your Site - John Allsopp
  - Adding hCard to Your Site With Microformats - Bence Kucsan
  - An Introduction To Microformat - Brian Kelly
  - Conference Schedule Creator - Dmitry Baranovskiy
  - Current Issues with Microformats - Emil Stenstrom
  - Following the WSG Microformats Event - Stuart Colville
  - GRDDL
    - GRDDL Primer - W3C
    - Semantic Web Data Integration with hCalendar and GRDDL - Dan Connolly
  - hAccessibility - Bruce Lawson and James Craig
  - hAccessibility Redux? - Patrick Lauke.
  - hCalendar - microformats wiki
  - hCard - microformats wiki
  - HTML5, Microformats and Testing Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
  - Intro to Microformats - Nick Nettleton
  - Markup Map for hCard Microformat - Christopher Schmitt
  - Microformatique
  - Microformats CSS
  - Microformats.org
  - Microformats and Accessibility - Jim O'Donnell
  - Microformats and Web 2.0 - Micah Dubinko
  - Microformats By Wikipedia
  - Microformats Cheat Sheet - Brian Suda
  - Microformats Cheat Sheet by Dave Child
  - Microformats in Context - Uche Ogbuji
  - Microformats: More Meaning from Your Markup - Brian Suda
  - More on Developing Naming Conventions, Microformats and HTML5 - Andy Clarke
  - Parsing Microformats - Brian Suda
  - Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes - Michael Smethurst
  - So Address Tags are Rubbish for Microformat hCards? - Chris Heilmann
  - Tails (Firefox Extension) - Calvin Yu
  - The Big Picture on Microformats - John Allsopp
  - The Business Benefits of Microformats - Simon Collison
  - The Zen of Microformats - Ryan Tomayko
  - Tutorials on Microformats - Roger Costello
  - Use Formats Instead of Microformats - Emil Stenstrom
  - W3C GRDDL Recommendation Bridges HTML/Microformats and the Semantic Web - Robin Cover
  - What Are Microformats - Micah Dubinko
  - What are Microformats? - Tantek Celik
  - Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them - Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz
On Standards and Semantics - Douglas Bowman
The Semantic Web In Action - Lee Feigenbaum, Ivan Herman, Tonya Hongsermeier, Eric Neumann and Susie Stephens
Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics - John Allsopp
- Part II - Standardizing Vocabularies - John Allsopp
- Part III - Directions in HTML Semantics - John Allsopp
- Understanding and Extending Semantics in HTML - Roger Johansson
Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH)
- POSH - Plain Old Semantic HTML - Roger Johansson
- How to Use POSH - Virginia DeBolt
Semantic Brevity - Jeremy Keith
Semantics By Robert Nyman
Semantic Data Extractor - W3C
Semantic Formatting for Interviews - Joe Dolson
Semantics in HTML - John Allsopp
Semantic Markup and Templates - Kevin Leitch
Semantic Typography: Bridging the XHTML Gap - Mark Boulton
Semantics and Bad Code - Dave Shea
Semantics in HTML Part I - Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics - John Allsopp
- Semantics in HTML Part II - Standardizing Vocabularies - John Allsopp
Semantics, Standards, Accessibility.. - Bruce Lawson
Semantics: The Red-Headed Step-Child of Markup - Garrett Dimon
Semantics - Why Bother? - Mel Pedley
Spiffy Markup? - Ian Lloyd
Standards Don’t Necessarily Have Anything to do with Being Semantically Correct - Jason Kottke
The Elements of Meaningful XHTML - Tantek Celik
The Importance of a Semantic URL - Robert Nyman
The Road to the Semantic Web - Alex Iskold
The Semantic Code - Abhijit Nadgouda
WebPatterns and WebSemantics - John Allsopp
What Does Markup Mean? - Sam Ruby
Who Will Read Your Semantic HTML? - Jesse Skinner
Won't Somebody Please Think of the Gerbils? - Mark Pilgrim
Why Use Semantic HTML? - Joe Dolson
- Why Use Semantic HTML? - part 2 - Joe Dolson

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Separation

Really Separated? - Doug Bowman
Gotta Keep 'em Separated - Jeremy Keith
More Seriously: Why CSS Doesn't Define Behaviour - Mark Wubben
Separating Behavior and Presentation - Peter-Paul Koch
Separation: The Web Designer's Dilemma - Michael Cohen
The Document Triangle - Peter J. Bogaards
The Incomplete Divorce - Eric A. Meyer
The Web Is Ruined and I ruined it - David Siegel
Three Separated Layers, Capisce? - Robert Nyman

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Structure

3.5 Use header elements to convey document structure - W3C
- Example for Checkpoint 3.5
1.2.1 Section headings
Design for machines first, people second! - Jim Byrne
General Mark-up - Peter Rainge
Get Down With Markup - Dan Cederholm
Guideline 3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly
SimpleQuizzes - Dan Cederholm
Semantic Structure - Paul R. Bohman
Use Structural Markup - Andrew B. King
Structure your Webpages with HTML 5 - Peter Davison
The Structure of Accessible Pages - Joe Clark
Use <h1> for top-level heading - W3C
Use headings to structure your document - W3C
Using real headers - Mark Pilgrim
Using Structural Markup - The University of Durham
The Marriage of Presentation and Structure - Molly E. Holzschlag & Ethan Marcotte
The Marriage of Presentation and Structure (Video) - Ethan Marcotte and Molly Holzschlag
Visual Vs. Structural - Tommy Olsson
Web Design World Cool-down - Molly E. Holzschlag

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Tag Soup

12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean - Chris Coyie
Stop Writing Garbage Code, Please - Mike Cherim
Redefining Tag Soup - Faruk Ates
The Elements of Meaningful XHTML - Tantek Celik

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Validation

3.2 - Create documents that validate to published formal grammars
- Example for Checkpoint 3.2
A Principled Argument - Matt May
A Validator is Not an Accessibility Evaluation Tool? - Mike Smith
All That Glitters - Ethan Marcotte
- Web Standards = 100% Validation? - D. Keith Robinson
- Who Cares About Validation? - Cameron Adams
Alexa Global Top 500 Against HTML 5 Validation - Karl Dubost
Ampersands and Validation - Roger Johansson
Ampersands, PHP Sessions and Valid HTML - David Dorward
Accessibility, Validity, Guidelines and Law - Chris Kaminski
Beyond Validation - Joe Dolson
Clean Compliant HTML Code vs Cost of Non Compliant HTML Code - S. R. Emerson
Committed to Sincere Progress, Not Perfection - WaSP
CSS Reboot as Web Standards Validation Indicator - Sean Fraser
CSS Validator Colour Warnings are not Errors - Roger Johansson
Help! My CSS Isn't Working! - Eric A. Meyer
HTML and CSS Validation: Should You Validate Your Web Page? - Christopher Heng
HTML Validation is a Good Tool, But Just a Tool - Jukka Korpela
HTML Well-Formedness Requires Validation - Sean Fraser
In Search of Validation.. - Ben Henick
Influence of Valid Code on Screen Readers - Joe Clark
Invalid HTML Interfering with Accessibility - Alastair Campbell
Making it Legal: Validating Your (X)HTML and CSS - Zoe Gillenwater
MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) - Brian Wilson
- MAMA: Markup Validation Report - Brian Wilson
- Opera: Just 4.13% of Web's Code is Valid - Josh Catone.
- Opera Study: Only 4.13% of the Web is Standards-Compliant - Ryan Paul
On Accessibility and Validity - Matt May
Scripting away Validation Concerns - Gez Lemon
State of the Validation 2002 - Marko Karppinen
The Craft of HTML - Karl Dubost
The Fuji CSS Validator Release - Karl Dubost
The Importance Of Standards Compliance and The Process of Validation - Karl L. Groves
Valid garbage in, valid garbage out - Ian Hickson
- The Quiz- Ian Hickson
Validated Ampersands in HTML Links - Christopher Schmitt
Validating an Entire Site - Peter Krantz
Validation By Andy Budd
Validation: CSS and HTML (Quick Tutorial) - Maxine Sherrin
Validation: Does It Matter? - Owen Briggs
Validation Funnies - Lisa Sabin
Validation is More than Pretty Fonts and Unencoded Ampersands - Christian Montoya
Validation, Moderation, Constipation - Dave Shea
Validating accessibility - W3C
Validity and Accessibility - Gez Lemon
Validity and Accessibility - Web Accessibility Initative
Validity Does not Equal Best Practices - Roger Johansson
Seven Benefits of HTML Validation - Herman Drost
Slashdot’s Validity - Eric A. Meyer
The Advantages of Using Valid HTML - Jim Byrne
The Importance of Code Validation - John Foliot
The Importance Of Standards Compliance and The Process of Validation - Karl L. Groves
W3C Validator, Now with HTML5 Flavour - Olivier Thereaux New!
- W3C Markup Validation Service Adds Experimental HTML5 Support - Meitar Moscovitz New!
WCAG 2.0, Validity and The Holy Trinity - Jack Pickard
When Validation Becomes Unimportant - Jens Meiert
Where Our Standards Went Wrong - Ethan Marcotte
Why Validate?
Why Validate a Web Site's Pages? - Raymond Sonoff

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Related Standards Info

An Angry Fix - Jeffery Zeldman
- A Peaceful Ear - Karl Dubost
- Angry Indeed - Eric A. Meyer
- Angry, Not: Zeldman, Meyer, and Fair Concerns About the W3C - Molly E. Holzschlag
- Misplaced Anger: A Rebuttal to Zeldman's Criticism of the W3C - Molly E. Holzschlag
- More W3C Controversy - David Baron
- W3C and the Broken Process + Two Shining Examples of Committee-based Specification Development Done Right - M. David Peterson
- W3C and the Overton Window - Mark Pilgrim
- W3C Change: Introduction - Eric A. Meyer
  - W3C Change: Outreach - Eric A. Meyer
  - W3C Change: Working Groups - Eric A. Meyer
  - W3C Change Full Independence - Eric A. Meyer
An Event Apart: Notes - Luke Wroblewski
An Open Letter to WaSP - Robert Nyman and Vlad Alexander
Are Lists Becoming the New Tables? - Mike Cherim
Using Standards Doesn't Make it Right - Joe Dolson
Bad Tags - Patrick Griffiths
Basic Webstandards Workshop - Russ Weakley and the folks at Maxdesign
Between excess and temperance - Craig Saila
Bluffers' Guide To ISO 9241 - David Travis
Breaking News: W3C Specs Are Not the Word of God - Bruce Lawson
Breaking the Web Wide Open! - Marc Canter
Building with Rusted Nails - Nick Finck and Peter Fielding
Charity Organization - Anne Van Kesteren
Change in Group Lead - Drew McLellan
Christmas Quiz - An Answer - Brian Kelly
- Christmas Quiz II - An Answer - Brian Kelly
Content Drives Demand - Sam Ruby
Comment on the Stick (Standards Enforcement) Approach to Accessibility - Sharon Perry
Data Integration and Transparency - Tim Berners-Lee.
Design Coding - The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper).
Design Rant - Owen Briggs
Design Sites and Web Standards - Roger Johansson
Designing With Web Standards Group Facebook Group - Jeffery Zeldman
Device Independence
Email
- CSS Support in Email Clients Still Pretty Poor - Andy Budd
- E-mail is Not a Platform for Design - Jeffery Zeldman
  - Eight Points for Better E-mail Relationships - Jeffery Zeldman
- Email Standards Project
- Keep HTML and CSS out of My Inbox. Please. - Roger Johansson
- Microsoft Makes Accessible and Standards Compliant HTML Email Impossible - Roger Johansson
- Text Email Newsletter (TEN) guidelines
- Why We Need Standards Support in HTML email - David Greiner
  - Help Improve Support for Web Standards in HTML email - Roger Johansson
From Web Standards Diva to Web Standards Devo - Molly E. Holzschlag
Growing Up With Web Standards - Derek Featherstone
How to Include Web Standards in an RFP - Jeffrey Zeldman
HTML 5 Working Group
- Reinventing HTML - Tim Berners-Lee
- 10 Reasons Why HTML 5 Will Change The Web (And 1 Why It Won't) - Aditya
- A Brave New alt in {HTML5} - Steve Faulkner
- A Preview of HTML 5 - Lachlan Hunt
  - Semantic HTML 5? Pfft. - Jonathan Nicol
- All These Years, I've Been Using the Site Element Incorrectly - Mark Pilgrim
- Action 54: First Draft - Steven Faulkner, Joshue O Connor, and Laura Carlson
  - Related email - Steven Faulkner
- About the HTML WG - Lachlan Hunt
- Alt in HTML5 Required? - To Be or Not to Be - Steve Faulkner
  - Alt in HTML5 - Moving Forward - Steve Faulkner
- Alternative Text for Significant Images - Joe Dolson
- An HTML5 Conformance Checker - Henri Sivonen
- An HTML5-style 'Google Suggest' - Anne van Kesteren
- Any-Element Linking in HTML 5 (sort of) - Bruce Lawson
- at media 2008 Presentation Slides - Lachlan Hunt
- Audio ga-ga - Jeremy Keith
- Authoring HTML 5 - Karl Dubost
- Authoring HTML 5 - A Call to Web Professionals - Karl Dubost
  - How to Contribute to W3C Work? Quick Tips - Karl Dubost
  - How to Contribute to W3C Work? Tutorials - Karl Dubost
- Blue Sky Browser Summit Review: XTech Paris, May 15, 2007 - Molly Holzschlag
- Browsers Will Treat All Versions of HTML as HTML 5 - Roger Johansson
- Complacency - One of the biggest enemies of HTML 5 (and I guess standards development in general) - Justin Thorp
- Can the alt Attribute Be Omitted Without Hurting Accessibility? - Roger Johansson
  - The Solution is a HTML 5 Apathetic Doctype - Steven Clark
- Circumventing Hegemony in the HTML WG - Steve Faulkner
- Conversation With X/HTML 5 Team - Vlad Alexander
  - Conversation With XHTML 2 Team - Vlad Alexander
  - X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2
- Design By Attrition - Sam Ruby
- Dissatisfaction with HTML WG - Dean Edridge
- ESW Wiki - W3C HTML Working Group
  - Headers Attribute Issue in HTML 5 - W3C HTML Working Group
    - Headers Attribute Debate - WAI and the PFWG (Al Gilman chair)
    - The HTML Scope/Headers Debate - Gez Lemon
  - HTML Design Principles (Proposed) - W3C HTML Working Group
  - HTML Issue: Abbr and Acronym - W3C HTML Working Group
  - Omitting alt Attribute for Critical Content -W3C HTML Working Group
- Feedback on Accessibility Concerns in HTML5 - Cathrine Roy
- Fixing The Web - Part 1 - Belus Technology
- Formal Recorded Complaint - John Foliot
- Forward Towards the Past - Tommy Olsson
- Future of the Web Page - Chris Lilley, Dave Raggett, Bert Bos, Michael Cooper, and Arun Ranganathan
- Google Tech Talk: HTML5 Demos - Ian Hickson
- Get Involved - Karl Dubost
- How to Learn HTML5 - Kroc Camen
- HTML 5: A Change In Course... Straight for the Iceberg - Justin James
- HTML 5 Activity Statement - W3C
- HTML5 and CSS3 are Doomed for Disaster - Kyle Neath
- HTML5 and alt: The Editors New Clothes - Steve Faulkner
- HTML 5 and summary: the feast of shrimp? - Roberto Scano
- HTML 5 And The Hear-Write Web - Karl Dubost
- HTML5 and XHTML 1.1+ MUST Stop for Now - Molly E. Holzschlag
  - So How Do We Fix the Web, Really? - Molly E. Holzschlag
  - What Crisis? - Jeffery Zeldman
  - Marathon 2.0 - Shelley Powers
  - WCAG, HTML, and CSS: Maybe the Standards Need a Break - Jens Meier
  - Stop the Web We Want to Get Off - Gary Barber
  - WHATWG to Start Work on "Bible5" - Michael Penman forwarded to www-html
  - Fixing the Web...Together! - Karl Dubost
- HTML5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools - Gez Lemon
- HTML 5 Authoring Guidelines, Editor's Draft - Lachlan Hunt, editor
- HTML5 Conformance Checking in Vim - Mike Smith
- HTML5: Custom Data - Anne Van Kesteren
- HTML 5 Differences from HTML 4 Working Draft - Anne van Kesteren (Editor)
  - HTML 5 Differences from HTML 4 - Anne van Kesteren
  - HTML 5 and Accessibility - Roger Johansson
  - HTML5, Microformats and Testing Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
  - HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - David "liorean" Andersson
  - HTML and Version Mechanisms - Karl Dubost
  - Thoughts on HTML 5 - Robert Nyman
- HTML5 DOCTYPE - John Resig
- HTML 5: Doctype to Version - Karl Dubost
- HTML 5, Headings and Sections - Matt Ryall
- HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson Discusses Features, Pain Points, Adoption Rate, And More - Justin James
- HTML 5, One Vocabulary, Two Serializations - Karl Dubost
- HTML 5 Needs a CarterPhone - Sam Ruby
- HTML 5 Publication Notes - W3C Working Group Note 10 June 2008 - Michael(tm) Smith
- HTML Design Principles, First Public Working Draft - Anne van Kesteren and Maciej Stachowiak, editors