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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
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
Web Standards: Where the ROI is - Molly Holzschlag
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
- Compatibility View Improvements to Come in IE8 - Scott Dickens
  - How I Might Deal with IE6 - Dan Cederholm
  - IE8 Blacklist: Forcing Standards Rendering Opt-In - Mike Davies
  - IE's Compatibility View - Shelley Powers.
  - IE8: Standards Mode Opt-In is Back From the Dead - Craig Buckler
  - Just The Facts: Recap of Compatibility View - Scott Dickens
  - The IE8 Blacklist Minefield - Mike Davies
  - Pajamas - Andy Clarke.
- 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
- 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
Stop Developing for Internet Explorer 6 - Robert Nyman
To Hell With Bad Browsers - the Sequel - Peter-Paul Koch
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 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
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
Redesigning with HTML 5 and WAI-ARIA - Bruce Lawson
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 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
Why Web Standards Matter (Case Study) - Jesper Ronn-Jensen

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Comprehensive Sites

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 Pragmatism Presentation - Patrick H. Lauke
Web Standards, the Three-Legged Race - Porter Glendinning
What Are Web Standards? - Robert Nyman
What Are Web Standards? (Video) - Jeffrey Zeldman
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
Brighter Horizons for Web Education - Aarron Walter
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
Elevate Web Design at the University Level - Leslie Jensen-Inman
Go Out, Be Loud, Be Positive. Build a Profession - Cameron Adams
How to Sniff Out a Rotten Standardista - Molly E. Holzschlag
InterAct - WaSP
Introduction to The Web Standards Curriculum/Table of Contents - Chris Mills
Introducing The Open Web Education Alliance - Aarron Walter. New!
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
Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group Charter - W3C
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 Design Education Sucks - Lucian Tucker
Web Professional's Code of Ethics - Molly E. Holzschlag
Web Standardistas on Web Standards in Education (Interview) - Chris Wallace.
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
Language Semantics and Operational Meaning - Larry Masinter
Markup, Namespaces, and Meaning - Tim Bray
- Microformats, GRDDL
  - A Christmas hCard From Me To You - Elliot Jay Stocks
  - 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
  - Designing Around hAccessibility - Andy Clarke
  - 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
  - Introduction to hCard, Part two: Styling hCards - Christopher Schmitt
  - Markup Map for hCard Microformat - Christopher Schmitt
  - Microformatique
  - Microformats, Accessibility, HTML 5 (again) - Bruce Lawson/
  - 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
  - Microformats for Business Owners - Richard Rutter
  - 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
Obama's Groundbreaking use of the Semantic Web - David Peterson
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
HTML 5 to the H1 Debate Rescue? - Henny Swan
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 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
How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? - Steve Faulkner
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
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 is More than Pretty Fonts and Unencoded Ampersands - Christian Montoya
Validation, Moderation, Constipation - Dave Shea
Validating accessibility - W3C
Validator Donation Program: The First Numbers Are In! - Olivier Thereaux
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
Sweetness Follows? - David Sloan
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
Web Standards Test: Top 100 Sites - Jeffrey Zeldman
W3C Validators in Jeopardy - Molly E. Holzschlag
W3C Validator, Now with HTML5 Flavour - Olivier Thereaux
- W3C Markup Validation Service Adds Experimental HTML5 Support - Meitar Moscovitz
WCAG 2.0, Validity and The Holy Trinity - Jack Pickard
When Validation Becomes Unimportant - Jens Meiert
Where Our Standards Went Wrong - Ethan Marcotte
Will HTML 5 Validation be Worth the Candle? - Stackoverflow Question
Why Validate?
Why Validate? - Olivier Thereaux
Why Validate a Web Site's Pages? - Raymond Sonoff

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Related Standards Info

An Open Letter to WaSP - Robert Nyman and Vlad Alexander
Using Standards Doesn't Make it Right - Joe Dolson
Bad Tags - Patrick Griffiths
Basic Webstandards Workshop - Russ Weakley and the folks at Maxdesigns
Bluffers' Guide To ISO 9241 - David Travis
Breaking News: W3C Specs Are Not the Word of God - Bruce Lawson
Building with Rusted Nails - Nick Finck and Peter Fielding
Charity Organization - Anne Van Kesteren
Change in Group Lead - Drew McLellan
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 Zeldmans
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
Elements of an EmotionML 1.0- Marc Schroder, Editor
- Re: proposed change to dialog example in HTML5 section 4.6.26 - Gregory J. Rosmaita
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
- Reinventing HTML - Tim Berners-Lee
- <html> 5 Doctor - Rich Clark, Bruce Lawson, Jack Osborne, Mike Robinson, Remy Sharp and Tom Leadbetter http://html5doctor.com/ New!
- 10 Reasons Why HTML 5 Will Change The Web (And 1 Why It Won't) - Aditya
- 5 Exciting Things to Look Forward to in HTML 5 - Jacob Gube
- A Brave New alt in {HTML5} - Steve Faulkner
- A Lecture about HTML5 - Henri Sivonen
- A Loose Set of Notes on RDFa, XHTML, and HTML5 - Shelley Powers
- A Preview of HTML 5 - Lachlan Hunt
  - Semantic HTML 5? Pfft. - Jonathan Nicol
- A Selection of Supported Features in HTML5 - Molly E. Holzschlag New!
- Accessibility Dependencies of the Successor to HTML 4.01 - Gregory Rosmaita
- Accessibility of HTML 5 Video and Audio Elements - Bruce Lawson
- 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
- Adobe on 'HTML5' - John Dowdell
- Add a Little HTML5 to Your Websites - Kilian Valkhof
- Alternate text in HTML 5 - Bruce Lawson
- Alternative Text for Significant Images - Joe Dolson
- An Event Apart and HTML 5 - Eric A Meyer
- An HTML5 Conformance Checker - Henri Sivonen
- An HTML5-style 'Google Suggest' - Anne van Kesteren
- An Open Letter to Mozilla Regarding Their Use and Promotion of HTML5 Video - Kroc Camen
- Any-Element Linking in HTML 5 (sort of) - Bruce Lawson
- at media 2008 Presentation Slides - Lachlan Hunt
- Attaching Subtitles to HTML5 Video - Silvia Pfeiffer
- 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
- Browser Storage: Do We Need SQL? Or Would a JSON Approach be Better? - Dion Almaer
- Browsers Will Treat All Versions of HTML as HTML 5 - Roger Johansson
- Challenging Times for HTML 5 - Shawn Medero
- Codecs HTML 5 - Tristan Nitot New!
- Comic Update: HTML5 Stubbornness and Snogging - Kyle Weem
- Comic Update: Who Really Is the Wizard of HTML5? - Kyle Weems
- Complacency - One of the biggest enemies of HTML 5 (and I guess standards development in general) - Justin Thorp
- Concerning Flash and HTML5 - Ben Ward New!
- Consequences - John Foliot
  - Accessibility or Standards Compliance? - Tom Babinszki
  - Feeling Cynical about Web Accessibility and Standards? - Jesse Rodgers
  - Higher Standards for Web Standards - Steven Martin
  - When is the Right time for Accessibility? - Derek Featherstone
- 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
- Cufon and Screen Readers - Roger Johansson
- Design By Attrition - Sam Ruby
- Dissatisfaction with HTML WG - Dean Edridge
- ESW Wiki - W3C HTML Working Group
  - HTML5 Canvas Accessibility Issues
  - Email Lists
  - Headers Attribute Issue
  - Mechanism to Summarize a Table
  - Multimedia Accessibility <Audio> <Video>
  - Meeting Minutes
  - Omitting Text Alternatives on <img> Issue
  - Request to Strengthen the HTML5 Accessibility Design Principle
  - Surveys
  - Teleconferences
- Everyone Wants Their Thing to be HTML - Rob Sayre
- Fallback Options for HTML5 Video - Chris Double
- 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 Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - Tim O'Reilly
- Google Tech Talk: HTML5 Demos - Ian Hickson
- Get Involved - Karl Dubost
- Help Tidy HTML 5 (and get your name in lights) - Bruce Lawson
- How to Learn HTML5 - Kroc Camen
- HTML Evolution - Sam Ruby
  - The Evolution and Future of HTML - Roger Johansson
- HTML4.2 - Douglas Crockford
- HTML 5: A Change In Course... Straight for the Iceberg - Justin James
- HTML 5 Accessibility - Steve Faulkner New!
- 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 XHTML2 - Michael(tm) Smith New!
- 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
- HTML 5 Canvas - The Basics - Mihai Sucan
- HTML5 Conformance Checking in Vim - Mike Smith
- HTML5 Could Be the OS Killer - David Coursey
- 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
- HTML5 Gallery - Rich Clark
- HTML 5, Headings and Sections - Matt Ryall
- HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson Discusses Features, Pain Points, Adoption Rate, And More - Justin James
- HTML 5 Elements Test - Bruce Lawson
- HTML5 Video Fallbacks with Markup - Christopher Blizzard New!
- HTML 5 Implementations in Web Browsers - whatwg.org
- HTML5 Isn't a Standard Yet - Philippe Le Hegaret
- HTML5 Microdata - Over-cooked? - Frances Berriman
- HTML 5 Needs a CarterPhone - Sam Ruby
- HTML 5: Now or Never? - Kevin Yank
- HTML 5, One Vocabulary, Two Serializations - Karl Dubost
- HTML 5 Publication Notes - W3C Working Group Note 10 June 2008 - Michael(tm) Smith
- HTML5 Spec (Without All the New Features) - Robert Sayre
  - Discussion is Mozilla Bug 478665
- HTML Design Principles, First Public Working Draft - Anne van Kesteren and Maciej Stachowiak, editors
  - Post your comments to: public-html-comments@w3.org
  - W3C Seeks Community Support for HTML Design Principles (First Public Working Draft) - HTML Working Group
- HTML Reunification - Sam Ruby
- HTML5: The Foreign lands (mathematics and graphics) - Anne Van Kesteren
- HTML 5, the Markup - Karl Dubost
  - HTML: The Markup Language - Mike Smith
- HTML5 Timeline - Anne Van Kesteren
- HTML5 Video Element About to Land in Firefox 3.1 - Stuart Langridge
- HTML WG Members Working Together - Karl Dubost
- HTML 5 Working Draft - Ian Hickson and David Hyatt (Editors)
  - HTML 5 Working Draft Updated (Feburary 2009) - Shawn Medero
- Holding on Effort for HTML5 - Shelley Powers
- How HTML 5 Is Already Changing the Web - Scott Loganbill
- Ian Hickson on Editing HTML5 - Marcos Caceres
- Improve Your Forms Using HTML5 - Anne van Kesteren
- In Search of Microformats - Ben Ward
- Is HTML5 Ready Yet?
- Is it Time to Start Using HTML5? - Cody Hatch
- Interview with Ian Hickson, Editor of the HTML 5 Specification - Bruce Lawson
- Last Week in HTML5 - Jean-Baptiste Clamence
- Losing My Religion - Brian Kelly
- Making <time> Safe for Historians - Peter-Paul Koch
- Maintainability Guide (Beta) - Jens Meiert
- Marking Up a Blog with HTML 5 (part 2) - Bruce Lawson
- Microdata - Sam Ruby
- New Image Report Feature in Validator.nu - Henri Sivonen
- Notes on Accessibility of Text Replacement Using HTML5 Canvas - Steve Faulkner
- Official Instructions For Joining the HTML Working Group - W3C
  - How You Can Join the W3C HTML5 Working Group in Six Easy Steps - Ian Hickson
- Offline Web Applications - Anne van Kesteren
- Oh, Look. It's Not Just Us Semantic Web Dweebs Who Noticed. - Shelly Powers
- On Letting Specifications Bloom... - Arun Ranganatha
- On Flash Killers - John Dowdell
- Open Video- Chicken, Meet Egg - Tristan Nitot
- Persuading Microsoft to Implement Canvas - Al
- Preparing for HTML5 with Semantic Class Names - Jon Tan
- Presentation: How HTML5 can be Used Today - Simon Pieters
- Progress on Captions for HTML5 Video - Silvia Pfeiffer
- Proposal to Adopt HTML5 - L. David Baron, Lars Erik Bolstad, Brendan Eich, Dave Hyatt, Hakon Wium Lie, and Maciej Stachowiak
- Public-HTML Mailing List Archives
- Re: <font> (was Support Existing Content) - Denis Boudreau
- Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: An Outrageous Disaster - Manuel Amador.
  - Ogg Vorbis/Theora Language Removed From HTML5 Spec - Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
  - Removal of Ogg is Preposterous - Ian Hickson
  - Summary of the Video (and Audio) Codec Discussion - Dave Singer
  - Theora vs. h.264 - Eugenia Loli-Queru
  - Video Element and Ogg Theora - Chris Double
  - W3C Video on the Web Workshop Position Papers
  - When Will HTML 5 support <video>? Sooner If You Help - Dan Connolly
  - The Truth About Nokias Claims - Shannon Baker
- Results of HTML 5 Text, Editor, Name Questions - Dan Connolly
- Rethinking HTML 5 - Tina Holmboe
- Reverse Ordered Lists (in HTML 5) - Lachlan Hunt
- Revving Up - Jeremy Keith
- RDFa in HTML - Sam Ruby
- <section> is not just a "semantic <div>" - James Graham
- Semantics in HTML 5 - John Allsopp
- Shrinking HTML5 - Anne Van Kesteren
- Six Months Later: The New HTML Working Group - Kevin Yank
- Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones... - John Foliot
  - Thoughts Towards an Accessible Canvas - John Foliot
  - If It Fails for Some, It Should Fail for All - Mark Pilgram
  - Thoughts Towards an Accessible Canvas - Comment - Martin Kliehm
- Structural Tags in HTML5 - Steve Smith
- Surfiní Safari: HTML Standards Process Returning from the Grave - Apple
- Supporting New Elements in IE - Lachlan Hunt
- Supporting Standards that Support Accessibility - Joe Dolson
- Talk on HTML5 - Anne van Kesteren
- Thanks for Volunteering! - Sam Ruby
- The Accessibility of HTML 5 autofocus - Bruce Lawson
- The Future of HTML - Lachlan Hunt
- The HTML 5 Hype Machine - Big Web Video Lie - Brooks Andrus
- The HTML Standards Process Grinds On - Dana Blankenhorn
- The Holy Wars of the Humble alt - Hallvord R. M. Steen
- The March of Access Control - John Resig
- The Missing Link - Eric Meyer
- The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard? - Nik Cubrilovic
- The Rise of HTML5 - Jeremy Keith
- The Road to HTML 5 - Episode 1: the section element - Mark Pilgrim
  - The Road to HTML 5: contentEditable - Mark Pilgrim
  - The Road to HTML 5: getElementsByClassName() - Mark Pilgrim
  - The Road to HTML 5: Character Encoding - Mark Pilgrim
  - The Road to HTML 5: spellchecking - Mark Pilgrim
- The W3C Cannot Save Us - Alex Russell
- The W3C process may be slow, but browser vendors are slower - Roger Johansson
- The Week of Microdata - Kyle Weems
- They Shoot Standardistas, Don't They - Joe Clark
  - Commenting on Joe Clark's "They Shoot Standardistas, Don't They?" - Ben 'Cerbera' Millard
- Thinking About Canvas Accessibility - Steve Faulkner
- This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 4 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 5 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 6 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 7 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 8 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 9 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 10 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 11 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 12 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 13 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 14 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 15 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 16 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 17 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 18 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 19 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 20 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 21 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week Day In HTML 5 - Episode 22 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week Day in HTML 5 - Episode 24 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 26 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 29 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 30 - Mark Pilgrim
  - This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 32 - Mark Pilgrim
- The Fascinating World of i18n (Richard Ishida Interview) - Lachlan Hunt
- Two Thousand Twenty Two - Jeff Croft
- URI Error-handling in HTML5, and Documenting the (real) Web vs. Reinventing it - Michael(tm)Smith
- Use Cases and Comparison of RDFa/HTML5 Microdata - Shelley Powers
- Video for Everybody - HTML 5 Video Fallback - Chris Double
- Video on the Web - Anne van Kesteren
- W3C 'clarifies' HTML 5 v XHTML - Phil Manchester
- W3C TAG Settles on ARIA Syntax for HTML 5 - Shawn Medero
- W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week 2008 - Silvia Pfeiffer
- W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking Report - W3C
- WAI CG Consensus Resolutions on Text alternatives in HTML 5 - WAI-CG Task Force
- Wasting Resources - Anne Van Kesteren
- Well-Formed Mark-Up? - Adrian Bateman
- What's New in HTML5? - Richard Heyes
- What You Can't Do with HTML5 Microdata - Jeni Tennison
- WHATWG FAQ - Sam Ruby
  - HTML5: Put Up or Shut Up - Shelly Powers
  - Respect - Shelley Powers
  - Contributions Welcome - Sam Ruby
  - Pinky and the Markup Brains - Shelley Powers
- WHATWG HTML5 Specification Comment - Tom Morris
- WHATWG Mailing List
- What HTML 5 is and What it is Not - Scott Loganbill
- Whipping Boy - Shelley Powers
  - Comic Update - HTML5 Manners - Kyle Weems
- Why Saying 'HTML5 is Not a Standard' Matters - Larry Masinter
- When Social Media Closes Door - Shelley Powers
- Why HTML 5? - Shawn Medero
- Why HTML 5 Specification Matters? - Karl Dubost
- Will The Road to HTML 5 Be Rough? - Mike Cherim
- Will HTML 5 Be a Purely Presentational Language? - Ian Hickson
- X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2 - XHTML.com
Reinventing HTML - Tim Berners-Lee
- Fixing HTML - Lachlan Hunt
- How Not to Fix HTML - Joe Clark
- Reinventing HTML: Discuss - W3C Quality Assurance
- The W3C and WCAG - Jack Pickard
- Why Tim Berners-Lee is Wrong - Elliotte Rusty Harold
Lost in Translation - Henny Swan
Should the Government Control Internet Standards? - Lidija Davis
Taking Your Talent to the Web - Jeffery Zeldman(free downloadable book)
University of Minnesota Standards.
- University of Minnesota Web Accessibility Standard
W3C is Micro-Blogging - W3C
Web Directions Markup Presentation - Michael(tm) Smith
Web Standards Gone Wild - Joshua Allen
Web Standards in Indonesia - A University Web Developer Perspective - Henny Swan

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Guidelines and Best Practices

35 Designers x 5 Questions - Smashing Magazine
A National Direction for International Standards - Rick Jelliffe.
ALA Primer: A Guide for New Readers - Erin Lynch
- The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners - Erin Lynch and ALA Staff
A Web Standards Checklist - Russ Weakley
AccessForAll Meta-data Specification - Inovation Adoption Learning
Accessibility Guidelines are Harmful - Mike Davies
Best Practices - usa.gov
Best Practices for PBS Member Station Websites - PBS
Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup - Tommy Olsson
Constitution of a New Website - Bruce Lawson
Developing With Web Standards Recommendations and Best Practices - Roger Johansson
Diary of a Webmaster Part 1 - My Site Design Checklist - Mitchell Harper
Eight Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started - Cameron Moll
Embracing Best Practice - Simon Willison
Evolution Trumps Usability Guidelines - Jared M. Spool
First Principles - Bruce Tognazzini
Fundamental Web Design Principles? - Margaret Turner
General Concepts, Universal Design Principles and Guidelines - The Trace Center
Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web - Luca Passani
Guidelines for authoring - W3C
Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte's Principles - University of Washington
Guidelines for authoring - W3C.
Guidelines for Multimedia on the Web - Jakob Nielsen
How to Build Lame Web Sites - Charlie Morris
How to Create a Standardized Web Site Development Workflow - Christian Watson.
Intranet Usability Guidelines - Tim Fidgeon
IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications - Instructional Management Systems
iPhone-Specific Web Development Misguided - Christopher Schmitt
It's in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website - Huiping Iler
Learn how to implement an effective web style guide - Gerry McGovern
Let the Buyer be Aware: The Importance of Procurement in Accessibility Policy - Cyndi Rowland
Markup as a Craft - Garrett Dimon
My Experiences with Web Standards - Rob Dickerson
Netscape Navigator Goes Quietly Into the Night - Kevin Yank
New Standards to Facilitate eLearning -
New York Public Library Style Guide - Jeffery Zeldman and Carrie Bickner
Quality Tips for Webmasters - W3C
Presentation Layer Best Practices - Frederic Welterlin
Research Based Web Design and Usability Guidleines - Usability.gov
Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility - webcredibility.org
Status of ISO 9241 - User Focus
Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability - Jakob Nielsen
The Evolution of Brand Strategy - Vic Zauderer and Marc Escobosa
The Matrix of W3C Specifications - W3C
The Rules (Ten things every Web author knows -- or should know!) - ATW
UI Guidelines vs. Usability Testing - Microsoft Corporation
Usability Guidelines by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Minnesota Guidelines and Policy.
- University of Minnesota Web Policy
W3C Accessibility Guidelines
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - The guidelines on which the Section 508 regulations are based
- Summary of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  - Checklist of Checkpoints for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines "Wombat" - Working Draft 21 December 2001
- WAI Printable Glossary
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - Working Draft: 24 August 2001
- XML Accessibility Guidelines - Working Draft: 29 August 2001
W3C Standardization Process: Breaking Through the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) - Lachlan Hunt
Web Accessibility Principles - WebAIM
Web Design: 15 Important Research Findings You Should Know - Jens Meiert
Web Page Development: Best Practices - Apple
When Guidelines Should Be Descriptive or Prescriptive - Jens Meiert
Best Practices in Web Development: Part 1 - Joe Dolson
Website Checklist - Stephen Poley
Yale Web Style Guide, 2nd edition - Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton

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Patterns

12 Standard Screen Patterns - Luke Wroblewski
A Pattern Language for User Interface Design - Todd Coram and Jim Lee
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design - Ryan Singer
Architectural Design Patterns for XML Documents - Kyle Downey
Design Pattern Library - Yahoo
Designing with Patterns - Bill Scott
Don't Write Guidelines - Write Patterns! - Richard N Griffiths and Lyn Pemberton
Experiences - A Pattern Language for User Interface Design - Todd Coram and Jim Lee
Formulas and Confusion - Michael Andrews
Getting Your Website Right - Uses and Misuses of Web Design Patterns - Nathan Langley
Hypermedia Design Pattern Repository - Italian University of Switzerland
IBM Patterns for E-Business - IBM
Information Design Patterns - Niceone
Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Case Study - Erin Malone, Matt Leacock, Chanel Wheeler
Interaction Design Patterns - Martijn van Welie
Interaction Pattern - Tom Erickson
Improving Web Information Systems with Navigational Patterns - Gustavo Rossi, Daniel Schwabe and Fernando Lyardet
Patterns of Hypertext - Mark Bernstein
Patterns for Personal Web Sites - Mark L. Irons
Patterns Home Page - hillside.net
Pattern Languages for Interaction Design - Will Evans
Seven Habits of Successful Pattern Writers - John Vlissides
Some Notes on Christopher Alexander - Nikos A. Salingaros
The Elements of a Design Pattern - Jared M. Spool
The Interaction Design Patterns Page - Tom Erickson
The Pattern Gallery - Sally Fincher
UI Patterns and Techniques - Jenifer Tidwell
Web Authoring Statistics - Google
- Inaccessible Google Web Authoring Statistics - Peter-Paul Koch
- The State of the Web Standards - Bruce Lawson
Webpatterns
- WebPatterns and WebSemantics - John Allsopp
  - Pattern Quiz I - Site Patterns - John Allsopp
- Website Patterns By Portland Pattern Repository
- Web Patterns: Q & A with John Allsopp - Luke Wroblewski
- Web Presentation Patterns - Jonathan Snook
What's a Pattern? - Yahoo Design Pattern Library
XML Patterns

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