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The Web Standards Bible

Relates to Web Standards and Accessibility

I must just recommend Zeldman's new publication Designing With Web Standards to everyone who has the slightest interest, or concern, over Web Standards and Accessibility. It is an excellent voyage through the thinking that has seen Web Design go full circle, with the table-design revolution of the late 90's now being firmaly replaced by the true vision of the Web - distinct structure and content. The prose is occassionally repetitive in the early chapters, but hopefully this will help get the point across to those who are slightly blind (excuse the pun!) to the work of the W3C and the Web Standards Project.

In a way it is a shame that IE is still so dominant on the browser market, since combining some of the more advanced features of CSS with well structured XHTML makes for an exciting prospect. Perhaps the Microsoft crew might take note of standards promulgations, and make a concerted effort to improve IE support for standards in its next release. Of course this is going to require the user market upgrade to whatever OS Microsoft release next. So I guess as a developer, it is extended play time on the far more pleasurable browsers from Mozilla and Opera for the foreseeable future.

Back to the Bible, grab your copy from Amazon and help educate your clients on the importance of Standards.

A Rosetta Stone of web design.Don Buckley, Senior Vice President, Warner Bros. Pictures

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:53:41.