Posts tagged “html”

• Web writers should know HTML so teach it in school

  Posted by Leon on October 31, 2011. 2 comments.

  You need to understand HTML if you want to write proper web documents, so it should be taught at school.

• Documents, not posters

  Posted by Leon on October 29, 2011. No comments.

  Try marking up a normal document. Something like a help page, set of instructions or an essay. Easy, isn’t it? article, section and figure all come naturally—no semantic wrangling required. This is how the web must have been in the late 90s. Not now, of course. So—what (if anything) needs to change? The markup language, [...]

• My mobile first ‘framework’

  Posted by Leon on September 5, 2011. 2 comments.

  My mobile first ‘framework’. It’s a bunch of files that might give you a head start in building mobile first documents.

• The W3C mobileOK Checker looks for all the wrong things

  Posted by Leon on June 28, 2011. No comments.

  Really. See how it validates a page built on my Scherzo WordPress theme. On the face of it, this isn’t a bad result. Two low importance failures and one medium. It’s just that the majority of the problems have nothing to do with how well the page performs on a mobile device: it generates a [...]

• HTML5 practicalities: forget microdata and RDFa and use microformats instead

  Posted by Leon on June 25, 2011. No comments.

  In my last post I pondered a markup puzzle and suggested a practical approach to using HTML5. Since then the powers that be have decided we need a task force to decide which meta standard should be officially adopted as part of the HTML spec (micordata or RDFa). Still thy beating heart. Leon’s advice: Ignore [...]