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Jens Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and describing what makes the perfect website since 1999.
Code Responsibly
Exactly: Code responsibly. And contribute if you like to.
Accessibility Heuristics
Just having updated my German article on accessibility heuristics it looks reasonable to share available though “rough” guidelines here as well, albeit in a short form that basically just grabs and cites respective documentation by W3C and IBM. They come without comments, however …
Web Standards at Google
As an exception, I’m writing as a Googler here: At Google, we care about web standards. Officially, that is no real news, but taking into account all ongoing criticism for the code of our pages, it probably is …
The Most Important Thing Is to Get the HTML Right
… meaning really right when it comes to modern, high quality web development. Why? Because it’s the markup that provides meaning and is important for accessibility, that is key to maintainability since otherwise bottleneck, that can have a significant impact on performance …
When Guidelines Should Be Descriptive or Prescriptive
Every time I’m setting up guidelines and standards, mostly within companies, one of the questions I need to ask and answer myself is whether or not they, or which parts of them, should be descriptive or prescriptive. For coding guidelines this would mean the difference between …
How to Share Code with Users
Anyone sharing HTML/CSS code with users might want to follow a simple advice: Make sure that the code is at least valid and that it ideally, formally works in both HTML and XHTML …
Google Chrome
I love it: 99.9 % of the readers of this site already know about Google Chrome, the browser my employer just released. Still, I am not talking as an employee here, and still, there might be something in this post that you didn’t know …
Asking for Your Feedback
I may ask for 15 seconds (meaning exactly 15 seconds) of your precious time to take a really short survey related to this website, because I’d like to get a better idea of your perspective and your ideas …
To Be Clear (on Conditional Comments and Resets)
My articles on both Conditional Comments and “reset” style sheets belong to the most popular contributions regarding that matter not just on this site, but apparently even on the Web. And just as I don’t judge that, I don’t judge all the debates that have been triggered; …
Re: 7 Principles of Clean and Optimized CSS Code
Tell me anyway, is Smashing Magazine sometimes misusing its power, or is it sometimes abused? Yesterday’s post features “7 Principles of Clean and Optimized CSS Code”, but in fact, at least one of them is not necessarily advisable, not at all, and others might be missing …
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