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Ben said on July 21st, 2005 at 2:03 pm :

You are comepletely missing the point.

Firstly - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customdtds2/

Secondly, most modern CSS hacks won’t validate - You can’t write complex CSS that works in all browsers without needing hacks (or any other workarounds). Try re-validating the individual CSS files linked to in the above ‘failed’ sites instead of the hack lists.

 

Kines said on July 21st, 2005 at 2:10 pm :

I’ve re-evaluated each of the individual (ie. stated CSS links within the source) style sheets, and these are the results.

 

Nigel Evian said on July 21st, 2005 at 3:27 pm :

Hi,

I don’t get it? I’ve just tested nickrigby.com and all the style sheets pass the test, apart from the main stylesheet that exploits an Internet Explorer 5 Windows parser flaw.

Or am I missing something?

 

Kines said on July 21st, 2005 at 4:17 pm :

You’re quite right, Nigel. Thanks for pointing it out.

Jul 21, 2005 | It’s nice to be recognised

I'm featured on CSS Import and Blog Advance. At least for the CSS I'm pretty happy, considering the fact that I've put in quite a decent amount of effort in the new design. Ah well, I'm still no competition for the higher-ups.

Now for a brief HTML report card. This is inspired by May 9's own report card of Pittsburgh-area web design firms, which in turn was inspired by Pixelworthy's scorecard of Philadelphia-area design firms. I've chosen more specific "sirs and dames" of the weblogging world, and, as usual, I have employed the use of the W3C Markup Validator and CSS Validator to assess each of the following in terms of HTML validity and CSS correctness.

Website, HTML/CSS

Kottke.org (Jason Kottke) Fail/Fail *
Garrett Dimon Fail/Fail
Rebecca's Pocket (Rebecca Blood) Pass/Pass
Plastic Bag (Tom Coates) Fail/Pass *
Megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) Fail/Pass *
Zeldman.com (Jeffrey Zeldman) Pass/Pass
Waxy.org Fail/Pass
Boing Boing Error/Pass
Asterisk (D. Keith Robinson) Pass/Fail
Nick Rigby Pass/Pass *
Lisa McMillan Pass/Fail *
Jason Santa Maria Pass/Pass
Simple Bits (Dan Cederholm) Pass/Fail *
Mezzoblue (Dave Shea) Fail/Fail *
A List Apart Pass/Pass *
Airbag Industries (Greg Storey) Fail/Pass

* Asterisks designate grades that have been altered or confirmed following Ben's suggestions.

So much for "Web standards-based design", Mr. Robinson.

I mean, come on. If you're that famous, at least it's nice to think that you actually care about validating and all. Oh well. That's how life is, I guess.

Also written on this day..

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