Archives for: January 2007

01/30/07

Nice move by the kernel developers.
Now hardware companies got almost no reason at all not to provide Linux drivers for their devices. Especially since "Linux Compatible" starts to become more important everyday.

Permalink . Ikke . 12:28:57 pm . 33 Words . Technology, Linux . . 1504 views . Leave a comment

01/16/07

Dutch webdesign rules

The Dutch government created a law some time ago enforcing all government sites to be W3C valid, accessible,... There's a list of 125 guidelines to which a site should comply.
Some highlights:

  • valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0
  • CSS and semantic HTML and separation of structure and presentation
  • the W3C DOM (instead of the old Microsoft document.all)
  • meaningful values of class and id
  • meaningful alt attributes on all images
  • information offered in a closed format (think Word) should also be offered in an open format

Imagine a world where all websites would be compliant to these rules... Maybe the need of meaningful values for classes and id's and some more rules aren't that important, but every new page on the web should at least valid be XHTML1.0 Transitional... When writing new pages I try to comply to most of the rules (although I didn't know about them yet), I'll take a look at the whole list, some of them might be useful too.

Now if all browsers would render XHTML/CSS code that validates properly...

More information here.

Permalink . Ikke . 11:28:44 pm . 178 Words . Technology . . 1263 views . Leave a comment

01/06/07

Web2.0 comic

Comic
I want my kids to become that smart ;-)

Permalink . Ikke . 11:54:26 pm . 8 Words . Technology . . 860 views . Leave a comment