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Roger Johansson has provides a great post discussing the purpose of the alt and title attributes as defined by the HTML spec, and the way browser makers have muddied the usage of each.
> Alt text is not meant to be used as a tool tip, or more specifically, to provide additional information about an image. The title attribute, on the other hand, is meant to provide additional information about an element.
Link via Jeff Croft
Steve Smith adds to the many reasons that a developer should learn and apply standards-based design in his post A Natural Progression at
OrderedList.com. Pointing to recent articles about the business value of Web standards, he discusses his experiences working with businesses, who have begun to specify Web standards within their specifications, and takes it to the logical conclusion that the average Web developer needs to learn and use standards compliant code to remain a viable competitor in our crowded market.
Digital Web Magazine – Making News with Web standards – “The San Francisco Examiner recently became one of the first newspapers in the country to fully adopt Web standards and publish a site that utilizes valid XHTML and uses no tables for layout.”
OrderedList.com : Clearing Floats: The Float (Nearly) Everything Method – An interesting alternative to my current practice of using a special horizontal rule with clear: both; as its sole rule. I may well try this out on my next site as I like the idea of dropping the need for extra markup to clear floats.
Eric Meyer has created a standards-based slide show system – think PowerPoint on the Web. Good stuff.
Standards-Compliant New Windows – “a method for opening links in a new window that doesn’t fail XHTML validation tests”