Summary
Written by Jeffrey Zeldman, a staunch proponent of web standards and founder of the award-winning web design studio Happy Cog, Designing with Web Standards guides the reader on how to better utilize web standards pragmatically to create accessible, user-friendly web sites. The 432-page book has the following 16 chapters:
- 99% of Websites are obsolete
- Designing and Building with Standards
- Gentle Persuasion
- The Future of Web Standards
- Modern Markup
- XHTML and Semantic Markup
- HTML5: The New Hope
- Tighter, Firmer Pages Guaranteed: Structure and Semantics
- CSS Basics
- CSS Layout: Markup, Boxes and Floats – Oh My!
- Working with Browsers Part I: DOCTYPE Switching and Standards Mode
- Working with Browsers Part II: Bugs, Workarounds, and CSS3’s Silver Lining
- Working with Browsers Part III: Typography
- Accessibility: The Soul of Web Standards
- Working with DOM-Based Scripts
- A Site Redesign
- NYMag.com: Simple Standards, Sexy Interfaces
For the third edition of the book, Zeldman brought in fellow author Ethan Marcotte to “substantially revise” and update the content.
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