[WSG] LOC new release
The US Library of Congress (LOC) has today released the first of a series of upgrades to their Web site. As you will see if you visit: http://www.loc.gov/ The new design uses tableless layout, full use of CSS, XHTML and improved usability, accessibility and aesthetics. I sent them an email today, as they are still not encoding ampersands in their URIs, but other than that the code should also validate. The CSS could definitely use some cleaning up and reduction, but this is progress -- from an organization with clout. Nice site, check it out. On another note, I am building a resource directory for Web developers, designers and programmers. If anyone would like to contribute resource suggestions, please contact me off the list. The URI to the Web Standards category is: http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Design_and_Development/Standards Thanks, Doug-- Douglas Clifton[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://loadaveragezero.com/
RE: [WSG] LOC new release - standards or looks?
Thanks for the heads up Doug, This is great news and good to see that developers are really picking up on standards compliant design and working that into projects of this scale. The site does not yetvalidate and the encoded ampersands are a big issue in this (in fact the only issue on the front page) One issue I have noticed is that some major developer sites and 'famous' css layout based sites actually don't validate. Is there a trend growing that people are building css based sites for the 'look' and not actuallycaring aboutstandards? Is it becoming about a 'style'? For example, a large site I work onwas redesigned recently (before I arrived) and the company specified that the code must validate. From wading through the muck they produced it appears that all the development company did was add a doctype to each page and for them this was 'valid code'. Worse, the site was built in nested tables (you go through 3 nested tables before hitting the actual page content) and the doctype in no way reflects the code or structure of the site. We are a LONG way from validating and it will be me that cleans up the mess. Has anyoneelse noticed this kind oflip-service being paidto standards by devlopers?
