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 yet validate 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
actually caring about standards? Is it becoming about a
'style'?
For
example, a large site I work on was 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
anyone else noticed this kind of lip-service being paid to
standards by devlopers?
