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Clean Code with HTML 5

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

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Earlier this week, I wrote about what clean code looks like. It dawned on me that we won’t be dealing with just XHTML and HTML 4.01, HTML 5 is coming in hot and heavy.
Let’s take a look at what clean code will look like with HTML 5 once it is in production.
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What does “clean code” look like?

Monday, September 7th, 2009

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When talking about web standards, the topic of “clean code” comes up often.
What is “clean code?”
and..
What does it look like?

When I speak of code that I call “clean” code, there is proper separation of content, design, and functionality as well as a nice semantic structure from top to bottom.
We use HTML to describe and display [...]

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Why Standards Based Web Design?

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

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It doesn’t really matter who you are, or what you do. When you own a website, you want people to visit it.

This can be a little more complex than just publishing the website on a web server. The methods your web developer uses to accomplish the design you want may cripple your site for some [...]

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