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Designing with Web Standards

by: Zeldman, Jeffrey

Designing with Web Standards

by: Zeldman, Jeffrey

ISBN 13:
9780321385550
ISBN 10:
0321385551
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Peachpit Press
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Summary

The ultimate resource for standards-based Web design, updated and enhanced for current and future browsers.

Introduction

(10)

One Size Does Not Fit All

(2)

Theory Versus Practice

(1)

A Continuum, Not a Set of Inflexible Rules

(2)

Show, Don't Sell

(1)

Let Your Work Do the Selling for You

(1)

Selling In-House

(1)

The Smell of Change

(5)

Part I Houston, We Have a Problem

Before You Begin

(132)

Spiraling Costs, Diminishing Returns

(2)

Ending the Cycle of Obsolescence

(1)

What Is Forward Compatibility?

(1)

No Rules, No Dogma

(2)

Practice, Not Theory

(2)

Is This Trip Really Necessary?

(1)

1 99.9% of Websites Are Still Obsolete

(22)

Modern Browsers and Web Standards

(3)

New Code for a New Job

(1)

The "Version" Problem

(2)

Backward Thinking

(12)

Outdated Markup: The Cost to Site Owners

(2)

Backward Compatibility

(1)

Blocking Users Is Bad for Business

(5)

The Road to Stupidville

(1)

When Good Things Happen to Bad Markup

(2)

The Cure

(2)

2 Designing and Building with Standards

(30)

Jumping Through Hoops

(1)

The Cost of Design Before Standards

(1)

Modern Site, Ancient Ways

(4)

The Tragic Kingdom

(2)

The Trinity of Web Standards

(4)

Structure

(3)

Presentation

(1)

Behavior

(1)

Into Action

(1)

Benefits of Transitional Methods

(2)

The Web Standards Project: Portability in Action

(3)

One Document Serves All

(1)

A List Apart: One Page, Many Views

(4)

Design Beyond the Screen

(1)

Time and Cost Savings, Increased Reach

(1)

Where We Go from Here

(6)

Transitional Forward Compatibility (Hybrid Design)

(2)

Strict Forward Compatibility

(4)

3 The Trouble with Standards

(28)

Lovely to Look At, Repulsive to Code

(4)

Common Goals, Common Means

(1)

Perception Versus Reality

(1)

2000: The Year That Browsers Came of Age

(5)

IE5/Mac: Switching and Zooming

(3)

Netscape's Bold Move

(1)

The Floodgates Open

(1)

Too Little, Too Late?

(1)

CSS: The First Bag Is Free

(1)

Bad Browsers Lead to Bad Practices

(5)

The Curse of Legacy Rendering

(1)

Inherit the Wind

(1)

Miss Behavior to You

(1)

Standardized Scripting at Long Last

(1)

Confusing Sites, Bewildering Labels

(3)

Academics Versus Economics

(1)

Consortia Suggest, Companies Sell

(1)

Product Awareness Versus Standards Awareness

(1)

The F Word

(5)

The Value of Flash

(2)

The Trouble with Flash

(1)

The Other Trouble with Flash

(1)

Compliance Is a Dirty Word

(4)

The Power of Language to Shape Perceptions

(1)

The Inspiration Problem

(1)

Other Problems

(2)

4 Findability, Syndication, Blogs, Podcasts, the Long Tail, Ajax (and Other Reasons Standards Are Winning)

101

(42)

The Universal Language (XML)

103

(13)

XML and HTML Compared

104

(1)

One Parent, Many Children

105

(1)

An Essential Ingredient of Professional and Consumer Software

105

(1)

More Popular Than a White Rapper

106

(2)

Builds Strong Data Five Ways

108

(1)

A Mother Lode of Inventions

109

(4)

Web Publishing Tools for the Rest of Us

113

(1)

At Your Service(s)

114

(2)

XML Applications and Your Site

116

(1)

Compatible by Nature

116

(1)

A New Era of Cooperation

117

Test Suites and Specifications

117

(1)

How Suite It Is

118

(1)

WHAT Working Group

119

(1)

Internet Explorer 7 and The Web Standards Project

119

Web Standards and Authoring Tools

(112)

The Dreamweaver Task Force

120

(1)

WYSIWYG Tools Come of Age (Two Out of Three Ain't Bad)

121

(1)

From FrontPage to Expression Web Designer

122

(1)

The Emergence of CSS Layout

122

(9)

The Browser Upgrade Campaign

123

(3)

The Flood Begins

126

(2)

Countless Converts and the Help Sites They Rode in On

128

(3)

The Ultimate CSS Knowledge Base

131

(1)

Faddishness...with a Purpose

131

(1)

The Mainstreaming of Web Standards

132

(11)

Commercial Sites Take the Plunge

134

(1)

Wired Digital Converts

135

(2)

Turning On Designers

137

(2)

The Hits Keep Coming

139

(1)

The Road to Joy Is Paved with Validation

140

(3)

Part II Designing and Building

5 Modern Markup

143

(14)

The Secret Shame of Rotten Markup

148

(2)

A Reformulation of Say What?

150

(2)

Executive Summary

152

(1)

Which XHTML Is Right for You?

152

(5)

XHTML 2—For Me and You?

152

(2)

Top to Reasons to Convert to XHTML

154

(1)

Top 5 Reasons Not to Switch to XHTML

155

(2)

6 XHTML: Restructuring the Web

157

(20)

Converting to XHTML: Simple Rules, Easy Guidelines

158

(11)

Open with the Proper DOCTYPE and Namespace

158

(3)

Declare Your Content Type

161

(2)

Write All Tags in Lowercase

163

(2)

Quote All Attribute Values

165

(1)

All Attributes Require Values

166

(1)

Close All Tags

167

(1)

Close "Empty" Tags, Too

167

(1)

No Double Dashes Within a Comment

168

(1)

Encode All less than and & Characters 168

Executive Summary: The Rules of XHTML

169

(6)

Character Encoding: The Dull, the Duller, and the Truly Dull

169

(2)

Structural Healing—It's Good for Me

171

(1)

Marking Up Your Document for Sense Instead of Style

171

(4)

Visual Elements and Structure

175

(2)

7 Tighter, Firmer Pages Guaranteed: Structure and Meta-Structure in Strict and Hybrid Markup

177

(28)

Must Every Element Be Structural?

178

(9)

div, id, and Other Assistants

179

(4)

Semantic Markup and Reusability

183

(4)

Hybrid Layouts and Compact Markup:

Dos and Don'ts

187

(8)

Giving Names to Bad Things

187

(1)

Common Errors in Hybrid Markup

188

(3)

divs Are Just All Right

191

(1)

Loving the id

192

(2)

Banish Redundant Table Cells

194

(1)

Outdated Methods on Parade

195

(10)

The Year of the Map

195

(1)

The Map and Its Discontents

196

(1)

No Access, No Structure

197

(1)

Slicing and Dicing

197

(1)

The Slice Comes of Age

198

(1)

The Redundant Verbosity of Redundantly Verbose Tables

199

(1)

Bad CSS Comes to Town

200

(4)

Moving On

204

(1)

8 XHTML by Example: A Hybrid Layout (Part I)

205

(14)

Benefits of Transitional Methods Used in These Chapters

206

(1)

Style Sheets Instead of JavaScript

206

(1)

Basic Approach (Overview)

206

(8)

Separate Tables: CSS and Accessibility Advantages

208

(1)

The What and Why of Skip Navigation

208

(5)

Additional id Attributes

213

(1)

First Pass Markup: Same as Last Pass Markup

214

(5)

Navigational Markup: The First Table

215

(1)

Presentation, Semantics, Purity, and Sin

216

(1)

Content Markup: The Second Table

217

(2)

9 CSS Basics

219

(24)

CSS Overview

220

(2)

CSS Benefits

220

(2)

Anatomy of Styles

222

(12)

Selectors, Declarations, Properties, and Values

222

(1)

Multiple Declarations

223

(1)

Whitespace and Case Insensitivity

224

(1)

Alternative and Generic Values

225

(1)

Grouped Selectors

226

(1)

Inheritance and Its Discontents

226

(2)

Descendant Selectors

228

(1)

id Selectors and Descendant Selectors

229

(1)

Class Selectors

230

(1)

Combining Selctors to Create Sophisticated Design Effects

231

(3)

External, Embedded, and Inline Styles

234

(4)

External Style Sheets

234

(4)

Inline Styles

238

(1)

The "Best-Case Scenario" Design Method

238

(6)

From Embedded to External Styles: The Two-Sheet Method

239

(1)

Relative and Absolute File References

240

(1)

Benefits of the Best-Case Scenario and Two-Sheet Methods

240

(3)

10 CSS in Action: A Hybrid Layout (Part II)

243

(28)

Preparing Images

244

(2)

Establishing Basic Parameters

246

(13)

Overall Styles, More About Shorthand and Margins

246

(1)

Hide and Block

247

(2)

Coloring the Links (Introducing Pseudo-Classes)

249

(2)

Sketching in Other Common Elements

251

(2)

More About Font Sizes

253

(3)

Laying Out the Page Divisions

256

(3)

Navigation Elements: First Pass

259

(3)

Navigation Bar CSS: First Try at Second Pass

262

(1)

Navigation Bar CSS: Final Pass

263

(5)

Final Steps: External Styles and the "You Are Here" Effect

268

(3)

11 Working with Browsers Part I: DOCTYPE Switching and Standards Mode

271

(14)

The Saga of DOCTYPE Switching

272

(8)

Controlling Browser Performance: The DOCTYPE Switch

274

(3)

A Complete Listing of Complete XHTML DOCTYPEs

277

(3)

Celebrate Browser Diversity! (Or at Least Learn to Live with It)

280

(5)

12 Working with Browsers Part II: Box Models, Bugs, and Workarounds

285

(26)

The Box Model and Its Discontents

286

(12)

How the Box Model Works

287

(1)

How the Box Model Breaks

288

(7)

The Box Model Hack: Making CSS Safe for Democracy

295

(3)

The Whitespace Bug in IE/Windows

298

(4)

The "Float" Bug in IE6/Windows

302

(2)

Float, Peek-a-Boo, and Beyond

304

(1)

Flash and QuickTime: Objects of Desire?

304

(7)

Embeddable Objects: A Tale of Hubris and Revenge

305

(1)

Twice-Cooked Satay: Embedding Multimedia While Supporting Standards

306

(1)

A Fly in the Ointment: Object Failures

307

(1)

A Workaday, Workaround World

308

(3)

13 Working with Browsers Part III: Typography

311

(20)

Size Matters

311

(1)

User Control

312

(1)

Old-School Horrors

312

(3)

Points of Difference

314

(1)

A Standard Size at Last

315

(6)

Good Works Undone with a Click

318

(1)

Sniffing Oblivion: The Wrong Reaction to the Change in Browsers

318

(2)

Standard Sizes and Best Practices

320

(1)

Sizing With Ems: the Laughter and The Tears

321

(1)

User Choices and Em Units

321

(1)

A Passion for Pixels

322

(3)

The Smallest Unit: It's Absolutely Relative

323

(1)

The Trouble with Pixels

324

(1)

The Font-Size Keyword Method

325

(8)

Why Keywords May Beat Ems and Percentages

325

(1)

Initial Problems with Keyword Implementations

326

(3)

Just Your Size

329

(2)

14 Accessibility Basics

331

(34)

Access by the Books

333

(1)

Widespread Confusion

334

(4)

The Genius Puts His Foot in It

335

(3)

The Law and the Layout

338

(3)

Section 508 Explained

339

(2)

Accessibility Myths Debunked

341

(5)

Myth: Accessibility Forces You to Create Two Versions of Your Site

341

(1)

Myth: A Text-Only Version Satisfies the Requirement for Equal or Equivalent Access

341

(1)

Myth: Accessibility Costs Too Much

341

(2)

Myth: Accessibility Forces You to Create Primitive, Low-End Designs

343

(1)

Myth: According According In Section 508, Sites Must Look the Same in All Browsers and User Agents

344

(1)

Myth: Accessibility Is "Just for Disabled People"

344

(1)

Myth: Dreamweaver MX/Cynthia Says/LIFT/Insert Tool Name Here Solves All Compliance Problems

345

(1)

Myth: Designers Can Freely Ignore Accessibility Laws if Their Clients Tell Them To

346

(1)

Accessibility Tips, Element by Element

346

(10)

Images

346

(3)

Apple's QuickTime and Other Streaming Video Media

349

(1)

Macromedia Flash 4/5

349

(1)

Macromedia Flash MX and Flash 8

349

(2)

Color

351

(1)

CSS

351

(2)

Rollovers and Other Scripted Behaviors

353

(1)

Forms

354

(1)

Image Maps

355

(1)

Table Layouts

355

(1)

Tables Used for Data

355

(1)

Frames, Applets

356

(1)

Flashing or Blinking Elements

356

(1)

Tools of the Trade

356

(2)

Loving Cynthia

358

(4)

Keeping Tabs: Our Good Friend, the tabindex Attribute

358

(4)

Planning for Access: How You Benefit

362

(3)

15 Working with DOM-Based Scripts

365

(14)

DOM by the books

366

(1)

What's a DOM?

367

(13)

A Standard Way to Make Web Pages Behave Like Applications

368

(2)

So Where Does It Work?

370

(1)

Please, DOM, Don't Hurt 'Em

371

(3)

Style Switchers: Aiding Access, Offering Choice

374

(5)

16 A CSS Redesign

379

(12)

Defining Requirements

380

(11)

Top Ten Requirements

380

(2)

Laying the Faux-dation

382

(4)

Bannerama

386

(4)

Finishing Up

390

(1)

Web Standards Bookshelf

391

(2)

Index

393

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