Web Standards Articles

Web Standards Articles Table Of Contents

As of 2010-07-20

The Web Standards Articles is a collection of articles on the concept of accessibility and structuring your webpages in standards HTML / XHTML and CSS with information about other web technologies and web browsers.

  • Introduction to Web Standards including Accessibility

    Last updated: 2008-10-29.

    This article provides an introduction to web standards.

    Updated: Refresh Update.

  • HTML Subset

    Last updated: 2010-04-11.

    This article provides the subset of HTML 5 for Web Authors that is already supported for many years.

    Updated: added the wbr element, doctype, XML Declaration, comment and CDATA section special elements.

  • HTML Webpage Structure

    Last updated: 2010-06-10.

    This article provides information on how to structure your webpages with HTML 5.

    Updated: info that Safari and Chrome supports elements like section, article and ruby as well as updated form control default CSS Display.

  • HTML Markup Reference

    Last updated: 2010-06-10.

    This article provides the full list of elements and attributes of HTML 5 for Web Authors for quick reference including what supports what.

    Updated: info that Safari and Chrome supports elements like section, article and ruby as well as placeholder and required attributes.

  • ARIA: accessibly enhancing webpages and web applications

    Last updated: 2009-11-17.

    This article provides the information about Accessible Rich Internet Applications: ARIA.

    Updated: added descriptions for the role specific states and properties.

  • Web Accessibility

    Last updated: 2010-04-11.

    This article provides information on accessibile webpages.

    Updated: added keygen to the select and textarea info.

  • Present and layout with Cascade StyleSheets (CSS)

    Last updated: 2010-07-20.

    This article lays out some of the ever expanding Cascade Stylesheets (CSS).

    Updates: added CSS Gradients subsection.

  • Browser Scripting

    Last updated: 2010-07-20.

    This article discuss' basic scripting using ECMAScript and JavaScript.

    Refresh update.

  • Modelling the Document Objects

    Last updated: 2010-04-03.

    This article models the functions to interact and manipulate the webpage with the Document Object Model (DOM).

    Updates adding more about getElementsByTagName, nodeName, nodeValue, nodeType, textContent and some DOM 2 Events.

  • Unobtrusive Scripting

    Last updated: 2009-11-14.

    This article is about writing unobtrusive scripting.

    Updated: Editorial updates.

  • Images used on the Web including PNG and JPEG

    Last updated: 2010-03-14.

    This article provides information about common image formats used on the Web.

    Updated: added APNG image format and refined and updated information across the board.