Podcast 001: Introduction to Web Standards
In the first episode of the Refresh Cleveland Podcast, hosts David Mead and Chris Miller meet in an unlikely place and discuss the reasoning for adhering to web standards, give a brief history of the standards, and set out a challenge for the next episode.
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January 14th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Fantastic! That was a great overview guys, keep it up. I hope you keep recording.
January 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I’ve enjoyed this conversation. Like you I work on the back end of things. For a LONG time CSS was an annoying quagmire for me. The syntax is annoyingly straight forward but I always struggled with why a # was used in one place and not another, when to drill down using periods and when not and how to look at a section of a web page and change that particular section.
For someone who has a fairly strong technical background and wants to simply get the details of how this stuff works, I STRONGLY recommend CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland. I’ve looked at loads of CSS books and this has been the first to quickly answer my questions and more I never knew I had.
Hopefully I’ll see you at one of the webstandards meetings.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:01 am
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