In december of 2005 Google did a major test on over a billion sites to check which elements are used most. The results are quite interesting.
Tables
It is interesting to see how often ‘table’ is used. In fact, it is the 9th most used element on the web. And, on those table elements (including td […]

XHTML can do everything HTML can, so the real question is, do you need any of functions XHTML offers. And, will you be able to use the proper mimetype for it? Without the correct mimetype there is no reason to use XHTML as it will trigger quirks mode in the browser. And that is something […]

As developers gradually start to get used to using css based layouts instead of tables there is a new pitfill waiting around the corner, the use of semantically incorrect code. There isn’t much you can’t do with div and span, add a <a> element you’re almost at the end of the small list of elements […]

Building your first website is very easy when you use a WYSIWYG. But is it still feasable to use such a program when building more complicated sites or should you switch to hand coding?

HTML validation This amazing firefox extension by Marc Gueury shows you, at the bottom of each page how many errors and warnings there are in that page. It does this without sending the html of to w3c or another validator, but uses tTidy the embedded validator of Firefox originally made by the w3c.
As this […]