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That Standards Guy is the online persona of Karl Dawson, a web developer living and working in Ipswich, England.

I'm a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and the Web Standards Group and team member at Accessites—an awards site to recognise accessible and usable websites.

I specialise as a front-end developer and worry about the minutae of semantic (X)HTML and CSS, accessibility, microformats, typographic rhythm and grid design. I also care about the user experience and remind myself constantly of visitor site goals when working with clients and their aims.

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IEEE - Oh The Irony

January 24th, 2006

Spotted over at the Web Standards Project comes this news about the new IEEE website. Unbelievably, or perhaps not, the standards site fails to meet web standards. The usual suspects are there (or not as the case may be):

  • No doctype
  • Content language and charset undefined
  • Lots of JavaScript that doesn’t degrade gracefully
  • Table-based layout
  • Spacer gifs - of course

Unprofessional I’m sure you’ll agree.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 at 9:06 am and is filed under Failed Redesigns.

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