You may recall Boo.com, a fashion retailer from the so-called dotcom era that managed to blow £178 million during it’s 6 month life. Well, they will back in June and judging from the simple announcement page it isn’t going to be standards compliant. Start writing now.
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 like the Foolish advice on offer at the Motley Fool website so when their latest email proclaimed of a new home page I just had to go peak under the hood.
How foolish! An incorrectly declared DOCTYPE for starters: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>. Hmmm. It gets worse with improperly closed tags, […]
After reading Joe Clark’s blog entry on failed redesigns I thought I’d keep an eye out for UK sites failing to meet web standards after a redesign. Well I went looking a moment ago and from the following article Netimperative - MSN redesigns UK entertainment channel trooped off to the MSN UK Entertainment website.
I’m supposed to be on holiday but after browsing around the UK and Eire Casio website for a new G-Shock - the only brand I’ve never broke, I had to file a “Crusade” article. I made the mistake of visiting the accessibility page you see.
Needless to say the website is tables-based with inline styles and […]
Karl Dawson is in full-time employment for UK local government and specialises in web standards and accessibility issues.
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