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“conformance” News Archive

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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
hihtml (j9t)187
packages, npm, html, links, link-rot, minification, html-minifier, optimization, quality
AI and HTML: Validating, Omitting Optional Code, and Minifying as Token Optimization (j9t)186
ai, token-optimization, html, minimalism, minification, optimization
How to Improve Your HTML Game (j9t)185
how-tos, html, learning, career
Accessible Faux-Nested Interactive Controls (eri/pic)184
accessibility, html, nesting
How Can You Tell What’s Allowed Inside Each HTML Element? (rus)183
html
The Two Most Important Tools for HTML Developers182
tooling, html, minification, html-minifier, htmlnano, swc
What’s Wrong With This HTML, and Is It Valid? (pat/mat)181
html, standards, web-platform
HTML—the Most Difficult Programming Language in the World (j9t)180
programming, html, professionalism
Understanding the Removal of 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.2 (tpg)179
accessibility, wcag, html
2025: 0 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)178
html, metrics, quality, craft
Conformance vs. Compliance, Accessibility Standards Edition (hdv)177
accessibility, standards, compliance, terminology, comparisons, wcag
When HTML Speaks Clearly176
html, accessibility, semantics
Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide (j9t)175
html, minimalism, how-tos, guides, link-lists
Google: Many Top Sites Have Invalid HTML and Still Rank (mat/sea)174
google, html, quality, seo
How Often Should We Speak About HTML Conformance? (j9t)173
html, metrics
Mastering HTML: The Art of Minimal and Valid Code in Professional Web Development (AI Edition) (j9t)172
guest-posts, html, minimalism, semantics, interoperability, accessibility, standards
A Review of HTML Linters171
overviews, html, linting, tooling, link-lists, comparisons
DeepSeek and HTML (j9t)170
ai, deepseek, html, minimalism
Testing 10 JavaScript Frameworks on Their HTML Defaults (j9t)169
frameworks, javascript, html, comparisons, link-lists
HTML Conformance: A Comparison of 6.5 npm Validator Packages (With 1.5 Recommendations) (j9t)168
html, tooling, npm, comparisons
Where Has All the Valid HTML Gone (j9t)167
html, quality
2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)166
html, metrics, quality, craft
Test-Driving HTML Templates (xpm/mfo)165
html, templates, testing, server-side-rendering
We Need to Talk More About Conformance, if We Want to Stop Fantasy HTML (j9t)164
html, craft, quality
Level-Setting Heading Levels (aar)163
headings, semantics, accessibility, aria
Upgrade Your HTML V (j9t/fro)162
books, frontend-dogma, html, minimalism, craft
9 Signs Your Frontend Code Has Quality Issues That Affect Your Users (ang)161
quality, craft, accessibility, usability, user-experience, performance
Complete a VPAT: Show How Accessible Your Product Is (deq)160
accessibility, vpat-acr, documentation
How-To: 5 Steps to Detect Invalid HTML Breaking Your [Site’s Performance] (erw)159
how-tos, html, performance
How Invalid HTML Elements Impact Web Performance (erw)158
html, performance
My Web Development Wishlist 2024 (j9t)157
community, user-experience, developer-experience, quality, wish-lists
HTML Validation—Pros and Cons156
html
The Top Accessibility Errors Found in 2023 (tpg)155
accessibility, quality, errors, retrospectives
Do You Really Need to Validate Your HTML Code?154
discussions, html
2023: 0 of the Global Top 100 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)153
html, css, metrics, quality
Why Unique ID Attributes Matter (deq)152
accessibility, html, attributes
On the Uniting Power of a Commitment to HTML Conformance (j9t)151
html, quality, community, web
Welcome WCAG 2.2 and Goodbye Success Criterion 4.1.1 “Parsing” (cer)150
accessibility, wcag
WCAG 2.2 and Validation149
accessibility, wcag, quality
The Most Minimal Valid HTML Document (j9t)148
html, minimalism, templates
User Input Sanitization and Validation: Securing Your App147
security, sanitization, validation
How to Validate HTML On-Line at W3C (wie)146
how-tos, html, tooling
Resources for Procurement of Accessible Digital Products and VPAT (den)145
accessibility, vpat-acr, tooling, link-lists
Meeting WCAG Level AAA (pat/tet)144
accessibility, wcag, standards
A Quick Guide to Reviewing a VPAT ACR (kar)143
accessibility, vpat-acr, auditing
Conformance and Accessibility (j9t)142
accessibility, quality
The Troublesome Life and Lamentable Death of Success Criterion 4.1.1141
accessibility, wcag, standards
Enforcing Better HTML Markup With Eleventy (mat)140
html, semantics, eleventy
Upgrade Your HTML IV (j9t/fro)139
books, frontend-dogma, html, minimalism, craft
Two Things I Learned by Validating My HTML Again138
html, lessons
Invalid CSS (cit)137
css
2022: 0 of the Global Top 100 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)136
html, css, metrics, quality, craft
Icon-Only Links Fail WCAG (tem)135
accessibility, links, wcag, images, icons
Top 2021 CSS Frameworks Report: Validation (cit)134
studies, research, frameworks, css, quality
Does Valid and Semantic HTML Still Matter? (5t3+)133
podcasts, html, semantics
Understanding the W3C’s Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Requirements132
accessibility, testing
Web Accessibility Lawsuits Dramatically Rose in 2021131
accessibility, legal
WCAG and Accessibility: What Is a Statement of Partial Conformance?130
accessibility, wcag
The 3-Second Frontend Developer Test (j9t)129
html, css, quality
Why Validate? (j9t)128
html, css, quality, craft
2021: 98% of the Top 100 US Websites Use Invalid HTML (j9t)127
html, css, metrics, quality, craft
Upgrade Your HTML III (j9t/fro)126
books, frontend-dogma, html, minimalism, craft
Upgrade Your HTML II (j9t/fro)125
books, frontend-dogma, html, minimalism, craft
Upgrade Your HTML (the Booklet) (j9t)124
books, html, minimalism, craft
No EPUBCheck, no EPUB (w3c)123
epub, tooling
HTML-validate122
websites, tooling, html
JSON Validation by Committee121
ruby, json, validation
A Vision of Web Development (j9t)120
outlooks, minimalism, semantics, maintainability
10 Typical HTML Interview Exercises119
html, interviewing, semantics, aria
Getting Started With HTML5118
introductions, html, browsers, code-editors, dev-tools
Google HTML/CSS Style Guide (j9t)117
google, html, css, style-guides, quality, principles, formatting, naming, sorting
New W3C Validation Service With RDFa 1.1 and Microdata (iva/w3c)116
w3c, tooling, html, rdf, microdata
Validation: Measuring and Tracking Code Quality (j9t)115
html, css, quality, metrics
But It Doesn’t Validate114
html, css, vendor-extensions
The Value of HTML Validation (nza)113
html
CSS Validation and Vendor Extensions: Throw Warnings, Not Errors (j9t)112
css, vendor-extensions
W3C Validation: It’s Not Just About Rankings111
w3c, html, css, tooling, seo
Let’s Make Every Day One Web Day! (w3c)110
awareness-days, web, accessibility, internationalization, mobile
The Big CSS3 Validation Debate109
css, vendor-extensions
Absent Elements and Validation (htm)108
html, attributes
10 Ways to Make Your XHTML Site Accessible Using Web Standards (mri/sma)107
xhtml, accessibility, standards
14 Free Tools to Validate Your HTML, CSS, and RSS Feeds (sea)106
html, css, rss, tooling, link-lists
When Good Browsers Go Bad—and They All Do (com)105
standards, support, internet-explorer, microsoft, browsers
The Two Great Things About Validation/Conformance (j9t)104
html, css, quality, craft
Valid Sites Work Better (?) (w3c)103
html, css
HTML 5: Document Conformance (w3c)102
html
W3C Validators in Jeopardy (mho)101
w3c, tooling
W3C Markup Validation Service Adds Experimental HTML5 Support100
w3c, tooling, html
W3C Validator, Now With HTML5 Flavour (oli/w3c)99
w3c, html, tooling
Five HTML Oddities That You May Not Know98
html, browsers
12 Principles for Clean HTML Code (chr/sma)97
html, principles, encoding, formatting, naming, css
Opera Study: Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant (ars)96
studies, research, opera, standards, semantics
Where Our Standards Went Wrong (bee/ali)95
standards, quality
When Validation Becomes Unimportant (j9t)94
html, css, optimization, craft
Using Flash and Staying Standards Compliant (chr/css)93
flash, embed-code, jquery
Conforming “target” Attribute (lac)92
html, attributes, pop-ups
A Validator Is Not an Accessibility Evaluation Tool? (w3c)91
discussions, html, accessibility, alt-text, images, tooling
Google Can’t Code90
google, html, quality
What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like (chr/css)89
html, attributes, semantics, formatting
The Craft of HTML (kar/w3c)88
html, craft
Top Blogs Fail W3C Markup Validation (bpe)87
html, metrics
Fixing the Web… Together! (kar/w3c)86
html, xhtml, css, standards, quality
An HTML5 Conformance Checker (hsi)85
studies, html, parsing, history
“Valid CSS” and Similar Claims Are Unprofessional (j9t)84
html, css, wcag, professionalism
Validator Web Service Interface Ideas (hsi)83
web-services, tooling
W3C Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated82
w3c, html, xhtml, links, link-rot, user-experience, tooling
Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup81
html, xhtml, encoding, unicode, character-references, semantics
Unicorn Sighting (Public Preview) (don/w3c)80
w3c, tooling, quality
The Web Accessibility Myth in the UK79
accessibility, wcag, compliance, html, css, myths
Following the XHTML Path78
xhtml, link-lists
Why Comply? The Movement to W3C Compliance77
w3c, standards
Buy Standards Compliant Web Sites (kar/w3c)76
standards, compliance, professionalism, economics
New W3C Feed Validation Service (oli)75
discussions, w3c, syndication, rss, atom, tooling
Character References Explained (lac)74
html, unicode, character-references
Ten Steps to a More User Friendly Website73
flash, performance, images, compression, link-rot, html, browsers, support, navigation, readability, quality
Validation Quiz Explanation (lac)72
quizzes, html, xhtml, xml
Markup Content Models (ann)71
html
Character Encodings and Input70
unicode, character-references, php
Ampersands, PHP Sessions, and Valid HTML (w3c)69
html, php, character-references
On Valid CSS (ann)68
css
Validating a Custom DTD (jde/ali)67
xhtml
The Four Essentials of Modern Web Design66
fundamentals, accessibility, semantics, principles, quality
Quick Guide to XHTML (ann)65
guides, xhtml, html, mime-types, unicode
XHTML Is Invalid HTML (ann)64
xhtml, html
CSS Validation (dav)63
css
Error Handling and Web Language Design62
errors, standards, html
This Validates (sim)61
semantics, xhtml
On Standards and Semantics (sto)60
standards, semantics
Semantics and Bad Code (dav)59
html, xhtml, semantics
Standards Don’t Necessarily Have Anything to Do With Being Semantically Correct (kot)58
standards, semantics, html, xhtml, css
W3C Buttons Without Images57
w3c, xhtml, css
Choosing Standards Compliance Over Proprietary Practices56
standards, interoperability, user-experience, quality
”HTML Validation” Is a Good Tool, but Just a Tool55
html, doctypes
ESPN Moves Forward With Standards54
standards, case-studies
URLs vs. XHTML (dav)53
urls, xhtml
Validate XML Against Multiple Schemas (dan)52
xml
Effects of CSS-Based Design (dav)51
html, css, performance
W3C Updates Validation Service50
html, xhtml, xml, tooling, w3c
Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards (dre/ali)49
flash, embed-code
W3C Members: What Standards? (zdn)48
w3c, html, quality, standards
Things Can Only Get Better47
html, standards, w3c, metrics
Valid Garbage In, Valid Garbage Out: Answers46
html, semantics
Buy Standards Compliant Web Sites (don/w3c)45
standards, compliance, maintainability, accessibility, business-relations, economics
Anil Dash Does Amazon (sim)44
html, case-studies
Valid Garbage In, Valid Garbage Out43
html, css
Better Living Through XHTML (zel/ali)42
xhtml, html
HTML Syntax Checker in PHP (hsi)41
html, php, tooling
Any Browser vs. WaSP—Battle of the Purists40
html, netscape, browsers, web-standards-project
“Forgiving” Browsers Considered Harmful (jde/ali)39
html, xhtml, wysiwyg, parsing
Validating XML in Internet Explorer38
xml, microsoft, internet-explorer
Conformance Testing for XML Processors37
xml, testing
Purism vs. Layout—the Holy War36
layout, html, sgml, outlooks
Validators35
html, quality, tooling, link-lists
AMP Validator34
tools, analysis, amp, google
CSS Validator (w3c)33
tools, analysis, css
DAML Validator32
tools, analysis
Facebook Validator31
tools, analysis, facebook+meta
hCard Validator30
tools, analysis, microformats
HTML Validator (w3c)29
tools, analysis, html
LinkedIn Validator28
tools, analysis, social-media
P3P Validator (w3c)27
tools, analysis, privacy, p3p
robots.txt Validator (Merkle) (max)26
tools, analysis, seo, robotstxt
RSS and Atom Feed Validator (w3c)25
tools, analysis, syndication, rss, atom
SBML Validator24
tools, analysis
Sitemap Validator23
tools, analysis, sitemaps
SVG Validator22
tools, analysis, svg
XML-RPC Validator21
tools, analysis, xml
XML Schema Validator20
tools, analysis, xml
XML Validator19
tools, analysis, xml
Content Security Policy Validator (CSP Validator)18
tools, analysis, security, csp
Content Security Policy Validator (Google)17
tools, analysis, security, csp
Unquoted Attribute Value Validator (mat)16
tools, exploration, auditing, debugging, html, attributes
HTML Nesting Checker15
tools, exploration, optimization, html, nesting
JSON Validator (FreeFormatter.com)14
tools, exploration, optimization, json
JSON Validator (JSON Compare)13
tools, exploration, optimization, json
YAML Validator12
tools, exploration, optimization, yaml
ISBN Checker and Formatter11
tools, exploration
AMP Bulk Validator (max)10
tools, analysis, amp, google
JavaScript Validator9
tools, exploration, optimization, javascript
WebVTT Validator (w3c)8
tools, exploration, optimization, captions, accessibility
JavaScript Variable Name Validator (mat)7
tools, exploration, optimization, javascript
SHACL Validator6
tools, analysis, structured-data
Design Token Validator (and)5
tools, exploration, optimization, design-tokens
robots.txt Validator (Logeix)4
tools, analysis, seo, robotstxt
Twitter/X Validator3
tools, analysis, social-media, twitter+x
EPUB Validator2
tools, exploration, epub
XML Well-Formedness Checker and Validator1
tools, analysis, xml