Links tagged “standards”
52 links, newest first.
utf8everywhere.org
RT @paraboul: http://t.co/OYvovKkq The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto. Fuck yé (via @n1k0)
code.google.com
Reference documenting several hundred security-relevant behaviours of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and the Android browser, with open test cases.
w3.org
W3C Working Draft of 30 June 2009 for CSS multi-column layout, defining the twelve properties that flow an element's content into a set of columns.
quadium.net
Final 1998 specification of Funge-98, the family of topological languages that generalises Befunge, covering Funge-Space, the stack stack, instructions and fingerprints.
alistapart.com
Screen-reader test results for the Fahrner Image Replacement technique, concluding that hiding text with display none or visibility hidden makes it inaccessible.
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software
joelonsoftware.com
Joel Spolsky's primer on character encodings, walking from ASCII through code pages to Unicode and UTF-8, and why no string is meaningful without knowing its encoding.
ejohn.org
A developer's review of the JavaScript and DOM improvements shipping in the first Internet Explorer 8 beta.
w3.org
Section 10 of RFC 2616, defining every HTTP/1.1 status code from 1xx to 5xx and the semantics a client and server must attach to each.
webstandards.org
The Acid2 rendering test itself — a page whose CSS and HTML edge cases a compliant browser must draw as a smiley face, compared against a reference image.
