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“conformance” News Archive

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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
hihtml (j9t)182
packages, npm, html, links, link-rot, minification, html-minifier, optimization, quality
AI and HTML: Validating, Omitting Optional Code, and Minifying as Token Optimization (j9t)181
ai, token-optimization, html, minimalism, minification, optimization
How to Improve Your HTML Game (j9t)180
how-tos, html, learning, career
Accessible Faux-Nested Interactive Controls (eri/pic)179
accessibility, html, nesting
How Can You Tell What’s Allowed Inside Each HTML Element? (rus)178
html
The Two Most Important Tools for HTML Developers177
tooling, html, minification, html-minifier, htmlnano, swc
What’s Wrong With This HTML, and Is It Valid? (pat/mat)176
html, standards, web-platform
HTML—the Most Difficult Programming Language in the World (j9t)175
programming, html, professionalism
Understanding the Removal of 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.2 (tpg)174
accessibility, wcag, html
2025: 0 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)173
html, metrics, quality, craft
Conformance vs. Compliance, Accessibility Standards Edition (hdv)172
accessibility, standards, compliance, terminology, comparisons, wcag
When HTML Speaks Clearly171
html, accessibility, semantics
Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide (j9t)170
html, minimalism, how-tos, guides, link-lists
Google: Many Top Sites Have Invalid HTML and Still Rank (mat/sea)169
google, html, quality, seo
How Often Should We Speak About HTML Conformance? (j9t)168
html, metrics
Mastering HTML: The Art of Minimal and Valid Code in Professional Web Development (AI Edition) (j9t)167
guest-posts, html, minimalism, semantics, interoperability, accessibility, standards
A Review of HTML Linters166
overviews, html, linting, tooling, link-lists, comparisons
DeepSeek and HTML (j9t)165
ai, deepseek, html, minimalism
Testing 10 JavaScript Frameworks on Their HTML Defaults (j9t)164
frameworks, javascript, html, comparisons, link-lists
HTML Conformance: A Comparison of 6.5 npm Validator Packages (With 1.5 Recommendations) (j9t)163
html, tooling, npm, comparisons
Where Has All the Valid HTML Gone (j9t)162
html, quality
2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)161
html, metrics, quality, craft
Test-Driving HTML Templates (xpm/mfo)160
html, templates, testing, server-side-rendering
We Need to Talk More About Conformance, if We Want to Stop Fantasy HTML (j9t)159
html, craft, quality
Level-Setting Heading Levels (aar)158
headings, semantics, accessibility, aria
Upgrade Your HTML V (j9t/fro)157
books, frontend-dogma, html, minimalism, craft
9 Signs Your Frontend Code Has Quality Issues That Affect Your Users (ang)156
quality, craft, accessibility, usability, user-experience, performance
Complete a VPAT: Show How Accessible Your Product Is (deq)155
accessibility, vpat-acr, documentation
How-To: 5 Steps to Detect Invalid HTML Breaking Your [Site’s Performance] (erw)154
how-tos, html, performance
How Invalid HTML Elements Impact Web Performance (erw)153
html, performance
My Web Development Wishlist 2024 (j9t)152
community, user-experience, developer-experience, quality, wish-lists
HTML Validation—Pros and Cons151
html
The Top Accessibility Errors Found in 2023 (tpg)150
accessibility, quality, errors, retrospectives
Do You Really Need to Validate Your HTML Code?149
discussions, html
2023: 0 of the Global Top 100 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)148
html, css, metrics, quality
Why Unique ID Attributes Matter (deq)147
accessibility, html, attributes
On the Uniting Power of a Commitment to HTML Conformance (j9t)146
html, quality, community, web
Welcome WCAG 2.2 and Goodbye Success Criterion 4.1.1 “Parsing” (cer)145
accessibility, wcag
WCAG 2.2 and Validation144
accessibility, wcag, quality
The Most Minimal Valid HTML Document (j9t)143
html, minimalism, templates
User Input Sanitization and Validation: Securing Your App142
security, sanitization, validation
How to Validate HTML On-Line at W3C (wie)141
how-tos, html, tooling
Resources for Procurement of Accessible Digital Products and VPAT (den)140
accessibility, vpat-acr, tooling, link-lists
Meeting WCAG Level AAA (pat/tet)139
accessibility, wcag, standards
A Quick Guide to Reviewing a VPAT ACR (kar)138
accessibility, vpat-acr, auditing
Conformance and Accessibility (j9t)137
accessibility, quality
The Troublesome Life and Lamentable Death of Success Criterion 4.1.1136
accessibility, wcag, standards
Enforcing Better HTML Markup With Eleventy (mat)135
html, semantics, eleventy
Upgrade Your HTML IV (j9t/fro)134
books, frontend-dogma, html, minimalism, craft
Two Things I Learned by Validating My HTML Again133
html, lessons
Invalid CSS (cit)132
css
2022: 0 of the Global Top 100 Websites Use Valid HTML (j9t)131
html, css, metrics, quality, craft
Icon-Only Links Fail WCAG (tem)130
accessibility, links, wcag, images, icons
Top 2021 CSS Frameworks Report: Validation (cit)129
studies, research, frameworks, css, quality
Does Valid and Semantic HTML Still Matter? (5t3+)128
podcasts, html, semantics
Understanding the W3C’s Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Requirements127
accessibility, testing
Web Accessibility Lawsuits Dramatically Rose in 2021126
accessibility, legal
WCAG and Accessibility: What Is a Statement of Partial Conformance?125
accessibility, wcag
The 3-Second Frontend Developer Test (j9t)124
html, css, quality
Why Validate? (j9t)123
html, css, quality, craft
2021: 98% of the Top 100 US Websites Use Invalid HTML (j9t)122
html, css, metrics, quality, craft
Upgrade Your HTML III (j9t/fro)121
books, frontend-dogma, html, minimalism, craft
Upgrade Your HTML II (j9t/fro)120
books, frontend-dogma, html, minimalism, craft
Upgrade Your HTML (the Booklet) (j9t)119
books, html, minimalism, craft
No EPUBCheck, no EPUB (w3c)118
epub, tooling
HTML-validate117
websites, tooling, html
JSON Validation by Committee116
ruby, json, validation
A Vision of Web Development (j9t)115
outlooks, minimalism, semantics, maintainability
10 Typical HTML Interview Exercises114
html, interviewing, semantics, aria
Getting Started With HTML5113
introductions, html, browsers, code-editors, dev-tools
Google HTML/CSS Style Guide (j9t)112
google, html, css, style-guides, quality, principles, formatting, naming, sorting
New W3C Validation Service With RDFa 1.1 and Microdata (iva/w3c)111
w3c, tooling, html, rdf, microdata
Validation: Measuring and Tracking Code Quality (j9t)110
html, css, quality, metrics
But It Doesn’t Validate109
html, css, vendor-extensions
The Value of HTML Validation (nza)108
html
CSS Validation and Vendor Extensions: Throw Warnings, Not Errors (j9t)107
css, vendor-extensions
W3C Validation: It’s Not Just About Rankings106
w3c, html, css, tooling, seo
Let’s Make Every Day One Web Day! (w3c)105
awareness-days, web, accessibility, internationalization, mobile
The Big CSS3 Validation Debate104
css, vendor-extensions
Absent Elements and Validation (htm)103
html, attributes
10 Ways to Make Your XHTML Site Accessible Using Web Standards (mri/sma)102
xhtml, accessibility, standards
14 Free Tools to Validate Your HTML, CSS, and RSS Feeds (sea)101
html, css, rss, tooling, link-lists
When Good Browsers Go Bad—and They All Do (com)100
standards, support, internet-explorer, microsoft, browsers
The Two Great Things About Validation/Conformance (j9t)99
html, css, quality, craft
Valid Sites Work Better (?) (w3c)98
html, css
HTML 5: Document Conformance (w3c)97
html
W3C Validators in Jeopardy (mho)96
w3c, tooling
W3C Markup Validation Service Adds Experimental HTML5 Support95
w3c, tooling, html
W3C Validator, Now With HTML5 Flavour (oli/w3c)94
w3c, html, tooling
Five HTML Oddities That You May Not Know93
html, browsers
12 Principles for Clean HTML Code (chr/sma)92
html, principles, encoding, formatting, naming, css
Opera Study: Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant (ars)91
studies, research, opera, standards, semantics
Where Our Standards Went Wrong (bee/ali)90
standards, quality
When Validation Becomes Unimportant (j9t)89
html, css, optimization, craft
Using Flash and Staying Standards Compliant (chr/css)88
flash, embed-code, jquery
Conforming “target” Attribute (lac)87
html, attributes, pop-ups
A Validator Is Not an Accessibility Evaluation Tool? (w3c)86
discussions, html, accessibility, alt-text, images, tooling
Google Can’t Code85
google, html, quality
What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like (chr/css)84
html, attributes, semantics, formatting
The Craft of HTML (kar/w3c)83
html, craft
Top Blogs Fail W3C Markup Validation (bpe)82
html, metrics
Fixing the Web… Together! (kar/w3c)81
html, xhtml, css, standards, quality
An HTML5 Conformance Checker (hsi)80
studies, html, parsing, history
“Valid CSS” and Similar Claims Are Unprofessional (j9t)79
html, css, wcag, professionalism
Validator Web Service Interface Ideas (hsi)78
web-services, tooling
W3C Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated77
w3c, html, xhtml, links, link-rot, user-experience, tooling
Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup76
html, xhtml, encoding, unicode, character-references, semantics
Unicorn Sighting (Public Preview) (don/w3c)75
w3c, tooling, quality
The Web Accessibility Myth in the UK74
accessibility, wcag, compliance, html, css, myths
Following the XHTML Path73
xhtml, link-lists
Why Comply? The Movement to W3C Compliance72
w3c, standards
Buy Standards Compliant Web Sites (kar/w3c)71
standards, compliance, professionalism, economics
New W3C Feed Validation Service (oli)70
discussions, w3c, syndication, rss, atom, tooling
Character References Explained (lac)69
html, unicode, character-references
Ten Steps to a More User Friendly Website68
flash, performance, images, compression, link-rot, html, browsers, support, navigation, readability, quality
Validation Quiz Explanation (lac)67
quizzes, html, xhtml, xml
Markup Content Models (ann)66
html
Character Encodings and Input65
unicode, character-references, php
Ampersands, PHP Sessions, and Valid HTML (w3c)64
html, php, character-references
On Valid CSS (ann)63
css
Validating a Custom DTD (jde/ali)62
xhtml
The Four Essentials of Modern Web Design61
fundamentals, accessibility, semantics, principles, quality
Quick Guide to XHTML (ann)60
guides, xhtml, html, mime-types, unicode
XHTML Is Invalid HTML (ann)59
xhtml, html
CSS Validation (dav)58
css
Error Handling and Web Language Design57
errors, standards, html
This Validates (sim)56
semantics, xhtml
On Standards and Semantics (sto)55
standards, semantics
Semantics and Bad Code (dav)54
html, xhtml, semantics
Standards Don’t Necessarily Have Anything to Do With Being Semantically Correct (kot)53
standards, semantics, html, xhtml, css
URLs vs. XHTML (dav)52
urls, xhtml
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