You’re a standardista if… (Friday Fun)

Posted by Andrew Faulkner on April 13th, 2007.

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This Friday Fun session pokes a little fun at our beloved industry. All in the name of humour. So, without further ado, you’re a standardista if…

…you’ve ever sent an email to the admin of a website informing them of validation errors.
…you’ve ever spent over half an hour searching for a standards compliant version of a slideshow/flashy-widget/whatever.
…you’ve sat at your dining table and thought “I could make this with divs.”
…you’ve already frowned at the word standardista in the title.
…you’ve really had a go at someone who mentions the phrase “here come the accessibility police.”
…you try to tell everyone the difference between accessibility and standards.
…you’ve already validated this page and found the deliberate error.

Update: You’re a standardista if you’ve tried to use the validator at least 5 times today but realise that it’s really crawling.

I enjoyed that! Let me know if you admit to any of the above and feel free to suggest some more. Happy weekend.

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You’re a standardista if you’ve ever finished designing a fully semantic website and then spent endless hours trying to do it with fewer div / span tags.

Steven Teskey
April 13th, 2007
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You’re a standardista if you can’t conceive of there being anything oppressive about standards.

You’re a standardista if you go about telling published authors how to write books based on your having made a web page.

Zaratzara
April 13th, 2007
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Oh great…here come the accessibility police.

;)

Mike
April 13th, 2007
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Oh great…here come the accessibility police.

;)

Hold me back! Hold me back!

Andrew Faulkner
April 13th, 2007
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Say you’ve composed a bullet point list of what’s wrong with the code on someone’s site and then stopped short of sending it.. does that count?

Emma
April 13th, 2007
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does that count?

The fact you started writing it makes it count, I guess. :)

Andrew Faulkner
April 13th, 2007
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I have to admit I’ve sent a few emails to a webmasters informing them of validation errors, and atleast 10-20 times a week I’m thinking of “I could make that with divs” :D

Marko Mihelcic
April 16th, 2007
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How about if you found a site made completely of sliced images (literally! except for the address on the “about” page), googled their organization name in quotes, and thought HA!! when they were waay down the list :-)

sachi
April 16th, 2007
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I don’t have tables in my house, we eat off of DIV’s!

Matt Davies
April 17th, 2007
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Trust Matt to bring a level of maturity to the debate. ; )

Andrew Faulkner
April 17th, 2007
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You probably wouldn’t of had the validation error you claim was intentional, if you hadn’t posted this on the “unlucky” Friday, the thirteenth!

Ty
April 19th, 2007
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sprungmarker » Sind sie ein Standardfreak?!
April 29th, 2007
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As soon as I correct that improperly closed nested list item we’ll step outside and settle this like men! ;)

Kevin Erwin
May 3rd, 2007
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You’re a standardista if your kid uses color on a separate sheet of paper whilst drawing.
:)

Stefan Asemota
May 5th, 2007
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There are actually three validation errors, not one.

Line 70 column 101: there is no attribute “alt”.

Line 556 column 14: document type does not allow element “label” here; missing one of “p”, “h1″, “h2″, “h3″, “h4″, “h5″, “h6″, “div”, “pre”, “address”, “fieldset”, “ins”, “del” start-tag.

Line 557 column 70: document type does not allow element “input” here; missing one of “p”, “h1″, “h2″, “h3″, “h4″, “h5″, “h6″, “div”, “pre”, “address”, “fieldset”, “ins”, “del” start-tag.

Brandon
May 17th, 2007
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Thanks Brandon. The other two have crept in this week. I’ll get them fixed when I next update. Cheers for informing me, mate.

Andrew Faulkner
May 17th, 2007
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Oh dear, it’s all over for me then :(

Ian
January 30th, 2008
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You’re a Standardista if… « (dis)information architecture
February 25th, 2008
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Proud to be a Standardista !!!!!!!!!!

Missy
March 11th, 2008
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