Butt Naked CSS
Posted: 6 April 2007
Whilst I was at the Highland Fling conference yesterday (report and notes to come after Easter Break), this site had dropped the CSS and proudly showed off its naked code, part of CSS naked day.
Of course this can be done anytime, by disabling the stylesheets and images in modern browsers, or using the firefox web developer toolbar, but delegates at the conference were reminded by Brothercake that people in Australia can only get phone line that give maximum of 14.4bps connection, resulting in browsing the web with a text only browser.
This still happens and it was a good reminder of how we should be thinking about how we code websites. The semantic code of html is always usually the backbone of web page, and how it is coded affects how it is presented not to visually impaired users with text readers, and also to search engine robots, where antag being the most important heading in any web page.
It was nice to be part of a fun annual event in the web standards community. If anything it highlights the quality of web code, and the thought it takes to create a standards based web page. However, it also rings alarm bells when other sites don’t quite meet the grade.. a lot of very big sites, especially a big site named after a river that sells books ;)