[thelist] Coding standards....
tim
tim at hyperlinkage.com
Thu Dec 7 15:01:25 CST 2006
Matt Warden wrote:
> Actually, the main problem is that it misses the entire point of
> "class", which is to group semantically similar elements.
Quite so. This is exactly why it's so difficult to maintain HTML that
uses this naming scheme, and precisely why semantic naming is essential.
As far as the original post on coding standards, I would actually
consider writing down some standard ID and class names to use in your
markup. This makes chunks of HTML and CSS easily reusable between
projects. You should also look at Microformats and consider whether any
of those standards are useful to your company.
Additional things I might suggest for your coding standards:
* Which markup and CSS standard you will be using
* CSS is not optional!
* What level of WCAG compliance
* Do you allow Flash/Javascript/AJAX?
* File names (e.g. lowercase, hyphens between words, .html)
* Directory naming (e.g. all CSS to go in /css/ directory)
You could also look at Yahoo's graded browser support if you are
interested in including browser testing in your standards.
Tim
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