Tag Archives: HTML

Aug
19

Mark-up validation icons

Posted on Fri 19th August, 2011 by Iain White

My online profile site  www.whiteinternet.com/iain/ is XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS level 2.1 valid. My pages display the appropriate icons on the pages of this site, but I know that many developers frown on displaying these icons. Some Developers think … Continue reading →

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Aug
13

Page performance: Specify image dimensions

Posted on Sat 13th August, 2011 by Iain White

When you add an image to a web site you should specify its dimensions. E.g. <img src=”logo.gif” width=”70” height=”80” alt=”Logo” /> If the image is given dimensions then the Browser will allocate it ‘layout space’ when it first renders the … Continue reading →

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Aug
5

ABBR vs ACRONYM HTML tags

Posted on Fri 5th August, 2011 by Iain White

There is some confusion about the difference between ABBR and ACRONYM tags, on the surface they appear to do the same thing. From an English language perspective an abbreviation and an acronym are both shortened forms of a word, phrase … Continue reading →

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