Wolf550e's rules recommendations of web publishing
- Anything published on the web must at least be 100% HTML 4.01 Strict and encoded in the ISO-8859-1 charset. XHTML and UTF-8 is even better.
- Validate using industrial strength tools until 100% compliant. No exceptions.
- Do not publish files in "Macintosh" or "windows-1252" charsets.
- Use paragraph tags, not line breaks.
- Do not use <font> tags.
- Always specify a generic font family and widely adopted alternative fonts. Do not use proprietary symbol fonts ([Wingdings] "J")
- Define formatting in global CSS. Do not use <span> or <div> tags in every paragraph.
- There is no need for Netscape 2.0 backwards compatibility. Version 4 browsers are dinosaurs whose time is come to pass. CSS1 support is expected. No need for "align" properties, <center> tags or any such means.
- Indent sections should be included in a <div> so a single style can be applied to all indent'd paragraphs (e.g. italics or a cursive font).
- Make sure your formatting will not look too horrible if CSS is omitted. This means no casual use of <H1> paragraphs.
- Use tables and frames sparsely.
- Use a consistent, sortable, file naming convention (this means leading zeros and a single file extension).
- Links to next/previous chapters should be relative to current directory while links to review boards should be full.
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