I’ve updated the code behind the pages to a more modern and flexible system and at the same time amended the design to make pages quicker to load and less fussy in appearance. An additional benefit is that the site is now more accessible to visitors with disabilities.
Michael Quinion, World Wide Words
In other words, WWW is now–almost–a valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional site. (Those darned character entity references in URLs… happens to the best of us.)
Mark Pilgrim and Ian Hickson might not be overjoyed. There’s lots of semantic information in the classes, what appears (to me, at least) to be appropriate use of the meta element, and even Dublin Core metadata; he even uses curly apostrophes
. However, there are two things I think Mark and Ian would recommend: respectively, using the cite tag to mark up words and phrases quoted for themselves (particularly instead of <em class="citedform">), and using heading tags (h1, h2, etc.) in place of structures like <p class="heading"> and <p class="sectiontag" style="margin-top:0.5em">.
But you know what? (That’s you as in all y’all, of course.) It’s still a cool site, and I go back again and again. Content is king, and Michael Quinion has some 1250 pages that say he da man.
