Our group is keying up for some serious dynamic HTML generation. I want to raise a high bar to the HTML group on the quality of HTML they can present to me. I would appreciate some feedback on what you do as a developer to insure that you get HTML easy to modify and understand. Here are the standards that I want to propose to our HTML team:

Dear HTML Group, in order to make sure that I get quality HTML from you, I am requesting that you do the following things before submitting HTML to me:

  1. Validate your HTML using the W3C Markup Validation Service or the WDG HTML Validator

    If there are any errors or warnings, correct them, or provide adequate justification for not fixing them.

  2. Make sure that the final HTML delivered is line-wrapped to 120 columns and indented for readability using the tool of your choice. I would point them to HTML Tidy but the up to date versions only run on Linux

In reply to Quality Standards Proposal to HTML Developers? by metaperl

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.