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+ Mon, August 23

UMich & The Standards Game

A friend of mine, working on bringing the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering site into compliance with W3C standards, notified me that the main University of Michigan site had beaten them to it and unveiled their fully compliant redesign.  Using approved methods, they nearly perfectly retained their previous look and feel, both with Flash and pure XHTML variants.  As a UMich student and a web designer, I fully applaud their effort and the wisdom behind the project, it’s much too bad their return key was broken while they were writing the code.

(Hat tip, Yaniv)

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1 → Laura A  –  (Aug 23 2004, 10:09 PM)

Yes, Virginia, there are men who can multitask.  And, as to the post itself, I am very impressed with the UM site improvements - there are several other colleges who would do well to follow this shining example.

2 → skippy  –  (Aug 23 2004, 11:17 PM)

can you explain what you mean by saying “it’s much too bad their return key was broken while they were writing the code.”

3 → pd  –  (Aug 24 2004, 12:36 AM)

If you view the source for the page you’ll see what I’m referring to immediately.






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