CSS font stacks, media style sheets & web standards
This guide is part of the Code Style Anchor Points section, a collection of external links from across this site, split by subject.
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The Anchor Points below can also be found in other subject specific areas of this site, but have been gathered here for convenience. These mostly originate from references given in the Code Style site log and include the most popular Anchor Points from the Code Style site statistics subsection.
The W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences Project is a scheme for encoding a site privacy policy in XML format and in HTTP headers and provides a framework for drafting the policy in human readable form. See the Code Style Privacy statement for working examples.
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative publishes a structured scheme for encoding metadata that is widely adopted for summarising online content in HTML and RDF format. The Dublin Core scheme is used in the XHTML meta elements throughout this site.
HTML and XML borrow language reference schemes from the Internet Engineering Task Force and International Standards Organisation. The country specific usage, spellings and dialects for English and other languages can be signified by sub-sets defined by RFC 1766 and ISO 3166 respectively.
The Cascading Style Sheets level 3 (CSS3) Media Queries W3C Candidate Recommendation suggests ways of logically defining and processing Cascading Style Sheets to more closely target the supported features of available output media.
The Code Style Web site formerly used the free evaluation version of the Atomz search engine (now owned by WebSideStory) for its Site Search facility. Atomz provides fully configurable results templates through a Web based management interface.
Web Caching's Cacheability Engine is a free online service for reporting or testing the efficiency of your Web site's cache control settings.
The SelectORacale from Eric Meyer and the Opal Group will take a Cascading Style Sheet as input and explain in plain language how the selectors apply to relevant markup.
Make sure your page markup conforms to W3C recommendations with the Web Design Group's HTML Validator and many of your CSS design headaches will be alleviated at a stroke. This service includes an option to spider up to 50 linked pages.
The ubiquitous Amazon UK and Amazon USA affiliates scheme gives a share of sales revenue for referrals made through partner Web sites. See Anchor Points: Recommended books.
The Code Style Web site uses the open source Soupermail form handler script to validate user feedback, acknowledge submissions and deliver form content as custom formatted email.
The Microsoft Typography site publishes a set of core Web fonts specially enhanced for screen usage, plus a guide to which fonts are installed with which applications.
The Esselte Corporation produces a Windows TrueType version of the popular Mac OS X font Papyrus.
Outbound links from this site are tracked via Google Analytics. The twenty most popular Anchor Points are listed below.
See Anchor Points: Code Style for a digest of links from the site log.
