Kimberly Blessing just passed me a link to the relaunched IEEE site to me. In the line of recent failed redesigns its a formal standards organization that clearly doesn’t get the standards of the web.
Some of the faults at first glance:
- Heavy use table based layout methods with little thought towards sematics.
- Forms that don’t reflect the use of standards to develop more accessible forms.
- An odd use of short tags, css and other newer techniques amidst it all.
They’ve somehow managed to take every possible way to build a page and lumped them all together into some futuristic pill-form of tag soup.
I do have to give them a tiny bit of credit for not using a doctype and thus not advertising to the world that they’re shipping something that conforms to any DTD at all, but that really doesn’t account for much.
[Oh the irony! IEEE site not standards-compliant by Kimberly Blessing.]
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