Thoughts on HTML
June 02, 2003, 01:06 pmI added the accesskey attribute to my login form on the right. Now when I want to login, I can just use Alt+u (Alt in Linux, Ctrl in Windows, Apple in Mac?). Aww, yeah. I don't even use my mouse on my website anymore. Find as you type and now the accesskey make it more-than-accessible to me. (I can't wait until Find as you type will also find results in button and img labels, alt, and title attributes!)
I just realized that I've been using <tt> to do monospace formatting instead of using <code>. I'm not sure if it's deprecated or not, but I would assume that it would be as the tag implies style (does teletype mean monospaced?).
What I think most designers don't understand is that style applied to a HTML document is nothing more than a recommendation. The whole reason why a digital document is so much better than a stack of papers is that if the user doesn't like the font face, size, color, etc., it's trivial to change it (not to mention the ability to search through the document). Let me rephrase, it should be easy to change. Sometime in the future, I'm going to make a serious effort to make all font definitions in my stylesheets relative with the em metric.