Opera Web Standards Curriculum

Opera software released 21 tutorials on web development targeted for the masses. All in all it seems to be a well-rounded collection covering the basics, so if you are into more advanced stuff, you may find the stuff covered oh-not-so-tasty.

From the Opera site:

“Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. It already has support from many organizations (including Yahoo! and the Web Standards Project) and universities. The first 23 articles are currently available, with about 30 more to be published between now and late September.”

Jump to the first article in the series if you are still interested.

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2 Responses to “Opera Web Standards Curriculum”

Dusan Smolnikar
July 8th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Just skimming trough the article, I stumbled upon this:

There are strict and transitional flavours of both HTML and XHTML. Strict in this case means that the doctypes allow less presentational markup than the transitional doctype does. The presentational markup that isn’t allowed shouldn’t really be there anyway, since you should use HTML to define the structure and meaning of your documents, and CSS to determine how they are presented.

And I’m going “Yeah right, show me a css alternative to the target tag” As much as you and me and any other trained internet user hate when designers tell us where to open the links, I think it’s even more confusing to the normal users when they lose the website they were reading.
Damjan Mozetič
July 10th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
The fact is that in my daily job, I’d never get to use the target tag if it wasn’t for the clients *asking* for it. I am wondering, why is that tag still around anyway… it only duplicates the browser interface’s functionality, which is a bad thing IMO.

Scarf*oo

Opera Web Standards Curriculum

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