For a few days, though, I was convinced that one of the sites I read regularly was completely broken, because it looked HORRIBLE all of a sudden. I knew the blogger had been planning a redesign, so I assumed she was just in the middle of rearranging. Then I looked at her blog again in Firefox, and it was still just fine. Oops!
It reminded me that I'd bookmarked Workin' it on all browsers from the Official Google Webmaster Central blog a couple of months ago, so I dug it up and read it.
Their first tip for webmasters is "Ensure browser compatibility by focusing on accessibility." I perked up a bit - do they mean what I think they mean? Sadly, no. When they say accessibility, they mean using simpler HTML instead of "fancy features like AJAX."
Their second tip, though, is key both for cross-browser compatibility and for accessibility as we discuss it on this blog: Consider validating your code to ensure it conforms with web standards. The more that websites and blogs are built in accordance with web standards, the easier it is on your visitors who are using assistive technology - and the more likely that your blog will work properly in all modern browsers.
So validating my code is definitely one of my New Year's resolutions for all my blogs. Now if only there were a web standard creating an extra two hours a day in 2009 for all webmasters.
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