Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.

I'm just loving BlueGriffon Editor! XML, HTML5, CSS, ARIA, SVGEdit all built in.

I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.

I made my first website in sixth grade. I was the only girl in my computer programming class.

My dad grew up as a computer programmer, so he always had random computer software, and I started opening up editing software at age 12 and figuring out how to build websites.

We're actually helping advance HTML5 in some very concrete ways, such as Edge, which is in beta.

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.

We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

Flash and HTML have co-existed, and they're going to continue to co-exist.

Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn't work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that's something.

CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.

Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

I taught myself HTML.

I learned HTML in high school and then graduated to CSS. It's a great way to exercise my mind. But it's frustrating as hell.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.