Molly Holzschlag Quotes

Even if it's not always the best markup, what are Facebook and Twitter? They're web standards with some scripts. They may not validate, but they're still CSS layouts and simple markup, and that's great!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.

It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web.

I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.

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

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

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I taught myself HTML.

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

Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.

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.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.

Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.

The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.