31–40 of 82 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also found that odd. I've always placed mine in the HTML tag. tough, I don't know what the difference is.
Putting it on is better as that defines the language for as well. The lang attribute defines the language of the tree that the element is the root node of.
Note that you don't actually need the head or body tags in your page. The browser already knows what is allowed in the head. It looks weird at first, but you can write your html like so: My Title Also note that the html tag can also be omitted, unless you need to set the language. Don't worry about closing it either.
Edit: my original comment (retained below) is wrong about this being malformed, and it's completely valid. Some more info here: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#optional-... --- Original comment : The fact that browsers are able to handle malformed HTML doesn't mean that you should do it that way. There's no meaningful benefit that I can think of, and the potential to break a ton of things that aren…
> Alternative text: High All have an alternative text which describe the image visually. Please don't do that. Don't put an alt on ALL images. Screen readers will read all of them. Skin and flavour images don't deserve to be read outloud. Nobody wants to hear "bottom left corner of logo" or "rounded corner".
This recommendation would be fine 20 years ago. You should not have any decorative images in your markup, they belong to CSS.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually I do work on a website that we do not want crawled. It would be handy to know which things to leave out to make it less likely your site will be crawled or show up high in a google result.
Just define a robot.txt file instructing the crawler to not index your website. See: http://www.robotstxt.org/
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7424835?hl=en#h...
> robots.txt Disallow does not guarantee that a page will not appear in results: Google may still decide, based on external information such as incoming links, that it is relevant. If you wish to explicitly block a page from being indexed, you should instead use the noindex robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag HTTP header.
If it's something like a staging site, you'd be better putting it behind a login screen to prevent mistakes anyway.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This recommendation would be fine 20 years ago. You should not have any decorative images in your markup, they belong to CSS.
Why? It shouldn't make any difference if you add alt="" to the img tag.
These are very subjective, I've never done half of the 'high' priority items, and I've never had any issues with my site having a 'disfunction'. Take this list with a gigantic grain of salt. For example, your site certainly won't break from missing the 'lang' attribute.
One would be better off just using the Google Web Starter kit[1], other boilerplate options, or just chrome dev tools running Audits to get started with a solid front-end.