Why Are You Bare?
April 05, 2006
Today, April 5th, is the First Annual Naked Day. This means that if you are reading this on the website and not via RSS, what you are seeing is mojavelinux.com with the CSS stripped off (hence with default browser styles).
So why CSS Naked Day? The original idea came from Dustin Diaz and is intended to promote Web Standards. In short, that means that a website uses semantic, meaningful markup and not just thrown together to look pretty. Even the inventor of CSS, Håkon Wium Lie, is keen on the idea:
This is a fun idea, fully in line with the reasons for creating CSS in the first place. While most designers are attracted by the extra presentational capabilities, saving HTML from becoming a presentational language was probably a more important motivation for most people who participated in the beginning.
So is your site laid bare? Is your site still understandable with the CSS peeled off? Take the challenge!
You can see what this site looks like without styles in Firefox on any ol' day by simplying selecting the menu item View > Page Style > No Style.
Posted at 06:01 PM in
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