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Posts Tagged ‘POSH

Form layout is one area where designers have struggled to find a sensible way to replace tables with nice clean semantic xhtml + CSS.
In 2005 Andy Clarke demonstrated his approach to form layout at CSS for designers, He wraps the label around the input field, then put the actual label text in a span.

<label> [...]

09 May, 2007

Push for POSH

Posted by: Mark In: semantic markup| web development| web standards| xhtml

Just when you thought we had enough abbreviations in web development another one comes along. This one is POSH!
POSH stands for Plain Old Semantic HTML. It’s a phrase first coined on the microformats IRC channel and promoted forward by John Allsopp, Tantek Çelik, Jeremy Keith, and Chris Messina.
The thinking behind this abbreviation is that it [...]