A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

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Authors: K: Peter-Paul Koch

Peter-Paul Koch

Peter-Paul Koch is a mobile platform strategist, consultant, and trainer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He concentrates on web technologies, mobile websites, and W3C widgets. He specializes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser compatibility. He speaks at conferences, founded Fronteers, the Dutch association of front-end professionals, and advises browser vendors on their implementation of web standards.

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Smartphone Browser Landscape

Issue 320December 14, 2010

Users expect websites to work on their mobile phones. In two to three years, mobile support will become standard for any site. Web developers must add mobile web development to their skill set or risk losing clients. How do you make websites mobile compatible? The simple answer is to test on all mobile devices and fix any problems you encounter. But with at least ten operating systems and fifteen browsers out there, it is impossible to do that. Nor can we test only in iPhone and Android and expect to serve our market. PPK surveys the mobile web market, as well as phone platforms and their browsers, and shows how to set up a mobile test bed that works.

Evangelizing Outside the Box: Web Standards and Large Companies

Issue 238May 29, 2007

Contrary to popular belief, designers and developers at many big companies use web standards in their work every day. They just don't talk about it. For standards awareness to reach the next level, they'll have to start talking, says PPK.

JavaScript Triggers

Issue 194February 1, 2005

Now that you’ve separated your website’s (XHTML) structure from its (CSS) presentation, wouldn’t it be great to similarly abstract the behavioral (JavaScript) layer from the others? ALA prodigal Peter-Paul Koch shows how to use JavaScript Triggers to do just that.

Rated XHTML

Issue 69June 23, 2000

The W3C’s XHTML language is intended to bridge the web’s past (HTML) and future (XML). Shall we cross this bridge, now that we’ve come to it? Or is XHTML more trouble than it’s worth? Peter-Paul Koch puts forth the pros and cons.