A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 217

May 23, 2006

In this issue, A List Apart catches up with WCAG 2, considers internationalization practices, and explains how to ward off XSS attacks.

Community Creators, Secure Your Code! Part II

In part two of his two-part series on protecting your community site from malicious cross-site scripting attacks, Niklas Bivald rolls up his trousers and wades into the JavaScript.

World Grows Small: Open Standards for the Global Web

Molly Holzschlag explains how the practices you already use to create standards-based, accessible websites can serve you in the growing field of internationalization.

To Hell with WCAG 2

The W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are about to be updated for the first time since 1999. Joe Clark takes a close look at WCAG 2 and reports back.

A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on designing with standards. Explore our articles or find out more about us.

Editor’s Choice

originally ran: August 16, 2002

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web

Your information architecture is as smooth, clear, and inviting as a lake. Your design rocks. Your code works. But what keeps readers coming back is compelling writing that’s continually fresh and new. Updating daily content can challenge the most dedicated scribe or site owner. Mark Bernstein’s ten tips will help you keep the good words (and readers) coming.