Reading + Quiz

DUE Thursday, Feb 23 – 4 points
(Friday NOON deadline)

To supplement our technical introduction to CSS, we will be discussing the following two items:

Once you have completed the reading, you will need to take a quiz of ten true-false questions. (These questions will be randomly selected from the questions below. You can retake the quiz up to five times. Don’t stress about getting 100% on these quizzes: if you get 80% or better, you will be ready to proceed to the next activity and I will give you the full 3 points.)

All questions should be prefaced with an understood, “According to the author of the material … “:

  1. T/F? Paul compares the early days of the web to the Star Wars prequels.
  2. T/F? Paul refers to web professionals who do not use web standards as “cowboy designers.”
  3. T/F? Early web pages were purely textual and the code was meant to describe the semantic meaning of the content.
  4. T/F? Jeffrey Zeldman’s book Designing With Web Standards popularized the use of tables for controlling web page layout.
  5. T/F? During the late 1990s and early 2000s, HTML markup was being used to create complex designs that it was never intended to create.
  6. T/F? The difficulties in maintaining web sites not built with web standards led to a culture of redesign.
  7. T/F? Web sites built with web standards are more likely to be accessible.
  8. T/F? The most common problem when printing a web page is that the content is not printed in the same fonts as it is displayed on the screen.
  9. T/F? Including the search box and site navigation on a web page when it is printed is helpful for site visitors.
  10. T/F? Sites using CSS can have one design when viewed through a web browser and a different design when printed.
  11. T/F? In the U.S. and the U.K., access to the web from a mobile device only accounts for about 2% of all web usage.
  12. T/F? In many ways, search engines are like the ultimate disabled user.
  13. T/F? Search engines give higher rankings to web sites that have visually-pleasing graphic design.
  14. T/F? The TITLE attribute in an IMG tag describes the content of an image; this is useful for blind users and for search engines.
  15. T/F? While the W3C produces specifications for code, a different organization (the WCAG) produces guidelines  for accessibility.
  16. T/F? Providing text alternatives for non-text content is an accessibility  guideline to make your content “perceivable.”
  17. T/F? The principle commonly known as the “80/20 rule” is more formally called the “Fibonacci” principle.
  18. T/F? “Click here” is good link text because it clearly describes to users what they must do.
  19. T/F? Casting Words is a service that improves accessibility for deaf users.
  20. T/F? Search engines regularly ignore JavaScript.
  21. T/F? Paul mentions Best Buy as an example of a site that adapts well to users enlarging their text size.
  22. T/F? Paul mentions XStandard as a visual editor built with accessibility in mind.
  23. T/F? In 1969, Al Gore invented the internet.
  24. T/F? In 1978, Tim Berners-Lee released his “WorldWideWeb” sofware.
  25. T/F? In 1993, a version of Mosaic with installers for both Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows was released.
  26. T/F? During the “browser wars,” Microsoft and Netscape focused on implementing web standards.
  27. T/F? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), in its first few years, produced specifications for HTML 4.0, the format for PNG images, and CSS versions 1 and 2.
  28. T/F? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) enforces their specifications through expensive litigation.
  29. T/F? In 2000, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was the default web browser included with Mac OS.
  30. T/F? In 2003, Jeffrey Zeldman launched a web site called “CSS Nirvana” that played a large part in educating web professionals about the potential of web standards.

DUE Thursday, Feb 23 – 4 points
(Friday NOON deadline)