{"id":162,"date":"2006-04-06T08:07:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2006-04-06T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T13:13:31","slug":"naked-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/naked-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked Value"},"content":{"rendered":"

A question arose on the way to dinner last night. What was the value of “getting naked” yesterday by stripping off our CSS to celebrate Annual CSS Naked Day<\/a>?<\/p>\n

One of my friends said (perhaps jokingly), <\/p>\n

“So over 750 people had nothing better to do today than strip off their CSS. I don’t have time for these memes.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In response, I said,<\/p>\n

\nThis isn’t a meme. This is about Web Standards<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He quipped back,<\/p>\n

Yeah, but only the geeks that already know web standards would understand Annual CSS Naked Day.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And while this was a very casual conversation on the way to dinner between friends who often rib each other and push each other’s ideas inside out for exploration sake, the question kept running through my mind, and my heart says…CSS Naked Day is not<\/strong> just some silly ubergeek inside joke. I think it is an awesome way to extend the concept of CSS Zen Garden<\/a> to all of our sites (whether your site’s design is worthy of the Zen master or not). <\/p>\n

It is a delightful way of catching the world’s attention and saying, “Hey, professional web design has changed for good. There is extreme value in separating content from presentation. And semantic markup liberates your data!”<\/p>\n

I wonder how many people were inspired yesterday to improve their sites. Did it instigate a redesign, motivate improved semantic markup, shock some poor non-geek into the realization that the web has extremely valuable web standards, inspire a manager to ask his web developer to reveal their own site stripped of css…<\/p>\n

So, that is what I think. How ’bout you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A question arose on the way to dinner last night. What was the value of “getting naked” yesterday by stripping off our CSS to celebrate Annual CSS Naked Day<\/a>?<\/p>\n

One of my friends said (perhaps jokingly), <\/p>\n

“So over 750 people had nothing better to do today than strip off their CSS. I don’t have time for these memes.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}