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Sometimes you need a guide. Today, the Web Standards Sherpa is launching. The site brings together web experts across the community and invites web developers and designers to "receive feedback, glean advice and learn best practices from experts in the field to help them improve the quality of their own work.”
Sherpa will explore interesting topics by using real sites and code as examples. Some of the initial entries include “Improving the tweet box on Twitter” and “Better ways to sell snow melters.”
Sherpa was created by the Web Standards Project and is supported by Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, W3C and several other companies. We hope this becomes a great resource in their pursuit for best practices in standards and web design. Don’t forget to feed Shirley, the mountain goat, when you visit.
IE 9 has a ton of small imperfections on pages I see in it. Twitter doesn't have a rounded search box, no dropshadow beside the sidebar and stuff like that. It's very annoying.
Funny though, sherpa renders perfect in IE 9 but hardly at all in Chrome.
@James Manes: The search box is Twitter's fault, not IE's. They use vendor-prefixed -webkit-border-radius and -moz-border-radius, instead of the standard border-radius. Hopefully they'll update soon.
@James
Re: Chrome and Sherpa rendering issues. The goal of the site (focusing on interop) is obviously to work across browsers. It just shows the challenges that developers are facing today with differences in implementations.
We'll reach out to them to have a look at it. You could always submit through Shirley it as a case study for an upcoming Sherpa blog :)