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2009-02-02
The Dutch government provides a test to automatically test for 47 of the 125 guidelines. My site scores on 45 of these 47 guidelines.
Use CSS level 2.1 (only)
I do use some CSS level 3 and browser proprietary properties like -moz-border-radius and opacity. CSS language is defined to ignore any property that it cannot understand. Therefore, adding proprietary or future properties will not (actually MUST NOT) break anything.
I therefore disagree with this guideline. I will not fix it. Too bad the Dutch government imposes design constraints upon web site designers that work on government sites.
Use a meta element to specify a characterset.
The only use for this element is for editors. Browsers read the character set from the HTTP content type header. Loads of web developers falsely assume they can adjust the content type by fiddling with this meta element. This is not the case, often resulting in erroneous websites and the usual related question marks.
So I also disagree with this guideline, it would be wise to change it to requiring a content type http header
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