It’s great to see the new whitehouse.gov web site embracing web standards. This is a trend I noticed with Obama. He hires the best people for the job and makes no exceptions when it comes to web design. His campaign web site was made with web standards, whereas the other top candidates sites looked pretty clunky behind the scenes. Web leadership starts at the top, and well, you can’t get much higher than the POTUS.
The new whitehouse.gov web site is validate xhtml. It takes advantage of jQuery for some smooth user-interface effects. It even has Atom 1.o feeds. I haven’t had a chance to look it over completely, but at first glance I am very impressed. Very nicely done, Mr. President.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2F
whitehouse.gov is way not xhml valid!
@kothaufen You’re a year too late. The site validated successfully for XHTML transitional the day it was released. Like most web sites, the people who build it and the people who maintain it are probably not on the same page as far as web standards and the site has suffered because of it. It definitely doesn’t validate any more.