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Comment by eranation | Hacker News Reader

Liked the favicon part, very often forgotten...

Would be nice if this was open sourced so more items could have been added by the community (also framework specific checklists) but I like the concept

One thing I would add which is driving me crazy on mobile / tablet sign up pages

  - make sure your email fields are annotated with type="email"

Another common issue is with SSL mixed content waring, so I would also add

  - make sure to use protocol relative / https only URLs

(with a reminder to NOT use protocol relative URLs in email templates, your outlook users will appreciate it)

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> Would be nice if this was open sourced so more items could have been added by the community

https://github.com/ligershark/webdevchecklist.com

It is open source, but I can't seem to find a license on that page, so it may not be free software. I would be reluctant to modify and redistribute copies of it.

An Apache 2.0 license has just been added

favicon is only forgotten by those that never check their logs.

(Which should be part of the checklist, check your friggin' logs instead of assuming you never miss anything.)

Protocol relative URLs for stylesheets unfortunately cause a double download (one for both HTTP and HTTPS) in IE 8 and below, which is a damn shame. Paul Irish has a lot of info on this here: http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/

> Would be nice if this was open sourced so more items could have been added by the community (also framework specific checklists) but I like the concept

Just to share, since you mention framework specific, a similar concept exists since a while ago for the PHP symfony (version 1) framework (not official, but I quite liked it back then)

http://symfony-check.org/

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