Let me explain, this isn’t something I created, just merely something I came across, that I think is really good and thought everyone should have the opportunity to know about it.
B.R.A.T. is a concept created by Marco Battilana at Accessites.org.
It’s brilliantly simple.
To stop content editors creating poorly formatted content, i.e. inline styles, use of font tag etc …
Insert a short piece of CSS into the top of your global stylesheet.
If anybody tries to use a deprecated element or something you don’t agree with, it’ll be big, red and angry. For all to see.
And that’s it. Simple.
Try it yourself!
Marco - June 8, 2009
Good morning Jonny.
Thank you for the mention. I’m truly amazed that this still gets the attention that it does!
I’m a firm believer in empowering the user to learn about standards-based design! Even if it is an “in-your-face” technique ;)
And, nice site design, if I may say so :)
Regards,
Marco