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Today google announced its preferred web style guide. Google did not announced it as its "preferred" styling guide, but I add this adjective to cue you that this guide is not an official guide, as supposed to standards issued by the world wide web consortium.

It is interesting to read the guidelines, particularly for web designers, because these cover front end visible element styling as well as the way in which the designer or front end developer write up the code. 

I imagine google is motivated by wits need to process web pages with more ease; after all, they process billions of billions of web pages.

All of their suggestions make sense, like avoid using capital letters inside element tags. But there is suggestion that troubled me:

"Don’t use tabs or mix tabs and spaces for indentation."

My left pinky is accustomed to using the tab key to indent code, and in fact, I read clearly indented code with more ease. This made me think of what many anthropologist argued was the primary reason why mathematics did not catch on during the Roman Empire era, roman numerals are clumsy and inneficient.

All and all, this is an informative an brief guide. I suggest reading or at least skimming through it: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/htmlcssguide.xml

Yup I read it when they have announced it through the blog. As per current technology, it would become very difficult to follow all the the rules described for HTML and CSS and Javascript document. Most of the time, web designer used to have automatic tools which generate code automatically and no one usually codes manually. With web development, integration of CMS is major trends which again generates the back hand coding automatically which is difficult to modify without core knowledge. So it would not necessarily to follow all the rules. Make the one which is possible without having deep technical knowledge.

You are right, I had not thought about the fact that we use tools that exeute most of the code for us. Which means that there will be a lag between when the software of platform (CMS) we use will implement, in case that the developers choose, to implement the rules.