Dustin Diaz came up with the idea of disabling the stylesheets on our websites on April 5th and called it the CSS Naked Day. At first this might sound like a silly idea; the only thing you will see is white background with black text in Times New Roman along with possible images, which might scare visitors away.
But, if you think about it, is there any better way to propose web standards by disabling your stylesheet? If you only have the option of displaying your markup, it all comes down to accessibility and usability. No more hiding bad code from bad browsers, no more dirty hacks whatsoever, just plain simple (X)HTML. Sure, CSS has the benefits of better styling possibilities for your website, but after all, the disjunction from the data and the formattings is what web standards are all about.
I’ll participate on the first annual CSS Naked Day, because I truly believe that this can have an impact on many people. Not because they might be afraid of the formattings, instead they will see that websites are still usable and see the benefits in it. I hope that other bloggers which I frequently read (I won’t name them here) will participate as well. See you all on April 5th!
