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Very cool. I'm giving it a quick go whilst doing yet another patchathon on customer systems. First impressions are that it is very quick and gives some great

Very cool. I'm giving it a quick go whilst doing yet another patchathon on customer systems. First impressions are that it is very quick and gives some great advice. I'm not really a web. dev. but I even I can see how this can make a good audit tool. Looks great as well. I suggest caution against using the term "best practice" though. It's one of my pet hates - there is good practice and there is bad practice but its a brave person who claims to know best practice. I think my hatred of that term stems from seeing it plastered all over older MS docs and the usual crop of "me too" copy n paste blog postings that litter the web, not to mention various forum postings. We're all bloody experts who know best in this game 8)

keithnz 9y ago
I agree, it runs nicely, and is nicely presented. The term best practice does irk me. But weirdly enough I think the use of that term is why I decided to give it a go.
- acct1771 9y ago
  Love-hate relationship with marketing is probably pretty common in this crowd!
seanwilson 9y ago
> First impressions are that it is very quick and gives some great advice. I'm not really a web. dev. but I even I can see how this can make a good audit tool. Looks great as well. Awesome, thanks for trying it! > I suggest caution against using the term "best practice" though. It's one of my pet hates - there is good practice and there is bad practice but its a brave person who claims to know best practice. Yes, I'll admit I don't love the phrase myself. I don't like when someone is pushing what's really just their opinion as the one and only way to do things but the phrase does get the point across when you've got a character limit. I've been really careful with the rules in Checkbot so far and the guide (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/ https://www.checkbot.io/guide/) has links to where web experts like Google, Mozilla, OWASP and W3C recommend each practice. For example, making sure every page has a title, HTTPS is enabled and compression is used is difficult to argue against. Let me know if you think any of the rules need some changes however.

keithnz 9y ago

I agree, it runs nicely, and is nicely presented. The term best practice does irk me. But weirdly enough I think the use of that term is why I decided to give it a go.

acct1771 9y ago
Love-hate relationship with marketing is probably pretty common in this crowd!

seanwilson 9y ago

> First impressions are that it is very quick and gives some great advice. I'm not really a web. dev. but I even I can see how this can make a good audit tool. Looks great as well. Awesome, thanks for trying it! > I suggest caution against using the term "best practice" though. It's one of my pet hates - there is good practice and there is bad practice but its a brave person who claims to know best practice. Yes, I'll admit I don't love the phrase myself. I don't like when someone is pushing what's really just their opinion as the one and only way to do things but the phrase does get the point across when you've got a character limit. I've been really careful with the rules in Checkbot so far and the guide (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/ https://www.checkbot.io/guide/) has links to where web experts like Google, Mozilla, OWASP and W3C recommend each practice. For example, making sure every page has a title, HTTPS is enabled and compression is used is difficult to argue against. Let me know if you think any of the rules need some changes however.