Google HTML, CSS and javascript styleguides ?

[esiow2013]

Who's following the Google style guides especially in HTML, CSS and javascript? What are the benefits of following the style guides? I am thinking of sending the style guides to our web development team before we launch our new site but I think there might be some conflicts. I'm an SEO and not programmer or web developer and I'm sure there are some "rules" that these web dev guys should follow and break as well.

Thanks in advance!

[ProfessorBlak]

Hello,

So far its just cleaning up the code using best practices. Usually means more work for programmers and designers if they haven't been keeping up with it. A lot of programmers like to write their code a certain way usually because they have been doing it for a while. If they get no errors from validators or if everything works, they see no reason to change how they write it!

For example, I use the
tag for a line break, where the styleguide recommends
. Both achieve the same result however, I feel comfortable knowing my tags are closed />.

Same with the tag. I've gotten used to using it. So not using feels odd and like somethings missing.

[zeepartner]

Hi
It's always difficult to give styleguides to developers if you're not one yourself... As ProfessorBlak mentioned, this stylguide is not always optimal. Personally, I think trying to achieve W3C Validity is a better standard. But even here, it's not always possible, so might have to cut your developers some slack...
As a guideline, I think this stylguide makes sense. Developers should at least be able to give a good explanation if they do not produce code that validates and/or does not follow the styleguide.