Lean and clean! Building a site with web standards
1. What are web standards?
"Web standards are intended to be a common base... a foundation for the world wide web so that browsers and other software understand the same basic vocabulary". Eric Meyer
Who sets the webstandards?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other standards bodies have established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These 'web standards' are carefully designed to:
- deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users
- ensure the long-term viability of any web document
- simplify code and lower the cost of production
- deliver sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices
- continue to function correctly as traditional desktop browsers evolve, and as new Internet devices come to market