Web Standards

Web standards are like the building regulations of the Internet. The W3C is dedicated to defining and promoting Web standards, although in recent years the group has received criticism.

In theory, all parties participating in making information available on the Internet are supposed to adhere to Web standards, ensuring that tools, code, and information are all compatible. In reality, Web standards are still struggling to gain full acceptance although progress is being made.

Some browser manufacturers are notorious for only following standards partially, while some Web developers have opted to ignore standards and write non-compliant code. This lack of full support hampers the standards movement and, especially in the case of mixed support by browser makers, imposes unfortunate limits on the benefits achieved by adhering strictly to standards.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Web Standards”

• Manu Sporny recommends me on LinkedIn

  
  Mabblog — Authority: 100
  I hope you will forgive me for immodesty repeating Manu Sporny’s kind and fulsome recommendation of me, from my LinkedIn profile , for the benefit of those of you who don’t have accounts there: I had worked with Andy in the Microformats community, developing international standards for the Web. During this time ...
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• Apple documents iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for developers

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Safari on iPhone gets competition from a $1 browser app

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 146
  By Paul Hartsock, MacNewsWorld If you search for “browser” in the App Store, you’ll get dozens of applications, each purporting to be an alternative to the iPhone and iPod touch’s built-in Safari browser. In a sense, they are alternatives, since they look different and might have a few unique features. But ...
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• Blue beanie up your avatar in support of web standards

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 442
  Next Monday, 30 November, is International Blue Beanie Day , a day for web professionals to show their support for web standards. If you’d rather not wear a blue beanie – and this isn’t exactly beanie weather we’re having here – you could always consider adding an illustrated blue beanie to your ...
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• Blue Beanie Day 2009: Support Web Standards

  
  oz: the blog of glenda sims ( the goodwitch) — Authority: 388
  Do you remember when you first became a web standards believer? (or do you want to know why web standards are important ?) Whether it was last week, last year or last decade, it forever changes the way you create for the web. But, when was the last time you helped someone else understand the value of web standards? ...
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• Reviewers Needed

  
  Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report — Authority: 585
  G reetings book lovers and standardistas everywhere. Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition needs your help! Amazon.com is the primary source of Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition . It’s a great website, as we all know. But the reviews on Amazon’s website are hopelessly out of date. They date mostly ...
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• Wrap Up: Standards-Next NYC

  
  Chris Casciano's Place Name Here — Authority: 405
  On Friday Nov. 20th, ending a wall to wall week of conferences and general geeking out about web technologies I had the pleasure of both attending and speaking at Standards-Next at the Time-Life building in Manhattan. Industry big shots Håkon Wium Lie [inventor of CSS ! OMG !], Molly Holzschlag, Andy Budd and ...
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• O’Reilly and Microsoft Abandon Web Standards, ‘Open’ Web Foundation (OWF) Wants Them Redefined

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 161
  As HTML5 is approaching, vendors continue in their attempts to gain ownership and exclusivity over content using formats and protocols
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• Honeypots, Trenches and Spambot Protection

  
  stevenclark.com.au — Authority: 421
  It always seems that the spammers hammer loudest when my personal pressure threshold is getting pummeled by a project deadline or in an examination study period. And its time consuming to be out there beating at those sluggish bastards with a wide HTML / PHP / CSS broom. Its simply not enough to have strong form ...
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• Gestalt Grows Up

  
  Articles, Opinions & Lab - MIX Online — Authority: 116
  Last week, we discussed the fact that Microsoft invests heavily in both HTML5 and Silverlight, two technologies that other companies would have you believe are mortally opposed.  Our commitment to both was underscored this week by our announcements about IE9 and Silverlight 4 . When we launched Gestalt beta ...
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• IE9 - Perhaps Not So Much

  
  IT Professionals — Authority: 484
  Performance, interoperability and standards . Surely, there can be some common ground to be had here? Apparently, as stated by the powers behind the browser offered for Windows users by default, it’s just too much to expect. It’s “complicated” to be cutting edge and keep things in sync with web standards. ...
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• JavaScript, graphics performance improvements on tap for IE9

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Haz knowledge of one, not the other

  
  Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto — Authority: 121
  Michael Surtees and his claimed “knowledge” of “webz and fontz.” (Also! His paranoia.)
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• FontShop Fonts on the Web

  
  Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report — Authority: 585
  F ontShop announces that they are ready to deliver their font library as web type: [S]tarting today, Typekit users can pick from dozens of FontFonts, including FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Netto. Plus, the Typekit service lets you test any of those FontFonts on your page before you publish. And tomorrow? Typekit is ...
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• Microsoft gives first look at Internet Explorer 9

  
  Icrontic — Authority: 440
  Microsoft revealed today during their 2009 Professional Developers Conference that the firm has begun work on Internet Explorer 9.
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• Microsoft gives first look at Internet Explorer 9

  
  Icrontic — Authority: 440
  Microsoft revealed today during their 2009 Professional Developers Conference that the firm has begun work on Internet Explorer 9.
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• Internet Explorer 9 details unveiled

  
  VISTA.BLORGE — Authority: 494
  Microsoft has revealed details of the next incarnation of its browser, just three weeks into its development process. The key promises include making Internet Explorer 9 as fast as rival browsers, and allowing hardware to do more of the work with web graphics. Steven Sinofsky, [...]Related posts: Internet Explorer ...
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• Yet another reason your site doesn’t need comments

  
  Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto — Authority: 121
  Because DesignNotes.info has them. (Isn’t the type on your Web page like Trajan’s Column?)
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• Web Type: Lupton on Zeldman

  
  Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report — Authority: 585
  T oday in Print , Ellen Lupton interviews Jeffrey Zeldman (that’s me) on web typography, web standards, and more. Part one of a two-part interview. Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland ...
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• Why browsers treat HTML5 elements as inline

  
  Bruce Lawson's personal site — Authority: 407
  Occasionally someone pipes up on the twitter #html5 hashtag asking why the nav element has a height and width of zero, or why browser X refuses to render a section properly. The reason is that the browsers are conforming to the CSS spec which says Note that although the initial value of ‘display’ is ...
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