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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• Useful links: Color Contrast Checker, Zeldman interview, retweet

  
  Web Teacher — Authority: 418
  The WebAIM Color Contrast Checker is a great tool. Using it should be listed as a must do early in the planning and design of any web site. Within seconds you know if your color choices will pass or fail color contrast accessibility standards. Peachpit’s Author Interview program with Jeffrey Zeldman about the ...
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• When should we teach microformats?

  
  Web Teacher — Authority: 418
  Since I read Microformats Made Simple I keep toying with this question: when should we teach microformats? Odd that I didn’t think about this when I read Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 or when I recommended a couple of articles by John Allsopp in this post . My only excuse is that I was ...
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• PWDO’s 5th Mini-Web Design Conference

  
  Standard Web Standards — Authority: 113
  It’s Mini-Web Design Conference season once again!The Philippine Web Designers Organization (PWDO) will be having its fifth Mini-Web Design Conference, the first after the major Form Function & Class web design conference. The event will be held at the De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) in Manila ...
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• Now BudgetPulse Can Help You Control Your Personal Finance On The …

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 153
  Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers. Read more:  Now BudgetPulse Can Help You Control Your Personal Finance On The …
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• HTML5 vs. Silverlight: Which Will Win?

  
  Articles, Opinions & Lab - MIX Online — Authority: 414
  Every now and then, someone asks me, "Which technology will win: HTML5 or Silverlight?" , or "What is Silverlights strategy to compete with HTML5?" . I always have to take a deep breath before responding, because these questions presuppose something that doesnt make any sense to me. Its like asking a tool store ...
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• Dear Amazon – Stop Being So Stupid

  
  MAS o Menos — Authority: 125
  As a customer, I love Amazon. As an Associate that makes small referrals from reviews, I am sometimes amazed how stupid they can be at basic web stuff . Back in August I released a new version of my Amazon Image Link Builder , because they are incapable of writing tools that generate valid XHTML code. From the ...
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• This is not a review of Microformats Made Simple

  
  Web Teacher — Authority: 418
  I’m not going to review Microformats Made Simple here because the author is a friend, I’m mentioned in a few places in the book, and I could not write an unbiased review. Add to that the fact that I think the author is awesomeness electrified, one of the women in tech to keep an eye on, a brilliant front end ...
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• Testing Adobe AIR applications with QUnit

  
  Jay by Jay Fresh — Authority: 91
  I’d like to say I always write tests before I write any JavaScript code… Those times when I do write tests, I use the QUnit framework, which is used to test jQuery , so pretty well-tested itself. I’ve recently been putting together an Adobe AIR application using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (aka Web Standards ...
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• A sexy new name for the Open Web Stack?

  
  Bruce Lawson's personal site — Authority: 98
  “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” said Juliet of Romeo. Ultimately, in the heady world of Shakespearian romance, names do matter; if you’re name is Montague, you can’t marry someone called Capulet. And certainly names matter in the more prosaic (but ...
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• What do you know about web standards with your DotNetNuke site?

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 464
  What do you know about web standards with your DotNetNuke site?First of all, you should go to this site to read about the ten reasons you should learn and use web standards.  Next, you should travel to DNNCreative website to read an article by Stuart Colville entitled Become a better Standardista. Finally, you should ...
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• New accessibility overview on the W3C website

  
  456 Berea Street — Authority: 517
  The new W3C website has a new and very good summary of the why, what, and how of Web accessibility. Read full post Posted in Accessibility , Web Standards .
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• This We Know

  
  Simple Complexity — Authority: 546
  Have you ever wondered where the lowest or highest unemployment is, where cancer rates are the highest, or specific statistical information collected about your community? I came across an interesting web site today: This We Know . Our mission is to present the information the U.S. government collects about ...
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• House Party

  
  Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report — Authority: 591
  R eal fonts on the web: House Industries supports WOFF format . …a font format for the Web that satisfies the needs and concerns of browser makers, web designers, and type foundries. …WOFF, offers compression to speed page load times, freedom from thorny legacy issues and inclusiveness (font outlines can be ...
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• another top 20 website supports Theora

  
  Christopher Blizzard — Authority: 409
  Earlier this week, Automattic , the company behind wordpress.com and WordPress (the software this weblog runs on) announced that they would be supporting Theora along with MPEG-4 as part of their VideoPress platform. It’s important to realize that wordpress.com is the second top 20 website in the US to add ...
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• XKCD says goodbye Geocities, hello ’90s web design

  
  Wisdump — Authority: 114
  To commemorate the closing of internet dinosaur and free web hosting service Geocities today, October 26, geeky web comic XKCD “redesigned” its site to match the horrible aesthetic (or lack thereof) rampant during the ’90s. Low-fi images (including the requisite “under construction” sign), web-safe ...
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• Toque o’ the Morning

  
  Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report — Authority: 591
  Monday, November 30th, 2009 marks the third annual International Blue Beanie Day in Support of Web Standards. Don a blue toque to show your support for web standards, grab a photo of yourself sporting said headgear, and upload it to the Blue Beanie Day 2009 photo pool on Flickr. Got an illustrated Twitter/Flickr ...
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• Talking with the taxman about thin spaces

  
  Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto — Authority: 121
  Guess what: Firefox nerds can’t figure out why anybody would want to use a thin space
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• “Call ‘em out” The Indiana state website is using Microsoft crap and screwing over standards-compliant browsers

  
  Ryan's Blog — Authority: 103
  As many of you know, I begrudgingly use Windows: That doesn’t mean that I love it, and I certainly hate Microsoft Internet Explorer. Seems that some sites still don’t get that IE is a turd and that it’s not what their visitors wish to use. Well, I had to print out a license I hold from the Indiana State ...
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• HTML 5 versus Flash

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 166
  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is in the process of developing HTML 5, an open standard that could eliminate the need for browser plugins such as Adobe’s Flash video player. HTML 4.01, the current version of HTML that we use to create web pages and incorporate technologies such as CSS and JavaScript, has been ...
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• HTML 5 versus Flash

  
  Royal Pingdom — Authority: 612
  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is in the process of developing HTML 5, an open standard that could eliminate the need for browser plugins such as Adobe’s Flash video player. The current standard: HTML 4.01 HTML 4.01, the current version of HTML that we use to create web pages and incorporate technologies ...
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