3. History
vs.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The Web Standards Project
4. âHTML, XML, CSS and the DOM are more
than just a set of interesting technologies.
They are a way of creating Web pages that
will facilitate the twin goals of sophisticated
and appropriate presentation and
widespread accessibility. â
-WaSP mission statement of 1998
5. What weâll cover
What are web standards?
Apply Web Standards
⢠DOCTYPE
⢠Semantics
⢠Validation
⢠Presentation layer
⢠Behavior layer
⢠Recycling content
6. Why use Web standards
⢠Accessibility
⢠Stability
⢠Performance
Tools
⢠Opera Web Standards Curriculum
Resources
⢠WaSP
⢠W3C
Q&A
17. CSS: presentation layer
⢠Old (incorrect) model:
HTML to describe content and
presentation
⢠Web standards:
(X)HTML to describe content
CSS to describe presentation