Web Standard Project

[burqe 0]

Hello every one,It is always said that our websites should comply with w3c standard and should be xhtml/css compatible but the browsers usually don't suppport the standardized thing effectively and you usually have to go against standards to get things done. Don't know why w3c don't ask these people.RegardsHaris

[seec77 0]

This is actually a question I ask myself often, so I'm really glad you opened it up to public discussion.

 

The internet has undeniably established communication between the whole world. Since the dawn of the net, distance has become something almost negligible, because we can pass information from anywhere to anywhere else at a great speed and at almost no trouble! It is truly hard to describe the magnitude of this global network, but I think everyone who browses these forums has experienced the digital link tying the whole world closer together.

I think that the main problem with the internet today is that everything happens so fast, and no one has a chance to prepare themselves! At the beginning, HTML was only used to display information. Very soon the need for proper presentation arose, and the designers of HTML implemented the font and color tags, among some other now-deprecated means of styling text (can anyone say "blink"?). This change happened so fast that no one had time to prepare himself for the devastating effects these changes would have on the web. Now everyone could create flashing and horribly-colored web pages, and the net was adorned with blinking text and badly-written HTML.

Then came the time of enlightened CSS designers, and the ugly HTML formatting tags were a thing of the past... in theory. "Bad" web pages are still everywhere, and they are halting the growth of the web. How is it that I, a Firefox user, cannot access a web site just because its developers only bothered to check their creation on Microsoft's proprietary Internet Explorer? This is blasphemy to the gods of the digital age, where everything is supposed to be accessible to anyone.

 

So yes, only a few numerous browsers support the acid test (but most of the other browsers, except IE, are on the right path), but most of them have pretty great support of most of (X)HTML's and CSS's features. Only if you want to create abnormally complex web pages you need to resort to using invalid code. (Unless of course we're talking about IE... but there many many hacks for that!)

I think validity from web pages is rightfully demanded, as the internet should be something that can work on any browser, and operating system and any computer in the world!

[jtmcpherson 0]

it's all about trends you will find that in year 2000 flash was the coolest thing ever and everyone wanted flash webpages and now well not so much.

[NeoTeemo 0]

Don't know why w3c don't ask these people.

The answer to this question itself is simple: W3C develops technologies and guidelines, but it does *not* enforce them. When the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) publishes something new, it calls it a W3C Recommendation, refraining from using the word standard.

 

The Web is mostly an uncontrolled medium. And since the W3C has no real authority, no one really has to implement their recommendations. For example, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are both notorious for their non-compliance to those recommendations, while other browsers, such as Mozilla FireFox and Opera, flaunt their W3C-compliance as one of their main features.

 

The W3C Website boasts the following mission statement:

 

To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

As such, their mission stops at *development.* It's up to the conscious users to announce their inclination toward standard-compliant software, and to virtually coerce the software industry's into sticking to it. Let's face it... we - the users - are the ones who suffer from the chaos resulting from software's non-compliance to standards; hence, it's up to us to do something about it.

 

At the end of the day, any company can't go against the wishes of its clients for too long. If enough of us make our opinion known, repeatedly, there's no doubt in my mind that we can impact dramatic difference on the Web.