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What are web standards?
“The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call ‘web standards’, are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web. Designing and building with these standards simplifies and lowers the cost of production, while delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. Sites developed along these lines will continue to function correctly as traditional desktop browsers evolve, and as new Internet devices come to market.”
What are the benefits of using web standards
A site that has been built to web standards generally will be:
- Future-proof: beause new standards will always be built on existing ones so your site will still work fine when the standard is improved
- Extensible: users or later designers can extend its capabilities more easily
- Easier to maintain: becasue it works to an agreed “rule book”
- Compatible with newer browsers: which will always honour earlier standards, but might break non-standard websites
- Less bandwidth intense: because less HTML code will be needed
- Accessible: web standards are created to increase accessibility by all users.
How do you know if a site reaches the standard?
Any site can be checked using the Word Wide Web Consortium’s Validation Service.
Simply enter the address of any site to see if it gets the green or the red light. If you see an icon similar to this one on a site, it means the page has passed the validation test. Clicking the logo should carry out an automatic validation.
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