HOMEWORK: Web Standards.

I was able to find two different answers for web standards. First was The web standards project and the second was the Web Standards Checklist. So i have decided to critque the web standards checklist because i feel it is more suited to this course.

The Web Standards Project

Web standards are standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web.

Web standards are set by the Web Standards Project, they work with browser companies, authoring marker tools, and their peers to deliver the true power of standards to this medium.

Web standards are very important, they ensure that a website is clean, user friendly and sticks to the technologies that are available to everyone.

Some of the advantages of web standards are accessibility, accessibility is a large idea behind web standards. Web standards ensures that your site is easily accessed by anyone. Also stability is an important idea behind web standards, because Most web standards are generally designed with forward- and backward-compatibility in mind — so that data using old versions of the standards will continue to work in new browsers, and data using new versions of the standards will “gracefully degrade” to produce an acceptable result in older browsers.

Some of the disadvantages are that is takes more time of developers to code to comply with these standards, they must ensure that their site can work in several browsers and even sometimes do doulbe/multiple coding.

The current standards are

W3C Standards

- HyperText Markup Language

-Extensible Markup Language

-XHTML 1.0, 1.1, and Modularization

-CSS – Cascading Style Sheets

-DOM 1 – Document Object Model Level

ECMA Standards

-ECMAScript (standardized JavaScript)

The best way for you to ensure that your design meets the standards is to go through a web standards check list and see that you have complied with all the standards listed for a website.