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Web Standards

Rakesh Ranjan

FMG 191106

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Topics at a Glance

What Web Standards are all about.

Advantages of employing them.

About W3C and groups like WaSP.

rowser Wars.

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What are web standards ?

formal standards and other technical specifications that

define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web.

endorsing a set ofstandardized best practices for building

web sites.

Way to tackle browser discrepancies interoperability,

accessibility and usability of web pages and web sites

Way to handle complexity.

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The Browser Wars

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WAR for dominance !

Microsofts Internet Explorer and Netscapes Navigator battled fordominance of the browser market.

Microsoft and Netscape innovated along paths that reflected theirbusiness goals.

In the process, though, Web site developers and even Web surfers paid

a price.

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Developers and Web Surfers paid the price

Internet Explorer and Navigator had formats that differ in some key ways.

Therefore, to develop a Web site that could work with both browsers, adesigner had to create either

Two sets of sites, which costs additional time & money.

OR

One site that satisfies the elements that both browsers have in common,

which limits the capability of the site to take full advantage of eachbrowsers strengths.

This, in turn, limited HTML usage to a small subset of the capabilities thatwould be possible if there was no standards conflict.

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Developers and Web Surfers paid the price

Oren Etzioni :Professor of Computer Science

University of Washington.

The fine-tuning [of Web pages] required for each browser istime- consuming. More effort is being directed toward Web

customization than innovation.

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Tasty Bytes !

Latest build from Web-Kit , a browser

rendering engine has support for 3d

animations using pure XHTML and CSS.

Google Chrome and Apple Safari are the two

browsers running on this engine.

But again this feature is not cross-browser

compatible and browsers like Firefox, Flock

and IE wont support this.

So, in spite of being cool. NOT USABLE !

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THE WEB STANDARDS PROJECT

To discourage the browser discrepancies, agroup of developers formed the Web

Standards Project

(http://www.webstandards.org)

to lobby industry officials to support theorganizations demand that all browsers

comply with W3C standards.

They call it WaSP. Its easy to spell this wayand the logo..NO.ITS NOT an ACRONYM.

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What is WaSP !

Nate Zelnick :

Member

Web Standards Projects steering committee.

Its a group of designersthat are mad as hell, and

they arent going to takeit any more. The browser

wars are costing them

money.

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Browser Wars Whos the winner!

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W3C

What is W3C ?

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

is an international industry consortium

dedicated to "leading the Web to its full

potential".

It's led by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web.

Founded in 1994, the W3C has more than 330 member

organizations - including Microsoft, America Online (parent

company ofNetscape Communications), Apple Computer,Adobe, Macromedia, Sun Microsystems, and a variety of other

hardware and software manufacturers, content providers,

academic institutions, and telecommunications companies.

The Consortium is hosted by three universities - MIT in the US,

INRIA in Europe, and Keio University in Japan.

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Browser Wars Whos the winner!

And IE wins Hands down??

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Thank You !