What Are Web Standards?
Designing with web standards is a general term used to mean that you use the following technologies, and that you use them correctly:
- HTML or XHTML to contain the content,
- CSS to hold all the styling,
- JavaScript and the Document Object Model (DOM) to take care of any scripting.
These three are sometimes referred to as the “Holy Trinity“.
In the bad old days during the Browser Wars, HTML was used incorrectly.
Objects like tables are supposed to be used for tabular data but instead they were (ab)used to contain background images and other components just to artificially create a layout. Style information was mashed up with the content making the code ugly, bloated and inefficient.
The web standards project seeks to:
- persuade browser makers to support the standards, as they were intended and
- persuade web professionals to use them that way.
Mm, that sounds nice, but why should I care?
Well take a look at this article for starts, it talks about saving money with this stuff:
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