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IDEA No 35

WEB STANDARDS

Web standards are the technical specifications recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Their purpose is to increase the accessibility, usability and interoperability of the Web.

An Event Apart is a conference that promotes standards-based web design.

A website complying with web standards uses accessible HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Full compliance also covers such attributes as character sets, RSS feeds, metadata, XML and the embedding of objects and scripts.

Since 2004, to comply fully with web standards, HTML should also follow semantic guidelines. This means complying with the W3C Resource ...

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