PART 1

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Web Standards

In this part of the book, you learn the theory and fundamental concepts of web standards, along with the standardization bodies that develop standards and the most influential web sites that announce, promote, and distribute them. After understanding the importance of web standards, you can differentiate technical specifications under development from de facto and de jure web standards.

One of the very first steps in developing sites in languages other than English or creating multilingual sites is to select and declare the right character encoding. In these chapters you become familiar with the most powerful character encoding ...

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