Web Standards
Web standards make web development easier.
Web standards are established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Why Web Standards?
For browser developers and web application developers, adhering to specified standards when developing new applications is more conducive to the healthy development of the web.
Developers create web pages according to web standards, which simplifies the process for them as they can easily understand each other's coding.
Using web standards ensures that all browsers will correctly display your website without the need for time-consuming rewrites.
Adhering to web standards allows search engines to more easily index your web pages, facilitates conversion to other formats, and makes the code (such as JavaScript and DOM) more accessible.
Tip: You can use a web validator to check the standard compliance of your pages.
Accessibility
Accessibility is a crucial part of HTML standards.
Web standards make it easier for people with disabilities to use the web.
These standards enable people with disabilities to easily access the internet. Blind individuals can use programs to read web pages aloud, and those with low vision can rearrange and magnify web pages to access websites.
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
W3C creates and maintains web standards.
Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web Consortium, is known as the father of the internet:
"The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information."
Founded in 1994, the World Wide Web Consortium is an international community whose mission is to "lead the web to its full potential."
- W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium
- W3C was created in October 1994
- W3C was founded by the inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee
- W3C is organized as a member institution
- W3C's work involves standardizing the web
- W3C creates and maintains WWW standards
- W3C standards are known as W3C Recommendations
The most important W3C standards include:
ECMA - European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECMA was established in Brussels in 1960 by some of Europe's largest computer and technology companies. By May 1961, they had formed a formal organization with the goal of evaluating, developing, and approving telecommunications and computer standards.
It was decided to locate ECMA's headquarters in Geneva to keep it close to other standard-setting organizations, such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
The latest ECMAScript specification is ECMA-262:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm