Introduction

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This book is designed to give you ammunition—ammunition to bring web standards solutions to your own projects and the ability to make better choices with markup and style. Throughout each chapter, we'll be comparing common web design methods, trying to answer why one way may be better than the other. By examining that comparison, we'll be able to apply the best tool for the job in our own projects.

But first, let's make sure we're all on the same page—this book is filled with acronyms, blocks of code, and concepts that might be foreign. First, let's talk about web standards.

What are Web Standards?

Quoting the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org/Consortium/):

"The World Wide Web Consortium was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. W3C has around 400 member organizations from all over the world and has earned international recognition for its contributions to the growth of the Web."

Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the W3C is responsible for the web standards specifications that make up the Web today. We'll be concerning ourselves primarily with two of the standards: eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML), which features the semantics of HTML 4.01 with the syntax of XML; and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), used for styling web pages.



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Web Standards Solutions. The Markup and Style Handbook
Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)
ISBN: 1590593812
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 119
Authors: Dan Cederholm

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