Adapting to Web Standards, CSS and Ajax for Big Sites : PDF BooK

ADAPTING TO WEB STANDARDS

by
Christopher Schmitt,
Kimberly Blessing
Rob Cherny
Meryl K. Evans
Kevin Lawver
 and 
Mark Trammell

What Are Web Standards?
Web standards is a term used to mean Web pages built using the open and compatible
recommendations from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and
other standards bodies as opposed to closed, proprietary, corporate feature sets.
These recommendations, combined with modern best practices, exploit the standardized
power of the modern Web browsers that dominate the market today,
as opposed to out-of-date browsers that were feature-rich but inconsistent and
often incompatible. Placing a graphic that reads “This site designed for Netscape
Navigator” on the main page of a Web site should be a thing of the past.
Web standards fail gracefully when encountered by out-of-date browsers. The
standards are also intended to provide greater benefit for accessibility and for
other types of media. These techniques are built with intentional side effects that
can benefit users, the company, and the team responsible for creating the sites.
Whole books have been written on the subject.
 
Basic Benefi ts of Web Standards
Sites built with Web standards have many benefits, right out of the box, virtually
without robust technique or experience. These include

❖ Style and script reuse and consistency
❖ Reduced bandwidth use and caching of style and script files
❖ Faster rendering of pages
❖ Cleaner, easier-to-maintain code
❖ Easier to make accessible for assistive technologies
❖ Easier to make search engine-optimized
❖ Increased compatibility between browser vendors
❖ Improved chances of document legibility for the next generation of browsers
❖ Increased readership for your site!

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