Web Standards are a method of professional, conscientious web programming and development design. Web Standard adherence ensures browser compatibility, extensibility, quality, and more. W3C advocates the highest levels of workmanship, accountability, and quality.

It is backed by giant technical and global corporations who are official W3C Committee Members.

The W3C is under the direction of Internet Inventor Tim Berners Lee. “a site built to web standards should ideally be lean, clean, CSS-based, 508 accessible, usable and search engine friendly.”

The W3C, World Wide Web Consortium, established in 1994, is the Internet's Web Standards Authoritative Organization that advocates Web Standard valid markup and protocol across web based applications, services, platforms, web developers, software companies, browsers, technologies, corporations, and more.

Click the following link for access to detailed W3C Web Standard section located at the bottom of this page.

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Purpose: The W3C's intended role is promotion and oversight of uniform best practice standards for web publishing. This entails advocating , organizing, researching, and ultimately formalizing the plethora of protocols, methods, servers, programs, coding languages, software, hardware, media, connectivity, data, applications, platforms, mediums, and other means of building and using the Internet.

Membership: Representative Membership in the W3C can be cost prohibitive for individuals, small freelance design companies, and start-ups in need of seed money. In some cases, work experts may receive "invitations" to join for special projects and where their expertise may be useful and under-represented by core members. Access to the findings and "recommendations" derived from the W3C's work is made public at no cost. Access to specific communication logs related to routine dialog leading to decisions by consensus is reserved for members only.

Global Support: W3C boasts a list of conglomerate deep-pocketed and powerful names that read like a who's who list in Fortune Magazine. The current W3C membership list is populated with International Corporate names such as Hewlett Packard, IBM Corporation, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, Samsung, Stanford University,Yale, LG Electronics, Boeing, Nokia, Mozilla, Opera, Yahoo, Apple, Adobe, Sun MicroSystems, PayPal, Microsoft, Google... the list doesn't end with the names of powerful Technology Brands & International influence .

Pharmaceutical giants Merck & Co., Pfizer Inc., are just a few heavy hitters adding clout to W3C's exclusive membership roster ...financial powerhouse Dow Jones is a member. Web Developers and Design firms resistant to W3C compliance are up against the stealth of a powerful organization. Web Standards are the vested interested of global leaders . Acceptance and respect for the value of web Standard Compliance really is the softer, easier path...not to mention the professional and sound business choice. Good sense will save cents, when it comes to web development planning and implementation.

W3C Host Sponsors: The W3C is named after the three words that begin with the letter "W"; World Wide Web, the trailing letter "C" is acronymous for the title word "Consortium". W3C just happens to be host sponsored by three of the most prestigious Higher Learning Institutes in the world;

• MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• The French National Research Institute
• Keio University of Japan

Filling the role of conservator of the web and what is published online is a complex role. The next section provides an overview of in-scope subjects, etc.

The W3C's main areas of concern, or "charter", include, but are not limited to:

• Mobile Web Standards
• Semantics (XML, RDF, Owl, Dublin Core, Custom Vocabularies, etc.)
• Valid Markup [please see common coding languages of interest in next paragraph:]

W3C In Scope Web Languages: The W3C is concerned with creating "Standards" of usage for the following Programming Languages and Source Codes:

• Valid Code, per W3C Web Validation Tools
• Semantics (XML, RDF, Owl, Dublin Core, Custom Vocabularies, etc.)
• Accessibility, Section 508 ( ex: Handicapped and Vision Impaired Adaptation )
• Cross Browser Consistency and Compatibility
• Extensibility
• Forward Compatibility
• Backward Compatibility
• Mobile Web Standards
• User Friendliness (Site Architecture, Hierarchy, Url Names, etc.)

W3C In Scope Web Languages: The W3C standardize fields include, but are not limited to, usage of the following Programming Languages, Web Mark Up, and Source Codes :

• Html
• xHtml
• XML
• CSS
• xSLTl
• DOM
• SVG
• MathMLl
• c-Html

W3C Terminology: The W3C documentation replaces the term "Standards" with the word "Recommendations".

The standardization process is described in W3C documentation as the "Recommendation Process".

Often, the valid syntax for individual properties is referred to as "specifications", and relates to criteria established for various elements and tags.

This terminology demonstrates the W3C's acknowledgement that the language and programming of the web is not "ruled" or "controlled" by any entity or organization.

No specific person or entity is "in charge" of allowing or disallowing web usage for legal purposes. In other words, crime on the web is regulated, but commerce, methods, usage, and freedom of speech are not subject to dictatorship .

W3C Process of Standardization: The W3C Committee members submit recommendations, or specifications, regarding validation criteria for individual processes, or properties, thus initiating the documentation and voting process among committee members. Internet related organizations and corporations assign representatives to the W3C Panel to participate on their behalf, and participate in a way that protects their web interests.

W3C Recommendation Submissions: The W3C Committee members submit recommendations, or specifications, regarding validation criteria for individual processes, or properties, thus initiating the documentation and voting process among committee members. Any W3C Member is eligible to submit Recommendations to be Standardized for Validation criteria.

W3C Recommendation Submission Notes: If a recommendation proceeds past the submission process, a "note" or "document", is drawn up and published as a "Work in Progress". Publicly posting a recommendation "Note" in no way endorses a concept, nor ensures that the recommendation will progress any further than this 2nd step in the standardization process. A note can be edited, updated, replaced, or labeled "obsolete" at any time.

W3C Working Group per Recommendation: If a recommendation submission survives past the preceding two steps and makes to the 3rd step, a "working group" is formed of W3C members who have an interest in developing a standard for the submission. The Working Group will create a "Working Draft" pertaining to the submission at this third stage in the process.

W3C Working Draft per Recommendation: At this fourth stage of the submission process toward standardization, a "Working Draft", created by the interested group of members in Step 3, will be posted on the w3.org website. At this point, the W3C will invite public feedback and commentary. A working draft, like a note, can be rendered obsolete, revised, adapted, or terminated at any time. It is not to be used as a reference or guideline, but rather as a specification under consideration that can be removed at any time. Once the working draft becomes a "Proposed Recommendation", if it proceeds past Working Draft status, it will need Tim Berner Lee's approval to become a Standard Recommendation, which will outline the specific criteria for validation per the specifications submitted and approved.

w3c summary Web Standards, which they refer to as "Recommendations", rather than "rules". This approach exemplifies the free and open nature of the web, and emphasizes that no organization nor entity (with the exception of the FCC and organizations against activity as it relates to actual crimes and fraud), is in charge of the Internet. It is not governed nor regulated by any commercial enterprise.

id="web-standards-project"> wasp | web standards project: It is somewhat of a mystery, at the time of this writing, to determine what the "a" letter in the Web Standards Project acrimoniously represents [and remains a mystery 6 months later upon publishing].

The Web Standards Project was established in 1998 and is a strong supporter of Web Standards. WASP seeks to influence businesses and educational institutions to increase knowledge and understanding of the benefits of Web Standard Compliant Website Design. Whereas the W3C is plainly written for technically skilled web professionals, WASP's approach is consumer and curriculum focused.

wdg | web design group: The Web Design Group is becoming outdated, but has been a vocal advocate for Standardized Web Design since 1996. The Web Design Group website offers an array of useful tools such as a link checker, a CGI check tool (cgi-eye), online validators for Html and CSS, as well as Style Guides and suggestions for use of images, accessibility optimization, and more.

wsg | web standards group: The Web Standards Group is another established and avid supporter of Web Standardized Markup for publishing documents on the web. The Web Standards Group advocates responsibility in Web Development and targets the technically skilled internet professional to uphold and convey the value of Standard Compliant Markup Code.

San Diego Web Design Studio is a member of the Web Standards Group, the Web Design Group, and the Web Projects Group. We also maintain an "invited experts" membership in the W3C.

“Web Standards reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web.”

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