Web standards are simply a set of recommendations
by the World Wide Web Consortium. If all browser manufacturers
and all Web programmers followed them, so the theory
goes, all Web pages would look and behave the same in every
browser. Nice idea, but hard to realize.
When I wrote the ?¬? rst edition of Stylin??™ in late 2004, the Web
standards movement was gaining massive momentum. Today,
most new Web sites are being programmed to meet Web standards,
and the Web is a better place because of it.
The Web standards advocates who drove this movement
have made the Web a better and more predictable place.
They worked with browser manufacturers to ensure that new
browsers interpret the three primary interface programming
languages (XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in the ways recommended
by the W3C, instead of each one using custom tags
and features in the self-interest of competitive advantage.
STYLIN??™ WITH CSS - CHAPTER 1 4
Web Standards
By following best Web standards practices, Web developers like
you and me can be very close to achieving a consistent display and
performance of our sites for all our users. For example, you might
expect Microsoft Internet Explorer to be the best, most Web standards-
compliant browser, yet despite its current dominance, that is
still not the case.
Several other browsers do a good job of interpreting CSS, according
to the W3C recommendations; the latest versions of Firefox
and Opera on PC, and Safari and Firefox on Macintosh, all render
XHTML styled with CSS2 in a remarkably consistent manner, but
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has numerous unimplemented
features and buggy implementations of others.
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