Web Standards by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Wold wide web has undergone so many recentdefined:b) XML Technology: It involves XML, XQuery,
developments. After the web world has experiencedXML Schema, XSLT, XSL-FO, standards.c) Web of
so many problems like that of hacking, cross browserDevices: The main idea is to make the web
compatibility, there came up the need of someaccessible at all the devices which are being used
standard guiding principles which can resolve theseanytime and anywhere. This further include mobile
issues. Keeping this in mind, W3C (World Wide Webphones, smart phones, other mobile devices and
Consortium) came into existence in 1994. The mottoelectronics, printers, automobiles, Interactive
was "Leading the web to its full potential.. ". Aftertelevisions,laptops, palmtops etc.d) Semantic web:
that, the clean and logical HTML/XHTML for markingThis has been referred to "web of data".The vision
up the content, use of CSS where required, andof W3C is to create such a web of data which is
single object document model for scripting becamespread over a huge network and which can support
important.faithful interactions over such a huge network.
Standards:a) Web Design and Application: When aSemantic Web technologies allow you to create data
web page or web site is said to be compliant withstores on the Web, build vocabularies, and write rules
web standards, it means that the page has a validfor handling and maintenance of data. Linked data are
CSS, SVG, Ajax, Javascript and HTML meet thesupported by technologies such as RDF, SPARQL,
accessibility criteria to the people with disabilitiesOWL, and SKOS.
(WCAG), internationalized, and work on mobileIn future, designs which are all standards compliant
devices, cross browser compatibility and semanticwould be accepted. As, the Internet is not operated
guidelines. It is used to happen that as the websitesby a single person or the group. The advantages of
are designed by Adobe Dreamweaver or MicrosoftStandards are Accessibility, browser Compatibility,
front page. But the latter produces the HTML codingSimple and Faster download & display. W3C have
which do not conform to W3C standards. Butconstituted the web standards in true sense.
Dreamweaver and other modern Microsoft HTMLEverything which is guided by the set of standards
documents do conform to the web standards. In theand principles achieve faster development.
web world, the following standards have been