Web Standards

To accurately define web standards, it is a general term for the formal or the technical specifications describing the aspects of the World Wide Web (Wikipedia). The term is referring as adapting to the standardized practices for websites constructing and websites designing. The international standards organization is the W3C, which stands for World Wide Web Consortium (blog.genggao.net). The W3C’s main function is to propose new standards for the World Wide Web as well as ensure all the industry members and general users are adopting the standards.

What does it mean exactly by complying with the web standards? It means that the site or page has valid HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The HTML, CSS and JavaScript combining together.

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, and it is the primary markup language for web pages. Also, HTML is the basic building blocks of web pages. HTML form is consisting of tags, and angle brackets. For instance, <h1> and </h1>, it always comes in pair. The first tag will be called the start tag, and the second one will be the end tag. The website designers can keep adding text, tables and images in between those tags to build up the websites so people can view it using the web browser. The web browser is used to read the HTML documents and convert them into visual or audible formats.

CSS, which is Cascading Style Sheets, is another name for web browsers. It helps to outline the appearance and layout of text, images and other materials. On the other hand, JavaScript, not to confuse with Java programming language, is also known as ECMAScript. It is an implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and it is also part of the web browser so that the JavaScript will enhance the user interfaces.

In short, web standards lay out a unified structure of composing text, images and markup languages into clear forms through the web browsers. Anyone who gains access to the web pages through the Internet-enabled devices is complied with the web standards. A good web standards should allow users access the website through any Internet-enabled device, and there should be no difference of the functions or services provided by the website when accessing through different web browsers and Internet-enabled devices.