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Important Web Standards Resources For Developers
Writen by Bogdan / Comments Off on Important Web Standards Resources For Developers
We use standards on a daily basis, often without realizing it. When we buy a light bulb, for example, we know that if we buy a screw-fitting bulb, it will fit our light fitting when we get home. Standards ensure that the bulb we buy isn’t “just as little too large” or “just a little too wide” to fit our light fitting.
Web standards pick up from the same principle. As browser manufacturers have moved toward embracing standards, the need to write a browser-specific markup has diminished. By using well-structured HTML to mark up content and CSS to control presentation, we should now be able to design one web site, and it should display consistently across standards-compliant browsers, regardless of the operating systems.
Web standards save us time as designers and allow us to sleep at night, safe in the knowledge that our carefully crafted masterpiece is accessible regardless of who’s viewing it on which browser and which platform.
If you’d like to learn about web and accessibility standards then you are in the right place because the following sites will help you with everything you need from learning the foundation of web standards and all the way to cross-browser compatibility, html 5 demos or css validators.
Web standards and accessibility resources
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Web Standards Project
Web Accessibility in Mind
Tutorials, references, statistics, and forums
W3Schools
JavaScript Kit
The jQuery Project
HTML5 Demos
HTML5 Reset
Web Safe Font Tester
Web Style Guide
960 Grid System
HTML/XHTML code validators
W3C Markup Validator
W3C Link Checker
W3C Log Validator
WDG HTML Validator
CSS code validators
W3C CSS Validator
Browser compatibility verification
Browershots
Browser Cam