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Web Standards: The Right Tool for the Right Job Kazuhito Kidachi Mitsue-Links Co.,Ltd. Corporate Officer & Web Development Team Front-end Engineer Web Standards Project (WaSP) Liaison in Japan SOFTEXPO & DCF 2006, Seoul, Korea About


  1. Web Standards: The Right Tool for the Right Job Kazuhito Kidachi Mitsue-Links Co.,Ltd. Corporate Officer & Web Development Team Front-end Engineer Web Standards Project (WaSP) Liaison in Japan SOFTEXPO & DCF 2006, Seoul, Korea

  2. About Me 2

  3. What are Web Standards? 6

  4. Web Standards are... • All of the standards created/used for the World Wide Web • Developed and recommended by international standardization bodies such as W3C, ISO, IETF etc. • Vendor-independent • “De jure” rather than “de facto” 7

  5. Front-end Web Standards • Structure HTML, XML, XHTML • Presentation CSS1, CSS2 • Behavior DOM, ECMAScript 8

  6. History of (X)HTML and CSS 9

  7. 1996 • Internet Explorer 3 • CSS1 10

  8. 1997 • Netscape Navigator 4 • HTML 3.2 • HTML 4.0 11

  9. The First Browser War (IE vs. Netscape) 12

  10. 1998 • Web Standards Project (WaSP) • CSS2 13

  11. 1999 • HTML 4.01 14

  12. 2000 • XHTML 1.0 15

  13. 2001 • XHTML 1.1 16

  14. 2002 • WIRED Redesign 17

  15. 2003 • css Zen Garden 20

  16. 2006 • XHTML2 & CSS2.1/3 by W3C • HTML5 by WHATWG • CSS became popular with blog customize • The Second Browser War • Internet Explorer 7 25

  17. More Interesting Things Happening 30

  18. Expected Benefits of (X)HTML+CSS • Better Accessibility • Better Machine Readability • Lower Bandwidth • Ease of Maintenance • Forward/Backward Compatibility 34

  19. Importance of Accessibility • Not only for the people with disabilities (Text-only version is NOT enough.) • Not only for humans, but also for machines • Browsing device/circumstance diversity • Some countries have their own official accessibility guidelines 35

  20. Drawbacks of Web Standards • Different Implementations in Different Browsers • High Learning Curve 36

  21. But wait, things have changed! • Many browser are getting much better version by version • Authoring tools as well • Good online/offline resources about web standards • Browsers’ developers communicate with others via blogs 37

  22. Web Standards are very vital “tool” for all web designers/developers. 41

  23. I Have A Dream. 42

  24. ...Someday, every web browser conforms to web standards, and everybody can create accessible and creative contents with valid and semantic markup and style sheets which contain no CSS hack. 43

  25. The dream comes true with collaboration • Web Designer/Developer • Browser Vendor • Authoring Tool Vendor • End User • Standards Body 44

  26. "Leading the Web to Its Full Potential" -W3C 45

  27. Let's use the tool named "Web Standards" and lead the web to its full potential! 46

  28. Thank You. E-mail: k-kidachi@mitsue.co.jp E-mail: kidachi@kazuhi.to 47

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