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What Are Web Standards?

May 29, 2007 - Filed under: web design

I have written many times about how important it is to use Web Standards when designing a website. If you are wondering exactly what are web standards or where do I find them it may actually surprise you to know that there aren’t any Web Standards, only Recommendations. Until recently the web has been the wild west of design with many designers (and page editing programs) just doing whatever they please with the page markup. That’s one of the main reasons that browsers have to be able to interpret many different kinds of pages and why each browsers may make your pages look so different.

That’s why it’s important to use standards. Here’s a great post by Robert Nyman that summarizes them all for you in one place.

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