Bringing web standards to awareness
- Writing by Rajveer
- On August 25th, 2008 at 1:44 am
I have always enjoyed reading what Molly Holzschlag has been authoring about W3C standards. Her recent interview on web designer’s interviews is a great example to experience that. She has also given a great advice to web designers, and I am sure it will motivate you like me. It’s a worth reading material for every web designer and developer. Some of the points I really found very interesting which I would share with you here.
I am proud to read what Molly has stated there, she says the term ‘web standards’ is an unsuitable name. W3C provides specifications and recommendations to people for their reference. But when designers and developers work on it, they should be more concerned about their own awareness to follow the best practices and conventions, not just referring to actual standards. So, ‘web standards’ is a goal!
I would like to add something with the paragraph above. There is no real definition of ‘web standards’. If we look at the W3C specifications it has humongous content, so it might not be a great idea to act like a machine. Rather to understand the whole sense what that refers to, and then develops it as awareness to apply the maximum of it for what we work for. Reading on W3C wouldn’t tell us the amount of work we could do as part of specifications, there is no limit so we have to decide that.
When I started with this blog I had a clear picture in my mind that it should be easily usable even for a layman. Information in web pages should be accessible for all visitors, regardless of disabilities or whichever user agent they use. My work never ends on it, till now I am finding more and more better ideas user experience to keep working on it further. As Molly says, this is a goal to me.
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Alex August 25th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Great definition of W3C
Standards, sometime people like to work without sticking by the specification when they are meant just for the reference. So it’s good that master are defining it in easier way!
BTW, I am excited to know if you are finding more ways to for accessibility for this blog, technically?
Aroopam Bhuyan August 26th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Agreed.
goal should be to build an accessible and usable site taking specifications and recommendations as reference