XHTML template Web standards

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XHTML templateWeb standards
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Standards

• Good practice for sites
• adhere to standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS,
  XSLT, DOM, MathML, SVG etc) and
• pursue best practices (valid code, accessible
  code, semantically correct code, user-friendly
  URLs etc).
• A site built to web standards should ideally be
  lean, clean, CSS-based, accessible, usable and
  search engine friendly.

http//webstandardsgroup.org/standards/
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• Semantically correct markup
• Valid code
• Accessible code (for humans and devices)
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to separate content
  from presentation

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Standards benefits

• interoperability
• accessibility
• forward compatibility
• backwards compatibility
• significant savings in time and resources for web
  developers and their organizations

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Viewing code

• Use the menu and choose View / Page Source, or
• Ctrl U
• Have a go at working out the page structure and
  reading the code

http//webstandardsgroup.org/standards/
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Viewing code

• In Explorer
• Use the menu and choose View Source
• How do the two browsers differ in reading xhtml?

http//webstandardsgroup.org/standards/