Strategy - Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:48 - 0 Comments

Benefits of Web Standards

When planning for a new Web site, or refining an existing one, doing more with less seems to be a recurring theme. Web developers and designers are faced with the task of addressing a broader audience, more browsers, mobile devices, and accessibility, while spending less time and money to maintain. Sounds like a formidable challenge. Fortunately, a Web standards approach will significantly reduce the cost and complexity of development, while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability.

The Need for Web Standards
To fully understand why Web standards were created in the first place, we’ll take a quick flashback to the nineties when the Internet and the Web became more mainstream. Early Web browsers did not support CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) well enough for developers to be able to use it to control the presentation of an HTML document.
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