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Technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content which are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call “web standards,” are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web.

Designing and building with these standards simplifies and lowers the cost of production, while delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. Sites developed along these lines will continue to function correctly as traditional desktop browsers evolve, and as new Internet devices come to market.

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Web standards : schema or data-vocabulary

I am getting ready to update mock ups/tags of an e-commerce store. I am a bit confused which standards to implement on product elements, breadcrumbs and rest of the site. Does anyone know which standards should i follow and why?
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Standard for html5 apps and clients to negotiate input capabilities?

Practical Example: Suppose you wrote this html "app" and want to know if the client supports multitouch input. If it does, the buttons become expendable thus may be hidden - which is highly desirable on small screens. Of course, putting users…
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JQuery plugins standard practice

When using a JQuery plugin, is it a good idea to cut it down in order to only leave the parts necessary for your application or is it better to leave it as it is? In a related question, is there an impact in performance having to load the entire…
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Are Marquees Safe to Use?

I personally love marquees when used properly and sparingly. You don't see them a lot anymore but I think they can add some simple eye-candy to load in things like news feeds or updates etc. Since it is not part of the standards anymore is there any…
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Are text inputs submitting the form when the return key is pressed a guaranteed behavior?

On Chrome and Firefox, a form is submitted if the return key is pressed inside any text input inside the form. Is this behaviour part of the standard?
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Is returning true/false for a function as indicator for success/failure considered a good standard in JS?

Im trying to understand something regarding JS standards: When writing an async function or any function that returns any kind of promise I need to assume that the user of this function will want to catch the rejection and not to expect a boolean…
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Should I start to use CSS 3 & HTML 5?

I fear this may sound subjective, sorry. I am wondering how "safe" it is to use CSS3 & HTML5 in a commercial app. I really want the power that they give, but am obviously wary that they are not completely standardized. If it helps any I can probably…
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Standards compliant code for document.all replacement

We have ancient code that dynamically creates HTML form data from a database, and it was written that references document.all to fetch an array of non-uniquely Id'd check boxes. I need to find the "method of fewest changes" to get the code to…
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Is there a industry standard or rule that...?

I have a co-worker that creates a new database for every CONTROL (that's right, I said CONTROL) on a website that we both develop for. My workplace purchased a portal from a vendor and my co-worker and I develop custom controls to work inside the…
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Should I repeat label text in for="...." and id=".."?

Is there any cons of 2nd method? Why http://www.webstandards.org/ decided to use 2nd method Is first method better than first for screen reader users? First Second
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Should we follow this method in company's Web development Team also , seperation of Content , presentation and behaviour?

as Content = Content Builder ( Who will convert Client's Content (MS Word files) into XHTML Presentation = CSS Experts Behaviour = Javascript , jquery experts. but where is design. Is Presentation = Design or Presentation = CSS only ? Edit: Like…
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What are the current HTML/XHTML/CSS W3C recommended versions?

What are the latest HTML and CSS specifications officially recommended by the W3C for web development? I've searched through various sites, W3C included, Only to find Outdated sorces, Or a jumbled goose chase through W3's Site.
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How semantic X/HTML can save time when we will write CSS?

How Semantic X/HTML mark-up can save time - when we will write CSS for website and if any design changes comes from client in future. And why Table based layouts will take more time always in both condition Today I've to Explain these thing to…
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CSS reset with presentational and deprecated tags

Why does Eric Meyer have not advisable, presentational, deprecated, and non-semantic tags in his css reset? (I.e. applet, iframe, big, s, small, strike.) html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a,…
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Should i use transtional doctype over strict for CMS based sites where client will update site in future?

In any CMS based site after my work in future client or any client's staff (non-technical) will update website through WYSIWYG editor and it's surely possible they could use deprecated tag or any non-semantic and non validated code. so in this…
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