1. World Wide Web Consortium W3C
Kelly Puth
Melanie Edmondson
Cevdet Bulut

2. Web Standards

3. Web Standards Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS
Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless
Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing
Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google
Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband
Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs

4. Web Standards Web is growing, but not without problems!
Problem: incompatibility Companies support new markup tags that would only work in their particular product.

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6. ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association International
ECMAScript: Standardized Version of JavaScript

7. W3C - Web Standards HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
XML: Extensible Markup Language
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
DOM: Document Object Model

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11. Web Standards DEMO HTML Validator http://validator.w3.org/
CC Validator

12. Benefits Web Standards
Lower costs of developing and maintaining web sites
Improved accessibility and user experience
Maximum compatibility with current and future browsers
Reduced Bandwidth
Reach More Users
Faster download speeds
Better search engine rankings
A competitive edge

13. W3C - Background
This is a standards organization that pertains to the World Wide Web
Founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994
He was also a key player in the creation of the World Wide Web

14. W3C - Background
W3C has published over 90 standards since the creation of the organization
In addition to creating standards, W3C also develops software and has a forum for web discussion.

15. W3C - Membership Over 40 countries participate
435 members as of October 19, 2007
Any country or organization can join including those outside the technology field

16. W3C - Goals
“To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web”
Their mission statement is their ultimate goal and to achieve this they have created 4 sub goals

17. W3C - Goals Web for everyone
To make the benefits of the internet equal for everyone
Web for everything
Expanding the Web to other technology devices
Knowledge base
Breaking down the information in order to solve problems that before would have been too difficult to answer
Trust and confidence
Increasing the accountability, security, confidence, and confidentiality of the Web

18. W3C - Future To strive towards achieving their mission statement
To do this, they will continue working towards their goals.

19. W3C - Downfalls
Jeff Croft argues there are no web developers or designers
It takes a while for W3C to come out with new versions of programs

20. Semantic Web A technical term for data web
This is where databases would be connected together through the Web
Will be able to take data from different applications and bring it together into one source such as a graph
Beneficial to businesses because they will be able to share their data more easily