September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
31h 42m
English
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The Importance of Standards
The Internet was built on standards. When a need for functionality was identified (email attachments, for example) a person or group proposed a system to make it work. After a discussion phase, the proposal was made public in the form of a Request for Comments (RFC). The RFC process is overseen by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet (see http://www.ietf.org for more information). Once the kinks were worked out, other developers adopted the method and a standard was born.
The Web, with its early explosion of excitement and opportunism, skipped over this traditional standards process. Although the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a group of industry experts and professionals who guide the evolution of the Web) began working on HTML standards in 1994, the browser software companies didn’t wait for them.
Once Netscape Navigator popped up on the scene with its set of proprietary tags, they set in motion the process by which we’ve inherited the browser chaos outlined in this chapter. The problem only got worse as web design grew beyond simple HTML to encompass richer web technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets and DHTML. Not only does developing for a multitude of incompatible browsers cause headaches, but redundant development time also costs a lot of money.
It didn’t take long for the development community to say, ...
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