Introduction to W3C
July 19, 2006
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international industry in charge of developing common protocols and technologies to promote standards for the evolution of the internet interoperability between web products by producing guidelines, specifications, reference software and tools with the goal to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential through collective communication and understanding.
With more than 500 member organizations from around the world, founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee and other industrial members, the W3C in charge of recommending diverse open web technology standards, including HTML and XML document markup languages, as well as SOAP, VoiceXML, HTTP, URL, and other internet protocols.
HTML tutorials and in-depth articles are just a few of the valuable resources for experienced and novice webmasters that can be found at the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org) to ensure compatibility with the industry members new standards. Prior to its creation, incompatible versions of HTML were offered by different vendors, increasing the potential for incompatibilities between web pages, causing a waste of time and frustration among web designers and developers.
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the basic and most popular language for the creation of internet viewable content, such as web pages. HTML is used to present structured information by using headings, paragraphs, and so on to define the semantics of a document with the extension “.html” but often named “.htm”, a shortened implemented to display them properly on DOS/Windows 3.1 systems, unnecessary for modern versions, but keep it by convention.
HTML is currently an international standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000) which specification is maintained by the W3C. The modern internet browsers and the cross-browser models, makes it necessary for webmasters the ability to use these standards if they want to offer to the surfers an aesthetically appropriate website cross-browser compatible, the thing that can be achieved visiting the HTML W3C HyperText Markup Language Home Page (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp)
Among the guidelines offers, webmasters may find detailed information about the required Markup elements, such as structural markup (text tags), hypertext markup (links inside the document to other documents or web addresses), separation of style and content (use of cascade style sheets (CSS)) and document type definition (”DOCTYPE”) to specify which version of the HTML standard they conform to, and require to validate the page thought the free W3C Markup Validation Service (http://validator.w3.org) which checks the HTML documents for conformance to their Recommendations and other standards.
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