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'''Femke Snelting, [https://constantvzw.org/verlag/spip.php?page=article&id_article=101&mot_filtre=5&id_lang=0# Constant Verlag], 2008'''
'''Femke Snelting, [https://constantvzw.org/verlag/spip.php?page=article&id_article=101&mot_filtre=5&id_lang=0# Constant Verlag], 2008'''
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* <mark>Webstandards</mark> as evolving set of agreements on how digital information should be structured and organized into compatible units
** separate Webs code in HTML for content and CSS for form
* this working premise of W3C states that separating content from presentation facilitates exchange of information (of 'true information' or 'meaning')
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* lack of standardization: early on browsers where not compatible, each fighting over their market share, inventing their own mark up
** resulted in problems for designers, content providers and users (impossible to predict what user will see on their screen)
* Call for standardization <mark>Acid test</mark> introduced competing for compliancy rather than difference between browsers

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Femke Snelting, Constant Verlag, 2008

  • Webstandards as evolving set of agreements on how digital information should be structured and organized into compatible units
    • separate Webs code in HTML for content and CSS for form
  • this working premise of W3C states that separating content from presentation facilitates exchange of information (of 'true information' or 'meaning')


  • lack of standardization: early on browsers where not compatible, each fighting over their market share, inventing their own mark up
    • resulted in problems for designers, content providers and users (impossible to predict what user will see on their screen)
  • Call for standardization Acid test introduced competing for compliancy rather than difference between browsers