wa web standards 2007-01-30
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State of the Web - A look ahead: Web Standards
State of the Web: A Look Ahead
Web Standards
The Web AssociationJanuary 30th, 2007
www.webassociation.org
Presenter: David MeadDirector of ProductionOptiem, LLC.
Standards
a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
puts us all on the same page
everyone/everything works together
What are standards?Skip back to the Industrial RevolutionLots of inventionsRailwaysCommerce
Everything works together!
Web Standards
everyone/everything works together
Tim Berners LeeWorld Wide Web ConsortiumMicrosoft & Netscape (thats cool) working together
The Old Standards
HTML
CSS
XHTML
Created guidelinesStill building on these
But there was a problem!
The Old Standards
The downside of using standards
Browsers
Propriety code
Patchy support
Wrong implementation
Guys making the browsers had their own interpretations of the standardsBrowser Wars standards forgottenGroup of designer/developers say NO! (WASP)
The Old Standards
The upside of using standards
Easier to code & maintain
Semantically rich content
Light weight files
Improves browser/device display
Decreases accessibility errors
Section 508
WAI
SEO loves semantic layoutEvery device knows how to display a WAI W3C initiative based on standards
The Old Standards
The upside of using standards
Browsers
No one gets it 100% but were close.
The New Standards
microformats
Designed for humans first and machines second
Taking old standards and building on them
Example: address
The New Standards
hCard
hCalendar
VoteLinks, hReview
XFN
rel-tag
social networks / search / e-commerce / desktop applications
The New Standards
Whos using these?
YOU ARE
Humans first, machines second
9 million profiles using microformats from linkedin
Add-ons (Tails & Operator)
Example:address from Yahoo! Local to Outlook / Searches from persons resume using Google
Everyone & everything working together
The Future
We need microformats and to get people to agree on them. It is going to bootstrap exchanging data on the Web
we need them for things like contact cards, events, directions
Bill Gates @ Mix06, talking with Tim OReilly
Firefox 3 to incorporate microformat detection natively?
Browsers as information brokers?
The Future
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_does_microformats_firefox3.php