The New Voyagers – Find Information about Web standards

From the W3C Quality Assurance blog

The New Voyagers – Find Information about Web standards

Voyager 1, already the most distant human-made object in the cosmos, reaches 100 astronomical units from the sun on Tuesday, August 15 at 5:13 p.m. Eastern time (2:13 p.m. Pacific time). That means the spacecraft, which launched nearly three decades ago, is 100 times more distant from the sun than Earth is.

It is often quite difficult to find information related to your domain of activity. Weblogs are pouring information about technologies: opinions, rants, technical details, jokes, everyone is taking a part of it. But you need a probe to travel from planet to planet, some Web sites are aggregating this content. Here comes a list a of resources we are using:

• HTML and CSS
• Mobile Web Initiative
• Apache: HTTP (for this one it would be good to fix the links.)
• Semantic Web
• Semantic Web (French)
• SVG
• Mozilla

Web Standards Project

Web Standards Project

Founded in 1998, The Web Standards Project (WaSP) fights for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web. They work with browser companies, authoring tool makers, and our peers to deliver the true power of standards to this medium. Click on the link to learn more about this great group of individuals.

Web Standards Group

Web Standards Group

The Web Standards Group is for web designers & developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code). We aim to:

• Provide web developers and designers with a forum to discuss issues and share knowledge (via our discussion list and regular meetings)
• Provide web standards information and assistance to developers
• Promote “web standards” within the development community

They currently have 4063 members from 107 countries including me!

What are Web Standards?

What are Web Standards?

“The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call ‘web standards’, are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web. Designing and building with these standards simplifies and lowers the cost of production, while delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. Sites developed along these lines will continue to function correctly as traditional desktop browsers evolve, and as new Internet devices come to market.”

Read more:

• The Web Standards Project
• From hacks to web standards – A web designers journey