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Web Standards Compliancy Policy
What are web standards
Web standards were created so that people can create websites and be sure that they will look more or less the same on different browsers. They are written (as recomendations) by the W3C, a consortium of internet browser companies (like Microsoft and Netscape), web developers, site creation tool companies (like Macromedia), etc. If all web browsers would follow these standards, then site creators would be able to create their sites without having to worry about how the site will look on someone else's computer.
The most important standards are:
- XHTML: A new version of HTML. The HyperText Markup Language is used to structure documents, it indicates titles, paragraph's etc.
- CSS: Cascading Style Sheets. These give style to the documents. They say for instance what colour your browser should use for headings.
- DOM: Document Object Model. This model allows scripting languages like JavaScript to interact with the page elements. The DOM makes it possible for instance to have navigation bars like the one at the top of this page.
You can read more about webstandards and their importance on:
- WaSP: the Web Standards Project an organisation that fights for the universal use and acceptance of these standards.
- W3C: the website of the World Wide Web Consortium, the organisation that created these standards.
Our point of view
In our point of view the efforts of the w3c to create good, functional and usable standards are very important. We actively try to follow the standards as much as possible. You can test our efforts by clicking the XHTML-buttons or the CSS-buttons at the bottom of each page. These buttons will test the page in accordance with the XHTML- or CSS-standards, using the W3C's own testers.
Naturally web standards are an ongoing effort. If you find any problems or you have a suggestion to improve our web standards compliancy, please visit our suggestions page.
We also think that the web would be a better place if everyone would use standard compliant browsers and if every web designer would write standard compliant code. That is why we support the WaSP's browsehappy campaign.
We also like to think that the web should be accessible to every one, regardless of disabilty, that is why we also have an Accessibility Policy (and for those of you who are wondering what the other icon at the bottom of our pages is about: accessibility!).