Lobby group of coarse US web designers lays down with browser manufacturers
The Web Standards Project aims to force Microsoft and Netscape to hold on to the design standards that were adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium.
While Netscape has become wildly tried to reinvent itself as a mixture of media companies and e-commerce web portal, and during Microsoft confesses with the US Ministry of Justice and continuing its empire to expand on all fronts, so you could easily forget about it that the browser war is still going on.
The treasures show slight deviations from each other, but all the confirmation that Microsoft’s share of the browser market continuously approaches the Netscape and overtaken it soon, while both companies prepare for their 5.0 versions. For journalists and investors, the competition is considered an exciting horse race, but for web designers the browser war is the Holle.
Each site created by designers is tested with different versions of both browsers, D.H. be viewed, and designers who take their job very seriously will also be sure that the site works for alternative browsers, such as Z.B. Opera and Lynx.
But the real victims in the browser war were caused by the two coarse players, which apparently deliberately imported new properties that only dominate a browser, while the functionality of the site is impacted when called with the other browser. Auspaths must found on which Site MUB are plucked until it looks more or less right, no matter which window you are considered.
A new group of web design pioneers of illustrem background, with thick orders and shelves full of prices have formed a coalition, the Web Standards Project (WSP) to obtain the attention of Microsoft and Netscape and call collectively: "Enough"!
After news about the project a few days before the official start on the 10th. August were leaked, Microsoft were the first of the gross two, the friendly fuhrer stretched out in the direction of the group, and after the message spread quickly over the media, Netscape hurried to contact.
Glenn Davis, by Project Cool and also a member of the WSP Steering Committee, could continue to produce enough publicity to force Microsoft and Netscape to act.
It’s not just about the two giants at the playground to frustrate the designer’s attempts to create universally accessible web sites on the technical high standing. If we follow Davis, the development costs for a web site are increasing by 25% because of the extra period necessary for the fine tuning to generate compatibility.
Another member of the Steering Committee, Jeffrey Zeldman, who created the WSP site, fabs the Group’s goals:
"We try to build prere on Microsoft and Netscape to support the standards of the World Wide Web Consortium W3C as it is a year ago. have. With "Standards" We mean the W3C recommendations for HTML, CSS-1, CSS-2, ECMAScript and Cathedral. There is little, if Microsoft and Netscape also develop 10 other proprietary technologies, or 50 additional tags. As long as we have a consistent path to make HTML, stylesheets, scripts and DHTML — in a kind of each BROWSER will work — then there is little, what other options to develop the companies decide in addition."
WSP member Lance Arthur thinks that "It is not the point to desire from a company to build new features in your browser, or to use proprietary code that serves in the web design for a specific purpose." Because of course, "Much of what we now know as standards have been developed by Microsoft and Netscape. The market assesses the bugs or predicts proposed codes by using it or not, and W3C seem to be inclined to take over, this de facto standards arising from this market test method to take over into their recommendations."
Over the weekend before the openation, the WSP Site managed supported by the prerequisite press, which had been aware of a mailing list, which by Daviszs "Project cool" had been set up. As it is often the case with these wide open lists, the listing of the list of control quickly got into control and dispute over the design of the WSP site, the goals and methods of WSP broke out. But Davis showed himself from fast and decided tag shifts and threw the stunning makers out of just a warning, so the WSP members again had control over the discussion within hours.
It was Arthur, who returned the attention of the list back to the central points and goals of the group back:
"I think the point is going to move the browser manufacturers to support all the present standards, as they ratified became. That’s however, if I am z.B. Using CSS to use, it will look the same as that it will work as well known and that I have the freedom to design as I want, without all the limits that arise when standards are not adhered to."
After the WSP targets have been described in such personal concepts, the list had found itself again. Well, with the support of Opera Software and a pile of positive press, WSP has a certain thrust behind him, especially if you are about to go into talking to Microsoft and Netscape about what these are now concrete companies can and do to eliminate the disorder she created.
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