Is Your Web Design W3C Compliant?
The World Wide Consortium, also called W3C, is an informal group of web professionals who are trying to establish standards for web design and other aspects of Internet marketing. While there are no rules for web design compliance, per se, it is a good idea to measure your web design according to W3C standards.
W3C implements its standards through recommendations. They are largely technical in nature and so far, since 1994 when it was started, the W3C has issued over 100 recommendations for the worldwide web.
One of W3Cs most recent recommendations is a best practices paper for mobile web applications. Some of the recommendations pertaining to mobile web applications include:
- Use Cookies Sparingly
- Inform the user about automatic network access
- Enable automatic sign-in
- Use transfer compression
- Avoid redirects
- Minimize external resources
- Cache AJAX data
- Offer users a choice of interfaces
These are just a few of the best practices recommended by W3C for mobile web applications and it’s just one example of the type of recommendations that the consortium makes to webmasters involved in web design and development. While there are no penalties for not complying with these recommendations, it is a good idea to check your web design against the W3C recommendations to ensure quality in web design and development.
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