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Dell Web Site should be 100% W3C compliant
August 12, 2007
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Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is:
To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.
W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines. Since 1994, W3C has published more than ninety such standards, called
W3C Recommendations.
As Dell hardwares are OS independent, Dell Web Site should be 100% W3C compliant. To validate your site please proceed to http://validator.w3.org/ and make it 100% compliant. Also consider validating your CSS style sheet at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Other important references:
- W3C Q&A Blog: http://www.w3.org/QA/
- The Web Standards Project: http://www.webstandards.org/
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Posted By: winoffice
@yesmathew: "As Dell hardwares are OS independent, Dell Web Site should be 100% W3C compliant." What does being OS independent have to do with being 100% W3C compliant? Being OS independent is one thing and is an OS as well as a hardware issue. Being 100% W3C compliant is another thing and is a Web site issue.Jan 29, 2008 Comment Link
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Posted By: winoffice
@yesmathew: I know, but did you fully read my comment above? Dell does not need to validate their Web pages unless they are not already validated. And you are asking Dell to be W3C compliant. By that I understand that you are saying that the Web pages of Dell are not already validated (compliant that is). Do you have any proof of that?Jan 28, 2008 Comment Link
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Posted By: yesmathew
Just to make ease for web developers. I think all web developers should stick to w3c recommended standards, then web developers will not have to worry about the compatibility issues. Its the browser vendors, who should be worrying about the implementations of the recommended w3c standards. @winoffice: Validate web sites at http://validator.w3.org/ for w3c standard compatibility.Jan 22, 2008 Comment Link
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Posted By: winoffice
@jmxz: So the issue on buying omputers might not be resolved here yet, but either way for Web sites, it is obvious that most people do not look for standards but rather look at how and whether it works.Jan 22, 2008 Comment Link
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Posted By: winoffice
@jmxz: "If it doesn't use the same alphabet that your country standardized on, you probably don't want it. If it doesn't work with your 110 or 220 outlet, you probably don't want it. If it doesn't work with TCP/IP you probably don't want it (unless you're on an AppleTalk or whatever-Microsoft-wanted-instead-of-TCP/IP network. If it doesn't have connectors that match the relevant standards (USB2.x, etc) you probably don't want it." I believe that most of that would also fall under "how and whether it works".Jan 22, 2008 Comment Link
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Posted By: jmxz
@winoffice: "do I look for what standards (official or unofficial) it is compliant to, or do I look for how and whether it works (or looks, weighs, etc.)? " Probably what standards it's compliant to. If it doesn't use the same alphabet that your country standardized on, you probably don't want it. If it doesn't work with your 110 or 220 outlet, you probably don't want it. If it doesn't work with TCP/IP you probably don't want it (unless you're on an AppleTalk or whatever-Microsoft-wanted-instead-of-TCP/IP network. If it doesn't have connectors that match the relevant standards (USB2.x, etc) you probably don't want it. It's either explicit standards (TCP, USB, etc) or the defacto ones (VisualBasic 6.0, Office 97 formats) that determine if your computer works with the outside world.Jan 21, 2008 Comment Link
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Posted By: winoffice
Who would care if the Dell Web site (or any Web site for that matter) is W3C compliant or not? That is not what most users are looking for. To most users, it is more important if the Web site just works. If it works, I use it. If it does not work, then I try to avoid it. It is like buying a computer. When I buy computers, do I look for what standards (official or unofficial) it is compliant to, or do I look for how and whether it works (or looks, weighs, etc.)? Obviously the standards issue is not what is most important to me. The case is similar for Web sites - the standards issue is not what is most important to most users.Jan 21, 2008 Comment Link
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Posted By: winoffice
I agree with bumchicawawa above. yesmathew might himself have Web sites that are not validated. If so, then he should be validating himself first.Jan 21, 2008 Comment Link
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Posted By: winoffice
So yesmathew, Let us get this straight. So you are trying to say that the Web site of Dell is not already 100% compatible with World Wide Web Consortium standards? How can you prove that? How do you know that?Oct 26, 2007 Comment Link
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Posted By: ed.galligan
@.chris Web 2.0 is a corporate buzzword, the vast majority of self-styled web 2.0 sites are NOT cross-browser compliant, andwhile there are some good ones most most certainly do "lack properly thought-out design and aren't accessible" (thanks cosh) If anyone does start a dell Web 2.0 idea (haven't read one yet) I'll be the first to demote. @cosh While I'm sure we'll never have a 100% compliant web, if we did it would make web design and browser design just a tad easier don't you think. Achievable? No. Worth working towards? Definitely!!!!! @yesmathew Good idea!1 2 3 Next