Microsoft finally listens
After a lot of terrible reputation towards web standards and un-friendly applications like Internet Explorer, Microsoft finally listens, WaSP officially announced collaboration with Microsoft to promote web standards.
A lot of people still don't believe it but it's true Microsoft has already increased web standards support in ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and it sounds like Internet Explorer 7 will be web standards friendly too.
What are you talking about ?
A lot of Web designers & developers are still not aware of web standards and doesn't have a clue of what I'm talking about.
I will try to explain shortly what is this all about. Every document (page) on the web is one of two modes even it is Quirk mode or it is standard mode if it contains a doctype It is in standard mode this document should be rendered (viewed) the same on all platforms and browsers in a specific way according to the doctype in this site for example it is XHTML 1.0 strict alot of browsers supports standards properly but Internet Explorer was the worst browser that renders standards mode documents alot of CSS hacks must be applied to let it render properly.
WaSP (the Web Standards Project) is a group of Skilled Designers, Developers & experts in the field of Web standards and accessibility there aim is to fight for the standards and convince more designers and developers to begin building there web sites with standards & more software developers to support web standards and finally they have convinced Microsoft to support standards.
July 6, 2005, 3:00 AM | Web News