Web standard seems to be a new term in China in recent two years.Since 2003, Web standards and CssWebsite DesignAll kinds of articles and discussions started with the design and technology forums of all sizes on the network, and set off an upsurge of learning Web standards and CSS layout.Since then, the websites of many website design enthusiasts have begun to be marked with the words "conforming to Web standards".
In fact, with the development of Web presentation layer technology, Web standards have always existed in the network technology and never left people's sight.From the perspective of current Web standards, Web standards are not only a bunch of technical indicators, but also lead the thinking frontier of website interactive design, not only fromMarketing website constructionThe code level design of the Web allows people to have more freedom, and it also allows people to create an interactive platform with high reliability, high efficiency and rich user experience through the design idea that conforms to the Web standard.Excellent Web standard website designers can always improve the usability of the website through good design, so as to create value for the website fundamentally.
What are web standards
Web standards are a set of specifications set by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and other standardization organizations. They contain a series of standards, including HTML, XHTML, JavaScript and CSS that we are familiar with.The purpose of Web standards is to create a unified technical standard for Web presentation layer, so as to display information content to end users through different browsers or terminal devices.
Web presentation layer technology
Before we understand some Web concepts, we need to know a new term - Web presentation layer technology.Web itself is composed of a set of very complex technical architectures, but its address end goal is to face the browser or application users, and provide a visual and easy to operate information interaction platform for the latter.The presentation layer technology refers to the technology that displays information to users and provides them with interactive behavior. It can be simply understood as the expression is the style. On the technical level, it is a pile of program code, while the presentation layer brings people what they see visually.At present, the Web standard formulated by the W3C is just such a collection of presentation layer technologies, and it is also the only cross platform and cross client technology at present.In addition, Adobe's Flash (formerly a Macromedia product) and Microsoft's WPF and WPF/E are all committed to becoming the next generation rich Internet application presentation layer technology. They all hope to create a better display platform through better interaction methods and multimedia features.
It can be said that enriching application will be one of the main directions of web design in the future.The structure of the web page will become clearer and clearer, and will develop towards a richer interactive experience.During the first edition of this book, it was at the beginning of the popularization of Web standards. During this period, Internet service providers were no longer satisfied with static website products. By virtue of the potential of JavaScript and CSS, they created the most ideal RIA application mode based on current technology - AJAX, and took the concept of RIA back from Flash/Flex and other products,Become the hottest RIA development platform at present.