So who gets to decide all these rules about what an HTML tag does or what a CSS rule should make an item look like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards, protocols and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth of the Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
W3C\u2019s standards define key parts of what makes the World Wide Web work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To learn more about W3C or to read the very in-depth specifications, visit https:\/\/www.w3.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Why do we need an organisation to set open standards?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The W3C is vendor neutral. What this means is that it does not answer to any specific companies or technologies such as operating systems or browsers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is to enable web pages to be available to people using any platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine if web pages were like old USB cables. Where you might need a different browser to access different web sites based on which company provided them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The W3C is responsible for writing the standards for a range of internet technologies. These include both technologies that you will encounter in this course like CSS and HTML, and others such as XML and DOM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While companies might be involved in the discussion phase of standards writing, the full standards document is published allowing any companies to develop products to use the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If developers follow the standards when writing their code then it is more likely to be displayed properly in any browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next: Performance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So who gets to decide all these rules about what an HTML tag does or what a CSS rule should make an item look like? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards, protocols and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. W3C\u2019s standards define key parts… Continue reading W3C<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5710,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1146\/revisions\/1329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}