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19-481: Blue Beanie Day is an annual international celebration of web standards which began in 2007. It was originated by Douglas Vos and popularized by Jeffrey Zeldman , the author of Designing with Web Standards . The commemoration, which is accompanied by web developers sharing photographs of themselves in blue beanies , seeks to raise awareness of web design features such as progressive enhancement and accessible, semantic markup and "fight Web Standards Apathy". Users use

38-435: A grassroots coalition fighting for improved web standards support in browsers. The web standards movement supports concepts of standards-based web design, including the separation of document structure from a web page or application's appearance and behavior; an emphasis on semantically structured content that validates (that is, contains no errors of structural composition) when tested against validation software maintained by

57-634: A new media specialist at Knight Ridder . This new venture was conceived as an educational resource center teaching web development. Project Cool continued the daily award concept under the name "Project Cool Sighting." The site became a respected and widely used resource on web development techniques, and its founders co-authored two books to complement it. Davis co-founded the Web Standards Project with Tim Bray , Jeffrey Zeldman and George Olsen, among others. In 2000, he founded Astounding Websites , an online forum created to review and discuss

76-507: Is a specification or set of guidelines that, after extensive consensus-building, has received the endorsement of W3C Members and the Director. An IETF Internet Standard is characterized by a high degree of technical maturity and by a generally held belief that the specified protocol or service provides significant benefit to the Internet community. A specification that reaches the status of Standard

95-608: Is assigned a number in the IETF STD series while retaining its original IETF RFC number. HTML 5 contains numerous "willful violations" of other specifications, in order to accommodate limitations of existing platforms. There are compliance tests both for HTML code generated by websites as well as for the faithful interpretation of HTML code by web browsers. W3C offers online services to test websites directly for both web site developers, as well as for website users. These include: The Web Standards Project (WaSP), although development

114-562: Is officially inactive , continues to offer two levels of testing services for web browsers: Glenn Davis (web design) Glenn Davis (born June 21, 1961) was one of the first web designers . He is best known for his websites Cool Site of the Day and Project Cool and for being a founding member of the Web Standards Project . Davis created Cool Site of the Day in August 1994. Linking to one single recommended site off its homepage each day,

133-861: The Blue Beanie Day , inspired by Jeffrey Zeldman, who is shown with a blue cap on the book cover of his 2003 book Designing with Web Standards . Since then, the 30 November is the annual international celebration of web standards and web accessibility . When a web site or web page is described as complying with web standards, it usually means that the site or page has valid HTML , CSS and JavaScript . The HTML should also meet accessibility and semantic guidelines. Full standard compliance also covers proper settings for character encoding , valid RSS or valid Atom news feed, valid RDF , valid metadata , valid XML , valid object embedding, valid script embedding, browser- and resolution-independent codes, and proper server settings. When web standards are discussed,

152-615: The World Wide Web Consortium ; and progressive enhancement , a layered approach to web page and application creation that enables all people and devices to access the content and functionality of a page, regardless of personal physical ability (accessibility), connection speed, and browser capability. Prior to the web standards movement, many web page developers used invalid, incorrect HTML syntax such as "table layouts" and "spacer" GIF images to create web pages — an approach often referred to as " tag soup ". Such pages sought to look

171-402: The interoperability , accessibility and usability of web pages and web sites. Web standards consist of the following: More broadly, the following technologies may be referred to as "web standards" as well: Web standards are evolving specifications of web technologies. Web standards are developed by standards organizations —groups of interested and often competing parties chartered with

190-660: The 50 most important people on the Internet in 1995, dubbing him the "King of Cool." In time for the first anniversary of Cool Site of the Day , Davis inaugurated the Cool Site Of The Year award, also known as the Webby , which was first presented in Hollywood , California , in August 1995, and was given to The Spot . Davis left Cool Site of the Day in November 1995. In January 1996 he founded Project Cool with Teresa Martin,

209-842: The Web Standards Project replaced bandwidth-heavy tag soup with light, semantic markup and progressive enhancement , with the goal of making web content "accessible to all". The Web Standards movement declared that HTML , CSS , and JavaScript were more than simply interesting technologies. "They are a way of creating Web pages that will facilitate the twin goals of sophisticated and appropriate presentation and widespread accessibility." The group succeeded in persuading Netscape , Microsoft , and other browser makers to support these standards in their browsers. It then set about promoting these standards to designers, who were still using tag soup , Adobe Flash , and other proprietary technologies to create web pages. In 2007, Douglas Vos initiated

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228-504: The best writing, design, and programming on the web. Davis gave up on the web as a medium in 2002, dismissing it as "old hat" because he believed there was little room for significant further breakthroughs. Davis has been recognized for defining the technique of "liquid" web design. Davis came back to the web in April 2022 launching his new website Verevolf, where he publishes web history stories. This World Wide Web –related article

247-590: The correct use of web standards is a basic requirement. This holiday -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Web standards Web standards include many interdependent standards and specifications, some of which govern aspects of the Internet , not just the World Wide Web. Even when not web-focused, such standards directly or indirectly affect the development and administration of web sites and web services . Considerations include

266-716: The following publications are typically seen as foundational: Web accessibility is normally based upon the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative . Work in the W3C toward the Semantic Web is currently focused by publications related to the Resource Description Framework (RDF), Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) and Web Ontology Language (OWL). A W3C Recommendation

285-467: The hashtag #BlueBeanieDay, change their social media avatars to show themselves in blue headgear, and share information and links to content promoting the open web and online accessibility. The origin of the name of the holiday is the image of Jeffrey Zeldman on the cover of his book wearing a blue knit cap . Over the years, the Blue Beanie Day also became an action day for web accessibility , for which

304-494: The lack of a caching page layout language, made web sites "heavy" in terms of bandwidth, as did the frequent use of images as text. These bandwidth requirements were burdensome to users in developing countries, rural areas, and wherever fast Internet connections were unavailable. The Web Standards movement pioneered by Glenn Davis , George Olsen, Jeffrey Zeldman , Steven Champeon, Todd Fahrner, Eric A. Meyer , Tantek Çelik , Dori Smith, Tim Bray , Jeffrey Veen, and other members of

323-430: The same in all browsers of a certain age (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 4), but were often inaccessible to people with disabilities. Tag soup pages also displayed or operated incorrectly in older browsers, and required code forks such as JavaScript for Netscape Navigator and JScript for Internet Explorer that added to the cost and complexity of development. The extra code required, and

342-461: The site soon became an arbiter of taste on the Internet, and its award was a coveted prize among Silicon Alley start-ups. Cool Site of the Day also sparked a large number of similar coolness awards. Davis became a celebrity through Cool Site of the Day , giving interviews to magazines and radio networks such as NPR while fending off gifts from site maintainers who sought his recommendation of their sites. Newsweek celebrated Davis as one of

361-450: The task of standardization—not technologies developed and declared to be a standard by a single individual or company. It is crucial to distinguish those specifications that are under development from the ones that already reached the final development status (in case of W3C specifications, the highest maturity level). The earliest visible manifestation of the web standards movement was the Web Standards Project , launched in August 1998 as

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