Molly Holzschlag - FOWD London 2009Presentation Transcript
The Future of Web Standards
or: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 : Future of Web Design : London
Rock
Core principals of standards
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 : Future of Web Design : London
Core principles
Everyone
Everywhere
Everything
Meaningful
Searchable
Useful
Social
Paper
Marking up the world
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 : Future of Web Design : London
Wither what we know?
HTML 4.01
XHTML 1.0
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 2
HTML 5
Scissors
Cut it out!
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 : Future of Web Design : London
Cut it out!
IE6
IE7
IE8 Standards
IE8 Compat Mode
Versioning is antithetical to everything the core Web ideals express: backward compatibility; future growth
“ Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Get on with it, please
Finish what we start
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 : Future of Web Design : London
Make more . . .
SVG
SMIL
Microformats
RDFa
Open standards for <video> and <audio>
Better developer/designer tools
Spock
Futureshock
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 : Future of Web Design : London
The Open Web Platform Idealistic and yet, all within reach. Idealistic and yet, all within reach.
Open standards for the document
Open standards for document presentation
Open standards for document behavior
Open standards for accessibility
Open standards for universality
Open source and standards for media
Open source and standards for fonts
Open Web Stack microformats SVG Vector Graphics PNG/JPG/GIF… Raster Graphics ? [OGG?/ VMS?/Dirac?] Audio & Video SMIL Sycronise- ation Media DOM Document API JavaScript Scripting Behaviour CSS Style sheets Presentation XML XHTML/HTML Markup RDFa Semantics ARIA Accessibility Structure <canvas> Drawing API Open Web “Stack” courtesy david storey, chief web opener, Opera
Are you ready?
HTML5
Semantics
Application development
CSS3 - Go baby, go!
Great implementations
More on the way
Ubiquitous JavaScript
Thank You London!
Photos: Faruk Ates, Lisa Herrod, Caz Mockett, Amit Karmakar, Jon Gibbins, Rachel Andrew