Molly Holzschlag - FOWD London 2009

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

Core principles
Everyone
Everywhere
Everything
Meaningful
Searchable
Useful
Social

Paper
Marking up the world

Wither what we know?
HTML 4.01
XHTML 1.0
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 2
HTML 5

Scissors
Cut it out!

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

Make more . . .
SVG
SMIL
Microformats
RDFa
Open standards for <video> and <audio>
Better developer/designer tools

Spock
Futureshock

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
Semantics
Application development
CSS3 - Go baby, go!
Great implementations
More on the way
Ubiquitous JavaScript

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