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Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. These standards, while not enforceable by law, have a great deal of benefit to both web developers and web surfers alike.
Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized “best practices” for building websites. While the following list is not exhaustive, these best practices consist primarily of the following three things:
Recommendations published by W3C.Standards published by ECMA International.Standards published by the International Organization for Standardization.As the World Wide Web continues to grow in importance in almost every aspect of life, the standards that exist to develop it grow in importance as well. These standards allow the web to be free and accessible to anyone that has an internet connection, essentially evening the playing field for those surfing the web.