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ASP.NET and W3C Compliance

ASP.NET and W3C Compliance. Presented by Paul Turner paul.turner@kaz-group.com. Overview. What is W3C? How does it effect developers? ASP.NET (1.1) compliance ASP.NET (2.0) compliance. What is the W3C?. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Standards organisation Over 350 Members

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ASP.NET and W3C Compliance

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  1. ASP.NET and W3C Compliance Presented by Paul Turner paul.turner@kaz-group.com

  2. Overview • What is W3C? • How does it effect developers? • ASP.NET (1.1) compliance • ASP.NET (2.0) compliance

  3. What is the W3C? • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) • Standards organisation • Over 350 Members • BEA, Microsoft, SUN, AT&T, AOL, CERN, Cisco, CSIRO, EDS, Fijitsu, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Sony… “W3C Members take a leadership role in the future of the Web, promote their image as an innovator participating in a standards body international in mission and impact, and gain early insight into market trends (thus reducing the risk of missing them)”

  4. What is the W3C? • The W3C has ‘shaped’ the core web technologies • Provide implementations • Jigsaw (Web Server) • Libwww (Web Server Library) • HTML Tidy (HTML compliance tool) • Amaya (Web Browser)

  5. So what? • Ensures that basic ‘rules’ are followed • Compatibility • ‘Rendering’ of HTML and CSS in a consistent manner on all platforms • Interoperability • SOAP, XML and Web Services… • NOT related to implementations • IE, Firefox, Mozilla etc…

  6. How does it effect developers? • HTML compliance • HTML • XHMTL • Accessibility compliance • Priority 1 • Priority 2 • Priority 3 • CSS compliance • More… XML, XPath, SOAP, URI, HTTP…

  7. HTML Compliance • Sets the standards for HTML • Ensures that software* interprets HTML correctly • Strongly related to the HTTP standard (the transport) • Provides online validators * Web browsers are just one type

  8. Demo • HTML Validator • http://validator.w3.org/

  9. Accessibility Compliance • Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) • About providing access to the internet to disabled people • Provides standards for an electronic interpretation of a page • Screen readers for the blind • A, AA and AAA priority requirement • Also means you tend to have really good HTML…

  10. Demo • WCAG validator • http://webxact.watchfire.com/

  11. CSS Compliance • Ensures that common styles are applied • Keeps a consistent look between browsers • Provides online validators

  12. Demo • CSS Validator • http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

  13. ASP.NET (1.1) Compliance • Hard work • Don’t take on the task lightly! • Some built in controls don’t generate ‘Well Formed’ HTML <B>Hello <I>World</B>No end tag… <B>Hello <I>World</B></I> Overlapping tags… <TABLE ID=“Table1”>…</TABLE> . <TABLE ID=“Table1”>…</TABLE> Reused ID’s

  14. Demo • Tag reuse

  15. ASP.NET (1.1) Compliance • IDE Settings • HTML Editor • Formatting of attributes

  16. Demo • Editor Settings • Schema Settings

  17. ASP.NET (2.0) Compliance • ‘Check Page for Accessibility’ • HTML validation options • XHTML • HTML 4.01 • IE, Netscape etc… • Server controls versus HTML controls

  18. Demo • Visual Studio 2005

  19. Summary • WC3 – http://www.w3.org • HTML – http://validator.w3.org/ • WCAG – http://webxact.watchfire.com/ • CSS – http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ • Visual Studio Editor Settings • Visual Studio 2005

  20. Questions?

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