http://simonwillison.net/2018-05-07T13:28:51+00:00Simon Willison2018-05-07T13:28:51+00:002018-05-07T13:28:51+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2018/May/7/anil-dash/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/anildash/status/993450843272830976"><p>Somebody should write up how the early-2000s push for open standards and the Web Standards Project’s advocacy are a major factor in why Apple was able to create its enormously valuable comeback. Put another way, one of the killer moments of the first iPhone demo was Jobs saying it had the “real” web, not the “baby” web, by demonstrating the NYT homepage. That would’ve been IE-only &amp; Windows-only if not for effective advocacy from the web standards community.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://twitter.com/anildash/status/993450843272830976">Anil Dash</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/anil-dash">anil-dash</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apple">apple</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards">web-standards</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards-project">web-standards-project</a></p>

2009-05-14T16:07:46+00:002009-05-14T16:07:46+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/14/interview/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.webstandards.org/2009/05/13/interview-with-ian-hickson-editor-of-the-html-5-specification/">Interview with Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification</a></strong></p> By Bruce Lawson of the Web Standards Project. Worth reading. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bruce-lawson">bruce-lawson</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ian-hickson">ian-hickson</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/interview">interview</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards-project">web-standards-project</a></p>

2008-03-05T00:34:20+00:002008-03-05T00:34:20+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/5/acid3/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.webstandards.org/press/releases/20080303/">Acid3 is out</a></strong></p> The third Acid test, again compiled by Ian Hickson. This one viciously tests DOM Scripting standards compliance and currently exposes flaws in every browser. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/acid3">acid3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ian-hickson">ian-hickson</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/standards">standards</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards-project">web-standards-project</a></p>

2007-03-13T13:40:49+00:002007-03-13T13:40:49+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/13/wasp/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://streetteam.webstandards.org/">WaSP Street Team</a></strong></p> A new Web Standards Project initiative to encourage the promotion of Web standards in local communities. Your help needed! <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards-project">web-standards-project</a></p>

2004-06-09T05:10:30+00:002004-06-09T05:10:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2004/Jun/9/wasp/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://webstandards.org/survey/200406">WaSP Survey</a></strong></p> Tell us how to help you! <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2004_06.html#a000353">The Web Standards Project</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards-project">web-standards-project</a></p>

2003-10-29T19:02:16+00:002003-10-29T19:02:16+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2003/Oct/29/stripes/#atom-tag

<p>Well colour me yellow and black, I've just become the latest member of the <a href="http://webstandards.org/">web standards project</a>! I've been an avid supporter of the web standards movement for over a year now - in fact, my <a href="/2002/Jun/12/webStandards/" title="WaSP Phase II">first ever entry</a> linked to their launch of Phase II. It's a great honour to be a part of something I've supported for so long and I hope to become heavily involved in the <a href="http://www.webstandards.org/learn/">Learn campaign</a>, which aims to provide resources to developers who want to learn to use web standards effectively. I'm joining a <a href="http://www.webstandards.org/about/bios/">truly talented team</a> and I look forward to helping encourage web professionals to adopt standards and make the web a more interoperable place.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards-project">web-standards-project</a></p>

2002-06-13T15:36:22+00:002002-06-13T15:36:22+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2002/Jun/13/hixieOnWaSP/#atom-tag

<p>Hixie has been poking around the new <a href="http://www.webstandards.org/">Web Standards Project site</a>, and <a href="http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1023878214&amp;count=1" title="Buzz: Shooting the messenger">he is not impressed</a>. His analysis of the site makes interesting reading, with complaints including CSS colour and background not being set at the same time and the content-type of the document being set as "text/html" rather than the more correct "text/xml" required for XHTML documents.</p> <p>Some of his points seem overly picky, in particular the content-type issue. I checked a site Hixie mentions as sending the correct text/xml content-type header in NS4 and, as I suspected, NS4 popped up a "download" box and failed to render the page. I also checked out the W3's <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/">XHTML home page</a> - XHTML1.0 strict and a content-type header of text/html. His other points seem worth thinking about, but I would not consider any of them to significantly dilute WaSP's message.</p> <p>So respect to Hixie for taking on the mantle of the ultimate standards advocate, but you can take a good thing too far.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ian-hickson">ian-hickson</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards-project">web-standards-project</a></p>

2002-06-12T01:44:12+00:002002-06-12T01:44:12+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2002/Jun/12/webStandards/#atom-tag

<p>The <a href="http://www.webstandards.org/">Web Standards</a> project has launched Phase II.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards-project">web-standards-project</a></p>