• DocumentCode
    1090875
  • Title

    Is HTML in a Race to the Bottom? A Large-Scale Survey and Analysis of Conformance to W3C Standards

  • Author

    Beatty, Paul ; Dick, Scott ; Miller, Jason

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    76
  • Lastpage
    80
  • Abstract
    The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) promulgates the HTML standards used on the Web, but it has no authority to enforce the adoption of one standard in favor of another. In this environment, developers have some incentive to ignore up-to-date W3C standards given that the transitional versions of HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 offer most of the capabilities of the newer ones but are less stringent in their requirements. If most Web sites migrate to these "transitional" standards and remain there, future versions might be mere academic exercises for the W3C.
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web sites; hypermedia markup languages; software standards; HTML 4.01; HTML standards; W3C standards; Web sites; World Wide Web Consortium; XHTML 1.0; Cellular phones; HTML; IEC standards; ISO standards; Large-scale systems; Regulators; Standards development; Web page design; Web sites; XML; Internet standards; W3C; Web development; Web publishing; XHTML document types;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIC.2008.37
  • Filename
    4463389
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1090875