W3 Compliance. What is the real question?

As a five-year web marketing veteran I know I'm rehashing a worn out topic: Whether or not to bring your web site to compliance with W3 Standard Code Validation. Should you or should you not bring your web site to comply to W3 standards?

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If you're a web developer looking forward to the new tools in HTML 5, the next generation of the language that powers the web, we have some bad news for you — you're going to waiting a while.

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HTML 5 represents the biggest leap forward in web standards in almost a decade. Unlike the specifications that came before it, HTML 5 is not merely intended to present content to a web browser.

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If you follow CSS, you're probably sick of hearing promises of CSS 3 -- the next generation style sheet language that should have been here several years ago.

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The release of a draft specification for HTML 5 marks another important step toward creating the next version of HTML, the hypertext markup language that powers the web.

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In keeping with its ongoing aim to not "break the Web" with major changes to the Internet Explorer (IE) rendering engine, Microsoft this week revealed how it will handle its support of Web standards in the next version of the Web browser.

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Things are finally moving over in CSS-land. On the positive side CSS column layouts are looking pretty nice, having dropped their dependency on the the janktastic "advanced" layout module and there's some initial movement on improving the CSS-OM.

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Nokia has filed a submission with the World Wide Web Consortium W3C objecting to the use of Ogg Theora as the baseline video standard for the Web.

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The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction.

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Just because a website ranks among the best in the world does not mean it is designed well. Most of the top 100 popular websites are poorly designed, filled with HTML errors, and fail the W3C HTML validation.

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The UK Government has given itself until the end of next year to get its act together on accessibility, after which any .gov.uk site failing to achieve the minimum, Level Double-A of the W3C Guidelines will have its domain withdrawn.

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* Engadget: 195 errors * Boing Boing: 137 errors * Gizmodo: 24 errors * Techcrunch: 215 errors * The Huffington Post: 126 errors * Lifehacker: 26 errors * Ars Technica: 12 errors * Daily Kos: 325 errors * PostSecret: 313 errors * T …

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Rules are meant to be broken they say, and when it comes to web standards looks like the same holds true. XML was set to be everywhere, even influencing one of the web's pilars - HTML - in favor of XHTML...

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The World Wide Web Consortium, which purports to be an "open forum" for standards discussion, doesn't exactly live up to its own claims.

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In spite of the widespread acceptance of Web standards by a specific segment of the design and development community, hosts of professionals – those out there right now creating the Web – are working in direct opposition to these standards.

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The fragmentation of widget platforms presents a problem for developers, who need to develop and then maintain different versions of widgets for the various desktop widget platforms (Vista, Mac, Google, Yahoo) as well as online platforms like Pageflakes and Netvibes (and lots of  …

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W3C. Valid XHTML. Valid CSS2.

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If you're concerned about the accessibility of the increasing number of Web 2.0 sites that use AJAX then you may want to have an input into the latest work in progress from the WAI working group for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA).

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CSS recently celebrated its 10th birthday (whoa, it's been that long huh?) and released a list of sites that has made an impact for CSS.

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From the article: This article has been written on behalf of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) and has been cross posted on The Web Standards Project, Lachy's Log, Molly.com and 456 Berea Street.

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Joe Clark responds to Tim Berners-Lee's most recent posting wherein he announces a new HTML group formation.

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Wonder if there is anything behind the use of the black band around the outside? Did MS send Netscape a similar cake before the attack? When asked by reporters if the IE7 cake met with accepted standards, the W3C refused to comment stating they were frosting neutral.

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Eric Meyer wants to see the W3C run on an endowment instead of membership fees. What do I think? I like the plan a lot.

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Jake's View (with at 9 years, probably the youngest Google Blogoscoped reader!) wanted to find out which search engine has the least HTML syntax errors, and tested them in the W3C HTML Validator. Here are the results:

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