In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in.
The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They
In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in.
The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They
XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML.
What You Should Already Know
Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:
* HTML and the basics of building web pages
If you want to study HTML first, please read our HTML tutorial.
What Is XHTML?
* XHTML stands for EXtensible HyperText Markup Language
* XHTML is aimed to replace HTML
* XHTML is almost identical to HTML 4.01
* XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML
* XHTML is HTML defined as an XML application
* XHTML is a W3C
Bring up the concept of standards compliance at your favorite Web guru hang-spot, and you'll be told point blank that it's not nice to talk in abstracts.
Web standards, defined and monitored by the World Wide Web Consortium, also known as the W3C, have existed since the beginning in order to keep all of us Web page builders, code jockeys and application developers on the same page, as it were. If everyone played by the rules and built perfectly standard-compliant pages, the Web would be faster, purely cross-platform, and an immeasureably less
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