ASP.NET and W3C Compliance

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ASP.NET and W3C Compliance

• Presented by
• Paul Turner
• paul.turner_at_kaz-group.com

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Overview

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

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What is the W3C?

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Standards organisation
• Over 350 Members
• BEA, Microsoft, SUN, ATT, 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)

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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Demo

• HTML Validator
• http//validator.w3.org/

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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

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Demo

• WCAG validator
• http//webxact.watchfire.com/

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CSS Compliance

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

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Demo

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

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ASP.NET (1.1) Compliance

• Hard work
• Dont take on the task lightly!
• Some built in controls dont generate Well
  Formed HTML
• ltBgtHello ltIgtWorldlt/Bgt No end tag
• ltBgtHello ltIgtWorldlt/Bgtlt/Igt Overlapping tags
• ltTABLE IDTable1gtlt/TABLEgt
• .
• ltTABLE IDTable1gtlt/TABLEgt
• Reused IDs

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Demo

• Tag reuse

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ASP.NET (1.1) Compliance

• IDE Settings
• HTML Editor
• Formatting of attributes

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Demo

• Editor Settings
• Schema Settings

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ASP.NET (2.0) Compliance

• Check Page for Accessibility
• HTML validation options
• XHTML
• HTML 4.01
• IE, Netscape etc
• Server controls versus HTML controls

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Demo

• Visual Studio 2005

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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

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Questions?