Web Standards Project

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The Web Standards Project (WaSP) is a group of professional web designers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium.

Founded in 1998, The Web Standards Project campaigns for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web. WaSP works with browser companies, authoring tool makers, and peers to deliver the true power of standards to this medium.

Task Forces

The Web Standards Project also hosts projects focused on bringing relevant organizations closer to standards-compliance, dubbed Task Forces. By working with the larger organizations providing common tools to internet users, they are impacting the progress of standards adoption in the most effective way possible.

• The Acid2, the most famous project, which allows browsers to test their compliance with CSS 1 and 2 specifications.
• The Dreamweaver Task Force, which focuses on tightening the parameters and output of the Macromedia Dreamweaver IDE.
• DOM Scripting Task Force, focusing on interoperable client-side scripting.
• Microsoft Task Force, which has worked with the Internet Explorer team. It was from this effort that the Acid2 project came into being.

External links

• The Web Standards Project