Web Standards Project

Web Standards Project (WaSP for short) was a group of professional website developers who pursued broad support for the standards of the World Wide Web Consortium on the World Wide Web . Founded by George Olsen , Glenn Davis and Jeffrey Zeldman in 1998, the aim of the developers was to use Internet Explorer to convince leading browser manufacturers such as Microsoft to use the defined standards, including HTML , Cascading Style Sheets and ECMAScript to adhere to. After the support of the standards on the part of the manufacturers was followed more and more, the organization sees itself today as an educational and teaching organization. A well-known project is the Acid test series for web browsers . On March 1, 2013, the Web Standards Project announced its closure.

Task forces

The organization pursues various individual projects, which, based on the basic idea, are specialized in individual areas and are called task forces . These include, for example:

Adobe Task Force: Originally called the Dreamweaver Task Force, the team aims to support the web standards of all Adobe projects

Education Task Force: See themselves as a teaching team for secondary schools

Microsoft Task Force: A specially put together team, geared towards Microsoft software such as Internet Explorer

Accessibility Task Force: Task Force on Tracking in Support of Accessibility

The Street Team: This area organizes events that convey the goals for compliance with Internet standards

DOM Scripting Task Force: The team of this task force was mainly concerned with the standardization of a client-side scripting language. The project was discontinued in 2008.

Web links

webstandards.org Web presence of the Web Standards Project
WaSP: Fight for standards German translation of the WaSP mission
WaSP Education Task Force (English)

Individual evidence

^ WaSP: Fighting for Standards - Mission. Retrieved October 5, 2011 .
↑ WaSP mission. WaSP Baseline Standards Proposal (archived). Retrieved October 5, 2011 .
↑ The Web Standards Project stops , heise.de, published on March 1, 2013, accessed on March 4, 2013
^ Task Force: Examples. Retrieved October 5, 2011 .
^ Stephanie Sullivan: Announcing the Adobe Task Force. webstandards.org, March 10, 2008, accessed October 5, 2011 .
↑ Jeremy Keith: DOM Scripting: A Web Standard. webstandards.org, February 20, 2008, accessed October 5, 2011 .

[1] WaSP: Fighting for Standards - Mission. Retrieved October 5, 2011 .

[2] WaSP mission. WaSP Baseline Standards Proposal (archived). Retrieved October 5, 2011 .

[3] The Web Standards Project stops , heise.de, published on March 1, 2013, accessed on March 4, 2013

[4] Task Force: Examples. Retrieved October 5, 2011 .

[5] Stephanie Sullivan: Announcing the Adobe Task Force. webstandards.org, March 10, 2008, accessed October 5, 2011 .

[6] Jeremy Keith: DOM Scripting: A Web Standard. webstandards.org, February 20, 2008, accessed October 5, 2011 .