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Web Standards

Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML

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  1. Leslie F. Sikos
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  • Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML is a comprehensive guide to current and future standards for the World Wide Web.

  • It reveals techniques to obtain standards compliance in development and redesign through step-by-step guides, along with the most common web standards problems and their solutions.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Web Standards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Web Standards

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 3-37

    3. Internationalization

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 39-54

    4. Markup Languages: More Than HTML5

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      Pages 55-137

    5. Serving and Configuration

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 139-159

    6. Style Sheets

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 161-211

    7. Scripting and Applications

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 213-243

    8. Metadata and the Semantic Web

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 245-305

    9. Web Syndication

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 307-333

    10. Optimized Appearance

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 335-365

    11. Accessibility

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 367-400

  3. Developing with Standards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 401-401
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    2. Development Tools

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 403-418

    3. Putting It All Together

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 419-442

    4. Best Practices

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 443-454

    5. Validation

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 455-480

    6. Most Common Errors

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 481-490

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 491-507
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About this book

Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML provides solutions to the most common website problems, and gives you a deep understanding of web standards and how they can be applied to improve your website. You will learn how to create fully standards-compliant websites and provide search engine-optimized Web documents with faster download times, accurate rendering, correct appearance and layout, lower development cost, approved accessibility, backward and forward compatibility, and easy maintenance and content updating. The book covers all major Web standards, focusing on syntax, grammar, recommended annotations, and other standardization concerns.

Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML is also a comprehensive guide to current and future standards for the World Wide Web. As a web developer, you'll have seen problems with inconsistent appearance and behavior of the same site in different browsers. Web standards can and should be used to completely eliminate these problems. Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML describes how you can make the most of web standards, through technology discussions as well as practical sample code that you can use for your own sites and web applications. It also provides a quick guide to standard website creation for Web developers.

  • Learn techniques and best practices to achieve full standards compliance
  • Write valid markup, styles, and news feeds from scratch or standardize websites by redesign
  • Restrict markup to semantics and provide reliable layout
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About the author

Leslie F. Sikos, Ph.D., is a Semantic Web researcher at Flinders University, South Australia, specializing in semantic video annotations, ontology engineering, and natural language processing using Linguistic Linked Open Data. On the cutting edge of Internet technologies, he is a member of industry-leading organizations, such as the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Engineering Task Force, and the Internet Society. He is an invited editor and journal reviewer actively contributing to the development of open standards. Dr. Sikos is the author of 15 textbooks covering a wide range of topics from computer networks to software engineering and web design. Devoted to lifelong learning, he holds multiple degrees in computer science and information technology, as well as professional certificates from the industry. Thanks to his hands-on skills, coupled with a pedagogical background, he can introduce technical terms and explain complex issues in plain English.Dr. Sikos creates fully standard-compliant, mobile-friendly web sites with responsive web design—complemented by machine-readable annotations—and develops multimedia applications leveraging Semantic Web technologies. He works on the standardization of Linked Data implementations for the precise identification, description, and classification of multimedia fragments, advancing the traditional video annotation techniques. Inspired by the creation and exploitation of rich Linked Open Data datasets, he proudly contributes to the Open Data and Open Knowledge initiatives. For more information, visit www.lesliesikos.com.
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  • Available as PDF
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