What’s The W3C?
Directly from their web site at http://www.w3.org/, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C’s mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.
In layman’s terms, the W3C is non-profit organization that develops standards by which all web designers and programmers should attempt to adhere to when writing code for the web. At Gray Spectrum, we’re pretty diehard about adhering to these standards. That’s not to say that from time to time, a page won’t validate 100% perfectly. In fact, in many cases we use proprietary scripts that don’t validate, such as many Facebook scripts. The options are either don’t validate 100% or don’t use the script. We choose to use the script to offer the functionality our web sites need. Otherwise, all proprietary scripts aside, our code validates 100%.
Why is this important? It’s important because it’s a sign that we take incredible pride in our work. It shows that we dot the ‘I’s and cross the ‘T’s. We want everything to be perfect, and although we’re not, we never stop trying.
