Working together for standards The Web Standards Project

Jo Bager has written a short-but-oh-so-sweet blurb on our humble Task force for Heise Online. Vielen Dank, Herr Bager!

Update: Task Force Leader Jeremy Keith’s wife, Jessica, has sent us an English translation:

Web standards activists set their sights on scripting languages

The Web Standards Projects (WaSP) wants to fight intrusive scripts.
To do this, it’s founded the DOM Scripting Task Force. The WaSP activists say that intrusive scripts have given scripting languages in general a bad name. The WaSP mentions pop-ups, scrolling status bars and animated layers as just a few examples of such intrusive scripts.

The WaSP activists are pleased that there is now a standard for the development of JavaScript applications. All current browsers support the Document Object Model – or DOM for short – of the W3C. But just falling back on this isn’t enough to write scripts which meet the standards of the WaSP. Scripts shouldn’t demand the attention of the user; users should be able use them without thinking about it. What’s also important to the WaSP is accessibility – so the basic function of a site should not depend on a script. The standards activists have set out their motivation and goals in a manifesto.

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