Valid XHTML
Here at Adept Group Ltd, we firmly believe in taking the care to create an interoperable Web site. All pages on this website have been validated to ensure they are fully XHTML compliant. Most pages on this website have been validated against the latest XHTML 1.1 specification. Portions of this site uses proprietry software from third-party vendors, and wherever possible these pages have been validated to the XHTML 1.0 (Transitional) specification. All pages have been labelled with the corresponding logos found at the bottom of each page to show compliance as valid XHTML 1.1 or XHTML 1.0 (Transitional), as follows:
Valid XHTML 1.0 (Transitional) and Valid XHTML 1.1 compliant logo's
World Wide Web Consotium (W3C)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. By promoting interoperability and encouraging an open forum for discussion, W3C commits to leading the technical evolution of the Web. In just ten years, W3C has developed more than eighty technical specifications for the Web's infrastructure. However, the Web is still young and there is still a lot of work to do, especially as computers, telecommunications, and multimedia technologies converge. To meet the growing expectations of users and the increasing power of machines, W3C is already laying the foundations for the next generation of the Web. W3C's technologies will help make the Web a robust, scalable, and adaptive infrastructure for a world of information. To understand how W3C pursues this mission, it is useful to understand the Consortium's goals and driving principles.
W3C's long term goals for the Web are:
- Universal Access: To make the Web accessible to all by promoting technologies that take into account the vast differences in culture, languages, education, ability, material resources, access devices, and physical limitations of users on all continents;
- Semantic Web: To develop a software environment that permits each user to make the best use of the resources available on the Web;
- Web of Trust: To guide the Web's development with careful consideration for the novel legal, commercial, and social issues raised by this technology.
XHTML
Several versions of HTML have stabilized the explosion in functionalities of the Web's primary markup language. XHTML 1.0, which features the semantics of HTML 4.01 using the syntax of XML, became a Recommendation in January 2000. XHTML 1.1, the modularized version of XHTML, was published in May 2001. The modularization of XHTML makes it possible to develop various XHTML profiles, well adapted to particular device types or user communities. XHTML Basic, published in December 2000, is an example for an XHTML profile developed for Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes.
