Standards-compliant

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Standards-compliant is a term often used in describing websites & user agents' (often web browsers) relative compliance with web standards proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); also used for stressing out that one doesn't use proprietary methods or features.

Although there is no perfect browser that seamlessly adheres to all standards at the time being, huge advancement has been made by several major web browsers (such as Mozilla Firefox and Opera) in the past few years that will insure better interoperability in the future.

[edit] External links

• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• The most comprehensive comparison table of standards support in modern browsers - "It deals primarily with the Internet Explorer, Firefox/Netscape/Mozilla (now called SeaMonkey), and Opera web browsers, with focus on the HTML, CSS and DOM technologies."
• "Speeding up Browser Evolution", an article by Mike Davidson.