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Why do we need web standards

Web standards is a general term for the formal standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of standardized best practices for building web sites, and a philosophy of web design and development that includes those methods. -Source

Source: http://bigthink.com/series/23?selected=13846

There are still lots of websites that do not use web standards.

Sad to say i have seen many sites here in the Philippines, was developed by old fashioned web developers, meaning those who are not using web standards. And yet they earn developing old style of web development. Haha..

How do you spot if a site was developed by an old fashioned web developer?

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Do you know which are the top 5 browsers in the Philippines for the year 2009?

As the year ends let me share you these statistics

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share

As you can see Philippines is a Firefox country, with 57.87% usage. Hooray!
I’m a Mozilla Campus Reps and im happy with the result

Now lets look on the versions we are using

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Version Market Share

Looks like there are still many IE6 users and also many Firefox users have not upgraded their browsers to 3.5.
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Have you already watched Avatar? I do..

Haha.. the best ung animation nila, almost all of their softwares were powered by Adobe.

Below is a short video clip from the producer of Avatar

A video featuring Jon Landau, Producer of “Avatar”, describing how Adobe software was used throughout the production of the film.

article from

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/customer-stories-video-film-and-audio/adobe-and-avatar/