for other uses see wasp disambiguation . web standards project former type project industry information technology fate dissolved founded 1998 founder george olsen defunct 2013 key people jeffrey zeldman website www.webstandards.org the web standards project wasp was a group of professional web developers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the world wide web consortium along with other groups and standards bodies . founded in 1998 the web standards project campaigned for standards that reduced the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long term viability of any document published on the web . wasp worked with browser companies authoring tool makers and peers to encourage them to use these standards since they are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users . 1 in 2013 the project was closed . contents 1 organization 1.1 task forces 2 activities 3 references 4 external links organization edit the web standards project began as a grassroots coalition fighting for standards in our web browsers founded by george olsen glenn davis and jeffrey zeldman in 1998 . by 2001 the group had achieved its primary goal of persuading microsoft netscape opera and other browser makers to accurately and completely support html 4.01 xhtml 1.0 css1 and ecmascript . had browser makers not been persuaded to do so the web would likely have fractured into pockets of incompatible content with various websites available only to people who possessed the right browser . in addition to streamlining web development and significantly lowering its cost support for common web standards enabled the development of the semantic web . by marking up content in semantic x html front end developers make a site s content more available to search engines more accessible to people with disabilities and more available to the world beyond the desktop e.g. mobile . founding members of the project moved on in 2002 but continued to evangelize web standards to design and business audiences . in this period the web standards project became primarily an educational organization . project leaders were george olsen 1998 1999 jeffrey zeldman 1999 2002 steven champeon 2002 2004 molly holzschlag 2004 2006 kimberly blessing and drew mclellan 2006 2008 derek featherstone aaron gustafson and glenda sims 2008 2013 there were members that were invited to work on ad hoc initiatives the buzz blog and other content areas of the site . the group announced its own dissolution in a buzz blog post on march 1 2013 . 2 task forces edit the web standards project hosted projects focused on bringing relevant organizations closer to standards compliance dubbed task forces . adobe task force focused on improving web standards compliance in products from adobe systems . was named the dreamweaver task force until 2008 03 10 . 3 education task force worked with institutions of higher education to promote instruction of web standards and standards compliant public sites . microsoft task force worked with the internet explorer and web platform tools team . accessibility task force worked with organizations vendors and others to promote web accessibility . international liaison group a member was an active advocate for web standards and best practices either in their country of origin or domicile . 4 the street team organized community events to promote web standards . the dom scripting task force became inactive before the group disbanded . its purpose was to focus on interoperable client side scripting through explaining and promoting the dom standards from w3c and the ecmascript standard and concepts like progressive enhancement graceful degradation and unobtrusive scripting . 5 these best practice approaches have been called dom scripting to differentiate them from earlier perceived bad uses of dhtml . activities edit the acid1 test allows browsers and other rendering engines to test compliance with html 4 and css 1 specifications . the acid2 test allows browsers and other rendering engines to test compliance with css 1 and 2 specifications . the acid3 test allows browsers and other rendering engines to test compliance with css 2.1 dom and ecmascript specifications . the acid4 test to be created at a later date will allow browsers and other rendering engines to test compliance with svg css 3 and mixed namespaces . 6 in the wake of the wasp s closure the status of this test is unknown . references edit wasp fighting for standards wasp mission statement . web standards project . 2006 . retrieved 2008 03 10 . our work here is done . web standards project . 2013 . retrieved 2013 03 01 . announcing the adobe task force the web standards project ilg members the web standards project . webstandards.org . manifesto the web standards project . webstandards.org . ian hickson . acid4 will be primarily a visual test not especially scripted . it will 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