{"id":22,"date":"2013-03-04T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/webteam\/?p=22"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:01:23","slug":"slugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/digital-innovation\/2013\/03\/04\/slugs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Web Standards Project (WaSP) Shuttered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Original story at: <a href=\"http:\/\/paritynews.com\/web-news\/item\/737-the-web-standards-project-wasp-shuttered\">http:\/\/paritynews.com\/web-news\/item\/737-the-web-standards-project-wasp-shuttered<\/a>]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Aaron Gustafson and two of his fellow contributors, Bruce Lawson and Steph Troeth, have <a href=\"http:\/\/paritynews.com\/web-news\/item\/737-the-web-standards-project-wasp-shuttered\">announced the closure of The Web Standards Project (WaSP)<\/a>. It was formed back in 1998 by Glenn Davis, George Olsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman to get browser makers support the open standards established by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The project described itself as a &#8216;coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.&#8217; Founded at a time when Microsoft and Netscape were battling it out for browser dominance, WaSP aimed to mitigate the risks arising out of this war \u2013 an imminent fragmentation that could lead to browser incompatibilities. Noting that &#8216;..Tim Berners-Lee&#8217;s vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webstandards.org\/2013\/03\/01\/our-work-here-is-done\/\">Aaron noted that it was time to<\/a> &#8216;close down The Web Standards Project.'&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Original story at: http:\/\/paritynews.com\/web-news\/item\/737-the-web-standards-project-wasp-shuttered] &#8220;Aaron Gustafson and two of his fellow contributors, Bruce Lawson and Steph Troeth, have announced the closure of The Web Standards Project (WaSP). It was formed back in 1998 by Glenn Davis, George Olsen, and Jeffrey &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/digital-innovation\/2013\/03\/04\/slugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-news","tag-tags"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Web Standards Project (WaSP) Shuttered - Digital Innovation Team<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Web Standards Project is closed down\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/digital-innovation\/2013\/03\/04\/slugs\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Euan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\\\/digital-innovation\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/04\\\/slugs\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\\\/digital-innovation\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/04\\\/slugs\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Euan\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\\\/digital-innovation\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6b29da5d97f764fe052b373ff85bf407\"},\"headline\":\"The Web Standards Project (WaSP) Shuttered\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-04T14:01:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-03-12T13:01:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\\\/digital-innovation\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/04\\\/slugs\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":157,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"Tags\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Web news\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\\\/digital-innovation\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/04\\\/slugs\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\\\/digital-innovation\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/04\\\/slugs\\\/\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\\\/digital-innovation\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/04\\\/slugs\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Web Standards Project (WaSP) Shuttered - 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