In this workshop, Chris Mills will give you a detailed run down of what it actually means to develop with web standards in the modern world. He starts off by looking at what we standards means, in terms of philosophy and values (eg validation and semantics). Following on from this, he takes a practical look at how you can justify using web standards both in a practical sense (looking at lots of examples of how standards can make things better), and a business sense (how to make the pointy-haired boss say "yes!")

Opera's new Web Standards Curriculum, released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network, is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. It already has support from many organizations (including Yahoo! and the Web Standards Project) and universities.