Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Standards
- MEANING
- Are an agreed way of doing
things
- Flexibility
- Facto standards
- Have been accepted as the best standard for their purpose
- Public support and market forces
- become accepted by an industry
- Anyone can attempt to create a standard if they wish
- Jure standards
- Have been approved by formal authorities
- Are critically assessed before being
approved
- Proprietary standards
- Are designed, created, maintained and controlled by a licence agreement
- DOC
- MP3
- Open standards
- Are usually controlled by a Creative Commons licence
- Freely available
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) maintains a number of open standards to use on the web
- Compatibility
- Compatibility is an important issue if you are making a program
- What system your product is going to be compatible with