Opera unveils education initiative aimed at supporting web standards education

Telecomworldwire, July 9, 2008

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-9 July 2008-Opera unveils education initiative aimed at supporting web standards education(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com

Norwegian Internet browsers developer Opera Software ASA (OSE: OPERA) launched on Tuesday (8 July) an education initiative aimed at supporting and enhancing web standards education and training in secondary schools, colleges, universities and businesses globally.

According to the company, the first step in the initiative is the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, a curriculum of learning material to provide a thorough understanding of client-side web design and development. The materials are available free of charge under a Creative Commons license from http://www.opera.com/wsc/.

The curriculum reportedly covers CSS, HTML and background concepts. It provides instruction on web design theory, including typography, colour and information architecture, as well as delivering introductory information about JavaScript, enabling the reader to work with JavaScript when it is encountered, including debugging and writing simple scripts.

In addition, the curriculum can be used as a training course for businesses who want to promote good coding practices as well as enjoy the bandwidth savings, easier maintenance and enhanced innovation web standards provide.

So far 23 articles have been published, with more than 50 planned in total. Authors contributing to this project include web developers such as Christian Heilmann and Mark Norman Francis of Yahoo!, Peter-Paul Koch of quirksmode.org, Jonathan Lane, Linda Goin, Paul Haine, Roger Johansson of 456bereastreet, and Jen Hanen, the company claims.

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