{"id":30808,"date":"2012-11-30T22:25:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=30808"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:09:15","slug":"blue-beanie-day-supports-web-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2012\/11\/blue-beanie-day-supports-web-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Beanie Day Today to Support Web Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its the sixth Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/bbd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Beanie Day<\/a> today and people are supporting web standards by wearing a\u00a0blue beanie (toque, tuque, cap) and uploading their photos across the web. I was surprised to see so many blue caps turn up on Twitter, and researching the reason revealed that the web community is gathering to support web standards today\u00a0on Friday, November 30, 2012.<\/p>\n<h2>Blue Beanie Day<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/bbd12\/?rb=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flickr Group<\/a> is busy with new blue beanies photos, with both real and edited photos.\u00a0Even Twitter is trending with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/bbd12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#bbd12<\/a>\u00a0tag.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30809\" title=\"blue-beanie-day\" alt=\"blue beanie day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-beanie-day.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-beanie-day.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-beanie-day-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/\" rel=\"noopener\">open standards<\/a>\u00a0to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. Learn more about\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webstandards.org\/learn\/faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">web standards<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Beanie Day is\u00a0propagated\u00a0by Jeffrey Zeldman, a strong supporter of \u00a0web standards, author of \u00a0the very popular book\u00a0Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition), who wears a blue knit cap on the book cover.<\/p>\n<p>Contribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webplatform.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WebPlatforms<\/a>, an open community of web developers building resources to create a better web for all of us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ug6XAw6hzaw\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Pingdom staff is wearing blue hats to work today. Are you wearing a blue beanie to office to support the widespread use of universal web standards?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its the sixth Annual Blue Beanie Day today and people are supporting web standards by wearing a\u00a0blue beanie (toque, tuque,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}