Web Experience Toolkit (WET)

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Github Update: April 4th

24 pull requests merged by 3 people

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“...The award-winning Web Experience Toolkit has been translated to more than 30 languages and is one of, if not the most active government open source projects.”

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“ Open source software is freely distributed, and its open codebase provides an engine for innovation, as any developer can create improvements and share their work back with the larger community of users.”

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Example 3

The story of the Norsemen runs thus. Towards the end of the ninth century, or nearly two hundred years before the Norman conquest, there was a great exodus or outswarming of the Norsemen from their original home in Norway. A certain King Harold had succeeded in making himself supreme in Norway, and great numbers of the lesser chiefs or jarls preferred to seek new homes across the seas rather than submit to his rule. So they embarked with their seafaring followers—Vikings, as we still call them—often, indeed, with their wives and families, in great open ships, and sailed away, some to the coast of England, others to France, and others even to the Mediterranean, where they took service under the Byzantine emperors. But still others, loving the cold rough seas of the north, struck westward across the North Sea and beyond the coasts of Scotland till they reached Iceland. This was in the year 874. Here they made a settlement that presently grew to a population of fifty thousand people, having flocks and herds, solid houses of stone, and a fine trade in fish and oil with the countries of Northern Europe. These settlers in Iceland attained to a high standard of civilization. They had many books, and were fond of tales and stories, as are all these northern peoples who spend long winter evenings round the fireside. Some of the sagas, or stories, which they told were true accounts of the voyages and adventures of their forefathers; others were fanciful stories, like our modern romances, created by the imagination; others, again, were a mixture of the two. Thus it is sometimes hard to distinguish fact and fancy in these early tales of the Norsemen. We have, however, means of testing the stories. Among the books written in Iceland there was one called the 'National Name-Book,' in which all the names of the people were written down, with an account of their forefathers and of any notable things which they had done.

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“...The award-winning Web Experience Toolkit has been translated to more than 30 languages and is one of, if not the most active government open source projects.”

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“ Open source software is freely distributed, and its open codebase provides an engine for innovation, as any developer can create improvements and share their work back with the larger community of users.”

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Open source soare is freely distributed

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Why use the Web Experience Toolkit?

Accessible and Usable

Complies to the Government of Canada's Web Standards. WCAG 2.0 AA compliant so it is accessible to persons with disabilities. Iterative approach to design.

Mobile-friendly

Responsive, light-weight pages make it desktop and mobile friendly. It has touchscreen support and has optimized performance.

Interoperable

Supporting a wide variety of browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera). Building support for HTML data (RDFa 1.1 Lite, Schema.org). Leverages native HTML5 support.

Growing community

Openly developed on Github by a diverse community of contributors. Multi-level review process for contributions to ensure code integrity. Become a member!

Award-winning

Award-winning code library for building innovative websites. Known for its efforts in reducing research and development costs.

Flexible and reusable

Licensed for non-commercial or commercial reuse (MIT license). Reusable plugins, widgets, and 5 themeable templates that can be enhanced through CSS. Adapted to various CMS and programming frameworks.

Let’s get started

What are you waiting for? Learn more about how the Web Experience Toolkit is built and what's included. We'll cover the basics and help you start building!

Talk to us

Submit an issue on GitHub to tell us about a bug or request a feature. Not sure how to contribute? Read our contribution guidelines.

Websites built with the Web Experience Toolkit

Date modified:: 2014-03-27