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A. The W3C items are 'recommendations' not 'standards'. Standards implies an enforcement structure, there is none.

1. These are pretty good questions. Some of the answers are as clearly defined as they could be.
2. Up to what expectation?
3. It is a pretty good list.

As an interviewer I would select a handful of these questions for any interview and also use JavaScript questions (since you cannot use jQuery without using JavaScript in any application beyond a basic application.

I also give small tests, using jsfiddle, where I write the markup and then give the candidate one or two exercises in jQuery and JavaScript.

Thanks for the reply and feedback.

The answers are very close in correctness for the most part. I think some of them could use a little more fleshing out because a candidate can still give a correct answer in some cases that do not match your answers. For someone who codes every day this is no issue, but if you were to give these questions to an interviewer in an HR department for pre-screening they may count an answer as incorrect that you and I would have counted as correct based on our experience and knowledge.

Very helpful. Thank you.  I have one question. We hear lightweight all the time, for example, in Q1 of yours: