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W3C launches mobile standards push
News The Web's leading standards body has launched a ground campaign to promote its mobile Web protocols in the real world. The W3C, on Wednesday announced its Mobile Web Initiative, a new kind of working group that will concentrate on the application...
[May 12, 2005, 9:50]
W3C finalises disability guidelines
News Bringing a five-year project to a significant milestone, the World Wide Web Consortium finalised guidelines for building browsers and media players that work better for people with disabilities. The W3C's recommendation of its User Agent...
[December 19, 2002, 8:37]
W3C investigates threat to HTML
News With a patent threat looming over the Web's de facto standard browser, the Worldwide Web Consortium has launched a strategy group to evaluate the implications for the Web's standard markup language. As previously reported, the W3C conceived the...
[September 25, 2003, 13:00]
W3C challenges developers on mobile Web
News p>The next challenge facing Web developers is to make their sites accessible to mobile users, according to the W3C. At an event to promote its Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), held on Tuesday in London, members of the consortium outlined their vision...
[November 16, 2005, 17:20]
W3C cuts membership fees
News Bringing the fight against the digital divide to the Web standards arena, the W3C slashed membership fees for small organisations in developing nations. Claiming that its existing fee schedule discouraged such groups from joining, the Web's main...
[April 21, 2005, 12:15]
W3C plans push for mobile standards adoption
News After years of issuing Web standards for mobile devices, the W3C may try to get people to actually use them. Representatives of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will descend on Barcelona on Thursday and Friday to plot a potential "Mobile Web...
[November 18, 2004, 8:40]
W3C marks 'milestone' in DOM protocol
News The Web's leading standards body revised a key recommendation for manipulating elements of a Web page. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Wednesday recommended the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3, ironing out problems with the Level 2...
[April 8, 2004, 9:05]
W3C to hold London mobile standards event
News The W3C is holding an event in London to promote its Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) to promote the idea of 'the Web on the move' to UK developers. The half-day event on the 15th November will be open to the public and free to attend.
[November 3, 2005, 11:15]
W3C retreats from royalty policy
News An Internet standards body has retreated from a proposal that would have allowed companies to claim patent rights and demand royalties for technologies used in its standards. The World Wide Web Consortium works with developers, software makers and...
[February 26, 2002, 14:17]
W3C celebrates tenth birthday
News The body that sets standards for the Web -- the World Wide Web Consortium -- plans to celebrate its tenth birthday in Boston, Massachusetts, on the first of December. The W3C was founded in 1994 to develop technical specifications for the Web's...
[October 15, 2004, 17:20]
W3C sums it all up
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) last week published its first complete description of how the Web works, including details on its protocols and data formats. The document, entitled Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One is meant to...
[December 21, 2004, 14:50]
W3C sees graphics on mobile phones
News In a development that could help Adobe erode some of Macromedia's vector graphics lead, the Web's most influential standards group issued a draft designed to make its vector graphics standard work more easily on cell phones.
[November 18, 2002, 8:47]
W3C releases draft of HTML 5
News The World Wide Web Consortium has published a public draft of the first major upgrade to HTML in over a decade. Released on Tuesday, the first working draft for HTML 5 is a result of work carried out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML...
[January 25, 2008, 13:59]
W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0
News The web-standards body W3C has published Sparql, a query language designed to gather data from multiple sources and speed the development of Web 2.0 applications — creating a standard web service for anything that asks a question.
[January 18, 2008, 14:25]
W3C readies computer-interaction specs
News The World Wide Web Consortium said on Tuesday that two specifications related to computer-voice interaction are ready to become industry standards. As previously reported, the W3C had been building its recommendation through a series of reviews by...
[March 17, 2004, 10:20]
W3C shows why innovation needs standards
Leader The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have announced the release of some new standards which look set to widen what we can do with the Internet and its technologies.
[January 27, 2005, 12:25]
W3C outlines XML speed boosting plan
News The W3C, the standards body in charge of developing XML, said on Tuesday that it has issued three recommendations designed to make handling XML-formatted data more efficient. The specifications have the backing of large industry software providers...
[January 27, 2005, 8:05]
W3C examines the next generation of speech technology
News The W3C on Tuesday said the next generation of VoiceXML will include specifications for speaker verification. The W3C said it will draft specifications for VoiceXML 3.0, a technology enabling voice identification verification for users transacting...
[December 7, 2005, 15:05]
W3C's latest standard: Scripting's swansong?
News The Web's leading standards body released a long-delayed recommendation for using scripts in Web pages but urged coders not to rely too heavily on scripting. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommended on Thursday its Document Object Model (DOM...
[January 10, 2003, 10:53]
W3C lathers up Soap standard
News Standards body the World Wide Web Consortium said on Wednesday that it is close to finalising an upgrade to an important Web services protocol called Soap. Simple Object Access Protocol (Soap) acts as a transport mechanism to send data between...
[May 8, 2003, 10:07]
