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IBM: Let Sun into Web services group
News In an about-face, IBM is paving the way for rival Sun Microsystems to join a key Web services standards organisation, hoping to quell political infighting that could put a damper on the emerging technology.
[May 3, 2002, 11:39]
Oasis sets out stall on Web procurement
News A Web services standards group has launched an effort to push for uniform practices in the way supplies are bought and sold online. Oasis, which launched in 1993 under the name SGML Open, has recently taken on new prominence with the emergence of...
[April 29, 2003, 10:17]
Web services finds royalty-free Oasis
News A group within the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) will meet next month to discuss the technical development of Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL), a proposal led by several...
[April 30, 2003, 11:14]
Web services group leaves Sun in the cold
News Sun Microsystems is crying foul over a key new Web services standards group created by IBM and Microsoft, accusing its two rivals of "political shenanigans" for not inviting Sun to join as an equal partner.
[April 3, 2002, 10:28]
HTML 5 may not be finalised before 2022
Blog The next version of the HTML web programming standard is unlikely to be finalised until 2022, according to a source within the web standards community. The new generation of web standards is crucial for widgets and, perhaps more importantly...
[June 15, 2009, 16:52]
Tech giants partner on security standard
News Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign have teamed to create security standards for Web services, a move analysts say will help drive adoption of the hyped but still emerging technology. WS-Security is the fourth Web services specification created by IBM and...
[April 11, 2002, 8:32]
Seven new members for Liberty Alliance
News Liberty Alliance, a far-reaching body working on identity standards for Web services, has signed up seven new members. It is notable the body is now also talking about using its standards for applications such as digital rights management -- a...
[October 18, 2004, 15:55]
Support standards, not multiple browsers
Talkback IE has, by far, the worst support of web standards of all major web browsers. Even so, it is certainly easiest to design first according to standards and then make tweaks to make sure all of the major browsers are doing what you want.
[August 26, 2005, 18:45]
XHTML 2 is finally laid to rest
News In short, the web has many masters, but the ones with final say over its nature are those who build it page by page, not the standards group trying to create a new foundation. Introduced in 2002, XHTML 2 was the centerpiece of standards work at the...
[July 9, 2009, 13:23]
Sun's a late riser on WS-I board
News WS-I provides guidelines to software companies and businesses on how to conform to published Web services standards. The group, which has about 160 members, was created in February 2002 to coordinate the work of different standards bodies and...
[March 26, 2003, 17:06]
UK citizens shun e-government services
Talkback The failure to support standards in recent services probably poisoned the well. One, services must be coded to comply with international standards. For web services, that means using valid, well-formed XHTML for structure and CSS for layout and...
[April 6, 2005, 10:18]
European Net registrars boycott ICANN
News A fight has broken out between a key Net standards body and Web address administrators in Europe. Black said the European registries are asking ICANN to establish standards aimed at ensuring root server reliability and to sign contracts with the...
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
Semantic Web gets nod from W3C
News The Web's leading standards group finalised two drafts at the core of its ambitious effort to let computers glean meaning from the documents they help create, store and transfer. With two foundational technologies becoming standards, and with...
[February 10, 2004, 9:50]
XML encryption specs approved
News The Web's leading standards group on Tuesday approved two XML encryption specifications, a move that promises to boost the development of secure Web services. The W3C's encryption work comes as part of a larger push to publish standards relevant to...
[December 11, 2002, 7:01]
Sun signs up to rivals' security standards
News Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign have submitted a security specification for Web services to an industry standards body, a move that has won the backing of an unlikely supporter: Sun Microsystems. But Web services won't work unless the entire tech...
[June 27, 2002, 15:52]
W3C patent plan draws protests
News A new and controversial proposal under consideration by the World Wide Web Consortium could open the way for companies to claim patent rights -- and demand royalties -- on standards authorized by that body.
[October 2, 2001, 9:01]
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 group, in concert with the United States National Institute of Standards and...
[January 10, 2003, 10:53]
Dear Internet Explorer: I'm leaving
Talkback I think that as soon as we web developers start sticking to standards as defined by the W3, and NOT designing for IE but for the standard, and direct people to browsers that improve our viewers' experience, Like Firefox among others, IE will start...
[November 17, 2004, 8:41]
W3C merges Web specs
News The Web's leading standards body has advanced a specification that makes it easier to combine two increasingly popular technologies for building Web documents. More and more, new developing standards at the W3C are making use of XPath," W3C...
[April 1, 2003, 14:39]
Web forms standard makes slow progress
News The Web's leading standards organisation has nudged forward its specification for creating Web forms after a long delay in the standards process. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Friday published XForms 1.0 as a proposed recommendation.
[August 5, 2003, 15:10]
