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Adobe pushes standard for magazine-style web pages

...Adobe has proposed a standard that could make it easier to create web pages with fancy layouts... Read more

10 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

W3C prepares draft spec for touchscreen standard

...Wide Web Consortium published an editor's draft of a new touchscreen standard for web apps on Friday. A standard, if designed well and adopted... Read more

31 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Experts overhaul Acid3 browser test

...Two browser experts have pared back Acid3, a test that browser standards fans held up to spotlight Internet Explorer's shortcomings, so that it... Read more

20 September, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Adobe sharpens Edge web-coding tool

...designed to help the company capitalise on the growing array of web standards useful for bringing publishing and applications to the web. A screenshot of... Read more

9 September, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft rates WebGL as 'harmful'

...Microsoft has labelled the emerging 3D web graphics standard WebGL as "harmful", as a security firm raised new concerns about the... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Google's SPDY protocol finds first backer

...SPDY, a would-be standard that Google hopes will speed up the web, has taken a baby... Read more

15 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

US Justice Department investigates web video patents

...The corporate wrangling over web video standards, already a technically and legally complex matter, is getting a lot more... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
W3C promotes HTML 5 with new logo

W3C promotes HTML 5 with new logo

...marketing. The new HTML 5 logo could help increase awareness of the standard. Credit: W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) hopes the logo — shirts... Read more

19 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

W3C seeks help with HTML 5 standards tests

...make premature judgements regarding which browser best complies with the HTML 5 standard, and has asked for help in improving its tests. On Thursday, Philippe... Read more

5 November, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

HTML 5 groups clash over standardisation

...the HTML 5 specification are clashing just as their important new web standard is arriving in the spotlight. The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C... Read more

29 June, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Mozilla revenues rise as Firefox battles rivals

...22m, according to the company's latest tax filings (PDF).The web standards Mozilla long advocated are now ascendant, though not without a lot of... Read more

11 October, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

W3C approves CSS 2.1 as web standard

...The World Wide Web Consortium has declared the CSS 2.1 standard for web-page formatting to be complete. The World Wide Web Consortium... Read more

8 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Google adds VP8 video tech to standards group

...public reference for the document," Google said. "This is independent from a standards track." VP8 is a Google codec used to convert video into a... Read more

24 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Mozilla defends WebGL over security concerns

...technology coming with its own Silverlight browser plug-in. WebGL, a new standard from the Khronos Group, lets web programmers add hardware-accelerated 3D graphics... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Apple approves WebGL for iAds on iOS 5

...Apple has said that the 3D web graphics standard WebGL will be an option in iOS 5 — for iAds only. Apple... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

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