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W3C merges Web specs

...Monday the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification as a candidate recommendation, the penultimate phase in the consortium's recommendation process. The new... Read more

1 April, 2003 by Paul Festa

W3C recommends online forms standard

...said on Tuesday that it was publishing the XForms specification as a candidate recommendation. That essentially means the W3C's working group has finished its... Read more

13 November, 2002 by Margaret Kane
Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL

Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL

SPARQL is the W3C candidate recommendation query language for RDF. In this paper the authors address systematically... Read more

26 May, 2006

HTML 5 may not be finalised before 2022

...about. Officially speaking, HTML 5 is on track to "reach the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage during 2012", but the source thinks this target is around... Read more

15 June, 2009

Semantic Web gets nod from W3C

...level applications, it's ready for prime time." OWL, which reached its candidate recommendation status in August and became a proposed recommendation in December, represents... Read more

10 February, 2004 by Paul Festa

Voice interaction spec nears approval

...or independently of it. VoiceXML 2.0 made its last advance, to candidate recommendation, in January 2003. The W3C attributed the longer-than-usual wait... Read more

4 February, 2004 by Paul Festa

W3C wants the Web to be a big database

...and extensive public comment. Barring unforeseen problems, the specification should advance to "candidate recommendation" status by the end of June. If the data model becomes... Read more

7 May, 2003 by Paul Festa

IBM gets portals talking

...an Extensible Markup Language dialect. The W3C in January promoted VoiceXML to candidate recommendation status despite quarrels over intellectual property. IBM's Voice Application Access... Read more

29 April, 2003 by Paul Festa

W3C advances Semantic Web drafts

The Semantic Web initiative, a set of simple enabling technologies for data integration on the Web, is to get a new push from the W3C Read more

8 April, 2003 by Paul Festa

Web speech effort gets new voice

...specification, the W3C said in January when it issued VoiceXML as a candidate recommendation, the penultimate stage in the W3C's recommendation process. But one... Read more

2 April, 2003 by Paul Festa

XML standard approved after three years

...the works at the W3C for years. Its original version became a candidate recommendation -- the consortium's penultimate phase of approval, which usually lasts a... Read more

26 March, 2003 by Paul Festa

W3C approves mobile graphics standard

...was originally designed. The result was SVG 1.1, which became a candidate recommendation in November along with two "profiles": SVG Tiny and SVG Basic... Read more

15 January, 2003 by Paul Festa

W3C finalises disability guidelines

...user agents" in W3C-speak -- spent well over a year as a candidate recommendation. That draft was first released in September 2001. And now the... Read more

19 December, 2002 by Paul Festa

XML spec moves ahead despite gripes

...Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released XML 1.1 as a candidate recommendation, the penultimate phase in the consortium's recommendation process. XML, or... Read more

17 October, 2002 by Paul Festa

Language barriers may stifle Web future

The lack of backwards compatibility between the Web scripting language XHTML 2.0 and its HTML predecessors could make billions of Web pages obsolete, experts fear Read more

13 August, 2002 by Paul Festa

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