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HTML5 logo: steeped in confusion!

...There's been a bit of confusion surrounding the launch by the web standards body the W3C of the new HTML5 logo. Originally it was... Read more

24 January, 2011

Berners-Lee: Work is needed to harmonise HTML 5

...markup language for the web. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a web standards body headed by Berners-Lee, is involved in standardising HTML 5... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

W3C approves mobile graphics standard

Mobile phone graphics technology now has a new specification, as the Web standards group confirms its choice Read more

15 January, 2003 by Paul Festa

Web standards body finalises anti-patent policy

A new policy from the W3C has shut out royalty-bearing patents, a compromise between open-source advocates and proprietary software companies - but critics say the policy is not foolproof Read more

22 May, 2003 by Paul Festa

Web standards body advances TV features

A key multimedia standard is revised, moving the Web closer to television-style presentation Read more

16 August, 2001 by Paul Festa

W3C examines the next generation of speech technology

Builder: The Web standards body is looking at standards for voice recognition, and text-to... Read more

7 December, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

W3C cuts membership fees

Builder: The Web standards body has cut its membership fees for small companies and those... Read more

21 April, 2005 by Paul Festa

OASIS patent policy lambasted

...and free software luminaries have joined together to heap scorn on the Web standards body's new standards policy Read more

23 February, 2005 by Paul Festa

W3C marks 'milestone' in DOM protocol

...manipulates elements on a Web page has been signed off by the Web standards body Read more

8 April, 2004 by Paul Festa

Critics clamour for Web services standards

Software makers and traditional businesses are growing impatient with the Web standards body Read more

13 February, 2002 by Paul Festa
Forget the mobile web: One site should work for all

Forget the mobile web: One site should work for all

...making sites that work well on mobile devices, and are documented by web-standards body the W3C in their online article Shared Web Experiences: Barriers... Read more

5 March, 2009 by Bruce Lawson

W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0

The web-standards body W3C has published Sparql, a query language designed to gather... Read more

18 January, 2008 by Peter Judge

Opera to give its browser a voice

...referring to the voice specification that Opera, IBM and Motorola submitted to Web standards body the W3C in 2001. The ability to read back a... Read more

23 March, 2004 by Matt Loney

Patent critics search for prior art

...again on the front burner, after an unusual filing by the leading Web standards body this month to the US Patent and Trademark Office. The... Read more

3 November, 2003 by Paul Festa

Oasis sets out stall on Web procurement

...and IBM, have used the organisation as an alternative to the leading Web standards body, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which last year reaffirmed... Read more

29 April, 2003 by Paul Festa

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