Developers asked to speak out on Web standards
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) yesterday advanced the specification to candidate recommendation status -- an indication the organisation sees it as stable and wants technical feedback from the developer community.
[June 28, 2002, 15:54]
HTML 5 may not be finalised before 2022
Blog Officially speaking, HTML 5 is on track to "reach the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage during 2012", but the source thinks this target is around a decade off. It's already been 12 years since HTML 4.0 hit its W3C Candidate Recommendation stage.
[June 15, 2009, 16:52]
W3C wants the Web to be a big database
News If the data model becomes a candidate recommendation, the other working drafts updated on Monday would advance to last call, Daly said. Barring unforeseen problems, the specification should advance to "candidate recommendation" status by the end of...
[May 7, 2003, 13:53]
W3C merges Web specs
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued on Monday the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification as a candidate recommendation, the penultimate phase in the consortium's recommendation process.
[April 1, 2003, 14:39]
W3C recommends online forms standard
News The W3C, a standards body that governs some Internet protocols, said on Tuesday that it was publishing the XForms specification as a candidate recommendation. The candidate recommendation period runs until March, said Janet Daly, a W3C spokeswoman.
[November 13, 2002, 15:50]
XML Signature With JSR-105 in Java SE 6
White Papers XML Signature technology, specified in the W3C recommendation XML-Signature Syntax and Processing, is at the foundation for solutions of message-level security in SOA. This paper provides an introduction to JSR-105 based on the release candidate...
[December 9, 2006, 0:00]
XML spec moves ahead despite gripes
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released XML 1.1 as a candidate recommendation, the penultimate phase in the consortium's recommendation process. The Web's leading standards body this week advanced its seminal XML specification amid...
[October 17, 2002, 16:48]
W3C finalises disability guidelines
News The guidelines embraced on Tuesday for browsers and media players -- "user agents" in W3C-speak -- spent well over a year as a candidate recommendation. The W3C's recommendation of its User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 brings to...
[December 19, 2002, 8:37]
Voice interaction spec nears approval
News VoiceXML 2.0 made its last advance, to candidate recommendation, in January 2003. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Monday published VoiceXML 2.0 as a proposed recommendation, which is the penultimate stage in the body's standardisation process.
[February 4, 2004, 9:40]
W3C approves mobile graphics standard
News The result was SVG 1.1, which became a candidate recommendation in November along with two "profiles": SVG Tiny and SVG Basic. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday recommended Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and two subsets of the...
[January 15, 2003, 8:37]
Semantic Web gets nod from W3C
News OWL, which reached its candidate recommendation status in August and became a proposed recommendation in December, represents detailed descriptions of content and helps computers "understand" their relationship to one another.
[February 10, 2004, 9:50]
Web speech effort gets new voice
News SALT technology will be incorporated into the next version of the W3C's VoiceXML specification, the W3C said in January when it issued VoiceXML as a candidate recommendation, the penultimate stage in the W3C's recommendation process.
[April 2, 2003, 15:49]
New .Net certifications
News Proficiency with Microsoft Visual Studio .Net is the most important recommendation. After completing the MCAD and/or MCSD process, a candidate has demonstrated competence in working with the .Net tools and technologies.
[September 12, 2002, 10:00]
XML standard approved after three years
News Its original version became a candidate recommendation -- the consortium's penultimate phase of approval, which usually lasts a matter of weeks -- in July 2000. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C recommendation that lets authors create their...
[March 26, 2003, 10:52]
IBM gets portals talking
News The W3C in January promoted VoiceXML to candidate recommendation status despite quarrels over intellectual property. In an attempt to open its business portals to mobile phones, IBM has introduced software that enables its Web sites to take dictation.
[April 29, 2003, 12:52]
W3C advances Semantic Web drafts
News The next step for the RDF and OWL drafts is the W3C's candidate recommendation stage. Aiming to rehabilitate both the technology and the image of its Semantic Web initiative, the Web's leading standards group has issued a number of updates and...
[April 8, 2003, 14:55]
Windows XP may be too much for some PCs
News Silver warned that Microsoft's holiday 1999 recommendation is a "little aggressive in terms of getting vendor hardware support. But final testers, and those paying for the preview, could be surprised at what they find in Windows XP Release...
[June 14, 2001, 8:50]
