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Position Papers For The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Workshop On Web Services
White Papers This technical paper is a collection of position papers that HP submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Workshop on Web Services. The W3C Web Services Workshop represents a community interested in XML-based Web service solutions and...
[December 11, 2003, 2:14]
W3C Plans Push For Mobile Standards Adoption
News Representatives of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will descend on Barcelona on Thursday and Friday to plot a potential "Mobile Web Initiative" that would try to stimulate adoption of and conformance to the standards group's various mobile...
[November 18, 2004, 8:40]
W3C Sums It All Up
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) last week published its first complete description of how the Web works, including details on its protocols and data formats. Its status within the W3C is "Recommendation", the highest level of standard the...
[December 21, 2004, 14:50]
Apple, HP Oppose W3C Patent Plan
News Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard have both submitted statements to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) urging the organisation not to adopt a policy that would permit the charging of royalties for technologies used in approved standards.
[October 15, 2001, 9:16]
Doubt Cast Over Web Standard's Ownership
News But the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) argues that the technology was developed by a broad range of the Web community. The RDF standard has been endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium, which evaluates and recommends standards for Web technologies.
[January 4, 2002, 9:38]
IBM And Microsoft Shun W3C Standards Meeting
News A World Wide Web Consortium committee began meetings on Thursday to sort out an array of confusing, yet critical, Web services standards. The WS-Choreography Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will spend the next two days...
[March 14, 2003, 9:59]
Web Consortium To Sync Text With Video
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) chartered the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) to come up with a streaming text specification, based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), that will synchronise text with video or audio streamed over the Internet.
[January 22, 2003, 10:56]
Group Releases Formal Web-services Standard
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said it has published the Simple Object Access Protocol (Soap) version 1.2 as a formal standard. The consortium's hard line on royalties has meant that some Web services standards have been proposed to the...
[June 26, 2003, 8:48]
W3C Releases Draft Of HTML 5
News The World Wide Web Consortium has published a public draft of the first major upgrade to HTML in over a decade. Released on Tuesday, the first working draft for HTML 5 is a result of work carried out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML...
[January 25, 2008, 13:59]
Developers Asked To Speak Out On Web Standards
News Web developers are being called on for feedback, after the release of a speech recognition grammar specification from the World Wide Web Consortium. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) yesterday advanced the specification to candidate...
[June 28, 2002, 15:54]
XML Standard Approved After Three Years
News A method of labelling discrete parts of an XML document concluded its tortuous journey toward standardisation with the World Wide Web Consortium's approval of XPointer. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday issued XPointer in three...
[March 26, 2003, 10:52]
Web Forms Standard Makes Slow Progress
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Friday published XForms 1.0 as a proposed recommendation. Despite the protocol's apparent promise, the recommendation has stalled on its way through the consortium's recommendation process.
[August 5, 2003, 15:10]
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 Members Fail Standards Test
News Members of the Web's leading standards consortium are leading by fiat, not example, according to a survey. The third biannual survey, published on Monday by Helsinki, Finland-based Web designer Marko Karppinen, showed that a vast majority of the...
[February 26, 2003, 7:35]
W3C's Latest Standard: Scripting's Swansong?
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommended on Thursday its Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML, a module of the group's set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for letting computer languages like JavaScript, Java or ECMAScript...
[January 10, 2003, 10:53]
XML Spec Moves Ahead Despite Gripes
News Microsoft in particular has weathered criticism that it exercises disproportionate influence on the consortium's decisions, which are supposed to be made by consensus. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released XML 1.1 as a candidate...
[October 17, 2002, 16:48]
Web Standards Group Outlines Core Principles
News The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Technical Architecture Group (TAG) on Friday published its first working draft, a back-to-basics document titled Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web. The document is the first official result of the...
[September 2, 2002, 10:51]
W3C Advances Semantic Web Drafts
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) last week issued five updated working drafts for the Web Ontology Language (OWL): the OWL Overview; Guide; Reference; Semantics and Abstract Syntax; and Use Cases and Requirements.
[April 8, 2003, 14:55]
Patent Suit May Prompt Changes To HTML
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is on the verge of forming a patent advisory group, or PAG, in response to the Eolas patent suit, according to sources close to the consortium. Now the W3C is said to be contemplating changes to HTML, considered...
[September 22, 2003, 9:50]
Unicode Report Reveals Risk Of Software Crashes
News Published by the Unicode Consortium, Unicode is a standard character set for computers that aims to assign a number for every character in every written language. XML (Extensible Markup Language), a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation...
[June 17, 2003, 10:23]
