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W3C Tool Kit
Downloads A nifty little Widget with fast access to the W3C Markup and CSS Validator as well as their Link Checker.
[November 21, 2005, 6:00]
W3C unveils outlook on Web services
News Five months after reorganising its Web services work, an influential standards body has released a trio of drafts related to the much-hyped trend. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week issued the first working draft of the Web Service...
[June 7, 2002, 11:16]
W3C cuts membership fees
News Bringing the fight against the digital divide to the Web standards arena, the W3C slashed membership fees for small organisations in developing nations. Claiming that its existing fee schedule discouraged such groups from joining, the Web's main...
[April 21, 2005, 12:15]
W3C retreats from royalty policy
News An Internet standards body has retreated from a proposal that would have allowed companies to claim patent rights and demand royalties for technologies used in its standards. The World Wide Web Consortium works with developers, software makers and...
[February 26, 2002, 14:17]
W3C plans push for mobile standards adoption
News After years of issuing Web standards for mobile devices, the W3C may try to get people to actually use them. Representatives of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will descend on Barcelona on Thursday and Friday to plot a potential "Mobile Web...
[November 18, 2004, 8:40]
W3C celebrates tenth birthday
News The body that sets standards for the Web -- the World Wide Web Consortium -- plans to celebrate its tenth birthday in Boston, Massachusetts, on the first of December. The W3C was founded in 1994 to develop technical specifications for the Web's...
[October 15, 2004, 17:20]
W3C launches mobile standards push
News The Web's leading standards body has launched a ground campaign to promote its mobile Web protocols in the real world. The W3C, on Wednesday announced its Mobile Web Initiative, a new kind of working group that will concentrate on the application...
[May 12, 2005, 9:50]
W3C wants the Web to be a big database
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published updates to a group of interlinking specifications that recommend uniform ways to retrieve information from XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents. The publications include two "last-call" drafts and...
[May 7, 2003, 13:53]
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]
WAP Forum - W3C Cooperation White Paper
White Papers This paper outlines possible areas of cooperation between the WAP Forum and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The WAP Forum is dedicated to enabling advanced services and applications on mobile wireless devices, such as cellular telephones.
[September 6, 2003, 7:09]
W3C patent plan draws protests
News A new and controversial proposal under consideration by the World Wide Web Consortium could open the way for companies to claim patent rights -- and demand royalties -- on standards authorized by that body.
[October 2, 2001, 9:01]
W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0
News The web-standards body W3C has published Sparql, a query language designed to gather data from multiple sources and speed the development of Web 2.0 applications — creating a standard web service for anything that asks a question.
[January 18, 2008, 14:25]
W3C lathers up Soap standard
News Standards body the World Wide Web Consortium said on Wednesday that it is close to finalising an upgrade to an important Web services protocol called Soap. Simple Object Access Protocol (Soap) acts as a transport mechanism to send data between...
[May 8, 2003, 10:07]
W3C readies computer-interaction specs
News The World Wide Web Consortium said on Tuesday that two specifications related to computer-voice interaction are ready to become industry standards. As previously reported, the W3C had been building its recommendation through a series of reviews by...
[March 17, 2004, 10:20]
W3C sees graphics on mobile phones
News In a development that could help Adobe erode some of Macromedia's vector graphics lead, the Web's most influential standards group issued a draft designed to make its vector graphics standard work more easily on cell phones.
[November 18, 2002, 8:47]
W3C issues handicap guidelines for the Web
News The W3C guidelines, which officials said are suggestions for developers, not mandatory steps, consist of 14 points of accessible Web design. They include the dictum that sites should contain text that corresponds to audio and images, and offer...
[May 7, 1999, 8:19]
W3C approves mobile graphics standard
News The Web's leading standards group put its seal of approval on a new specification for graphics technology tailored for use by mobile phones and other small networked devices. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday recommended Scalable...
[January 15, 2003, 8:37]
W3C's latest standard: Scripting's swansong?
News The Web's leading standards body released a long-delayed recommendation for using scripts in Web pages but urged coders not to rely too heavily on scripting. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommended on Thursday its Document Object Model (DOM...
[January 10, 2003, 10:53]
W3C marks 'milestone' in DOM protocol
News The Web's leading standards body revised a key recommendation for manipulating elements of a Web page. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Wednesday recommended the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3, ironing out problems with the Level 2...
[April 8, 2004, 9:05]
W3C shows why innovation needs standards
Leader The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have announced the release of some new standards which look set to widen what we can do with the Internet and its technologies.
[January 27, 2005, 12:25]
