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Ten years ago: switching on the World Wide Web
News Kunz didn't invent the Web -- that credit goes to Tim Berners-Lee, an English researcher then working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland and now heading the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C ), a preeminent standards body.
[December 10, 2001, 16:37]
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. After much discussion I decided to form the World Wide Web Consortium in...
[October 15, 2004, 17:20]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said it has a proposed recommendation for Soap 1.2...
[May 8, 2003, 10:07]
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]
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]
Split threatens Web services standards
News IBM, Microsoft and BEA Systems plan to submit a high-profile Web services proposal to the Oasis standards body, company executives said, despite an ongoing effort by the World Wide Web Consortium to sort through similar proposals.
[April 16, 2003, 12:59]
P3P privacy technology slammed
News Known as the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, or more commonly as P3P, the technology has been in development by the World Wide Web Consortium for more than three years and promises to allow consumers to choose what level of privacy they...
[June 22, 2000, 8:34]
Patent critics search for prior art
News The filing, from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), asks the USPTO to re-examine the Eolas patent in light of HTML+, which is technology previously considered by the judge in the Eolas case as potential prior art but barred from evidence at trial.
[November 3, 2003, 11:25]
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]
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 retreats from royalty policy
News The World Wide Web Consortium works with developers, software makers and others to come up with standards for the Web. But in a controversial proposal made public last autumn, the consortium debated whether to allow companies to charge royalty fees...
[February 26, 2002, 14:17]
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]
Oracle appeals to W3C on Web services
News On Thursday, the software giant will ask the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to decide on the standard "choreography" language that will allow multiple Web services to work together within and between businesses.
[September 11, 2002, 14:55]
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 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. W3C director Tim Berners-Lee, best known for inventing the World Wide Web, called the recommendation...
[March 17, 2004, 10:20]
