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- (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by...
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- Using Flash and Silverlight to move web standards forward
- Via John Carroll I saw a blog post by Paul Ellis in which he talks about the shortcomings of open standards, or more specifically, standards bodies, and how that affects the open web. In short, it's led to the innovation and widespread adoption of proprietary technologies like Flash and Silverlight....
- Tags: Innovation, Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Standards, Alex Russell, Channel Management, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Why Flash and Silverlight will save the web
- Flash and Silverlight are viewed in some circles as undermining a free and open Internet. The truth, however, is that both technologies are part of the process by which we map out a problem domain sufficiently, laying the groundwork for standardization committees of the future. Deviation from standards,...
- Tags: Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Technology, Paul Ellis, Standardization Committee, Problem Domain, Channel Management, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- How will HTML 5 change the Web?
- If 2007 was the year of GPLv3, then 2008 will be the year of HTML 5. (Picture from ThinkQuest.) Just as we spent much of last year debating the revision of our most popular open source license, we're invited to spend this year having similar discussions around...
- Tags: Web, HTML, W3C, Web Browser, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Opera: Setting the record straight on Microsoft and Web standards
- Opera: Setting the record straight on Microsoft and Web standardsThey're doing no such thing.Don't think for a minute they're doing this for us. Microsoft is under no obligation to pass Acid2.Message has been deleted.There are no such things as "community standards"The writer is clearly not informed as to what a...
- Tags: Quality, Web browsers, Yes IE, Microsoft Internet Explorer, standards, Opera Software, Microsoft Corp., W3C
- Discussion threads 2007-12-14
- Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?
- Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format vs ODF in newly public e-mail?No permission needed to circulate emails...... as once they leave your outbox, they belong to the recipient and the recipient can do with them as they please, within legal boundaries of course.Talk about standardized formats...or...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), CDF, office format, OpenDocument Format, W3C, Microsoft Corp., e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?
- Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...
- Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...
- Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- ValidSquirrel (exe)
- ValidSquirrel is a desktop based markup validator, which works very much like the W3C validator. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: W3C, ValidSquirrel, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-10-24
- Queen to appoint Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to England's Order of Merit
- Although he is already a Knight, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web is about to have an even more prestigious honor bestowed upon him. According to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) spokesperson Janet Daly, Sir Tim will, on Thursday, be appointed to England's Order...
- Tags: Web, W3C, Tim Berners-Lee, England, Semantic Web, Wiki, Internet, Online Communications, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Page Validator (xpi)
- Validates a page using the W3C Markup Validation Service. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. This is a simple extension that will work only for online pages....
- Tags: W3C, Page, Michael Langley
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0 Service Pack 7 (SP7) (msi)
- The Microsoft XML Parser MSXML 3.0 SP7 release offers a number of bug fixes and security fixes over the previous MSXML 3.0 SP releases. All MSXML 3.0 releases provide: Server-safe HTTP access, complete implementation of XSL Transformations XSLT and XML Path Language XPath, changes to the Simple API for XML...
- Tags: W3C, XSLT, XML Parser, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft XML Parser, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-08-29
- Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0 Service Pack 5 (SP5) (msi)
- The Microsoft XML Parser MSXML 3.0 SP5 release offers a number of bug fixes and security fixes over the previous MSXML 3.0 SP releases. All MSXML 3.0 releases provide: Server-safe HTTP access, complete implementation of XSL Transformations XSLT and XML Path Language XPath, and changes to the Simple API for...
- Tags: W3C, XSLT, XML Parser, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft XML Parser, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-08-25
- Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better than APIs for data access
- Last night at the MITX Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange Technology Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA, the inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee was awarded the organizations 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award (last year, Nicholas Negroponte was the recipient). Prior to the...
- Tags: Web technology, Video, Podcasts, Open Source, Legal, IT Management, General, Audio from TestBed Videos
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- W3C European symposium focuses on e-gov
- Next month the World Wide Web Consortium will host a European symposium for e-government. The meeting in Spain will address issues that e-governments around the world are confronted with - privacy, security, and better government/citizen interaction. Federal Computer Week reports that the consortium wants to understand how...
- Tags: Government technology, E-government, International, W3C
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Colleges struggle to support web accessibility
- Money and lack of initiative are two of the that prevent many colleges from making their websites accessible to people with disabilities, reports Hannon Hill, a maker of web content-management solutions. The study found that only 17 of the 124 American universities are in compliance with the World Wide...
- Tags: accessibility, Hannon Hill, W3C
- Blog posts 2006-10-06
- Handle DOM streaming protocols with the Remote Events for XML (REX) 1.0 specification
- The Remote Events for XML. REX specification introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defines an XML syntax for the transmission of Document Object Model DOM events in such a way as to be compatible with streaming protocols. REX is useful in a variety of situations including setting an...
- Tags: W3C, Document Object Model, Specification, REX, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Download resources 2006-09-01
- W3C issues Mobile Web Best Practices
- W3C World Wide Web Consortium is the group that develops web standards and I was pleased to read the press release announcing new global guidelines for experiencing the internet on mobile devices. The guidelines, called Mobile Web Best Practices, is a candidate recommendation document and the W3C encourages people to...
- Tags: mobile marketing, Mobile Web Best Practices, W3C, mobile
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- Examine the technology behind the W3C VoiceXML standard and get ahead of the curve
- Voice applications have yet to become a common interface for users, yet work continues on the establishment of an international standard called VoiceXML. This download explores the current VoiceXML standard as developed by the W3C and discusses where the standard is likely to go in the future. The download includes...
- Tags: W3C, VoiceXML, Telecommunications
- Download resources 2006-06-21
- Explore W3C standards: Make SVG more active with sXBL
- Judging by the ever-expanding use of Flash and other dynamic user interface components, Web site developers are well aware of the potential benefits of interaction with users. Scalable Vector Graphics SVG is more than just another way to achieve that desired dynamic behavior; it is an adopted standard of the...
- Tags: W3C, Standards, SVG
- Download resources 2006-06-02
- Mozilla CEO: Why they're still shunned by corporate IT
- Mozilla CEO: Why they're still shunned by corporate ITTry checking ZDNet renderingZDNet talkback does not render correctly in Firefox. Fix the flaws first, then complain that shops don't use it.Mozilla and other browsers that are not IEGates was smart to appeal to business. Microsoft is the world standard...
- Tags: Web browsers, GPO, information technology, Microsoft Corp., W3C, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-24
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