Stories about: W3C

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    HTML 5 progresses despite challenges 04/11/2009 09:36:00

    Development of HTML 5, the highly touted upgrade to the language of the Web, is progressing but still faces obstacles, including lack of a standard video codec, said an official of the World Wide Web Consortium at a gathering on Tuesday.
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    Google to gather SVG boosters 26/08/2009 05:48:00

    Emphasizing its support of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and the so-called Open Web, Google will help host the SVG Open 2009 conference in October, pitching it as the "premier forum" for SVG designers, developers, and implementers.
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    Open-source bias cheered, booed in planned EC rules review 07/07/2009 04:52:00

    Industry groups criticized and praised on Monday what they consider is a bias in favor of open-source software in the European Commission's plans to update the rules governing industry standard technologies.
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    XHTML 2 language dumped in favor of HTML 5 03/07/2009 07:07:00

    Looking to focus on the budding -- and game-changing -- HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing further development of XHTML 2.
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    Vendor squabbles cause W3C to scrap codec requirement 03/07/2009 05:48:00

    The latest rewrite of the Web's mother tongue won't recommend the use of specific audio and video encoding formats that could make it cheaper and easier for people to distribute multimedia content.
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    HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight? 17/06/2009 08:09:00

    HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.
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    Hurrah Berners-Lee! Web celebrates 20th anniversary 16/03/2009 07:53:00

    Twenty years ago, computers were either the size of a basketball court or they were novelties that we played with. Twenty years ago, we got our news at 6 p.m. on television or in the morning newspaper. Twenty years ago, if you wanted to buy a sweater, you drove from store to store until you spent as much on gas as you did on the sweater.
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    When good browsers go bad -- and they all do 25/02/2009 09:40:00

    Jeffrey Zeldman must have thought he'd never live to see the day. Ten years after he co-founded the Web Standards Project, all of the major browser vendors have shown renewed commitment to supporting World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards in the last few years -- and they're following through.
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    Wikipedia video gets boost with $100,000 Mozilla grant 23/01/2009 17:07:00

    The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software.
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    Microsoft contributes code to Apache SOA project 22/01/2009 08:26:00

    Microsoft for the first time is contributing code to an Apache open-source project, continuing the company's softening of its attitude toward open-source software and the community that supports it.
 
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