More than four years ago, Steve Jobs declared war on Flash and heralded HTML5 as the way to go. You could be forgiven if you thought the HTML5 standard — the follow ...

Concluding HTML version numbers are a relic of a bygone age, Ian Hickson adopts a "living document" approach. Not so the W3C standards group. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

An industry group made up the four major browser vendors, such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, have won a tug-of-war with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body for the ...

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) published HTML5 as a Recommendation this week, signaling the conclusion of the organization's standards work on a collection of Internet technologies. The ...

The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess. Stephen ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is seeking browser vendors, application developers and content designers to help design the next version of HTML. The organization is announcing on Wednesday a new ...

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Like the Cylons, HTML5 was created by man. It rebelled. It evolved. It looks and feels like HTML. And now, it has a plan. Namely, to be done in 2014. The W3C has formalized its plan to move the HTML5 ...

The standards organization launched a working group for a standard that could change the web into a giant peer-to-peer network. The innocuous-sounding Web Real-Time Communications Working Group has ...

Those who are following the development of Web services standards have been holding their breath, waiting to see how the controversy over choreography and workflow specifications will resolve itself.