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Earlier in the year, Mozilla made quite a lot of waves with the introduction of the 'Do Not Track' option in the header that Firefox sends out to websites. The idea is to make it possible for users to alert websites that they do not want their browsing to be tracked and stored to be part of a ad targeting c... |
15 November 2011
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The inaugural World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developer conference will be streamed live starting at 8:30am PST today, November 15, 2011, Microsoft revealed.
The Redmond company has played a key role in supporting the W3Conf: Practical Standards for Web Professionals, providing financial backing for the event.
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15 November 2011
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Just to show that nothing is set in stone even at this rather late stage, the HTML5 <time> element was marked for removal last week, after HTML5 standard editor Ian Hickson decided that it wasn't seeing much use and that people were not even using it for its intended purposes.But the announcement cause... |
5 November 2011
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The jQuery Core group announced their latest initiative, a Web Standards Team which will bridge the gap between developers, standards organizations and browser manufactures.This latest initiative from the jQuery group aims to fight to good fight with all thy might, to find the true interests of web developers a... |
25 October 2011
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Recent studies revealed that the XML encryption used by IBM and Microsoft in web service applications presents certain vulnerabilities that would allow someone to intercept and decrypt the data transmitted between online servers.According to H Security, researchers at the Ruhr University of Bochum (RUB) in Germany, t... |
22 October 2011
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There's been much talk about HTML5 and its related technologies, but, while developers may be using HTML5 features and code, few have actually read the specifications. W3C is moving to change that with a version of the yet-to-be ratified standard aimed at web developers, or web authors as the paper calls them."T... |
11 August 2011
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The W3C has taken over development and hosting responsibilities for the Privacy Dashboard Firefox extension, a project funded through the European Union's 7th Framework Programme.The Privacy Dashboard extension aims to inform users about the personal information collected by websites and allows them to control w... |
9 June 2011
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While the web is very much in love with the latest technologies like HTML5 and CSS 3, the standardization process moves at a much slower pace, CSS 2.1 is now labeled as a W3C Recommendation, meaning that it's recognized as an official standard. What this means is that CSS 2.1 gets the official stamp of approval,... |
8 June 2011
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The HTML5 standard, at least as envisioned by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is moving forward towards completion. The group has issued a notification saying that the HTML5 draft has reached "last call" status, meaning it's ready, as far as the people working on it are concerned. Now, everyone else involve... |
27 May 2011
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In its constant watch of Internet and technology trends, W3C decided yesterday, May 5th 2011, to launch a special Working Group to test and define a set of standards for real-time communications in web browsers.The group's goal will be to deliver a set of client-side APIs to enable a more uniform way of deliveri... |
6 May 2011
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The web tracking protection proposal submitted by Microsoft to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for standardisation includes Mozilla's Do-Not-Track (DNT) HTTP header implementation.Back in December, the Federal Trade Commission called for browser makers to devise an uniform, persistent and user-friendly setti... |
28 February 2011
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As of the advent of Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate, users running the browser can take advantage of a mechanism designed to block tracking by third-parties and protect their privacy while online. Following the introduction of Tracking Protection functionality in IE9 RC, Microsoft is now upping the ante when i... |
25 February 2011
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The W3C, the standard body that governs over all web technologies, is announcing May 2011 as the "Last Call" deadline for any additions or changes to the proposed HTML5 standard. After that, comes a long testing phase only after which it will become an actual standard, no sooner than 2014.Listening to all the hype ar... |
15 February 2011
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Recently the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body handling all things web related, pushed a new HTML5 logo. The idea was to provide a visual identity for the emerging standard, but it also bundled things like CSS3, SVG and so on, technologies that are certainly not HTML. Already, plenty of developers w... |
22 January 2011
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Microsoft jumping on the HTML5 Logo Program bandwagon comes naturally after the company built strong support for the standard in the next iteration of Internet Explorer. The Redmond company announced that it will back the new efforts to increase awareness and ultimately adoption of HTML5, debuted by the World Wide W... |
18 January 2011
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HTML5 has been the center of a lot of attention in the past couple of years or so and, as the standard specs are closer to being finalized, excitement among developers and power users alike is on the rise. Everyone's talking about HTML5 and that's beginning to be bad thing since everyone has their own inter... |
18 January 2011
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Considered the first step in supporting fully standard-based browser authentication, the WebID protocol was graced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with an official development group.The WebID Incubator Group was announced January 14th 2011, and will be in charge with coordinating the efforts of several entitie... |
15 January 2011
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IE9 leading in HTML5 compliance, in a test by the W3C standards body no less, makes for a compelling story, especially after Microsoft's IE6 has been the bane of web developers for close to a decade now. Unfortunately, it's simply not true, or, at least, that's not what the W3C is saying. In fact, afte... |
4 November 2010
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The makers of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera have worked together to produce WOFF (Web Open Font Format), and to submit the 1.0 specification to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Published on April 19, the WOFF File Format 1.0 specification represents a key step forward in terms of standardizing a web font f... |
26 April 2010
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The World Wide Web Consortium's effort at regulating web space will be far from being final with the arrival of HTML5 and CSS3. While it will surely help make some sense from the multitude of standard variations, it will not put everyone at peace. W3C's most recent effort will be gearing toward standardizin... |
26 March 2010
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Taking baby steps, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has constantly kept web developers very excited regarding the cutting edge new standards for HTML 5 and CSS 3. While drafts have been constantly pouring from the organization, they were never more than bite-size pieces of the standard. A few days ago, the W3C rel... |
9 March 2010
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While it is hard at work building the next iteration of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has jumped on the W3C SVG bandwagon. Essentially, the Redmond company wants to be intimately involved in the evolution of XML graphics for the web. This is precisely why the software giant submitted a request to be accepted as one of... |
6 January 2010
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ISOC (Internet Society) has recently announced a $2.5 million donation to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) that will span across a period of three years, helping the organization with its recent struggles in restructuring its working groups. The donation was announced on December 11, 2009 in a joint press release.... |
14 December 2009
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Speaking at a technology symposium at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web as we know it today and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the web standards organization, made some comments about the future of the Internet, and the need for governments to ge... |
13 October 2009
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The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Web Applications Working Group has published updates to the Working Draft in XMLHttpRequest and XMLHttpRequest Level 2. These specifications govern the way interactive web applications are handled by developers and offer the basic API documentation for programmers wanting to spice ... |
26 August 2009
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Among squabbles and disagreements, specific codec requirements for the <video> and <audio> tags may be removed from the proposed HTML 5 standard. Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) made his concerns and decisions known saying that without a gene... |
3 July 2009
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 recommendation as part of its initiative to unify mobile web development guidelines. This recommendation represents the result of the efforts made by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group to gather and publish practical advice ba... |
31 July 2008
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