W3c News & Articles

Micro-blogging website dynamo Twitter announced today that it will allow visitors to enable the Firefox Browser's Do Not Track feature, allowing users who don't want any info gathered about them to visit the site anonymously.

At the huge Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain today, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor took the stage announcing the social web giant is backing initiatives to "standardize" mobile web browsers to help deal with what Taylor characterized as "...rampant technology fragmentation across mobile browsers." 

Apple and Google’s use of non-standard CSS features in its mobile browsers is causing quite a bit of outrage around the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). At this week’s meeting of the CSS Working Group, the implications of Google and Apple’s mobile browsers were compared with those of Internet Explorer 6. Gasp. Are things really bad enough to hurl the techie explicative? Unfortunately, yes they are.

 Internet standards organization World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released its first public draft of the “Media Accessibility User Requirements” document, which details what is required to make web-based media like audio and video accessible to individuals with disabilities.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced drafts of two standards that address Internet privacy concerns. The standards, which focus on users’ ability to specify online tracking preferences, are likely to draw lots of attention, given recent controversies at Google and Twitter due to disclosure of personal information.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding its first ever conference in November. If you're interested in the latest news on HTML5 and the open web platform, mark your calendars and book it to Seattle.

Google quietly rolled out the latest Chrome update over the weekend. Most Windows users won't notice the update, although Mac OS X Lion users will be pleased with a few UI optimizations for the Mac version. This update will be more exciting for developers, though, as Google has already activated Native Client application support through sandbox.

This year, almost every browser implemented a "do not track"  feature, prompted by privacy-conscious consumers and the Do Not Track list proposed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Now the concept is gaining even more support. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced a standardization effort for user web privacy.

Last week, W3C’s Authoring Tool Accessibility Guideline Working Group released new working drafts of two documents focused on web development tools and accessibility. Today, W3C announced an agile track for developers and businesses to create Web technology within W3C's international community of experts. In other words -- diversity breeds innovation; anyone may apply.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (news, site) has been busy making the web a more accessible place. In focus today is a project dubbed the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) -- it aims to help software vendors make better web content authoring and management tools, including WYSIWYG editors, word processors and web content management systems.

One of the Worldwide Web Consortium's (news, site) main responsibilities is ensuring that standards in web markup are followed. In the wake of stakeholder discussions, such as the recently concluded working group discussions on multilingual web content practices, the organization has released its updated Internationalization Checker.

Cascading style sheets (CSS) has been in use now for over a decade for controlling web page appearance. However, the “standard” has long been a mess of implementations, specifications and varying levels of browser support that can, quite frankly, drive web designers mad, or at least to annoyance. The latest release of the CSS standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (news, site), CSS 2.1, should make styling sites a little less painful.

In a move that may shift the balance of power a bit, Google has begun indexing the attribution of content to content authors, rather than just websites.

After three short, or long depending on who you ask, years the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group (news, site) has decided to transition the HTML5 draft specification to Last Call status. This might be surprising to some given the standard's existing presence on the web -- including the mobile devices. But with a standard consisting of more than a hundred specifications, something was bound to be consumed before it was fully baked.

Just when we thought the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was ready to take a break, it has announced its membership numbers are expanding. Facebook, Sony and Netflix, among others, have joined the venerable web standards organization.