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 ...

With a patent threat looming over the Web's de facto standard browser, the Worldwide Web Consortium launched a strategy group to evaluate the implications for the Web's standard markup language. As ...

You might have read that, on October 28th, W3C officially recommended HTML5. And you might know that this has something to do with apps and the Web. The question is: Does this concern you? The answer, ...

The Web standards group is going ahead with its Encrypted Media Extensions technology despite some opposition, arguing it's a step in the right direction. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Everybody knows that Web and Internet technology evolves quickly—no sooner does a game-changing idea roll out than the next game-changing idea enters beta. However, The World Wide Web Consortium’s ...

The development of HTML 5 has been the major driver for web standards for the past five years or so, and it was finally sent as a Recommendation to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the end of ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has named four new editors of the HTML5 spec to replace departing editor Ian Hickson. The W3C's HTML Working Group co-chair Paul Cotton announced the four-way ...