Unlike the ISOC and other international standards bodies, the W3C does not have a certification program.

SRGS does not specify the contents of the tag elements: this is done in a companion W3C standard, Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition ( SISR ).

A much more print-specialized subset of SVG ( SVG Print, authored by Canon, HP, Adobe and Corel ) is a W3C Working Draft.

A certification program is a process which has benefits and drawbacks ; the W3C has decided, for now, that it is not suitable to start such a program owing to the risk of creating more drawbacks for the community than benefits.

Online, the use of the em measurement has become more common ; with the development of Cascading Style Sheets ( or CSS ), the W3C best practices recommendations within HTML and online markup now call for web pages to be based on scalable designs, using a relative unit of measurement ( such as the em measurement ), rather than a fixed one such as pixels (" px ") or points.

The Macintosh Edition introduced a new rendering engine called Tasman that was designed to be more compliant with emerging W3C standards such as HTML 4. 0, CSS Level 1, DOM Level 1, and ECMAScript.

Designed to give users more control of their personal information when browsing, P3P was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) and officially recommended on April 16, 2002.

Using concepts from his earlier hypertext systems like ENQUIRE, British engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.

So in May 1999, Lars Knoll began doing research with an eye toward implementing the W3C DOM specification, finally announcing on August 16, 1999 that he had checked in what amounted to a complete rewrite of the KHTML library — changing KHTML to use the standard W3C DOM as its internal document representation.

The Platform for Internet Content Selection ( PICS ) is a specification created by W3C that uses metadata to label webpages to help parents and teachers control what children and students can access on the Internet.

Though W3C validation is important for browser compatibility and site usability, it has not been confirmed what effect it has on search engine optimization.

* XML Schema, also referred to as XML Schema Definition ( XSD ), has achieved Recommendation status within the W3C, and is popular for " data oriented " ( that is, transactional non-publishing ) XML use because of its stronger typing and easier round-tripping to Java declarations.

It was the first version developed and standardized exclusively by the W3C, as the IETF had closed its HTML Working Group in September 1996.

: W3C began development of its own Arena browser as a test bed for HTML 3 and Cascading Style Sheets, but HTML 3. 0 did not succeed for several reasons.

" Dave Raggett, who has been a W3C Fellow for many years has commented for example, " To a certain extent, Microsoft built its business on the Web by extending HTML features.

; May 2011: On 14 February 2011, the W3C extended the charter of its HTML Working Group with clear milestones for HTML5.

The W3C was created in October 1994, to " lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.

Like the W3C, which requires participants to offer royalty-free licenses to anyone using the resulting standard, OASIS offers a similar Royalty Free on Limited Terms mode, along with a Royalty Free on RAND Terms mode and a RAND ( reasonable and non-discriminatory ) mode for its committees.

Like other W3C initiatives, the WAI consists of several working groups and Special interest groups, each with its own focus.

On the standard organisation side, the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) ensures that its specifications can be implemented on a royalty-free basis.

The W3C has since stopped its efforts in this area, and micropayments have not become a widely used method of selling content over the internet.

Known primarily for its multi-blog capabilities, b2evolution also includes " all the features of traditional blog tools " like file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple domain support, detailed user permissions, and W3C standards compliance.

This standard is now endorsed by the W3C as a standard for wide deployment in its problem domain.

In September 1997, Oskoboiny began working for the W3C, and on December 18, 1997, the W3C announced its W3C HTML Validator based upon his works.

Unlike most relational database management systems, eXist uses XQuery, which is a W3C Recommendation, to manipulate its data.

In 1996 Microsoft said of its new browser " Microsoft Internet Explorer 3. 0 adds many new features which are great for HTML authors and demonstrates our accelerating commitment to W3C HTML standards.

, the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) has 351 members.

W3C tries to enforce compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards defined by the W3C.

The W3C launched the Web Accessibility Initiative in 1997 with endorsement by The White House and W3C members.

Software standard organizations like the W3C, IETF develop software standards so that most software can interoperate through standards such as XML, HTML, HTTP or FTP.

newer XML namespace-aware schema languages ( such as W3C XML Schema and ISO RELAX NG ) have largely superseded DTDs.

<! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-// W3C // DTD XHTML 1. 0 Transitional // EN "

<! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-// W3C // DTD XHTML 1. 0 Transitional // EN "

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), founded in 1994 to promote open standards for the World Wide Web, brought Netscape Communications and Microsoft together with other companies to develop a standard for browser scripting languages, called " ECMAScript.

After the release of ECMAScript, W3C began work on a standardized DOM.

The initial DOM standard, known as " DOM Level 1 ," was recommended by W3C in late 1998.

The W3C, maintainer of both the HTML and the CSS standards, encourages the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML markup.

In 2004 development began on HTML5 in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.

; January 1997: HTML 3. 2 was published as a W3C Recommendation.

; December 1997: HTML 4. 0 was published as a W3C Recommendation.

; December 1999: HTML 4. 01 was published as a W3C Recommendation.

; January 2008: HTML5 was published as a Working Draft ( link ) by the W3C.

In May 2011, the working group advanced HTML5 to " Last Call ", an invitation to communities inside and outside W3C to confirm the technical soundness of the specification.

The W3C is developing a comprehensive test suite to achieve broad interoperability for the full specification by 2014, which is now the target date for Recommendation.

* XHTML 1. 0, published January 26, 2000, as a W3C Recommendation, later revised and republished August 1, 2002.