* 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.

" 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.

) The W3C has published guidance principles on this distinction, saying, " Web application design should be informed by the above principles, but also by the relevant limitations.

The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) since 1999.

SVG has been in development since 1999 by a group of companies within the W3C after the competing standards Precision Graphics Markup Language ( PGML ) – developed from Adobe's PostScript – and Vector Markup Language ( VML ) – developed from Microsoft's RTF – were submitted to W3C in 1998.

* SVG Full 1. 2 has had a W3C Working Draft in process for years, but now will be dropped soon in favor of a SVG 2. 0.

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

Starting in 1997, W3C created regional offices around the world ; as of September 2009, it has eighteen World Offices covering Australia, the Benelux countries ( Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium ), Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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.

The W3C also has World Offices in sixteen regions around the world.

W3C has a relatively small staff team, around 50 – 60 worldwide recently ( as of 2010 ).

The W3C has been criticized as being dominated by larger organizations and thus writing standards that represent their interests.

While there are a few implementations based on the 1999 Recommendation that have yet to be completely updated, adoption of the improved specifications has been rapid since they were developed in full public view, unlike some earlier technologies of the W3C.

The W3C has developed a standard markup language SSML, which is based on JSML but is not identical to it.

In Version 1. 1 the W3C has chosen to adopt XSD as the preferred name, and that is the name used in this article.

OWL is endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) and has attracted academic, medical and commercial interest.

The specification for RDDL has no official standing and has not been considered nor approved by any organization ( e. g., W3C ).

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.

Keio University has joined the MIT and the French INRIA in hosting the international W3C.

Microsoft's MSXML, first released in March 1999, contained an incomplete implementation of the December 1998 transformation language published in the W3C XSL Working Draft.

Beginning in early 2007, the development team began to implement Cascading Style Sheets ( CSS ) extensions, including animation, transitions and both 2D and 3D transforms ; such extensions were released as working drafts to the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) in 2009 for standardization.

According to the CSS1 specification, released by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) in 1996 and revised in 1999, when a width or height is explicitly specified for any block-level element, it should determine only the width or height of the visible element, with the padding, borders, and margins applied afterward.

The libwww library made by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), supports pipelining since version 5. 1 released at 18 February 1997.

The first version was published by the World-Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) in April 1998, and the final W3C recommendation was released in February 2004.

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

Subsequently, when MSXML was updated to support the final W3C XSLT 1. 0 Recommendation, Microsoft documentation referred to the obsolete dialect as " XSL " and to the new language as " XSLT ".

It was slow, did not comply well with W3C standards, had limited support for dynamic HTML and lacked features such as incremental reflow ( when the layout engine rearranges elements on the screen as new data is downloaded and added to the page ).

The W3C meeting decided to form an IETF working group, because the new effort would lead to extensions to HTTP, which was being standardized at the IETF.

W3C staff post announcements of new WAI documents to this mailing list to invite reviews and comments.

In October 2007, a new W3C working group was started to extend OWL with several new features as proposed in the OWL 1. 1 member submission.

W3C announced the new version of OWL on 27 October 2009.

As a result of these submissions, a new W3C working group was created, which produced Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ).

To some extent, this problem was slowed by the introduction of new standards by the W3C, such as CSS, introduced in 1998, which helped to provide greater flexibility in the presentation and layout of web pages without the need for large numbers of additional HTML elements and attributes.

Using XML and the W3C ’ s model for the Semantic Web, in 2008 IPTC launched a new series of standards that feature modular construction and many opportunities for embedding metadata.

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.

In articles such as WCAG 2. 0: The new W3C guidelines evaluated, To Hell with WCAG 2. 0 and Testability Costs Too Much, the WAI has been criticised for allowing WCAG 1. 0 to get increasingly out of step with today's technologies and techniques for creating and consuming web content, for the slow pace of development of WCAG 2. 0, for making the new guidelines difficult to navigate and understand, and other argued failings.

The W3C is also developing new authoring languages, such as DIAL ( the Device Independent Authoring Language ), which aid authors in creating Web sites that can be used on the huge variety of mobile devices available today.

The XMT framework accommodates substantial portions of SMIL, W3C Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) and X3D ( the new name of VRML ).

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 XMT framework accommodates substantial portions of SMIL, W3C Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) and X3D ( the new name of VRML ).

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.

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.

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

The standards development of HTTP was coordinated by the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) and the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), culminating in the publication of a series of Requests for Comments ( RFCs ), most notably RFC 2616 ( June 1999 ), which defines HTTP / 1. 1, the version of HTTP in common use.

The Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO / IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the Internet protocol suite.

These standards are usually developed in voluntary consensus standards bodies such as the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business ( UN / CEFACT ), the World Wide Web Consortium W3C, the Telecommunications Industry Association ( TIA ), and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS ).

Commercial best practices include voluntary standards and guidelines as the World Wide Web Consortium's ( W3C ) Web Accessibility Initiative ( WAI ).

The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the international standards body, the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ).

The term was coined by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (" W3C "), which oversees the development of proposed Semantic Web standards.

The term was coined by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (" W3C "), which oversees the development of proposed Semantic Web standards.

These technologies are specified as W3C standards and include:

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web ( abbreviated WWW or W3 ).

W3C also publishes various kinds of informative Notes which are not intended to be treated as standards.

Like any standards of other organizations, W3C recommendations are sometimes implemented partially.

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

The W3C continues to set standards, which can today be seen with JavaScript.