Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On 16 September 2014, W3C moved HTML5 to Proposed Recommendation. [31] On 28 October 2014, HTML5 was released as a W3C Recommendation, [32] bringing the specification process to completion. [5] On 1 November 2016, HTML 5.1 was released as a W3C Recommendation. [33] On 14 December 2017, HTML 5.2 was released as a W3C Recommendation. [34]
The HTML Working Group was an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group from 1994 to 1996, and a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group from 1997 to 2015. [ 1 ] The working group was co-chaired by Paul Cotton , Sam Ruby , and Maciej Stachowiak .
W3C began development of its own Arena browser as a test bed for HTML 3 and Cascading Style Sheets, [46] [47] [48] but HTML 3.0 did not succeed for several reasons. The draft was considered very large at 150 pages and the pace of browser development, as well as the number of interested parties, had outstripped the resources of the IETF. [ 14 ]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research in October 1994. [5] It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science with support from the European Commission, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had pioneered the ARPANET, the most ...
On 28 May 2019, the W3C announced that WHATWG would be the sole publisher of the HTML and DOM standards. [25] [26] [16] [27] The W3C and WHATWG had been publishing competing standards since 2012. While the W3C standard was identical to the WHATWG in 2007 the standards have since progressively diverged due to different design decisions. [28]
In 2007, the W3C's HTML working group voted to officially recognize HTML5 and work on it as the next-generation HTML standard. [8] In 2009, the W3C allowed the XHTML 2.0 Working Group's charter to expire, acknowledging that HTML5 would be the sole next-generation HTML standard, including both XML and non-XML serializations. [9]
Web standards are the formal, non-proprietary standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web.In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of standardized best practices for building web sites, and a philosophy of web design and development that includes those methods.
The Markup Validation Service is a validator by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that allows Internet users to check pre-HTML5 HTML and XHTML documents for well-formed markup against a document type definition (DTD). Markup validation is an important step towards ensuring the technical quality of web pages.