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At a glance, W3C Recommendations consolidated.
2000-12-19 XHTML Basic content can be shared across desktop computers, TVs, PDAs, pagers, and mobile phones. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, said, "XHTML Basic offers the simplicity and wide interoperability of early versions of HTML and reflects ten years of Web experience, including advances in XML and accessibility."
2000-11-13 "The Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Recommendation builds on the solid work done in DOM Level 1, and gives Web authors the power to move to XML for dynamic content," says Lauren Wood, Chair of the W3C DOM Working Group.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification
2000-02-3 As a collaborative medium, the Web demands that people be able to create content -- not just read it -- regardless of disability. The newest W3C Recommendation, "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," explains to authoring tool developers how to design accessible tools that produce accessible Web content. "The Web, and the world, thrive on information which is accessible to all," says W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee. "Tools built using these guidelines will make this much easier."
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
2000-01-28 XHTML 1.0 is the first step toward a modular and extensible Web based on XML. Pages written in XHTML 1.0, will work in current HTML browsers and XML-enabled tools.
At a glance, W3C Recommendations consolidated.
1999-11-17 The W3C announced two new Recommendations XSL Transformations (XSLT) and XML Path Language (XPath) - that will enable the transformation and styled presentation of XML documents. "Anyone using XML can now take advantage of XSLT, a powerful new tool for manipulating, converting and styling documents, and XPath, a simple way of referring to parts of an XML document." said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "Together, XSLT and XPath strike a fine balance between simplicity of use and underlying power."
W3C Issues XSL Transformations (XSLT) and XML Path Language (XPath) as Recommendations
1999-07-2 "Associating Style Sheets with XML documents", provides authors with an interoperable mechanism for adding style to XML documents. "Style sheets are an essential step in XML deployment, as without them there is no way to define the presentation of XML documents which use new schemas," says Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director.
Associating Style Sheets with XML documents
W3C Issues Associating Style Sheets with XML as a Recommendation
Testimonials for Associating Style Sheets with XML Documents
1999-02-26 The Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax specification is the result of cross-industry and expert agreement on a wide range of features for using and providing metadata on the Web. "The Web is quickly becoming the world's fastest growing repository of data," explained Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "RDF provides the necessary foundation and infrastructure to support the description and management of this data. RDF can transform the Web into a more useful and powerful information resource."
Resource Description Framework
1999-01-14 XML documents, containing multiple markup vocabularies, pose problems of recognition and collision. Software modules need to be able to recognize the tags and attributes which they are designed to process, even in the face of "collisions" occurring when markup intended for some other software package uses the same element type or attribute name. These considerations require that document constructs should have universal names, whose scope extends beyond their containing document. This specification describes a mechanism, XML namespaces, which accomplishes this.
At a glance, W3C Recommendations consolidated.
1998-10-1 DOM Level 1 is a neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The DOM provides a standard set of objects for representing HTML and XML documents, a standard model of how these objects can be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and manipulating them. Vendors can support the DOM as an interface to their proprietary data structures and APIs, and content authors can write to the standard DOM interfaces rather than product-specific APIs, thus increasing interoperability on the Web.
1998-05-12 CSS2 builds on CSS1 and adds support for media-specific style sheets (e.g. printers and aural devices), downloadable fonts, element positioning and tables.
1998-02-10 The World Wide Web Consortium Issues XML 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
1996-12-17 The Recommendation, CSS1, gives Web designers a robust set of tools to help them specify Web page presentation properties such as fonts, colors and margins. Through links, CSS1 allows a single style sheet to apply to all Web pages on a site and thereby dramatically simplifying Web site maintenance. Also, a style sheet can be put inside a Web document and in detail specify how the document is presented.
1996-10-1 PNG answers the need of the Web page design community for cross-platform Web graphics. PNG offers particular advantages for brand recognition, product design, medical applications, fine art and on-line catalogs, where visual quality is important. PNG provides information in the file about the characteristics of the authoring platform, so that the viewing software can automatically compensate and display the image correctly.
