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 ...

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 W3C and WHATWG are splitting editing duties on their respective HTML specifications. While some believe that the change will lead to two forks of HTML, WHATWG editor Ian Hickson maintains that any ...

W3C said it needs a new structure to meet faster paced demands and address ‘the urgent problems of the web’. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a community that develops open standards for the ...

The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess. Stephen ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is seeking browser vendors, application developers and content designers to help design the next version of HTML. The organization is announcing on Wednesday a new ...

If HTML5 editor Ian Hickson’s recent decision to remove the element from the HTML5 specification left you scratching your head, you’re not alone. The W3C, the group that oversees HTML5, feels the same ...

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 ...

Those who are following the development of Web services standards have been holding their breath, waiting to see how the controversy over choreography and workflow specifications will resolve itself.

The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is ...

In becoming CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium, Dr. Jeff Jaffe brings a resume filled with jobs that required building partnerships and finding consensus. Such business and personal skills will be ...