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 ...

An industry group made up the four major browser vendors, such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, have won a tug-of-war with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body for the ...

We’ve been writing about HTML5 for quite a while, but, until today, the actual HTML5 specs and standards were still moving targets. Now, however, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced that ...

You might have read that, on October 28th, W3C officially recommended HTML5. And you might know that this has something to do with apps and the Web. The question is: Does this concern you? The answer, ...

Like the Cylons, HTML5 was created by man. It rebelled. It evolved. It looks and feels like HTML. And now, it has a plan. Namely, to be done in 2014. The W3C has formalized its plan to move the HTML5 ...

The two standards bodies that are jointly responsible for developing the HTML specification have cut the final tie that was binding them together. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body in charge of web standards such as HTML and browser privacy, announced a significant change in how it will operate. Beginning on January 2023, ...

The World Wide Web Consortium has published a public draft of the first major upgrade to HTML in over a decade. Released on Tuesday, the first working draft for HTML 5 is a result of work carried out ...

Slowly, but surely, web browsers are creeping towards some form of parity when it comes to using custom fonts in CSS. It's rather disturbing how long it's taken considering that dynamic fonts were ...

EPUB has become the gold standard for e-books globally in the three years since the International Digital Publishing Forum—the organization that created it—became part of the Worldwide Web Consortium ...