"World Wide Web Consortium" news, interviews, and features

News about World Wide Web Consortium

• Developer: Dump JavaScript for faster Web loading

  Offered as part of a theoretical HTML6, the plan for single-page Web apps could leverage JSON, XML, new data structure technology

• Standards bodies join to create better geolocation Web data

  The W3C and OGC pledge to ease the path for developing location-enriched Web data

• HTML5 finalized, finally

  HTML5 was designed to move the Web from serving static documents to becoming a full-fledged platform for building applications

• W3C wants to open the social Web for the enterprise

  A new effort from the W3C aims to bring together enterprise social networking software with a common data format

• 'Do not track'? Oh what the heck, go ahead

  The lack of a standard has hamstrung the browser privacy tool

• Brazil's global Internet conference includes call to end spying

  Participants target an end to Internet surveillance, but have other goals including net neutrality

Features about World Wide Web Consortium

• Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC) applications emerge as the tech stabilizes

  Work remains to be done, but WebRTC is being put to use in a range of vertical markets