World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has established WWW standards.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

W3C's mission is to realize the full potential of the Web by developing specifications, guidelines, software, and tools.

Quoted from Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, the director and founder of W3C:

"The dream of the web is a public information space where one can communicate through sharing information"

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  • W3C is committed tostandardization of the web
  • W3C creates and maintains WWW standards
  • W3C standards are known as W3C Recommendations

The most important work of W3C is to develop web specifications, which are 'recommendations' describing web communication protocols (such as HTML and XML) and other building blocks.

The most important W3C standards are:

You can find more information on W3C Tutorial Read more about W3C here.

W3C resources on CodeW3C.com

W3C Introduction
This section explains what W3C is, how it works, and how the web is standardized.
W3C Programs
The W3C standardization process includes 7 different steps. This section explains the W3C standardization process.
W3C HTML
HTML is a hybrid language for publishing hyper text on the World Wide Web. This section summarizes the W3C HTML activities.
W3C XHTML
XHTML 1.0 is the latest version of HTML. This section summarizes the W3C XHTML activities.
W3C XML
XML is designed to describe, store, transmit, and exchange data. XML 1.0 is the latest version of XML. This section outlines the W3C XML activities.
W3C CSS
Style sheets can describe how a file is displayed, read aloud, or printed. W3C supports two types of style sheets: CSS and XSL. This section outlines the W3C CSS activities.
W3C XSL
Style sheets can describe how a file is displayed, read aloud, or printed. W3C supports two types of style sheets: CSS and XSL. This section outlines the W3C XSL activities.
W3C DOM
Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform and language-neutral application programming interface that allows programs to access, update the content, structure, and style of documents. This section outlines the W3C DOM activities.
Other W3C
This section outlines some other important and interesting activities of W3C.