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RSS w3c in newsGovernment websites fail on accessibility
News Government agencies are continuing to flout the government's own guidelines for interoperability, and failing to comply with the most basic standards designed to make websites accessible to people with disabilities, according to recent testing. [26 Nov 2003]
W3C investigates web patent threat
News With a patent threat looming over the web's de facto standard browser, the Worldwide Web Consortium launched a strategy group to evaluate the implications for the web's standard markup language. The W3C conceived the patent advisory group to study... [25 Sep 2003]
Sun and Oracle move to end web services standards row
News Sun Microsystems and Oracle plan to attend the first meeting to discuss a proposed web services standard, despite their support of a rival specification. Next Friday a technical committee at the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured... [09 May 2003]
My word: IBM portal takes dictation
News In an attempt to open its business portals to mobile phones, IBM has introduced software that enables its websites to take dictation. The software is a set of Java application programming interfaces (APIs) that lets developers create what IBM is... [29 Apr 2003]
Web services standards facing a split?
News IBM, Microsoft and BEA Systems plan to submit a high-profile web services proposal to the Oasis standards body, company executives said, despite an ongoing effort by the World Wide Web Consortium to sort through similar proposals. [16 Apr 2003]
Can IT save us from Big Brother?
News Although modern technology created many of society's most pressing threats to privacy, a group of researchers is out to prove that it is also the greatest defender of civil liberties. For example, video surveillance could be made more palatable if... [11 Apr 2003]
Will your website pass the disability test?
News The first formal investigation into website access for Britain's 8.5 million disabled people has been launched by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). Websites that fail to comply will not face prosecution, however: the nature of the... [08 Apr 2003]
W3C to combine web specs
News The web's leading standards body has advanced a specification that makes it easier to combine two increasingly popular technologies for building web documents. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued on Monday the Document Object Model (DOM... [01 Apr 2003]
XML standard approved after three years
News A method of labelling discrete parts of an XML document has ended its tortuous journey toward standardisation with the World Wide Web Consortium's approval of XPointer. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday issued XPointer in three... [26 Mar 2003]
Microsoft walks out on web services standards group
News In a sign of growing discord over web services guidelines, Microsoft has pulled out of a key web services standards working group. Over the past month, IBM and Microsoft have been at odds with other companies around standards submissions, including... [25 Mar 2003]
Office 2003 may pose antivirus problem
News The latest test version of Microsoft Office 2003 could cause problems for antivirus companies because the XML-based format it supports will bog down scanning software, according to security experts. The problem centers on macros embedded in... [24 Mar 2003]
Microsoft patent plans could stifle standards
News Microsoft is in the process of applying for a wide-ranging patent that covers a variety of functions related to its .Net initiative. If approved as is, the patent would cover application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow actions related to... [11 Feb 2003]
Standards group tackles XML documents
News An ebusiness standards body has proposed a series of definitions for how corporations should create common business documents. The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, on Tuesday announced the Universal... [29 Jan 2003]
Web services specs focus on simplified security
News By Martin LaMonica A group of companies led by IBM and Microsoft have published a series of specifications designed to make web services more secure. The proposed specifications describe how companies can establish policies on exchanging... [18 Dec 2002]
W3C starts to knock web services into shape
News The web's leading standards group has issued a trio of documents on the architecture of web services and launched an unprecedented effort to standardise web services lingo. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) put out its first working draft of the... [15 Nov 2002]
