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News Microsoft will continue to prioritise security and ease of use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 and will seek to improve web development with current standards compatibility, according to the company.
[04 May 2007]
News Only three per cent of the world's leading websites meet the needs of disabled web users, according to the UN. Out of 100 sites tested in a UN commissioned study, only three met the minimum accessibility level: the UK Prime Minister's site and...
[06 Dec 2006]
News Representatives from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Southampton have announced a plan to establish a research centre to study the social and technological implications of growing web adoption.
[03 Nov 2006]
News The father of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is certainly not short of plaudits - but last night he had yet another reason to feel proud. The famed techie, who founded and directs MIT's World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), was awarded the 'Freedom of...
[22 Sep 2006]
News The 25 EC member states and nine accession countries have all signed up to a new inclusion plan that could make accessibility in e-procurement mandatory. The 34 countries all signed an agreement in Riga yesterday, committing themselves to the...
[14 Jun 2006]
News All the technologies are now in place to make the data-driven web a reality, according to father of the internet Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The semantic web, where machines are able to read the contents of documents as readily as people can, now has all...
[25 May 2006]
News The Cabinet Office website was forced offline on Wednesday because of technical problems, the government has admitted. A Cabinet Office spokesperson said the site was offline due to "maintenance being carried out by our ISP", which is understood to...
[02 Dec 2005]
News The vast majority of public service websites in Europe are failing to meet international e-accessibility standards. That's according to a report released by the UK EU presidency, which shows that a mere three per cent of public service websites are...
[28 Nov 2005]
News mTLD, the top-level domain operator for dot-mobi websites, has stipulated that anyone wanting to register for a URL must abide by a code of best practices.mTLD announced today that it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and will be...
[24 Oct 2005]
News Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 browser won't pass a stringent standards test that rivals have embraced. In its browser blog, Microsoft acknowledged that IE 7 would not pass the Web Standards Project's Acid2 test, which examines a browser's...
[02 Aug 2005]
News The European Commission is investigating Europe's main telecoms standard-setting body due to concerns that a flaw in its procedures could allow companies to carry out a 'patent ambush'. A spokesman for the EC's competition commissioner told ZDNet...
[16 Jun 2005]
News Software developers are angry that Microsoft has been granted a patent for the conversion of objects into XML files. The patent, which was granted by the US patent office on Tuesday, is for XML serialisation and deserialisation - the conversion of...
[27 May 2005]
News Microsoft has finally told web developers what they've wanted to hear for years, promising support for graphics and style sheet standards. In a blog entry posted on Friday, a member of Microsoft's Internet Explorer development team said the company...
[26 Apr 2005]
News A federal appeals court has partially reversed a lower-court decision that had exposed Microsoft to $565m (£294m) in damages. The patent infringement case, brought by the University of California and its Eolas Technologies spinoff, had riled the...
[03 Mar 2005]
News The majority of websites run by disability organisations are, incredibly, failing to pass accessibility tests - meaning they cannot be used by some of the very users that they aim to support. Last week, leading ecommerce websites were shamed by the...
[20 Apr 2004]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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