World Wide Web Consortium
Description: W3C's nearly 400 member organizations lead the World Wide Web to its full potential. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the Web's inventor. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia.
Keywords: W3C, World Wide Web, Web, WWW, Consortium, computer, access, accessibility, semantic, worldwide, W3, HTML, XML, standard, language, technology, link, CSS, RDF, XSL, Berners-Lee, Berners, Lee, style sheet, cascading, schema, XHTML, mobile, SVG, PNG, PICS, DOM, SMIL, MathML, markup, Amaya, Jigsaw, free, open source, software

#

## Leading the Web to Its Full Potential...

Skip to Technologies | Activities | Technical Reports | Site Index | New Visitors | About W3C | Join W3C | Contact W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. On this page, you'll find W3C news, links to W3C technologies and ways to get involved. New visitors can find help in Finding Your Way at W3C. We encourage organizations to learn more about W3C and about W3C Membership.

## Mobile Web Initiative

W3C has launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. "MWI recognizes the mobile device as a first class participant of the Web," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. W3C thanks MWI Founding Sponsors Drutt Corporation, France Telecom, HP, MobileAware, Nokia, Opera Software, Segala M Test, Vodafone and Volantis. Read about MWI, how to sponsor MWI and the testimonials and press release.

## W3C Membership News

Announcement of changes to W3C's Membership fee structure:

- W3C has lowered fees for non-profit and small commercial organizations based in developing countries (see the press release) and for intermediate-sized companies.
- W3C plans a general fee increase for new Members starting 1 July 2005. Organizations that join before 1 July will take advantage of the current fees.

Read more information about W3C fees.

## W3C A to Z

- Skip to News
- Accessibility
- Amaya
- Annotea
- CC/PP
- Compound Document Formats
- CSS
- CSS Validator
- Device Independence
- DOM
- HTML
- HTML Tidy
- HTML Validator
- HTTP
- InkML
- Internationalization
- Jigsaw
- Libwww
- MathML
- Mobile Web Initiative (W3C-MWI)
- Multimodal Interaction
- OWL
- Patent Policy
- PICS
- PNG
- Privacy and P3P
- Quality Assurance (QA)
- RDF
- Semantic Web
- SMIL
- SOAP/XMLP
- SPARQL
- Style
- SVG
- TAG
- Timed Text
- URI/URL
- Validators
- Voice
- WAI
- WebCGM
- Web Services
- XForms
- XHTML
- XLink
- XML
- XML Base
- XML Binary Characterization
- XML Encryption
- XML Key Management
- XML Query
- XML Schema
- XML Signature
- XPath
- XPointer
- XSL and XSLT

More topics...

## W3C Tenth Anniversary

W3C has held two celebrations of ten years of leading the Web to its full potential: 1 December 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and 3 June 2005 in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Mementos from the June 2005 event will be available soon. See also the mementos from December 2004.

## News

Skip to Search

### W3C Holds Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences

2005-06-20: W3C holds the Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences on 21-22 June at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, CA, USA. Diverse communities, from XML Schema end users to vendors and the W3C XML Schema Working Group, will share implementation stories and expertise. The Workshop goal is to create a plan of action addressing XML Schema 1.0 interoperability, errata and clarifications. Read the program and about W3C Workshops. (News archive)

### Working Group Note: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content

2005-06-20: The Voice Browser Working Group has released Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0 as a Working Group Note for information only. This note describes a mechanism being used in the industry that allows a content provider to use a processing instruction embedded within XML content to specify the access policy of that content. Implementors should perform their own security analysis. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

### VoiceXML 2.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

2005-06-13: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Fully backwards-compatible with VoiceXML 2.0, the document standardizes eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML platforms: `data`, `disconnect`, `grammar`, `foreach`, `mark`, `property`, `script`, and `transfer`. Comments are welcome through 11 July. Visit the voice browser home page. (News archive)

### Last Call: CSS 2.1

2005-06-14: The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1). CSS 2.1 is derived from and is intended to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS language usage, the specification adds a few highly requested features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations. Comments are welcome through 15 July. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

### W3C Holds Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services

2005-06-09: The W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services is 9-10 June in Innsbruck, Austria, hosted by DERI and supported by EC's IST programme WS2 project. Over sixty organizations are presenting papers identifying areas of shared interest between Web services and Semantic Web communities. Topics include background technologies, registries, taxonomies, search mechanisms, ontologies for Web services, Web services choreography, and business process. Read the press release, the program and about W3C Workshops. (News archive)

### Report on W3C Rule Languages Workshop Published

2005-06-07: The report on the W3C Rule Languages Workshop is now available. Over eighty representatives from various vendors, user communities, and research groups attended and reported on their views, experience, and ideas on options for establishing a standard web-based language for expressing rules. More information is available from the Workshop Web site and the press release. (News archive)

### W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

2005-06-06: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 5-7 June in Mandelieu, France. W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C Activities. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 29 November - 1 December in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo credit: Jose Kahan. News archive)

### Last Call: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics

2005-06-05: Addressing comments from the previous Last Call, the XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group released three updated requirements documents and a Last Call Working Draft for the XQuery and XPath languages. Important for databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. XPath is used to select parts of XML documents. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics - Last Call comments welcome through 15 July
- XML Query (XQuery) Requirements
- XQuery Update Facility Requirements
- XPath Requirements Version 2.0

### Past News

## Search

Skip to Contents

Search W3C

Search W3C Mailing Lists

## Members

Nokia

Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia sees that contribution to, and adoption of, W3C specifications are essential for widespread use of the Web, with any user device. (Member testimonials)

- Member Home Page
- Member Submissions
- Current Members
- W3C Fellows

## Get Involved

- W3C Membership Benefits
- Reasons to Join W3C
- Mailing Lists
- Translations
- Workshops
- Liaisons
- W3C Donors
- Open Source Software
- Employment
- More ways to participate

## Introduction

- About W3C
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Tutorials
- Process Document
- More...

## W3C Team

- People
- Team Submissions

## Presentations

- Public Presentations

## News Room

- W3C News Archive (RSS)
- Subscribe to W3C Weekly News
- Press Releases
- Multilingual Press Release RSS
- W3C in the Press

## World Offices

The W3C Offices translate many W3C home page news items. W3C Offices are located in these parts of the world:

- Australia
- Benelux/Benelux
- Suomi (Finland)
- Deutschland und Osterreich (Germany and Austria)
- Magyarors (Hungary)
- Italia (Italy)
- Espaniol (Spain)
- Sverige (Sweden)
- United Kingdom and Ireland

## Systems

- Get Member Password
- System Status

W3C would like to thank the organizations who have contributed hardware, software, and services to W3C.

Read the FAQ and send comments about this page. Syndicate this page with RSS 1.0, an RDF vocabulary used for site summaries.

Copyright 1994-2005 W3C (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply. Your interactions with this site are in accordance with our public and Member privacy statements.