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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 you to learn more about W3C.

DOM Level 2 HTML Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

5 June 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 1 July. The sixth component of DOM Level 2, DOM2 HTML is a set of interfaces used to manipulate the structure and contents of HTML and XHTML documents. Read more about the DOM Activity. (News archive)

Web Service Description Usage Scenarios Published

4 June 2002: The Web Services Description Working Group has releasd the first public Working Draft of Web Service Description Usage Scenarios. The document is part of W3C development of a language used to describe interfaces to Web services and how to interact with them. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity. (News archive)

W3C Team Talks in June

28 May 2002: Vincent Quint presents Documents structurés sur le Web (in French) at IDT/net 2002 in Paris, France. On 5 June, Tatsuya Hagino presents W3C Technology on Metadata (PDF in Japanese) at the JAGAT seminar in Tokyo, Japan. On 15 June, Karl Dubost presents Les standards Web? Ah non, jamais! in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. On 18 June, Judy Brewer and Wendy Chisholm present a 1/2 day tutorial, Web Accessibility: Technology and Policy for an Inclusive Future, at INET 2002 in Arlington, VA, near Washington, D.C., USA. On 22 June, Tim Berners-Lee gives the opening keynote at the Open Group Web Services Conference in Boston, MA, USA. On 30 June, Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton present MathML in e-Learning with Amaya at the MathML Conference 2002 in Chicago, IL, USA. Browse W3C appearances and events. (News archive)

Exclusive XML Canonicalization Becomes a W3C Proposed Recommendation

24 May 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group on digital signatures, the specification provides a method to exclude ancestor context from a canonicalized subset of an XML document. Read about XML Signature. (News archive)

Joseph Reagle Receives Technology Review TR100 Honor

23 May 2002: Joseph Reagle, W3C Policy Analyst, has been chosen as one of Technology Review's "2002 TR100," a group of one hundred young innovators in technology from around the world. The magazine has recognized Joseph's contributions to developing open Web technologies related to privacy, security, and digital signatures. Join us in congratulating Joseph for his achievement. Read about W3C work on Privacy, XML Signature, XML Encryption, and XML Key Management. (News archive)

W3C Launches European Interop Tour 2002

21 May 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding a series of public one-day events across Europe from 21 May to 3 June, in Paris, Vienna, Dublin, and Brussels. The W3C Interop Tour promotes W3C technologies, and demonstrates their interoperability on the World Wide Web. The tour also marks the start of three new regional W3C Offices, expanding the impact of W3C in Europe. Read the press release. (News archive)

QA Framework Working Drafts Published

16 May 2002: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released four Working Drafts.

The W3C QA Activity's goals include planning and process; better, more testable specifications; coordination with internal and external groups; and building and acquiring conformance test materials. Comments are welcome. Visit the QA home page. (News archive)

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