This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
For related introductory information, see: Internationalization.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Standards
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2005-02-15
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translations
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errata
Architectural Specification building on
Unicode to provide authors of
specifications, software developers, and
content developers with a common reference
for interoperable text handling on the
World Wide Web.
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2001-05-31
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translations
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errata
"Ruby" are short runs of text alongside
the base text, typically used in East Asian
documents to indicate pronunciation or to
provide a short annotation. This
specification defines markup for ruby, in
the form of an XHTML module.
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Group Notes
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2009-09-08
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Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.
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2009-06-04
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translations
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errata
Describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051, however, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051.
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2007-05-16
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This document contains guidelines on the use of the Unicode Standard in conjunction with markup languages such as XML.
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2007-04-12
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Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.
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Drafts
Below are draft documents:
Candidate Recommendations, other Working Drafts.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Candidate Recommendations
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2003-05-14
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"Ruby" are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This document proposes a set of CSS properties associated with the 'Ruby' elements. They can be used in combination with the Ruby elements of HTML.
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Other Working Drafts
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2009-06-18
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This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules.
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2004-05-09
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Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS, focusing specifically on advice about character sets, encodings, and other character-specific matters.
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2002-11-07
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CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This draft contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to list styling.
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2002-05-15
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The CSS formatting model provides for a flow of elements and text inside of a container to be wrapped into lines. This module describes the positioning in the block progression direction both of elements and text within lines and of the lines themselves. This positioning is often relative to a baseline. It also describes special features for formatting of first lines and drop caps.
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