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The W3C is relevant in multiple critical areas of the Web. Just to name a few topics where W3C is the primary venue for all standardisation efforts: - Accessib
by seabass-labrax 3y ago
The W3C is relevant in multiple critical areas of the Web. Just to name a few topics where W3C is the primary venue for all standardisation efforts:
- Accessibility
- Authentication
- CSS
- Self-Sovereign Identity
- Virtual Reality
- Linked Data
- XML
I wrote a comment about the W3C's relationship with WHATWG a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052428
If you do nothing else, please pass your eyes over the list of W3C Recommendations and other publications on standards track: https://www.w3.org/TR/ https://www.w3.org/TR/
- 1letterunixname 3y agoExactly. They were the original resource as far back as the mid-90's. They originated SGML, HTML <3.0 .. 4.01, CSS, XML (XPath, XSLT), and so forth. And yes, even VRML :) https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/ https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/ HTML 2 (the wild west) https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/ https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/ HTML 3.2 https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/appendix/changes.html https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/appendix/changes.html Diffs of HTML 3.2 -> 4 https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html History of HTML until 3.2 https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ HTML 4 https://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/ https://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/ Diffs of HTML 4 -> 5 https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-html53-20210128/ https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-html53-20210128/ HTML 5.3 (last version on W3C) https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ HTML5.3+ (moved to whatwg) https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/VRML/ https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/VRML/ Virtual Reality Markup Language