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  • Australians contribute to new W3C standards

    Australian organisations have had input in a range of new Web standards, designed to increase interoperability of the Internet.

  • W3C recommends online forms standard

    The World Wide Web Consortium has reached a critical stage in a new standard that governs how developers use forms on the Internet.

  • Cisco cleans up with SOAP alternative?

    Cisco has announced an alternative to the Web-services protocol SOAP and made it open source. Cisco says its Etch messaging protocol will be more efficient than the SOAP standard and the company will release the source code.

  • W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0

    Supporters of the Sparql query language say using the Web without it would be like 'trying to use a relational database without SQL'

  • Standards teamwork pays off

    International standards bodies OASIS and W3C have announced that they're teaming up on a forum about security standards for Web services.

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  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    Atom atomises RSS, rest easy

    Amazon engineer DeWitt Clinton's ringing endorsement of Atom over RSS as the XML flavour of choice for syndicated feed content for discerning geeks made headlines yesterday, although the points he makes have been made before.

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  • W3C proposes XML encryption methods

    W3C has proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organisation's push to standardise technologies crucial to Web services.

  • W3C recommends online forms standard

    The World Wide Web Consortium has reached a critical stage in a new standard that governs how developers use forms on the Internet.

  • W3C brushes up SOAP standard

    Standards body the World Wide Web Consortium has indicated that it is close to finalising an upgrade to an important Web services protocol called SOAP.

  • W3C releases scripting standard, caveat

    The Web's leading standards body has released a long-delayed recommendation for using scripts in Web pages but urged coders not to rely too heavily on scripting.

  • Standards teamwork pays off

    International standards bodies OASIS and W3C have announced that they're teaming up on a forum about security standards for Web services.

Reviews (15)

  • Will Microsoft tweak IE?

    Microsoft told the Web's leading standards body that it's considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit.

  • Mac Opera escapes limbo

    Today, Opera will update its browser for the Mac, months after threatening to end development in reaction to Apple's bypassing it for open-source competitor KHTML.

  • Microsoft Expression Web

    Microsoft Expression Web is a solid Web site layout program that replaces FrontPage and offers tools for dynamic designs, although we'd like more help for newbies.

  • Mozilla Firefox 2

    Mozilla Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on security, features, and overall cool factor and deserving our Editors' Choice award.

  • Opera 8

    If you don't mind paying for Web browser features found nowhere else, Opera 8's the browser for you.

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