W3C and WHATWG finalize split on HTML5 spec, forking ‘unlikely’ The W3C and WHATWG are splitting editing duties on their respective HTML specifications. While some believe that the change will ...

Concluding HTML version numbers are a relic of a bygone age, Ian Hickson adopts a "living document" approach. Not so the W3C standards group.

The MarkUp Validation Service checks for compliance with different HTML versions and the emerging XHTML standard—an evolutionary change to HTML markup that's XML-compliant.

However, the Web developer and design communities have called for the W3C to renew its commitment to HTML by adding new features, officials with the organization said.

Five months after reorganizing its Web services work, an influential standards body has released a trio of drafts related to the much-hyped trend. The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C) this week ...

Other browser companies, including Microsoft, Apple and Opera, are active participants in the HTML Working Group, W3C said.

Each W3C Web Services Working Group is chartered to conduct its technical work in public, with discussion lists, meeting reports and drafts of work in progress.

The HTML5 Web specification that's used in browsers today is on track for "Recommendation" status, perhaps by year's end. That progress report comes from Philippe Le Hégaret, head of the World ...