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| The '''World Wide Web Consortium''' ( http://www.w3.org ), W3C for short, is an organization that produces standards for the ]. It is headed by ], the original creator of the ] (HyperText Transfert Protocol) and ] (HyperText Markup Language) on which the Web is based. | The '''World Wide Web Consortium''' ( http://www.w3.org ), W3C for short, is an organization that produces standards for the ]. It is headed by ], the original creator of the ] (HyperText Transfert Protocol) and ] (HyperText Markup Language) on which the Web is based. | ||
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The World Wide Web Consortium ( http://www.w3.org ), W3C for short, is an organization that produces standards for the World Wide Web. It is headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the original creator of the HTTP (HyperText Transfert Protocol) and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) on which the Web is based.
A standard goes through the stages Working Draft, Last Call, Proposed Recommendation and Candidate Recommendation. It ends as a Recommendation. It's up to the manufactures to follow the recommendations which is the case for many of them.
Important recommendations are