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Revision as of 04:07, 13 April 2002 by Peter Winnberg (talk | contribs) (-/Talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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