This latest recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (last discussed in the May 7, 1999 Scout Report) provides XML authors with a wider range of design and display options. As with all W3C recommendations, the W3C endorsement indicates that "a specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C membership, who favor its adoption by the...

Cascading style sheets allow for greater control over how a web document is presented, and this site can help interested users learn about them. W3C's CSS page offers even more information regarding CSS, it's history, and what's new. It also provides a listing of other related guides and tools.

In 1998 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 specification as a W3C recommendation. Cascading style sheets help to improve layout control of HTML documents. CSS2 adds further to this control, including new positioning properties and dynamically downloadable fonts. It is also designed to interface with XML (Extensible Markup Language--discussed in the ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has advanced the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.0 as a recommendation this week. XSL 1.0 is an XML-based language that details how XML documents will be formatted; it consists of two parts: "a language for transforming XML documents, and an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics." XSL is the language that expresses stylesheets that enable XML...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the HyperText Markup Language 4.0 specification as "a W3C recommendation. A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to web interoperability, and has been reviewed by all W3C members, who are in favor of supporting its adoption by the industry." Also included is more information about the features of the...

W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium (last described in the Scout Report for November 27, 1998), has recently released Jigsaw 2.0.0 to the general public. Jigsaw is "W3C's leading-edge Web server platform, providing a sample HTTP 1.1 implementation and a variety of other features on top of an advanced architecture implemented in Java." Jigsaw is meant to be a flexible and continually evolving, yet...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued its first recommendation for Synchronized Multi-media Integration Language. The specification intends to help "bring television-like content to the web, avoiding the limitations for traditional television and lowering the bandwidth requirements for transmitting this type of content over the Internet. With SMIL [pronounced smile], producing...

The first working draft of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition is now available. The document "defines the process of Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition and the syntax and semantics of semantic interpretation tags that can be added to speech recognition grammars." The document is a draft, open for suggestions from W3C members and other...

The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, part of their Web Accessibility Initiative, address how to design user agents such as Web browsers that make the Web more accessible for people with disabilities. The guidelines focus on the accessibility of interfaces and internal facilities as well as communication with other technologies. These September 12, 2001...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) plays an important role in the development of the Web by creating standards and protocols for universal use and interoperability. The W3C Voice Browser working group is developing revolutionary markup languages similar to HTML that, instead of focusing on a visual interface, will cover "dialog, speech synthesis, speech recognition, call control and other aspects...