The W3C today published its Recommendation of HTML5 -- the final version of the standard after years of adding features and making changes to it.

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.

The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess.

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 ...

How many editors does it take to change a web standard? As it happens, four. Yes, the W3C has named four replacement editors for its temporarily-editor-less HTML5 specification. Perhaps most ...

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 Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) published HTML5 as a Recommendation this week, signaling the conclusion of the organization's standards work on a collection of Internet technologies. The ...

W3C has developed processes and other policies that promote the development of high-quality, consensus-driven standards, many of which power the Web and enterprise computing.

The HTML5 Web specification that's used in browsers today is on track for 'Recommendation' status.

W3C Publishes an HTML5 Spec for Web Developers Chances are, despite embracing the tools therein, you’ve probably never read the HTML5 spec. We don’t blame you.

We've been writing about HTML5 for quite a while, but, until today, the actual HTML5 specs and standards were still moving targets. Now, however, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced ...

When Google Chrome announced in January that third-party cookies would be phased out in two years, senior ad tech leaders joined the W3C – the group that creates common standards for web browsers – to ...