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The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C), announced official support for a new standardized data format Efficient XML Interchange, or EXI for super-efficient transmission of data.

International Web standards body, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released a new standard for developers of mobile Web applications. The document, published as a W3C Recommendation, is titled "The Mobile Web Application Best Practices"

W3C cheat sheet is a compact, mobile-friendly Web application that allows to look up keywords in various W3C specifications, as well as to access various guidelines and best practices at the tip of the finger.

After leaving much of the creation of a new version of HTML to Apple, Google, Opera, and Mozilla, Microsoft has begun sinking its teeth into the Web standard.

That said, validation does have its charms. There were a few things that the validation process exposed in our HTML markup that were clearly wrong -- an orphaned tag here, and a few inconsistencies in the way we applied tags there. Mark Pilgrim makes the case for validation:

Internet Explorer 8 is our release. The first beta was pushed out today and it shows huge promise. It's already achieved way more than I would've expected and it's made me hungry for more.

Both mashups and Ajax are now firmly entrenched in the Web landscape. Put them together and you have the makings for Rich Web applications. This article explains the Rich Web Application Backplane, currently a W3C Note, which is designed to bring standard

The W3C has long had XHTML2 in the works, a technology that aims to fill the same role as HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, an upgrade or replacement with many improvements and changes to the semantic elements available. XHTML2 is XML—just as XHTML 1.0 is—but

Berners-Lee hopes to establish a new working group that will focus on revising and improving the HTML standard while working to bridge the gap between HTML and XHTML