World Wide Web Consortium WWWC is W3C Consortium of a World Wide Web

The consortium W3C is known that recommended for use, in particular, widespread standards HTML CSS, PNG, XML and URL. The most known works of the organization are connected with standardization HTML5 and CSS3.

2019: Producers of browsers won the right to development of HTML and DOM

Vendors of browsers Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla won the right to development of technology standards for the Internet from Consortium of the World Wide Web (W3C)^[1].

In 2004 the above-mentioned companies based the working group WHATWG in response to unwillingness of W3C to develop the HTML standard and plans of consortium to pass to XHTML with XML-like structure with which vendors at that time did not agree. According to vendors, the management of W3C acted for the benefit of not communities of web developer therefore they decided to create the alternative standard later adopted as HTML5.

Within several years of W3C and WHATWG cooperated, however new standards were generally developed in WHATWG, and then were accepted by consortium as official. In many cases standards were implemented in Chrome and Mozilla even before their official acceptance by W3C. In other words, vendors perceived approval of W3C only as the formality which practically is not influencing the standards developed by WHATWG in any way.

Both organizations officially broke off cooperation in April, 2018 when all participants of WHATWG rejected the version of DOM 4.1. Though W3C include hundreds of members, the DOM 4.1 standard so was not implemented in one browser. Since then both organizations worked on own standards separately.

Now, it seems, W3C and WHATWG after all was succeeded to agree. On Tuesday, May 28, they signed^[2] in which W3C refuses development of future versions of HTML and DOM and assigns this right of WHATWG. From now on the consortium will issue only "recommendations" of rather future standards with the list of desirable functions, however the final decision what to add to the products and that it is not present, will accept vendors.

The HTML Living Standard standard developed by WHATWG, and for DOM – DOM Living Standard will become the official version of HTML from now on.

2017: Creation of cryptocurrency API

In September, 2017 it became known of creation of the cryptocurrency API interface for browsers. The new project is designed to simplify financial transactions using bitcoin and other digital currencies.

The API solution allowing to pay online purchases of goods and services in browsers is created  by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the large IT companies, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and Mozilla.

IT giant created API for cryptocurrency payments in browsers

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Webkit from Apple adapted Mozilla Firefox Samsung Internet Browser and Facebook application to the middle of September, 2017 new technology under. cryptocurrencies Ethereum Traditional methods of online payments are supported not only, it seems bitcoin and, but also.

The API interface allows sellers to create the refreshed pages of check of users containing earlier loaded data. People need to enter only once the payment data for all subsequent purchases that saves time and reduces the probability of wrong transactions.

In a pop-up menu there will be a possibility of the choice of a payment method using expanded function of autocompletion. At the same time payments are protected from unauthorized access.

According to the head of payment transactions of W3C  Ian Jacobs, suitable time has come in order that developers wrote the code under payment methods which they would like to see.

It is an excellent opportunity for people to begin to create descriptions of payment methods on the basis of a blockchain and to try to test API. Now we are for the test stages and studies of compatibility — he noted.[3]

In October, 2017 a number of the large companies intend to show practical application of new API in business.

2012: Opening of office W3C in Russia

The Russian office W3C created at the beginning of 2012 on the basis of Higher School of Economics (Higher School of Economics National Research University) became the 15th regional representative office of W3C. Victor Klintsov, the deputy director of Institute for Information Technology at the HSE became the director of the Russian office W3C.

The main tasks of the Russian office W3C - information and educational. It will try to convey information on work of Consortium to the Russian society and to recruit the interested organizations in its working groups.

The head of the Russian office explained CNews that financing of the Russian representative office of W3C will be provided at the expense of contributions of the member organizations, which in Russia two now.

In addition to the HSE RIA Novosti which is also belonging to the state became the full member of W3C in Russia. As Victor Klintsov told, the news agency is interested in participation in the working groups discussing standards of mobile devices and mass media.

Participation of RIA Novosti - not the first, though rather exceptional case of the valid membership of news agency in W3C. According to the organization, 2.4% of the organizations consisting in consortium refer themselves to category News Media (from 349 as of February 21, 2012).

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