World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (English: ), also known as the W3C Council , is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web [2] and is a quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organization.
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| Abbreviation | W3C |
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| slogan | Develop the unlimited potential of the Internet |
| establishment time | October 1, 1994 (1994-10-01) |
| type | standards organization |
| Target | Develop protocols and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth of the network |
| headquarters |  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| service area |
worldwide |
| member |
461 member organizations [1] |
| chairman |
Tim Bernards-Lee |
| staff |
62 |
| website | Official website  |
history
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee in October 1994 after he left CERN, and was founded in Massachusetts with the support of the European Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Provincial Institute of Technology MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT/LCS) [2] , DARPA launched ARPANET , which is one of the predecessors of the Internet .
The organization attempts to promote compatibility and agreement among industry members through new standards developed by W3C. Incompatible HTML versions are provided by different providers, resulting in inconsistencies in how web pages are displayed. The alliance attempts to have all suppliers implement a core set of principles and components chosen by the alliance.
CERN was originally intended to be the European branch of W3C, however CERN wanted to focus on particle physics rather than information technology. In April 1995, the French National Institute of Information and Automation (INRIA) became the European agency of W3C. In September 1996, the SFC Research Institute of Keio University became the Asian organization of W3C [3] . Since 1997, W3C has established regional offices around the world. As of September 2009, there are eighteen regional offices covering Australia, Benelux , Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Republic of Korea, Morocco, South Africa , Spain, Sweden [4] . In January 2013, Beihang University became a W3C China institution. In 2016, W3C established regional offices in the UK and Ireland.
standard
In order to solve the incompatibility problems caused by different platforms, technologies and developers in network applications, and ensure the smooth and complete flow of network information, the World Wide Web Consortium has formulated a series of standards and urged network application developers and content providers to follow these standards . The content of the standard includes the specification of the language used, the guidelines used in the development and the behavior of the interpretation engine and so on. W3C has also formulated many far-reaching standard specifications including XML and CSS .
However, the web standards formulated by W3C do not seem to be mandatory, but only recommended standards, so some websites still cannot fully implement these standards, especially web pages designed with early WYSIWYG web page editing software often contain a lot of non-standard codes.
- W3C recommended standard
- CSS : Hierarchical Style Sheets
- DOM : Document Object Model
- HTML : Hyper Document Markup Language
- RDF: Resource Description Framework
- SMIL : Synchronous Multimedia Integration Language
- SVG : Scalable Vector Graphics
- WATER
- Widgets
- XHTML : Extensible Hyperdocument Markup Language
- XML : Extensible Markup Language
- PICS: Platform for Internet Content Screening