World Wide Web Consortium Issues DOM Level 2 HTML as a W3C Recommendation; New Technology Delivers Standard API and Dynamism to HTML and XHTML 1.0.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers http://www.w3.org/--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2003 Leading the Web to its full potential, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) today published the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. as a W3C Recommendation A W3C Recommendation is the final stage of a ratification process of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group concerning the standard. It is the equivalent of a published standard in many other industries. . The specification reflects cross-industry agreement on a standard API (Application Programming Interface) for manipulating HTML and XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. 1.0 documents and data through a programming language (such as Java or ECMAScript). A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability Web interoperability means producing web pages viewable in standard compatible web browsers, various operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh and Linux and devices such as PC, PDA and mobile phone based on the latest web standards. , and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by the industry. DOM Level 2 HTML Makes Scripting Easier, More Reliable "Dynamic HTML" is a term used by some vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated. The Document Object Model - abbreviated as DOM - is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. Over the years, W3C has developed a uniform way in which the object model of HTML documents should be exposed to scripts. The W3C DOM Working Group makes sure interoperable and scripting-language neutral solutions are agreed upon, beginning with a suite of initial work on DOM Level 1, in 1998. The majority of DOM Level 2 was completed in 2000, but DOM Level 2 Model for HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents required further work. With the publication of the W3C DOM Level 2 Recommendation, that work is now complete. DOM Level 2 HTML provides the interface that gives programs and scripts a standard way to navigate, transform and update both HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents. Wherever you use HTML or XHTML 1.0, you can use the DOM to manipulate it. DOM Level 2 HTML Has Vigorous Implementation Experience and Test Suites To ensure the usefulness and viability of W3C specifications, W3C Working Groups are required to provide both implementation reports and test suites which can be used by developers to begin to test their own software. In the case of DOM Level 2 HTML, the Working Group produced a test suite with well over 500 individual tests, launched jointly with the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest. (NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ), which are free for any developer to use. The DOM Test Suites, which include significant developer community contributions, give browser authors the opportunity to test their software against the developing set of tests and make adjustments to code. More changes to the test suites are forthcoming, now that the DOM Level 2 HTML Recommendation is complete. Industry and Developer Support Key to DOM Level 2 HTML Key industry players currently bringing their expertise to the W3C DOM Working Group include Arbortext, Corel, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Netscape, Oracle, and X-Hive. W3C Members and other implementors are already providing support for DOM Level 2 HTML, as indicated in the testimonials. The DOM Working Group is currently at work developing DOM Level 3, the next layer of functionality for DOM. Contact Americas, Australia -- Janet Daly, (janet@w3.org), +1.617.253.5884 or +1.617.253.2613 Contact Europe -- Marie-Claire Forgue, (mcf@w3.org), +33.492.38.75.94 Contact Asia -- Saeko Takeuchi (saeko@w3.org), +81.466.49.1170 Testimonials are also available at http://www.w3.org/2003/01/doml2html-testimonial About the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The W3C was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. It is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS LCS - Language for Communicating Systems ) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM ERCIM - European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics. An association of European research organisations promoting cooperative research on key issues in Information Technology. ) headquartered in France and Keio University in Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users, and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology. To date, nearly 450 organizations are Members of the Consortium. For more information see http://www.w3.org/ |
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