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Recommendations

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
5 May 1999, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden, Ian Jacobs
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification
22 February 1999, Ora Lassila, Ralph R. Swick
WebCGM Profile
21 January 1999, David Cruikshank, John Gebhardt, Lofton Henderson, Roy Platon, Dieter Weidenbrueck
Namespaces in XML
14 January 1999, Tim Bray, Dave Hollander, Andrew Layman
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1
1 October 1998, Vidur Apparao, Steve Byrne, Mike Champion, Scott Isaacs, Ian Jacobs, Arnaud Le Hors, Gavin Nicol, Jonathan Robie, Robert Sutor, Chris Wilson, Lauren Wood
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0 Specification
15 June 1998, Philipp Hoschka
PICS Signed Labels (DSig) 1.0 Specification
27 May 1998, Yang-Hua Chu, Philip DesAutels, Brian LaMacchia, Peter Lipp
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification
12 May 1998, Bert Bos, Håkon Wium Lie, Chris Lilley, Ian Jacobs
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 1.0 Specification
7 April 1998, Patrick Ion, Robert Miner, Stephen Buswell, Stan Devitt, Angel Diaz, Nico Poppelier, Bruce Smith, Neil Soiffer, Robert Sutor, Stephen Watt
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Specification
10 February 1998, Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
PICSRules 1.1 Specification
29 December 1997, Christopher Evans, Clive D.W. Feather, Alex Hopmann, Martin Presler-Marshall, Paul Resnick
HTML 4.0 Specification
18 December 1997, revised 24 April 1998. Dave Raggett, Arnaud Le Hors, Ian Jacobs
HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
14 January 1997, Dave Raggett
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1) Level 1 Specification
17 December 1996, revised 11 January 1999, Håkon W. Lie and Bert Bos
PICS 1.1 Rating Services and Rating Systems -- and Their Machine Readable Descriptions
31 October 1996, Jim Miller, Paul Resnick and David Singer
PICS 1.1 Label Distribution -- Label Syntax and Communication Protocols
31 October 1996, Tim Krauskopf, Jim Miller, Paul Resnick and Win Treese
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification
1 October 1996, various authors

Proposed Recommendations

Associating stylesheets with XML documents
28 April 1999, James Clark
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schemas
3 March 1999, Dan Brickley, R.V. Guha

Working Drafts

The following Working Drafts have been submitted for review by W3C Members and other interested parties. These are draft documents and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C working drafts as reference material or to cite them as other than "work in progress".

Working Drafts in Last Call

A document in last call is to be reviewed by Working Groups that rely on or have a vested interest in the technology. The duration of the last call review period is listed in the status section of the document in review.

XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language — A Reformulation of HTML 4.0 in XML 1.0
5 May 1999, Steve Pemberton et al.
XML Fragment Interchange
12 April 1999, Paul Grosso, Daniel Veillard

Working Drafts in development

XML Schema Part 1: Structures
6 May 1999, David Beech, Scott Lawrence, Murray Maloney, Noah Mendelsohn, Henry S. Thompson
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
6 May 1999, Paul V. Biron, Ashok Malhotra
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
3 May 1999, Jutta Treviranus, Jan Richards, Ian Jacobs, Charles McCathieNevile
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
21 April 1999, Sharon Adler, Anders Berglund, Jeff Caruso, Stephen Deach, Alex Milowski, Steve Zilles
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Specification
21 April 1999, James Clark
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
12 April 1999, Jon Ferraiolo
Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Specification
7 April 1999, Massimo Marchiori, Joseph Reagle
Modularization of XHTML
6 April 1999, Murray Altheim, Daniel Austin, Frank Boumphrey, Sam Dooley, Shane McCarron, Ted Wugofski
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
31 March 1999, Jon Gunderson, Ian Jacobs
Ruby
22 March 1999, Marcin Sawicki
International Layout in CSS
22 March 1999, Marcin Sawicki
Common Markup for Web Micropayment Systems
15 March 1999, Thierry Michel
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification
4 March 1999, Lauren Wood, Vidur Apparao, Mike Champion, Arnaud Le Hors, Tom Pixley, Jonathan Robie, Peter Sharpe, Chris Wilson
Character Model for the World Wide Web
25 February 1999, Martin J. Dürst
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Requirements
29 October 1998, Jon Ferraiolo
A P3P Preference Exchange Language (APPEL)
14 August 1998, Marc Langheinrich
SMUX Protocol Specification
10 July 1998, Jim Gettys, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
HTTP-ng Web Interfaces
10 July 1998, Dan Larner
HTTP-ng Binary Wire Protocol
10 July 1998, Bill Janssen
HTTP-ng Architectural Model
10 July 1998, Bill Janssen, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Mike Spreitzer
Requirements for String Identity Matching and String Indexing
10 July 1998, Martin J. Dürst
XSL Requirements Summary
11 May 1998, Norman Walsh
Short- and Long-Term Goals for the HTTP-NG Project
27 March 1998, Michael Spreitzer, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
XML Linking Language (XLink)
3 March 1998, Eve Maler, Steve DeRose
XML Pointer Language (XPointer)
3 March 1998, Eve Maler, Steve DeRose
PEP Specification: an Extension Mechanism for HTTP
21 November 1997, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Dan Connolly, Rohit Khare, Eric Prud'hommeaux
P3P Architecture Working Group: General Overview of the P3P Architecture
22 October 1997, Joseph Reagle, Martin Presler-Martin, Melissa Dunn, Philip DesAutels, Lorrie Cranor, Mark Ackerman
P3P Vocabulary Working Group: Grammatical Model and Data Design Model
14 October 1997, Mark Ackerman, Lorrie Cranor, Philip DesAutels, Melissa Dunn, Joseph Reagle, Upendra Shardanand
Positioning HTML Elements with Cascading Style Sheets
19 August 1997, Robert Stevahn, Scott Furman, Scott Isaacs
Web Fonts
21 July 1997, Brad Chase, Chuck Rowe, Chris Lilley, David Meltzer, Glen Rippel, Håkon Lie, Randy Polen, Robert Stevahn, Steve Zilles
Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS) Specification
30 June 1997, Chris Lilley, T.V. Raman
CSS Printing Extensions
26 June 1997, Hakon Wium Lie, Robert Stevahn, Stephen Waters
Digital Signature Label Architecture
10 January 1997, Rohit Khare
Selecting Payment Mechanisms Over HTTP
6 January 1997, Don Eastlake, Rohit Khare, Jim Miller

Notes

The following are W3C Notes that have been published at the Director's discretion. A Note does not represent commitment by W3C to pursue work related to the Note.

Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
5 May 1999, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden, Ian Jacobs
CC/PP exchange protocol based on HTTP Extension Framework
23 April 1999, Hidetaka Ohto, Johan Hjelm
Web Characterization: From working group to activity
19 March 1999, Jim Pitkow, Johan Hjelm, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access
15 March 1999, Tomihisa Kamada, Takuya Asada, Masayasu Ishikawa, Shin'ichi Matsui
XML Canonicalization Requirements
3 March 1999, James Tauber
XML XLink Requirements Version 1.0
24 February 1999, Steven J. DeRose
XML XPointer Requirements Version 1.0
24 February 1999, Steven J. DeRose
XPointer-Information Set Liaison Statement Version 1.0
24 February 1999, Steven J. DeRose
Synchronized Multimedia Modules based upon SMIL 1.0
23 February 1999, Patrick Schmitz, Ted Wugofski, Warner ten Kate
XML Information Set Requirements
18 February 1999, David Megginson
XML Schema Requirements
15 February 1999, Ashok Malhotra, Murray Maloney
Personalized Information Description Language (PIDL)
9 February 1999, Yuichi Koike, Tomonari Kamba, Marc Langheinrich
User Agent Authentication Forms
3 February 1999, Scott Lawrence, Paul Leach
Universal Commerce Language and Protocol (UCLP)
20 January 1999
Document Definition Markup Language (DDML) Specification, Version 1.0
19 January 1999, Ronald Bourret, John Cowan, Ingo Macherius, Simon St. Laurent
List of suggested extensions to CSS
10 December 1998, Bert Bos
DrawML Specification
3 December 1998, Håkan Lothigius
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): A user side framework for content negotiation
30 November 1998, Franklin Reynolds, Johan Hjelm, Spencer Dawkins, Sandeep Singhal
XML Fragment Interchange Requirements, Version 1.0
23 November 1998, Paul Grosso
Simple Tree Transformation Sheets 3 (STTS3)
11 November 1998, Daniel Glazman
The Platform for Privacy Preferences
6 November 1998, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Joseph Reagle
WAP Forum - W3C Cooperation White Paper
30 October 1998, Johan Hjelm, Bruce Martin, Peter King
The Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Protocol
26 October 1998, Neil Webber, Conleth O'Connel, Bruce Hunt, Rick Levine, Laird Popkin, Gord Larose
HTML Components
23 October 1998, Chris Wilson
Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) 4.0
2 September 1998, John Boyer, Tim Bray, Maureen Gordon
Schema for Object-oriented XML
30 September 1998, Matt Fuchs, Murray Maloney, Alex Milowski
Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions for HTML (HTML+TIME)
18 September 1998, Patrick Schmitz, Jin Yu, Peter Santangeli
Using XSL and CSS together
11 September 1998, Håkon Lie, Bert Bos
XML-QL: A Query Language for XML
19 August 1998, Alin Deutsch, Mary Fernandez, Daniela Florescu, Alon Levy, Dan Suciu
Document Content Description for XML (DCD)
10 August 1998, Tim Bray, Charles Frankston, Ashok Malhotra
A Discussion of the Relationship Between RDF-Schema and UML
4 August 1998, Walter W. Chang
P3P Guiding Principles
21 July 1998, Lorrie Faith Cranor
Displaying SMIL Basic Layout with a CSS2 Rendering engine
20 July 1998, Philipp Hoschka, Chris Lilley
Design of HTTP-ng Testbed
10 July 1998, Daniel Veillard
Action Sheets: A Modular Way of Defining Behavior for XML and HTML
19 June 1998, Vidur Apparao, Brendan Eich, Ramanathan Guha, Nisheeth Ranjan
Signed Document Markup Language (SDML)
19 June 1998, Jeff Kravitz
Hyper Graphics Markup Language (HGML)
19 June 1998, Mike Evans, Steven Furnell, Andy Phippen, Paul Reynolds, Neil Lilly, John Hammac
Statement on the Intent and Use of PICS: Using PICS Well
1 June 1998, Joseph Reagle, Daniel J. Weitzner
Vector Markup Language (VML)
13 May 1998, Brian Mathews, Daniel Lee, Brian Dister, John Bowler, Howard Cooperstein, Ajay Jindal, Tuan Nguyen, Peter Wu, Troy Sandal
WebBroker: Distributed Object Communication on the Web
11 May 1998, John Tigue, Jon Lavinder
XML in HTML Meeting Report
11 May 1998, Dan Connolly, Lauren Wood
Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML)
10 April 1998, Nabeel Al-Shamma, Robert Ayers, Richard Cohn, Jon Ferraiolo, Martin Newell, Roger K. de Bry, Kevin McCluskey, Jerry Evans
Web Schematics on the World Wide Web
31 March 1998, David Duce, Bob Hopgood
P3P Protocol and Data Transport Working Group Draft White Paper
24 March 1998, Philip DesAutels, Steve Lucas, Joseph Reagle
Primary Language in HTML
13 March 1998, M.T. Carrasco Benitez
XML Linking Language (XLink) Design Principles
3 March 1998, Eve Maler, Steve DeRose
Web Architecture: Extensible Languages
10 Februray 1998, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly
Compact HTML for Small Information Appliances
9 February 1998, Tomihisa Kamada
Voice Browsers
28 January 1998, Dave Raggett, Or Ben-Nattan
Name Spaces in XML
19 January 1998, Tim Bray, Dave Hollander, Andrew Layman
XML Data
5 January 1998, Andrew Layman, Edward Jung, Eve Maler, Henry S. Thompson, Jean Paoli, John Tigue, Norbert H. Mikula, Steve De Rose
HTML Threading: Conventions for use of HTML in email
5 January 1998, Eric Berman, Pete Resnick, Nick Shelness
Client-Specific Web Services by Using User Agent Attributes
30 December 1997, Tomihisa Kamada, Tomohiko Miyazaki
Comparison of SGML and XML
15 December 1997, James Clark
Introduction to RDF Metadata
13 November 1997, Ora Lassila
W3C Data Formats
29 October 1997, Tim Berners-Lee
Amaya Testbed Environments: the Java and ILU versions of Amaya
28 October 1997, Daniel Veillard
PICS Extension for HTTP Cookies
23 October 1997, Daniel Jaye
Simple Tree Transformation Sheets 2
17 October 1997, Daniel Glazman
Internet Privacy Working Group Privacy Practices for the Web
17 October 1997, Internet Privacy Working Group
Designing a Social Protocol: Lessons Learned from the Platform for Privacy Preferences
2 October 1997, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Joseph Reagle Jr.
Web Interface Definition Language (WIDL)
22 September 1997, Phillip Merrick, Charles Allen
Date and Time Formats
15 September 1997, Misha Wolf, Charles Wicksteed
A Proposal for XSL
27 August 1997, Sharon Adler, Anders Berglund, James Clark, Istvan Cseri, Paul Grosso, Jonathan Marsh, Gavin Nicol, Jean Paoli,
David Schach, Henry S. Thompson, Chris Wilson
Generic Diff Format Specification
21 August 1997, Arthur van Hoff, Jonathan Payne
The HTTP Distribution and Replication Protocol
21 August 1997, Arthur van Hoff, Jonathan Payne, Mark Hapner, Steve Carter, Milo Medin
CSS: Potential Enhancements
19 August 1997, Mike Wexler
The Open Software Description Format (OSD)
13 August 1997, Arthur van Hoff, Hadi Partovi, Tom Thai
W3C Activities Related to the "Global Information Networks" Ministerial Conference Meeting in Bonn, Germany
11 July 1997, Sally Khudairi, Josef Dietl
W3C Activities Related to the US "Framework for Global Electronic Commerce"
6 July 1997, Joseph Reagle
Meta Content Framework using XML
24 June 1997, R. V. Guha, Tim Bray
Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG
24 June 1997, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Jim Gettys, Anselm Baird-Smith, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Håkon W. Lie, Chris Lilley
Use of CGM as a Scalable Graphics Format
18 June 1997, Roy Platon and Chris Lilley
Navigation through LINK elements in HTML
15 June 1997, Daniel Glazman
Privacy and Profiling on the Web
2 June 1997, Melissa Dunn, James Gwertzman, Andrew Layman, Hadi Partovi
Proposal for an Open Profiling Standard
2 June 1997, Pat Hensley, Max Metral, Upendra Shardanand, Donna Converse, Mike Myers
Implementation of OPS Over HTTP
2 June 1997, Pat Hensley, Max Metral, Upendra Shardanand, Donna Converse, Mike Myers
Standard Practices for OPS Systems
2 June 1997, Pat Hensley, Max Metral, Upendra Shardanand, Donna Converse, Mike Myers
White Paper: Joint Electronic Payment Initiative
19 May 1997, Eui-Suk Chung and Daniel Dardailler
Proposal for a Handheld Device Markup Language
9 May 1997, Tim Hyland
Handheld Device Markup Language Specification
9 May 1997, Peter King, Tim Hyland
PICS-NG Metadata Model and Label Syntax
14 May 1997, Ora Lassila
HTML DTD with support for Style Sheets
21 April 1997, Dave Raggett
Channel Definition Format (CDF)
10 March 1997, Castedo Ellerman
Web Collections using XML
7 March 1997, Alex Hopmann, Scott Berkun, George Hatoun, Yaron Goland, Thomas Reardon, Lauren Antonoff, Eric Berman
An Introduction to Amaya
20 February 1997, Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton
HTTP-based Distributed Content Editing Scenarios
13 December 1996, Ora Lassila
Imagemapped Images and Image-Incapable User Agents
26 November 1996, Ian Graham
Resource Description Messages (RDM)
24 July 1996, Darren Hardy
Frame-based layout via Style Sheets
8 June 1996, Bert Bos, David Raggett and Håkon W. Lie
Jigsaw: An Object Oriented Server
7 June 1996, Anselm Baird-Smith
Jigsaw performance evaluation
7 June 1996, Anselm Baird-Smith
HTML predefined icon-like symbols
4 June 1996, Bert Bos
A Proposed Convention for Embedding Metadata in HTML
2 June 1996, Reported by Stuart Weibel
The ILU Requester: Object Services in HTTP Servers
7 March 1996, Paul Everitt
HTML Dialects: Internet Medial and SGML Document Types
6 March 1996, Dan Connolly
Session Identification URI
21 February 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, Dan Connolly
Notification for Proxy Caches
21 February 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker
Extended Log File Format
21 February 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, Brian Behlendorf
A Lexical Analyzer for HTML and Basic SGML
8 February 1996, Dan Connolly
Micro Payment Transfer Protocol (MPTP)
22 November 1995, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker
Giving Information About Other Resources in HTML
20 November 1995, Tim Berners-Lee, David Raggett
Proposals for Gathering Consumer Demographics
6 November 1995, Dan Connolly
"Character Set" Considered Harmful
2 May 1995, Dan Connolly

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