The W3C, which is composed of more than 130 industry members, is calling HTML 3.2 a major new
release of the specification for creating Web pages. But the organization
acknowledges that the new specification's main additions--including tables,
the applet tag, and
text flow around images--were originally developed as proprietary HTML
extensions by the two leading browser vendors and have already been widely
deployed through Internet Explorer and Navigator.
The W3C is continuing to work, however, on future versions of the HTML
standard, which will support multimedia objects, scripting, style sheets,
layout, and higher quality printing.
The consortium today also
posted the final PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) specification. PICS
is designed to allow
publishers and developers to create their own ratings systems for content on
the Internet.
The company says that manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, will be inspected by a group "dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide."
A group calling itself Evil Shadow Team reportedly hacked into Microsoft's online store in India, stealing usernames and passwords of the site's customers.
The Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 S6500 could make its debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, according to a leaked promotional image.
The space agency powers down its last System Z machine, years after IBM stopped selling them for the mathematical calculation jobs for which NASA originally bought them.
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