CORDIS Archive
This page has been archived. It will no longer be updated.
The World Wide Web is the most popular and fastest-growing information system on the Internet. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the controlling body founded in 1994, now comprises more than 160 members drawn from academic and commercial circles. Its aim - to produce free interoperability specifications and sample code - has recently been strengthened by work under a European project.
Dividing its work into three domains (Architecture, User Interface and Technology & Society), W3C seeks to ensure the Web can evolve while keeping its universal interoperability. W3C has built on its European Union support since 1995 to strengthen its presence in Europe. W3C now has over 60 European members, compared to 84 American and 17 in the rest of the world. A W3C team has been installed at INRIA and integration with the American team has been achieved (a single computing environment, direct network connection, etc.). Significant results under the W3C project include a new release of the HTTP protocol (HTTP 1.1), a series of recommendations regarding the user interface (HTML 3.2, CSS1, PNG) and others addressing societal issues such as content labelling (PICS).
The W3C-LA project aims to stimulate greater uptake of Web technologies in Europe by developing shrink-wrapped demonstrators, disseminating them throughout Europe and encouraging corporate champions to develop management demonstrations showing the impact of the Web on a company's business.
The six demonstrations at EITC cover Web-related issues such as performance, content design, trust, Europeanisation, collections, synchronisation and vector graphics. They are intended to highlight the innovative uses to which core Web developments - in functionality, expressive power and flexibility - can be put by forward-thinking organisations.
Contact: Jean-François ABRAMATIC, INRIA (F)
tel +33 1 3963 5463 - fax +33 1 3954 3850 - jfa@w3.org - www.w3.org
This document is located at /esprit/src/exhib50.htm
It was last updated on 3 November 1997, and is maintained by the EITC 97 Secretariat - eitc97@dg3.cec.be