The latest version of the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML Working Group charter includes provisions for ongoing work on restrictive content protection systems – a decision that has angered groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Free Software Foundation.
The World Wide Web Consortium has a roster of proposed enhancements, including better forms, spell checking, and video captioning
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is seeking to invalidate a pair of Apple patents so the underlying technologies can be used as part of a royalty-free HTML5 stack.
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has posted a draft set of application programming interfaces that web applications could one day use to store structured content offline.
The web, ideas on what to do with it and applications to take advantage of it seem to advance at a dizzying pace which some find difficult to cope with. The annual Webstock conference is one forum where people excited or perturbed by this growth can take stock and share their ideas and impressions.