Tag Archives: Standards

White space standards pubbed, bring on the devices!

Another hurdle was removed today for “Wi-Fi on steroids,” as the IEEE published a wireless standard that could bring high-speed broadband to rural areas. The 802.22TM-2011 standard will be used on frequencies that were used by analog television channels, but … Continue reading

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test262: Industry JavaScript Standards Test Available

This is a great week for the Web, in particular JavaScript developers. Standards bodies have ratified the latest version of JavaScript, ECMA-262 edition 5.1, and have published the test262 test suite for JavaScript. Now, anyone can run the test suite … Continue reading

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CSS 2.1 Complete: Unblocking Faster Web Standards Progress

Web technologies across the board can make faster and better progress now that the CSS 2.1 specification is a final, completed standard and published as a Recommendation. First, finishing CSS 2.1 unblocks faster progress moving the Web forward with the … Continue reading

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Web Tracking Protection: Minimum Standards and Opportunities to Innovate

In this blog post, we discuss why Microsoft strongly supports self-regulation, how the final version of IE9 will implement the Do Not Track User Preference as a secondary method, and why we will continue to provide features well beyond the … Continue reading

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Web Standards development at the W3C TPAC 2010

Last year I wrote about the W3C’s annual Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) conference. This is where most of the W3C working groups get together for a week of face to face meetings and networking. TPAC 2010 was a … Continue reading

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