{"id":8433,"date":"2014-11-21T13:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T18:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:01","slug":"on-html5-and-the-group-that-rules-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/21\/on-html5-and-the-group-that-rules-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"On HTML5 and the Group That Rules the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/group-rules-web\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ford-W3C-meeting2-690.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might have read that, on October 28th,\u00c2\u00a0W3C officially recommended HTML5. And you might know that this has something to do with apps and the Web. The question is: Does this concern you?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, at least for citizens of the Internet, is yes: it\u00c2\u00a0is\u00c2\u00a0worth understanding both what HTML5 is and who controls the W3C. And it is worth knowing a little bit about the mysterious, conflict-driven cultural process whereby HTML5 became a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153recommendation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <strong>Billions of humans will use the Web over the next decade, yet not many of those people are in a position to define what is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Web\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and what isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. The W3C\u00c2\u00a0is in that position. So who is in this cabal? What is it up to? Who writes the checks?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/group-rules-web\">On HTML5 and the Group That Rules the Web<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All about the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that &#8216;rules the web.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1002,263,1001],"class_list":["post-8433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-html5","tag-internet","tag-w3c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8441,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions\/8441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}