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Leading the Web to its Full Potential...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential as a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. The UK and Ireland W3C Office (W3C-UK) is the national contact point for W3C activities in the UK and Ireland.

Primers on W3C Recommendations

The W3C to supplement some of its recommendations provides primers, as easily readable non-normative introductions to the recommendations.

Bob Hopgood Bob Hopgood, formerly manager of the W3C UK Office and leader of the W3C Office activity, and now Professor at Oxford Brookes University, has produced a series of primers as teaching material for the Brookes MSc in Web Technologies . He has kindly agreed to allow us to reproduce this material here.



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Last updated 2nd June 2003

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