The W3C intentionally made P3P a plain-vanilla standard and asked vendors to develop specific products on their own.
W3C is no longer uncontroversial, because its decisions have more than technical implications.
New Mozilla-proposed APIs that advance the Web as a platform and will be submitted to the W3C for standardization.
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In fact, strictly adhering to some parts of the W3C spec could prevent viewing of older Web pages, Wascha says.
He notes that W3C standards are still evolving, and that some functions are specific to a small number of users.
IE5 isn't completely compliant with Web standards defined by the W3C consortium, an international industry consortium supported by academia and business.
W3C is not the place to deal with them, says Mr Berners-Lee.
W3C's P3P work is aimed at giving consumers more say in how their personal information is used, said Daniel Weitzner, W3C's technology and domain leader, in Cambridge, Mass.
As developers introduce new means of presenting, storing and sending information across the Internet, W3C keeps up by developing and publishing the official guidelines that govern each new technology.
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Mozilla and all other participants are committed to ensuring the project is fully open and the reference implementation of the required Web APIs is being submitted to W3C for standardization.
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"Some of the issues cited have to do with performance for really heavy processor applications like games, " said Ian Jacobs, head of communications for W3C, the international body that develops Web standards.
Push notifications are still the domain of text messages and native applications, and as such Tran is waiting for the W3C and other standards bodies to incorporate the relevant API (application programming interface) for web technologies.
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Consumer Watchdog, which describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, voiced concern that the Do Not Track effort would undercut a plan from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to create a strict Do Not Track standard.
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