Interesting news this Friday morning. Does anyone have anymore info
on this?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1476554.htm
"The CSIRO has won a bid to play a central role in setting standards
for the World Wide Web.
The organisation will now host the Australian office of the World
Wide Web Consortium, which is the international body that sets
standards for the web.
The CSIRO's Ross Ackland says the consortium makes guidelines which
allow companies to create content which can be viewed on all devices
from computers to mobile phones.
"One of the things with standards is, standards mean that you are
much more competitive, not just on a national scale but a global
scale ... If you want to sell your products and develop your products
then standards is one of the great mechanisms through which you can
do that and become competitive in a much wider market," he said.
Mr Ackland says the consortium's recommendations are freely available.
"So if I want to generate web content that has graphics embedded into
it, and to be sure that that content can be viewed on a mobile phone
or a desktop browser or wherever, I don't need to worry so long as I
use the recommendation and guidelines that tell me how to generate
that kind of content," he said."
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