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• Microsoft open-sources JavaScript tools

  Continuing its overtures toward open source, Microsoft is unveiling technologies for packaging applications and remotely debugging JavaScript.

• Developer: Dump JavaScript for faster Web loading

  Web pages would be loaded quicker sans JavaScript via a proposal being floated by the editor of a fashion magazine, possibly as part of a still-theoretical "HTML6."

• Critics slam World Wide Web Consortium over inclusion of DRM in HTML5

  The latest version of the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML Working Group charter includes provisions for ongoing work on restrictive content protection systems – a decision that has angered groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Free Software Foundation.

• Phoning Firefox: Browser now makes Web calls

  Mozilla today shipped Firefox 22, enabling the in-browser audio-video calling standard WebRTC and switching on a new JavaScript module that promises to speed up Web apps.

• EFF blasts proposed DRM features in HTML5

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued an angry formal response to a proposed set of HTML5 standards from the World Wide Web Consortium, saying that stringent digital rights management technology will be harmful to online freedom and prevent many users from getting access to important content.

• HTML5 is now feature-complete; here's what comes next

  The World Wide Web Consortium has a roster of proposed enhancements, including better forms, spell checking, and video captioning

• W3C: HTML5 will be finished in 2014

  Those curious about the final release date for the hotly debated HTML5 need wonder no more: The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) plans to finalize the standard by July 2014, the organization announced Monday.

• W3C pushes linking Web data

  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sees the Web becoming a platform where data can be posted and reused in multiple ad-hoc applications, to judge from a workshop the organization held at the WWW2010 conference, this week in Raleigh, North Carolina.

• W3C pulls former Novell CTO for CEO spot

  Filling a position left open since 2008, former Novell CTO Jeffrey Jaffe has taken on the role of chief executive officer for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a> (World Wide Web Consortium).

• W3C posts draft standard for local database storage

  The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has posted a draft set of APIs that Web applications could one day use to store structured content offline.

• Industry body forming to address IT graduate skills

  A pilot group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is months away from creating a global IT education-focused body to address the needs of the industry.

• Vendor squabbles cause W3C to scrap codec requirement

  The latest rewrite of the Web's mother tongue won't recommend the use of specific audio and video encoding formats that could make it cheaper and easier for people to distribute multimedia content.