The Web must evolve at a pace unrivaled in other industries: almost no
time is required to turn a bright idea into a new product or service and make
it available on the Web to the entire world.
With an audience of millions applying W3C specifications and providing
feedback, W3C concentrates its efforts on three principle tasks:
- Vision: W3C promotes and develops its vision of the future of
the World Wide Web. Contributions from several hundred dedicated
researchers and engineers, and from the entire Web community enable W3C
to identify the technical requirements that must be satisfied if the Web
is to be a truly universal information space.
- Design: W3C designs Web technologies to realize this vision,
taking into account existing technologies as well as those of the
future.
- Standardization: W3C contributes to efforts to standardize Web
technologies by producing specifications (called "Recommendations") that
describe the building blocks of the Web. W3C makes these Recommendations
freely available to all.
