Research task - W3C

Please note that all the information from this post has been found from the following website: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/facts

How did the W3C get started?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 by the inventor of the internet - Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee wrote the first server (called "httpd") and the first client program (a browser and editor called "WorldWideWeb") in October 1990. W3C was started in collaboration with CERN and with help from DARPA and the European Commission.

Who can join the W3C?
There is a list of many companies that are members of the W3C such as Cisco, CERN, Google, Apple, Facebook, the Mozilla Foundation, Oracle and more. However any entity can join the W3C including commercial, educational and governmental entities as well as individuals. Any entity that can sign the Membership agreement can become a member. Members can be from both profit or non-profit organisations.

Is there a cost to pay to join?
To join the W3C you have to pay a membership fee. For a profit organisation in the UK there is a price of €68,000. Non-profit organisations, governmental organisations and any other kind of organisation in the UK has to pay €7,800. The cost can be calculated using this page of the W3C website - http://www.w3.org/Consortium/fees.

Mobile Web - chosen technology to research

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/fees

Over the past few years W3C has developed a number of web technologies that match the needs of mobile device users. This includes CSS Mobile (a profile of the cascading style sheet language that matches the need of mobile web authors), SVG Tiny (a profile of the web's scalable vector graphics format well suited to the capabilities of mobile devices) and XHTML for mobile (which defines a subset of XHTML for mobile).