World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Glossary Definition

Term World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Definition

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a nonprofit group based in the U.S. that develops and recommends standards for the Web.

Context & Usage

This term is commonly used in software engineering, programming, scripting, application design, testing, and development lifecycle work.

Technical and nontechnical stakeholders use this concept when discussing how websites, browsers, servers, addresses, and online services work together.

Related concepts include World Wide Web and Internet.

Additional Resource: MDN Web Docs Glossary.

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