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W3C works to speed Web standard creation

The World Wide Web Consortium has begun its effort to speed its processes for standardizing Web technology.

Those wishing a less cumbersome way to evaluate and create new standards now can use what the W3C calls Community Groups , an idea that's been under development for months . The W3C also announced the formation of eight such groups, including ones focusing on the Web payments, Web education, and semantic news.

"Innovation and standardization build on each other," said W3C Chief Executive Jeff Jaffe in a statement. "As the pace of innovation accelerates and more industries embrace W3C's Open Web Platform, community groups will accelerate incorporation of innovative technologies into the Web."

Making it easier and faster to create Web standards is a major priority of the W3C under Jaffe , Novell's former chief technology officer, who took over the W3C last year. The Web itself is maturing rapidly, and a slow-moving or unresponsive W3C is one that will be left behind as browser makers and Web developers set their own course.

That's exactly what happened in 2004 when the W3C decided against new developments for HTML, the language used to build Web pages. When the W3C bowed out, a less formal group called the Web Hypertext Applications Technology Working Group (WHATWG) took up the banner and created most of what's now called HTML5. The W3C re-engaged and now plans to put its final stamp of approval on HTML5 in 2014, though many aspects of it are mature now and are built into browsers and Web pages.

Even as the W3C resumed HTML work, though, the organization realized it was still too cumbersome to get work done.A first attempt to set the groups that has been called an incubator, but the W3C has concluded that it was not gone far enough community groups and developed instead. Meanwhile, the WHATWG is still active in parallel, and it's even adopted a smoother development process HTML.

"With these groups, people can reach influential companies, research groups and government agencies. Developers can provide ideas for W3C wide social network, and in a few minutes to start building Mindshare using collaborative tools W3C or their own, "said Harry Halpin, W3C's lead development community.

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Google introduces Rich Text Signatures

As of today you can use a rich text signature in Gmail, meaning that you can add links and images to it, as well as change the text’s format, font and color.

To change your signature in Gmail, click on “Settings,” and scroll down to the “Signature” section. You’ll see a new signature editor which contains the same functions that are at your disposal when you compose an e-mail.

If you have more than one e-mail address associated with your Gmail account, you’ll be able to choose a different signature for each one using the drop-down menu (the menu doesn’t appear if you have only one e-mail address associated with your Gmail account).

What this means for you is:

You can brand your business through your signature.

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