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W3C Eases Web Use

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/980413j.html

   By James E. Gaskin
   Special To Inter at ctive Week
   3:00 PM EDT


At the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference, to be held
this week in Brisbane, Australia, the World Wide Web Consortium is
expected to show technologies that will make it easier to work on the
Web.

The W3C will detail the new HyperText Transport Protocol Next
Generation (HTTP-NG) and the newly recommended Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL).

HTTP-NG is a high-performance upgrade to HTTP with features designed
for commercial applications - such as allowing many requests to be
sent over a single connection.

SMIL is an eXtensible Markup Language-based language that enables
multimedia to be presented on the Web in a way that has been agreed
to by many of the major companies involved in synchronized audio and
video streaming content.

"The easier the Web is to use, the more users we see," said Sally
Khudairi, a spokeswoman for the W3C.

W3C[24] can be reached at www.w3c.com

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