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Like many organizations, W3C compiles lists of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on many topics. If you do not find what you are looking for here, you may also wish to consult the W3C site index, the W3C site search, and the W3C mailing list archive search.

FAQs About W3C

W3C Intellectual Property

Answers about copyright, screen shots, mirroring, fair use, official translations, publishing specifications in other formats, and more.

Tim Berners-Lee

Answers about the invention of the Web, original browsers, the relationship between the Internet and the Web, and more from the Director of W3C and the inventor of the Web.

W3C Membership

Answers about joining W3C, Member Agreements, joining as individuals, and membership for subsidiaries and other special cases.

W3C Webmaster

Answers about finding information the W3C Web site, spam that looks like it comes from W3C but does not, mailing list archives, and more.

W3C Technical Reports

Answers about where to send comments on specifications, finding DTDs, finding elements and attributes, and offline reading.

FAQs About W3C Specifications

• Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 1.0
• Document Object Model (DOM)
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 FAQ by Peter Flynn
• HTML and XHTML FAQ
• MathML
• P3P and the Privacy
• Patent Policy
• Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) FAQ
• SOAP Version 1.2
• SVG 1.1 and SVG Mobile
• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• XForms 1.0

FAQs About W3C Activities

• Internationalization
• Voice Browser

FAQs About W3C Open Source Software

• Amaya
• Jigsaw
• HTTPD

FAQs About W3C Maintained by the Community

• WWW Security FAQ by Lincoln D. Stein
• CSS Validator FAQ by Björn Höhrmann

More About FAQs

A FAQ, pronounced by some as "fack" and others letter-by-letter ("eff aye cue,") is a list of answers to frequently asked questions. FAQs originated in the early 1980s as the means to give informed answers to the recurring questions that are continually asked in the discussion newsgroups called Usenet. For more information about FAQs in general, please refer to FAQs about FAQs by Russ Hersch. For Web versions of all of the Usenet FAQs, please see the Internet FAQ Archives or another repository (Additional source about FAQs).

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