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W3C News
Published: 21 January 1999
WebCGM Profile Becomes a W3C Recommendation.
Jigsaw 2.0: Ready to Serve the Web.
Published: 15 January 1999
Download Amaya 1.4a, the latest version of W3C's browser, which includes support for: HTML 4.0, MathML, PNG, HTTP/1.1, and CSS 2.
Published: 14 January 1999
"Namespaces in XML", which recently became a Recommendation, is the latest milestone for W3C's XML technology.