Rewrite the Technological Landscape

The World Wide Web Consortium, commonly known as W3C, is the most famous international standardization organization established in 1994. It can be said that the core standards related to the Internet are basically formulated by the World Wide Web Consortium. If you want to engage in the Internet, you must follow the standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium work.

W3C is a neutral, standard-setting organization co-led by MIT and CERN, supported by the U.S. Department of Defense and the European Commission. As for whether it is neutral or not, no one knows.

But anyway, what is certain is that the core members of W3C, such as Microsoft and IBM, have done things that have just established their own products according to the new standards and directly defeated their opponents through the standards.

So W3C itself may indeed be a neutral organization, but what W3C members can do through the rules is "depending on their ability".

As for Huaxia, it entered W3C very late. W3C only set up its first office in Huaxia in 2006. In the first few years, Huaxia had no right to speak. Later, with the explosion of Huaxia Internet, BAT entered W3C one after another, and Huaxia's right to speak gradually increased. , Until 2013, W3C included Yanjing Aeronautical University in the list of main institutions, and Huaxia became one of the four main institutions of W3C in the world.

However, there is only one Chinese company that has been a member of the board of directors of W3C in history, and that is Alibaba, and it has to wait until 2015.

Therefore, a large number of basic standards established in the first ten years of the Internet have nothing to do with Huaxia, and Huaxia companies have no chance to use this organization for personal gain like Microsoft and IBM, and can only be leeks all the way.

There is also an impact that is not so obvious. W3C has established a huge global Internet circle. In the first ten years of Internet development, this circle has also experienced a development about balance.

This is one reason why BAT has developed so well in China but it seems that it has been difficult to open up the market abroad, especially Penguin and Baidu have not established their own advantages abroad. Ma Huateng also mentioned Penguin in later generations The income basically depends on the domestic market.

Isn't BAT's technological innovation an innovation in other countries? A key point is that in the first ten years of the development of the Internet, BAT did not enter the game and missed this circle. Ordinary self-employed people still need to talk about resources and circles when doing business, let alone Internet giants.

Therefore, Huaxia Internet Company has always been advertised as having strong innovation capabilities, but it is difficult to stand out in international competition. Only Alibaba has done well. There are many basic reasons for this.

After everyone arrived in the afternoon, Meng Qian first had a short collective exchange with eight company representatives to explain the superficial reason for inviting everyone. The whole group was called, and Meng Qian first invited everyone to have dinner and then asked them to take a good rest. After all, they were tired after sitting on the plane for so long, so we will not communicate in depth today.

Waiting until the next day, because the previous day's pleasantries were almost done, Meng Qian went straight to the point. What Meng Qian is going to talk about today is one of the most important standards formulated by W3C in the future, HTML5.

HTML is a language description method for building the Web. At the beginning of 2003, this standard was HTML4 that you may often see.

However, Meng Qian’s discussion of HTML5 in 2003 was actually very deliberate, because it was in 2003 that the emergence of XForms technology made W3C begin to abandon HTML. However, although HTML was abandoned by W3C, many companies did not abandon it and did not want to abandon it. Among them are the companies that came to Dafeng Group today. Because the HTML standard is beneficial to them, as mentioned above, companies can seek personal gain by playing with the standard.

So in 2004, led by Microsoft, Apple, Mouzhi Fund and Opera, WHATWG organization was established. This organization was established to study HTML5. After research, the focus was placed on HTML again, and then there was the HTML5 standard.

In this era, there is no W3C office in Huaxia. If you want to enter W3C, you must first apply by email, write clearly about the company's situation, what you want to enter W3C, and the specific strength.

Another way is the recommendation of old members. Therefore, under the above-mentioned background, Meng Qian sent invitation letters to a group of members of the WHATWG organization that he can still remember, because at this time everyone probably knew that HTML would be abandoned by W3C. , Suddenly someone said that they have mastered the technology that can promote the development of the HTML5 standard, and everyone will have their own curiosity.

At the same time, because this company is the Dafeng Group, some companies have their own selfishness. Meng Qian did mention other things in the invitation letter, so these eight companies came to the Dafeng Group in this way. HTML5, but also for other things.

Although not all the companies that Meng Qian invited came, Meng Qian was content to be able to come. After all, the global influence of Dafeng Group has not yet reached that level.

In addition to NTT, Opera, and Yandex, the other five companies are Softbank in Neon, Samsung in Korea, SAP in Germany, Ericsson in Sweden, and Nokia in Finland.

On the morning of January 9th, Meng Qian first asked Ding Mingyuan to give a good sense of scale to the eight enterprise delegations about the research results of HTML5 of the Gale Group, which mentioned several core advantages of HTML5, including multi-threaded operation and cross-platform advantages , powerful functions in the field of multimedia and positioning, etc.

Ding Mingyuan is not suitable for stage speeches, but he is very suitable for technical speeches. When he speaks, people can inexplicably believe in his professional ability.

Moreover, Ding Mingyuan was able to grasp the speed very well. He seemed to say a lot, but in fact he didn't reveal anything about the core technology.

"During dinner last night, I heard a few people mention that the W3C trend seems to be against HTML5, but we at Dafeng Group believe that HTML5 will be more suitable for the development trend of the Internet." After Ding Mingyuan finished his technical explanation, Meng Qian came up to express his opinion, "So we Gale Group wants to join the HTML5 working group, and the next workshop is still a few months away, maybe we can change something."

W3C has board of directors, advisory committee, committee, working group, interest group and other departments. The working group is similar to an enterprise project team.

These companies that do not hesitate to create a new organization to implement the HTML5 standard, seeing the technology proposed by the Dafeng Group, have already had some inclinations for the Dafeng Group to enter the W3C.

At the same time, Meng Qian also took advantage of the opportunity to show off the company's R\u0026D muscles, letting everyone see the R\u0026D results of Dafeng Group in another field.

Representatives of several companies said a few words on the scene, and Meng Qian also said some beautiful words in cooperation. The so-called dedication to the development of the Internet, everyone is talking nonsense in front of people.

To join W3C, you have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in membership fees every year. As a result, everyone is struggling to get in. How can there be so many saints?

Dafeng Group’s own application plus the recommendations of these companies, especially since Opera is still a member of the board of directors, it is basically a sure thing to enter the W3C. The group is a competitive relationship, such as Opera.

Whether the other party is willing to be the recommender is hard to say.

So after lunch that afternoon, Meng Qian started a "small meeting". The first company representative he met was Odin, the vice president of Opera.

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