The Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures and media. This architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web in an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as its technologies evolve. Read the press release, Member testimonials, and visit the TAG home page. (News archive)

"I'm hoping that people who have a lot of experience doing other stuff besides the Web will use it to get up to speed on how to design Web applications," said Dan Connolly, a W3C technical staffer and member of its Technical Architecture Group (TAG), which prepared the architecture document. "If your expertise is in financial transaction processing and you want to hook your thing to the Web, this can tell you everything you absolutely must know."

The Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures and media. This architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web in an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as its technologies evolve. Read the press release, Member testimonials, and visit the TAG home page. (News archive)

"I'm hoping that people who have a lot of experience doing other stuff besides the Web will use it to get up to speed on how to design Web applications," said Dan Connolly, a W3C technical staffer and member of its Technical Architecture Group (TAG), which prepared the architecture document. "If your expertise is in financial transaction processing and you want to hook your thing to the Web, this can tell you everything you absolutely must know."