March 20 in Technology History: Standards, Patents and Breakthroughs

2014

On 20 March, W3C advanced CSS Shapes Module Level 1 to Candidate Recommendation, defining shape-based float areas that affect text wrapping and pushing the web platform toward richer layout geometry beyond rectangular boxes.

2014

On 20 March, W3C published CSS Writing Modes Level 3 as a Candidate Recommendation, detailing CSS support for horizontal and vertical flows, bidirectional text, and script-specific layout behavior and strengthening the web platform’s ability to render multilingual documents correctly.

2014

On 20 March, a revised W3C Recommendation for CSS Namespaces Module Level 3 was published, defining the @namespace rule and a uniform prefix mechanism for namespace-qualified names in CSS-related specifications.