David Webber has implemented several unique groundbreaking computer solutions in his career including the world's first airport gate scheduling system (King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, 1987), the SeeMail email client for MCIMail written in Prolog, the patented GoXML system for XMLGlobal, the ShroudIt obfuscation system for LNK Corp, and the VisualScript tool for Smartdraw Inc. More recently David has contributed to open XML standards development with OASIS as technical editor for BCM (Business Centric-Methodology), CAM (Content Assembly Mechanism) and EML (Election Markup Language) public standard specifications.

Webber participated in the development X12 Future Vision work in 1995 EDI, a focused group of 30+ people including with Edward A. Guilbert, the creator of the original technology.

Webber was a senior contributor to the international ebXML standards work for electronic business development.

Webber co-authored the book ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business on the Internet (New Riders, ISBN 0-7357-1117-8, August 2001) with Alan Kotok .

He is also widely published in technical publications of the computer industry on topics relating to the use of XML particularly for electronic business and information sharing.