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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-12-05 - 2011-12-11
The Open Web Platform weekly summary is about love for the open Web, about the work we do together, about the hours we spent every day to create a better Web. I can work in this domain, because others gave an open environment for working. Let’s keep it open.
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 12, 2011 11:32 PM in HTML, HTTP, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-29 - 2011-12-04
The Open Web Platform weekly summary is about HTML5 oldies, shadows and intents, and protocols.
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 5, 2011 7:42 PM in HTML, HTTP, Open Web, W3C Life, Web Applications
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-21 - 2011-11-28
This week, one of the main discussions has been around developing (or not) a support for XPath in find and findAll methods. The Open Web Platform weekly summary is also mentioning Web architecture, Web Apps WG hosting new work.
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 28, 2011 3:18 AM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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RDFa 1.1 meets JSON-LD in the Distiller…
I have blogged recently on the update of the RDFa 1.1 Distiller. I have just added a cool new feature. Up to today, the possible serializations were RDF/XML, Turtle, and N Triples. Although not yet final, I decided to add...
Filed by Ivan Herman on November 24, 2011 4:12 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-14 - 2011-11-20
This week, the Open Web Platform weekly summary is about HTML5 Tidy (yes it is back!), A few things about web apps such as storage mechanisms, and a few discussions about DOM properties. CSS has been discussing a few things including the issue of vendor extensions. And more bite sized information. Enjoy!
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 22, 2011 8:05 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-07 - 2011-11-13
This week, the Open Web Platform weekly summary is about hgroup and time elements, lang attribute. There are discussions on starting work on Web Intents and how to create a simpler DOM for documents fragments. Plenty of other things. Enjoy.
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 15, 2011 2:15 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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New release of the RDFa 1.1 Distiller and Validator
Back in May I have already blogged on the release of a new, RDFa 1.1 version of the distiller code. Many things have happened since May, however, with changes in RDFa, introduction of RDFa 1.1 Lite, etc. I have also...
Filed by Ivan Herman on November 15, 2011 12:30 PM in HTML, Semantic Web
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Schema.org and RDFa 1.1 Lite: how does it look now?
In his latest blog entry on the Schema.org, Dan Brickley announced that Schema.org would also process RDFa 1.1 Lite as an alternative syntax to encode Schema.org terms. As he emphasized: This work opens up new possibilities also for developers...
Filed by Ivan Herman on November 12, 2011 9:12 AM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology, Web Applications, Web Design
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-10-31 - 2011-11-06
Last week, there was the annual W3C TPAC. The HTML Working Group met (day 1, day 2) and many other groups for discussing general issues. I introduced the Open Web Platform weekly summary and asked feedback on how to improve...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2011 9:36 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Serving XHTML with math: a recipe for Apache
The future version 5 of HTML will allow math in a Web page, but the current version 4 does not. You can use XHTML instead, but not all Web clients understand it. Here is a recipe for the Apache Web server to make it return XHTML as HTML to such clients. That HTML will be invalid, of course, because it contains math, but the non-math parts are still handled. It's not as good a solution as having two versions of a page, but it's cheap.
Filed by Bert Bos on October 19, 2011 10:35 AM in HTML, HTTP, Tutorials, Web Design
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HTML Slidy on smart phones and tablets
Slidy is a free web application for slide presentations, and makes use of a simple HTML microformat for slides. Until recently, Slidy was difficult or impossible to use on keyboard-less touch screen devices like the iPhone or Android phones. I...
Filed by Dave Raggett on October 8, 2011 6:59 PM in HTML, Usability, Web Applications
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Impressions on the Schema.org Workshop
(This blog should have gone out about a week ago. By an unlucky clashes in my agenda, the trip to Mountain View was immediately followed by another trip, which made it difficult to publish this in a really timely...
Filed by Ivan Herman on September 30, 2011 6:06 AM in HTML, Meetings, Semantic Web, Web Applications
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Proposing two new SW Interest Group Task Forces
One of the exciting events of the past few months was the joint announcement of schema.org from three major search engine providers (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft). It was a major step in the recognition that structured data, embedded in Web...
Filed by Ivan Herman on September 20, 2011 3:57 AM in HTML, Semantic Web, Web Applications, Web Design
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-08-30 - 2011-09-11
In my tracking of the Open Web Platform for writing the weekly summary, I decided to be a bit more careful on what is happening on the HTML WG bug tracker. A lot of the discussion is happening there too. The biggest issue being the number of useless comments or spam.
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 12, 2011 8:22 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Monthly Summary - 2011-07-29 - 2011-08-29
I have decided to change a bit the style of weekly summary of the Open Web Platform. Instead of just going through the list of mails, I will try to focus on more specific things and give more context...
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 30, 2011 8:17 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-07-13 - 2011-07-28
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. A lot of discussion about HTTP. The IETF has been meeting recently in Canada. Anne Van Kesteren covers what I have not in his report.
HTML5 is still in Last Call but the last call is finishing on August 3, 2011
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 29, 2011 7:44 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-07-06 - 2011-07-12
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. The big discussions from last week have continued this week. Mutation and Canvas accessibility. Anne Van Kesteren covers what I have not in his report.
HTML5 is still in Last Call.
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 14, 2011 8:46 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-06-29 - 2011-07-05
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. There was a few giant threads, be prepared to mutate any opinions about these events. Read also Anne van Kesteren's report. HTML5 is still in Last Call. Conversations Proposals Maciej...
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 6, 2011 8:16 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-06-21 - 2011-06-28
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. I like the fact that Anne Van Kesteren has a different overview than mine. His last report. HTML5 is still in Last Call. Conversations Proposals WebKit Team has been experimenting...
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 29, 2011 9:00 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-05-17 - 2011-06-20
Let's restart the Openweb platform weekly summary. It has been almost one month since the last time. HTML5 is in Last Call and there were a lot of discussions on many mailing lists.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 21, 2011 8:08 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Ensuring Accessibility Support in HTML5
HTML5 was announced as a W3C Last Call Working Draft on 25 May 2011. The W3C press release invites broad review to determine to what extent HTML5 has met its technical requirements and dependencies. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) encourages your comments and participation.
Filed by Judy Brewer on May 31, 2011 5:35 AM in Accessibility, HTML, eGov
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HTML5: Are We There Yet?
The HTML Working Group published 6 of their
documents as Last Call documents. It's time to get more people to look
at those documents and give some feedback.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on May 25, 2011 9:50 PM in HTML, Open Web
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RDFa 1.1 with a rich snippet example
With RDFa 1.1 making its way out of last call, I looked at the examples from Google’s Webmaster Central to see what RDFa 1.1 brings to those. A typical example is the one on reviews; here s where it...
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 23, 2011 10:39 AM in HTML, Open Web, Semantic Web, Technology 101
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-05-09 - 2011-05-16
The HTML WG is about to reach a very important step of the current W3C Process: Last Call. For a W3C Technology, it is the moment where the WG members think, they have solve any major issues. The document is considered mature and stable enough. Last Call is here to give another chance for all participants to review a stable version of the specification. All comments will be formally recorded and answered.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 16, 2011 8:22 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-04-25 - 2011-05-08
I have been busy the last two weeks with traveling for conferences and workshop. I skipped the last weekly summary of the Open Web Platform. Let’s get that right on track and give information for the last two weeks about HTML5 and broader topics such as Web apps discussions and HTTP. The May 22 deadline for entering Last Call is approaching quickly. In two weeks, a new challenging phase of the work is starting. As a reminder we do not exit a recommendation phase but always entering the next one.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 8, 2011 7:51 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-04-18 - 2011-04-24
This was quite a quiet week for the 8th edition at the exception of the CSS Working Group which I could not follow properly. Feel free to chime in the comments to add information about CSS or other groups.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 24, 2011 9:27 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-04-11 - 2011-04-17
For this 7th edition, the HTML WG had discussions about accessibility related to images and tables with a few formal objections. The Last Call of HTML5 is approaching at a fast pace. There are active discussions about FileAPI and IndexedDB, which are fundamental bricks to enable Web applications in the browser. In the meantime, the HTTP Working Group has published a new series of drafts.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 17, 2011 8:17 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-04-04 - 2011-04-10
Shelley Powers, like me, published a late weekly. We are totally in synchronization in covering the Open Web Platform weekly news from HTML5 and broader topics. That said it was again quite active not only on the HTML WG mailing list but also on the Web apps WG mailing list. W3C is opening more ways to contribute and the CSS 2.1 is officially reaching Proposed Recommendation. Read and tell me if anything is missing.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 10, 2011 8:49 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Wiki-based documentation project
Introduce myself My name is Hiroki Yamada. I am a W3C Fellow from Internet Academy (Japanese company). Internet Academy is a school for Web Designers and Web Developers. I've been in charge of developing on curriculum and educational materials. And...
Filed by Hiroki Yamada on April 4, 2011 8:02 PM in CSS, HTML, Open Web, Tools, Tutorials
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-03-28 - 2011-04-03
When we start writing and or read about the activities around the Open Web Platform, we realize that the Web has never been that active. Everyone is proposing, developping, testing. And even if this weekly news from HTML5 and broader topics seemed to be long, it doesn’t cover everything. It is also important to realize that if you are passionate about one of these topics, the full information is accessible and open. Quite exciting. Some of these topics could be the source of long technical blog posts. If you do, please leave a comment or let me know.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 3, 2011 8:43 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-03-21 - 2011-03-27
As Shelley Powers mentioned this week was quite quiet, but there were a couple of decisions. A few new drafts and proposals and an interesting discussions about Web applications caching systems. The debate around longdesc attribute is far to be finished.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 27, 2011 8:28 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-03-14 - 2011-03-20
This was a big week in terms of decisions. I recommend to read carefully the decision made by the HTML Working Group. They are always very detailed and give a very good overview about the issues. They also propose a way to reopen the issue with meaningful materials. There have been many proposals and there are two workshops. W3C Workshops are opened to anyone.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 20, 2011 9:52 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-02-28 - 2011-03-06
We are starting this week a weekly summary about the Open Web Platform. The intent is to give an overview of the discussions, proposals, decisions which have happened during the last week around the Open Web Platform with a focus on HTML5. This weekly summary covers events in multiple W3C groups, and some outside events as well. Feel free to chime in the comments and add information or ask for more details. This is an experiment; please send feedback to Karl Dubost or here in the comments.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 7, 2011 10:34 PM in CSS, HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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The HTML5 Logo Conversation
See 2 Feb update. There has been a lot of discussion as a result of W3C's HTML5 logo release two days ago. I was especially encouraged by the diverse support for the HTML5 logo and I'm happy with the reception,...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on January 21, 2011 3:55 AM in HTML, Web Applications
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HTML5 Testing
We need all the help we can get to make the test suite relevant and informative. Unless the community starts helping W3C, we won't be able to properly test HTML5.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on November 4, 2010 8:24 AM in HTML
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W3C Technical Plenary: To HTML5 and beyond!
Next week is the annual W3C technical plenary, aka TPAC 2010. It brings together participants in the W3C Community for an energetic week of coordinated work and discussion. Some sessions during the middle of the week are relevant to the HTML platform and its future.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on October 29, 2010 5:04 PM in HTML, W3C Life
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HTML5: The jewel in the Open Web Platform
The Open Web Platform to us is HTML5, a game-changing suite
of tools that incorporates SVG, CSS and other standards that are in
various stages of development and implementation by the community at
W3C. At this stage community feedback plays an important role in ensuring that
the HTML5 specification is the highest quality.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on October 8, 2010 8:22 PM in HTML
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How do we test a Web browser? (one year after)
The situation with regards to testing at W3C is improving a bit but is still far from ideal. Various groups are different ways to test implementations and are all lacking resources to improve their test suites. We need your help now to build the next open Web platform and make HTML5 a real success!
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on September 15, 2010 1:06 PM in CSS, HTML, SVG
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HTML5: Getting to Last Call
All new bugs related to the HTML5 specification received after the first October 2010 will be treated as Last Call comments, with possible exceptions granted by the Chairs. The intention is to get to the initial Last Call and have a feature complete document.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on September 10, 2010 4:03 PM in HTML
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Web on TV workshop in Japan
The Web on TV workshop in Japan brings TV broadcasters, device makers, and Web companies at the same table. Around 130 participants are attending the workshop, making it the biggest W3C workshop ever. The main topic of the workshop is how, going forward, we apply Web technologies, in particular HTML5, to the television set.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on September 2, 2010 11:11 PM in HTML, Video, Workshops
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W3C Unicorn Launch off to good start
On July 27th, 2010 we made the first official release on Unicorn. We are elated with the response from the community. Within two days after the announcement we received 7 additional translations. There are already a couple new checkers in...
Filed by Ted Guild on July 30, 2010 5:15 PM in CSS, HTML, Tools, Web Design
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HTML5 in W3C Cheatsheet
From the very first release of the cheatsheet, I’ve received requests to include the various new elements and attributes of the HTML5 specification in the cheatsheet. As a reminder, the cheatsheet is a mobile-friendly Web application that provides a compilation...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on July 20, 2010 3:26 PM in HTML, Tools
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The Core Mission of W3C
New July 9, 2010 I reported in The Mission of W3C that a major focus of W3C is to Strengthen our core mission. This blog entry elaborates. Broad and / or deep Since the Web is central to everything...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on July 16, 2010 6:14 PM in CEO, HTML, Technology
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XHTML Modularization: a markup language designer's toolkit
The current maintenance update to XHTML Modularization is in response to the inevitable bug reports and clarifications that come from actual use. Since there have recently been some misconceptions expressed about the purpose of the spec, I'd thought I'd take...
Filed by Steven Pemberton on June 3, 2010 8:45 AM in HTML, Publications, Technology 101, XML
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Thanks for a great 15 years at W3C
After 15 years working with all of you all around the world on Web technologies and standards, I'm taking a position as a Biomedical Informatics Software Engineer in the department of biostatistics at the University of Kansas Medical center. The...
Filed by Dan Connolly on June 2, 2010 7:04 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, W3C Life, Web Architecture
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Asia and W3C
A visit with staff at Keio University I continue to meet key stakeholders around the world as part of my introduction to W3C. The last two weeks have been focused on Asia. India I visited India last week partly...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on May 14, 2010 8:39 PM in CEO, HTML, Internationalization, Mobile, Social Networking, Technology, Video, W3C・QA News
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HTML5 Video
Two years and a half ago, Dan Connolly wrote about When will HTML 5 support <video>? Sooner if you help. Where are we with HTML5 Video nowadays?
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on May 14, 2010 5:31 PM in HTML, Video
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Truly W3C Community building at WWW2010 (Part 2)
The very recent announcements from Microsoft (“The Future of the Web is HTML5”), Apple (“We are betting big on HTML5”) and Google (“New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs...
Filed by Marie-Claire Forgue on May 6, 2010 2:42 AM in HTML, Meetings, SVG, Video
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RDFa 1.1 version of the pyRdfa distiller
W3C has just published a First Public Working Draft for RDFa 1.1 Core and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. Yay! I did have an RDFa Distiller software and service for RDFa 1.0. Well, I did spend some time in the past few weeks...
Filed by Ivan Herman on April 22, 2010 3:02 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology
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HTML5 Meetup - Paris
We're doing an other HTML5 meetup event in Paris on April 7.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on March 31, 2010 3:02 PM in CSS, HTML, Meetings, Mobile, SVG, Video
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Update on HTML 5 Document License
Today at the W3C Advisory Committee meeting, we discussed the document license for HTML 5. We discussed use cases from the HTML Working Group that call for a more open license than the current W3C Document License. The result of...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on March 23, 2010 5:35 PM in HTML
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Looking at the Next Open Web Platform on March 27
For those of you who will be in Cambridge, MA on March 27, a few of us will be giving several presentations around HTML 5, CSS 3, and SVG in the morning. We'll have a hands-on session in the afternoon.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on March 16, 2010 4:55 PM in CSS, HTML, Meetings, SVG, Video
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W3C Track@WWW2010: LOD and HTML 5
At this year's 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010 - Raleigh, NC, USA), W3C will organize two "camps": the "HTML 5 camp" and the "Linked Open Data (LOD) camp" (29 and 30 April 2010). The "camp" format of the...
Filed by Marie-Claire Forgue on March 3, 2010 6:13 PM in HTML, Meetings, Mobile, SVG, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Video, eGov
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W3C Cheatsheet for developers
Yesterday, as part of the W3C Technical Plenary day, I got the opportunity to introduce a new tool that I had been working on over the past few weeks, the W3C Cheatsheet for Web developers. This cheatsheet aims at providing...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on November 5, 2009 9:47 PM in Accessibility, CSS, HTML, Internationalization, Mobile, SVG, Tools, Tutorials
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How do we test a Web browser?
Testing all possible Web browsers out there is hard and requires more effort than one organization can afford by itself. The idea of increasing the level of Web browser testing done in W3C is to involve the community at large as much as possible. If we really want an interoperable Web, that's what W3C should move to.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on September 17, 2009 9:51 PM in CSS, HTML, SVG, Tools
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Orthogonality of Specifications
HTTP,HTML,URI The general principle of platform design is that platforms consist of a set of standard interfaces. Standard interfaces allow substitution of components across the interface boundary, while independence of interfaces allow evolution of the interfaces themselves. In a PC,...
Filed by Larry Masinter on June 24, 2009 1:03 PM in HTML, Web Architecture
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HTML5 isn't a standard yet
Watching the Google I/O first day keynote, I'm pleased to see the level of support and interest from Google about HTML5. Sure enough, I wished SVG would have been mentioned there, as they did for the Canvas API, since...
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on May 28, 2009 9:04 PM in HTML, Publications
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Search Engines take on Structured Data
Structured data on the web got a boost this week, with Google's announcement of Rich Snippets and Rich Snippets in Custom Search. Structured data at such a large scale raises at least three issues:SyntaxVocabularyPolicyGoogle's documentation shows support for both microformats...
Filed by Dan Connolly on May 13, 2009 4:18 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Web Architecture, eGov
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Data interchange problems come in all sizes
I had a pretty small data interchange problem the other day: I just wanted to archive some play lists that I had compiled using various music player daemon (mpd) clients. The mpd server stores playlists as simple m3u files,...
Filed by Dan Connolly on May 8, 2009 9:10 PM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web, Web Architecture
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Once more into Versioning -- this time with HTML
The W3C TAG has worked on the general issue of "versioning" for many years, and many TAG members may be worn out on the issue. However, undeterred by past history, I'm taking another run at it, this time trying to...
Filed by Larry Masinter on May 4, 2009 5:39 PM in HTML, Web Architecture
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A rough view of the future
A (rough) vision of future Web technologies working together.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on March 24, 2009 6:52 PM in HTML, SVG, Technology, Video, XML
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Palm webOS approach to HTML extensibility: x-mojo-*
I got pretty excited about the iPhone, and even more about the openness of Android and the G1, and then I learn that the Palm Pre developer platform is basically just the open web platform: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript....
Filed by Dan Connolly on February 16, 2009 5:04 PM in HTML, Mobile, Web Architecture
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Valid sites work better(?)
I learned to write standard-compliant Web pages when the likely alternative was “the browser will likely crash on your tag soup”. In an age of graceful error recovery, does it still matter to produce valid code? Share your stories here.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on January 29, 2009 9:26 PM in CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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JavaScript required for basic textual info? TRY AGAIN
Sam says he's Online and Airborne. "Needless to say, this is seriously cool." I'll say! But when I follow the link to details from the service provider, I get:Sorry. You must have JavaScript enabled to view this page. Click the...
Filed by Dan Connolly on January 27, 2009 10:01 PM in Accessibility, HTML, Security, Web Architecture
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Validator Donation Program: day 2
What's this new Validator Donation Program? Why a donation campaign? What would W3C do with that money? And isn't w3c really, really rich already anyway?
Filed by olivier Théreaux on December 12, 2008 7:42 PM in CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Tools, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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How to evaluate Web Applications security designs?
I could use some help getting my head around security for Web Applications and mashups. The first time someone told me W3C should be working on specs help the browser prevent sensitive data from leaking out of enterprises, I...
Filed by Dan Connolly on December 3, 2008 5:00 PM in HTML, Web Architecture
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W3C Validator, now with HTML5 flavour
For too long we struggled with the tension between “perfect support for standards” and “be cutting edge to help develop better new technologies”. With the latest version of our Markup Validator, integrating with the validator.nu engine, comes part of the solution.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 21, 2008 5:53 PM in HTML, Tools
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Learn How To Write HTML 5
HTML 5 is too complex? Wait, wait, there is something coming.
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 18, 2008 8:12 AM in HTML, Technology 101, Web Spotting
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HTML 5, the markup
People interested only the html 5 content model were not satisfied with the huge html 5 specification. Discover html 5, the markup language.
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 14, 2008 3:01 AM in HTML, Reference, Technology 101
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HTML 5 And The Hear-Write Web
Is there a way to improve the HTML ecosystem in a way that creates more adoption of HTML 5? From parsing to serialization to fixing, how do we recover broken Web documents?
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 26, 2008 6:44 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101, Tools
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Alexa Global Top 500 against HTML 5 validation
Following Brian Wilson lead and his validity survey, I tested against html 5. Less than 1% of top 500 Alexa Web sites seems to pass html 5 conformance checking.
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 19, 2008 6:57 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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How To Insert A Video From Youtube
I was struggling for inserting a video in a Web page, I had to change a bit the markup which was proposed to me to make it work in a way that satisfies me.
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 8, 2008 1:50 AM in HTML, Technology 101, Video
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Build Your Own Browser
Little Web bricks help to create new browsers.
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 2, 2008 6:23 AM in HTML, HTTP, Opinions & Editorial
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HTML 5, a new step
HTML 5 conformance checking has been integrated into the beta W3C Markup Validator.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 26, 2008 11:41 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Tools
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The details of data in documents: GRDDL, profiles, and HTML5
GRDDL, a mechanism for putting RDF data in XML/XHTML documents, is specified mostly at the XPath data model level. Some GRDDL software goes beyond XML and supports HTML as she are spoke, aka tag soup. HTML 5 is intended to...
Filed by Dan Connolly on August 22, 2008 7:45 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Web Architecture, XML
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The Digital Stakhanovite
Designing a technology that will accomodate our social contexts of the digital Stakhanovite is a big challenge, far to be simple to solve.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 18, 2008 2:18 AM in Accessibility, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web
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Markup Validator Updated
New release for W3C's most popular open source service: fewer bugs, more document types supported, more fun to hack with, and a few other goodies in the mix.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on August 8, 2008 1:11 PM in Bugs Life, HTML, HTTP, Tools
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Pleasure of Reading Tech Blog Posts
Tech blog posts offer sometimes gems for reading. Here a selection of articles, I have been reading, by Robert O'Callahan, John Resig, and Michael Sperberg-McQueen.
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 24, 2008 7:55 AM in CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, SVG, Semantic Web
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Once Upon A Time, Web Standards Curriculum
Once upon a time, we started the Quality Assurance activity at W3C in 2001, one of the objectives was to find a way to improve the materials for communicating with Web developers. In the QA group, Snorre M. Grimsby (Opera) told me that we might find resources for producing educational materials. The discussion became quiet for a while and restarted in June 2006 with David Storey (Opera). As the same time, some people at WASP started a survey for defining requirements for a Web Standards Curriculum.
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 10, 2008 5:40 AM in Accessibility, CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101, Tutorials
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Getting closer to a standard for client-side cross-site requests
Good news today from Sunava Dutta of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team in regard to the W3C Access Control for Cross-Site Requests specification: Sunava writes that, as early as IE8 Beta 2, IE8 will ship the updated section of Access Control...
Filed by Michael(tm) Smith on July 10, 2008 1:09 AM in HTML
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life without MIME type sniffing?
In a recent item on IE8 Security, Eric Lawrence, Security Program Manager for Internet Explorer, introduced a work-around to the security risks associated with content-type sniffing: an authoritative=true parameter on the Content-Type header in HTTP. This re-started discussion of...
Filed by Dan Connolly on July 7, 2008 5:19 PM in Bugs Life, HTML, Web Architecture
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The How-To for html 5 parsing
You have read a lot about the html 5 specification. You heard that there were hidden dragons and acid rains. But what about looking by yourself practically how html 5 parsing is working? There are already some tools to play with html 5.
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 7, 2008 2:35 AM in HTML, Technology 101, Tools
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Improving Interoperability by Short Release Cycle
When a software is shipped, it has bugs. There are many reasons for these bugs. It can be poor in-house development, it can be careless testing, it can be unclear specifications, and many other things. We have to live with these bugs in software. Is there a way out?
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 7, 2008 12:53 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101
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The War of the Worlds
Some people are amazing, they are creators. They make complex things, beautiful and simple. They make the world a place of exploration and discovering.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 27, 2008 7:27 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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Shipbuilding (or, cruel to be kind)
When groups of implementors and others (working groups in standards bodies and what have you, or groups of implementors and others with shared interest in a certain set of technologies) gather together publicly for focused technical discussion on a particular...
Filed by Michael(tm) Smith on June 26, 2008 4:18 AM in HTML
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Documenting the Web vs. reinventing it
Ian Hickson, the editor of the current HTML5 draft, posted an Error handling in URIs message to the uri@w3.org mailing list outlining some issues related to browser error handling behaviour for URIs, and to IRIs and character encodings other than...
Filed by Michael(tm) Smith on June 26, 2008 12:23 AM in HTML
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How to contribute to W3C work… with a PhD
A few months ago, I was explaining how you can participate to W3C work in a different way: writing tutorials, writing quick tips. I found out last week a new and original way to participate to W3C work.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 23, 2008 3:00 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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Interview: David Baron on Firefox 3 and W3C Standards
At the news of the official release of Firefox 3 (FF3), I asked David Baron, Mozilla's Advisory Committee Representative at W3C (see photo), a few questions about the browser release and support for standards. Note: I anticipate interviewing (lots...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on June 20, 2008 7:29 PM in CSS, HTML, Interviews, SVG, Security
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HTML 5 Publications
Four documents have been recently published for HTML 5 by the HTML Working Group.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 11, 2008 1:51 AM in HTML, Publications
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utf-8 Growth On The Web
utf-8 is taking over traditional encodings on the Web.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 6, 2008 11:51 PM in HTML, HTTP, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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Vertical Layouts for Canvas Text (CJK)
How to handle vertical layouts (for example CJK) with Canvas Text API. I give some references to have a snapshot of the constraints and issues.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 2, 2008 3:35 AM in HTML, Reference
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font is dead, vive le style
font is gone, style="" is made global (in HTML 5).
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 30, 2008 3:00 AM in CSS, HTML
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alt attributes authoring practices
There has been a lot of discussions around alt attributes on HTML WG mailing list. It's always difficult to move forward in such discussions because it seems to be easy when in fact it is rather complicated.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 30, 2008 2:47 AM in Accessibility, HTML, Tools
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Proposed Activity for Video on the Web
W3C organized a workshop on Video on the Web in December 2007 in order
to share current experiences and examine the technologies (see report) and is now following up with a proposal for a Video on the Web activity.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, Video, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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A validator is not an accessibility evaluation tool?
Currently, the most active discussion thread on the HTML working group's public mailing list, public-html, is one regarding the issue of whether in HTML5 the alt attribute should always be required on images. And Henri Sivonen is among the most...
Filed by Michael(tm) Smith on April 14, 2008 2:19 AM in HTML
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HTML WG members working together
Web standards are made by people. They interact, discuss, debate. They find issues, argue about them and finally try to settle down on what should be done. In the end, eventually it would be specified properly in a W3C Working Draft and then implemented in an interoperable way. It takes time and energy. I give here an example of a recent discussion between members of the HTML WG.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 13, 2008 1:12 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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Browser wars, HTML test jam, and CSS awards at SXSW Interactive in Austin
When he opened the panel today to a packed room, Arun admitted that the "browser wars" title was a little sensationalist; mostly Brendan Eich, Chris Wilson, and Charles McCathieNevile are on the same side, trying to make the Web better...
Filed by Dan Connolly on March 10, 2008 10:06 PM in CSS, HTML
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Character encoding in HTML
In this first issue in the cookbook for the web series, we look at character encoding, or "charset"s. Discussing the ingredients, giving a reliable recipe for the detection of character encodings in (x)html, and a quick tip for web authors on an html diet.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on March 10, 2008 4:11 PM in HTML, HTTP
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Templating Language for Authoring Tools
Structure editing of Web pages is not a simple task. XTiger is a language for authoring Web content including rich information such as microformats and RDFa. Try it.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 10, 2008 7:06 AM in HTML, Tools, Tutorials
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Authoring HTML 5
We need a group of people ready to do actual work on HTML 5 for authors. Join the HTML WG.
Filed by Karl Dubost on February 12, 2008 9:27 PM in HTML
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IE8 versioning snowstorm
keeping track on what is being said about IE8 and opt-in versioning mechanism.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 22, 2008 7:58 PM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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www.w3.org/TR/html5
It's been a long time coming. Either 10 months (if you count back to when the current W3C HTML Working Group was chartered) or 10 years (if you consider when the HTML 4.0 Recommendation was published. Or maybe just 4...
Filed by Michael(tm) Smith on January 22, 2008 3:10 PM in HTML
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IE8 and opt-in versioning mechanism
Microsoft proposes an opt-in versioning mechanism for IE8 for Web developers using the meta element of HTML.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 22, 2008 1:43 AM in HTML
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Simple things make firm foundations
You can look at the development of web technology in many ways, but one way is as a major software project. In software projects, the independence of specs, has always been really important, I have felt. A classic example is...
Filed by Tim Berners-Lee on January 18, 2008 3:39 PM in HTML, Web Architecture
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HTML 5, one vocabulary, two serializations
It seems not very clear for many people. So let's set the record straight. HTML 5 can be written in html and XML.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 15, 2008 9:03 PM in HTML, Technology 101, Tutorials, XML
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RDFa and HTML imagemap
RDFa is a way to enrich your Web pages with local data. The clear benefit is that your data are in context and then easier to manage. Yesterday, on the RDFa mailing list, Dan Brickley asked how we could use RDFa to extract the information of an HTML imagemap.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 6, 2008 8:57 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology 101
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XML On The Web - A Choice
The browsers offer one rendered view of information on the Web among many possibilities. JSON, RDF, Atom, plain text, xhtml, html are parts of the choices to represent an information resource.
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 25, 2007 12:00 AM in HTML, XML
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When will HTML 5 support <video>? Sooner if you help
To make the distance to home when I travel a little shorter, for my birthday I got one of these digital picture frames. With a little fiddling, I got the picture and music features working, but I'm stumped on...
Filed by Dan Connolly on December 18, 2007 1:55 PM in HTML, Meetings, SVG, Video
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On considering the role of W3C Members in Working Group decisions
On 29 November 2007, Dan Connolly, co-Chair of the HTML Working Group pointed me to an IRC log of discussion about HTML 5 which prompted this question: is it acceptable to take into consideration the role of each W3C member...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on December 14, 2007 11:12 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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The Need for Diversity
Chris Wilson (Microsoft) in a recent interview with Kevin Yank at Sitepoint stressed the need of diversity for a healthy Web Ecosystem: >Chris Wilson: As for building on WebKit or Gecko or any of the other engines, part of that...
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 10, 2007 9:10 PM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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Nicholas Zakas on HTML5
Nicholas Zakas works on UI design with the My Yahoo team at Yahoo. He's written a What I'd like to see in HTML 5 posting on his blog....
Filed by Michael(tm) Smith on December 7, 2007 10:15 AM in HTML
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DogFood
Sam Ruby initiates an interesting thread on public-html: I took a stab at converting the front page of my weblog to use more features from html5. You can see the results here: http://intertwingly.net/blog/index.html5 But this is clearly just the start....
Filed by Michael(tm) Smith on December 5, 2007 8:20 PM in HTML
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Preview of HTML 5 at A List Apart
"Go with the flow and open your mind to HTML 5" is the tagline for issue 250 of the online magazine A List Apart, which features A Preview of HTML 5 -- written by HTML working group member Lachlan Hunt....
Filed by Michael(tm) Smith on December 4, 2007 12:58 AM in HTML
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html 5: doctype to version
At a regular pace, there are discussions about the [need of versioning for HTML 5](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/4). The issue breaks down around a few points including identification of the language itself for different kind of user agents, and parser libraries. A while...
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 2, 2007 10:21 PM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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TPAC 2007 - HTML Working Group had informal jamming session!
It was intended to be a fun session for the HTML Working Group face to face meeting, but the word spread out and suddenly many people joined us at the room. The jam started and suddenly Tim Berners-Lee joined Dan Connolly, Steven Pemberton, Ian Jacobs, Janet Daly and others on the lyrics...
Filed by Mauro Nunez on November 9, 2007 12:19 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - HTML Working Group holds first face-to-face meeting
The time has come for the much anticipated HTML Working Group face to face meeting, at the W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week in Cambridge, MA (USA).
Filed by Mauro Nunez on November 8, 2007 3:11 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - URI-Based Extensibility: Benefits, Deviations, Lessons-Learned
The Technical plenary day is continuing. Someone in a comment earlier asked what TPAC was. TPAC means Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting. All W3C Working groups and representatives of W3C are meeting. This year we open a bit more...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 3:26 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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TPAC 2007 - Openness of W3C Working Groups
The participants of the W3C tech plenary are back from their lunch overlooking the gorgeous Charles river, to tackle the question of "openness". This is a development from a topic already raised today: a lot of people's lives and living...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 7, 2007 1:30 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - HTML 5, XHTML 2.0, Future Formats
The title, just by reading it, reminds me of long discussions for the past 6 months as the (interim) HTML WG staff contact. [HTML 5](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/) and [XHTML 2.0](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/) ; Many fights, many misunderstandings often due to deaf dialogs. Let's hope...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 11:24 AM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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The Tracker, Tracked
Since W3C launched the new HTML Working Group in March, over 450 people have joined. This is great, but making sense of the thousands of mail messages that followed is too much for any one person. I think the new...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on November 2, 2007 6:31 PM in HTML, Technology 101, Tools
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Validator 0.8 getting stable - what next?
With the latest release, today, of the markup validator, comes a time to give a look at its development roadmap. Among the contenders for development time: localization, support for schema languages, and a richer API. Interesting times ahead...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on October 11, 2007 3:45 AM in HTML, Tools
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Shorttags - the odd side of HTML 4.01
Validation can be a very useful way to detect typos in markup... unless the typos disguise as shorttags, one of the little known features of HTML, valid but misunderstood by most browsers. Fortunately, there is hope, whether one prefers to author XHTML and never worry about shorttags, or stick to HTML.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on October 9, 2007 4:42 PM in Bugs Life, HTML
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HTML WG in Cambridge, USA - 8-10 November 2007
Come and meet the HTML WG in Cambridge, Mass, USA, in November 2007.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 9, 2007 3:00 PM in HTML, Meetings, W3C Life
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Setting the default style sheet language on your Web site
Very often Web creators are using an external style sheet, or a style element to add style information to their html pages. By doing, we specify what is the style language used in the Web page. For example using the...
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 27, 2007 6:45 AM in CSS, HTML, HTTP, Technology 101
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lang attributes accross (X)HTML versions
There has been a discussion about lang attributes on the RDFa mailing-list, on what should be used depending on the HTML version. So I have done a bit or research and compilation and here are the results. The lang...
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 28, 2007 6:40 AM in HTML, Reference
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The craft of HTML
HTML is a practical art. In a professional context, it requires precise and extensive skills. As with many popular crafts, the vast majority of people do it on their own, but only a few do it for a living. The quality of products varies a lot.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 8, 2007 3:10 AM in HTML, Technology 101, Tools
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iPhone Developer Guidelines Promote One Web, Open Standards
I was a little nervous to look at
for Web Developers from the
with a splash as big as the iPhone, it seemed inevitable that they'd
cut corners when it came to support for open standards. Surely the Use
Standards and Tried-and-True Design Practices heading was a
tease. But then… wow…
Filed by Dan Connolly on August 6, 2007 3:39 PM in HTML
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Why HTML 5 Specification Matters?
This is a simple story. The story of an HTML bug. Like every stories, it could start with… Once upon a time, there was a bug. The bug and its consequences A known HTML page contains a similar piece of...
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 6, 2007 6:30 AM in HTML
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HTML Classes of Products and Authoring
Rene Saarsoo has published a survey of Coding practices of Web pages. It contains a lot of very useful information for those who try to understand how the Web is authored in the wild. One of the major concerns of...
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 6, 2007 1:49 AM in HTML, Reference
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HTML elements from HTML 3.2 to XHTML 2.0
Jens Meiert published recently a very cool list of all HTML elements from HTML 3.2 to XHTML 2.0. It is very interesting to visualize the list of elements. I see a few possible possible improvements on this list. definition of...
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 2, 2007 1:49 AM in HTML
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The Web as An Ecosystem
Don’t you feel sometimes you are in the middle of an action movie and when you have time to rest a bit, you realize that you were running all along. Then the action is restarting. It never stops. So let’s...
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 21, 2007 1:39 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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Fixing the Web… Together!
Molly Holzschlag recently posted an article about stopping the development on HTML 5 and XHTML 2.0 until implementations are consistent for HTML 4.01 and others. It is surprising because one of the main goals of HTML 5 is exactly this,...
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 15, 2007 9:52 AM in HTML
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Authoring HTML 5 - A Call to Web Professionals
Robert recently published his thoughts on HTML 5. In his post, he gives a reference to a post by Roger giving another look at HTML 5. They are both addressing two issues of the work done on HTML: Attitude HTML...
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 8, 2007 5:07 AM in HTML
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HTML WG at XTech 2007.
There are a lot of things happening these days. The HTML WG has been relaunched in March with a very open and participative set. We are now a bit more than 400 members and still growing up. There are discussions...
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 15, 2007 2:09 PM in HTML, Meetings
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HTML and version mechanisms
Disclaimer: This article doesn't represent any kind of consensus in the HTML WG. It is an attempt at capturing the different opinions expressed on the mailing-list. There has a been a lot of debate in April on the HTML WG...
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 1, 2007 3:29 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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Meet the HTML Working Group chairs in Austin at SxSWi
I enjoyed living in Austin and I like to visit when I can. My last trip was more for MIT research stuff; this time it's W3C business. I took SxSWi 2007 off my travel schedule when the TAG scheduled a...
Filed by Dan Connolly on March 9, 2007 8:03 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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Watch Out The HTML Page
In this new space, the HTML home page, I intend to give you information about HTML development as much as possible. I will try to create a space where people will find valuable information about the HTML Working Group work....
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 7, 2007 3:21 PM in HTML
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W3C Launches New HTML Working Group
W3C is pleased to announce the new HTML Working Group, chartered to create the next HTML standard with the active participation of browser vendors, software developers, and content designers. "It's time to revisit the standard and see what we can...
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 7, 2007 8:17 AM in HTML
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Reinventing HTML: Update
Filed by Dan Connolly on December 22, 2006 7:19 PM in HTML
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Reinventing HTML: discuss
By now many have seen Tim Berners-Lee on Reinventing HTML: Making standards is hard work. ... A particular case is HTML... The plan is to charter a completely new HTML group... I'll be asking these groups to be very accountable,...
Filed by Dan Connolly on October 28, 2006 1:23 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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Combining XHTML and SVG (and MathML) (and XForms) (and...)
A reader asked us recently whether there existed a profile to easily combine XHTML and SVG. The short answer is, yes, there is. The slightly longer answer is that indeed, in 2002, the W3C SVG and HTML working groups got...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on July 5, 2006 6:45 AM in HTML
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Ruby Annotation Under The Sunlight
(Updated on Friday 3 February 2006 to add valuable source of information given by Richard Ishida) In the concepts of microformats, there is a key concept which is design for humans first, machines second. We have often been faced to...
Filed by Karl Dubost on February 2, 2006 10:47 AM in HTML, Technology 101
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Failed Commitments?
Do you remember? it was just three years ago or so. There were parades and brass bands. Many large Web sites were, at long last, making the switch to Web standards. For example, the Web designer Douglas Bowman was announcing...
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 30, 2006 1:12 AM in CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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“WaSP asks W3C", Adding Multimedia in Web Documents (part 2) published
Last week, in a new instance of the WaSP asks W3C project, the QA Team completed its answer on Adding Multimedia in Web Documents with more details on the use and implementation of the object tag in HTML. Discussion and...
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 31, 2005 12:50 AM in HTML, Publications, Tutorials
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“More About Custom DTD" article published in A List Apart
The QA Team has written an article for A List Apart, entitled More About Custom DTDs, explaining when custom DTDs make sense, and when they don't....
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 11, 2005 12:57 AM in HTML, Publications, Tutorials
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