Archives for Category: CSS
Ben Schwarz joins CSSWG
The better part of a year ago I decided to [make a bookmarklet](http://germanforblack.com/articles/moving-towards-readable-w3c-specs) that improved the display of W3C specifications. To my surprise and delight people took notice, including some of my heros. Fast forward 8 months, I released "[HTML5...
Filed by Ben Schwarz on November 30, 2011 12:52 PM in CSS, W3C Life
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Extensions to the CSS Object Model
The CSS Object Model is now almost eleven years old. All Web authors know it's only partially implemented and rarely interoperably implemented. There is now an ongoing effort to stabilize the most mature bits of the specification. Thirteen years ago,...
Filed by Daniel Glazman on July 25, 2011 6:40 PM in CSS
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How to fold Jeff's table columns with CSS
The 'collapse' keyword in CSS is designed for HTML viewers that interactively expand & collapse table columns. Current browsers don't do that by themselves, but with the help of some other features of CSS you can make browsers collapse columns, too. Here is the story behind the tutorial that explains how.
Filed by Bert Bos on July 21, 2011 4:37 PM in CSS, Tutorials, Web Design
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CSS wiki-based documentation
Back in April, I introduced the "wiki-based documentation project". At that time, it only contained the HTML documentation. I'm glad to now report that the CSS documentation is now completed. CSS Educational Materials for Beginners I have organized a curriculum...
Filed by Hiroki Yamada on June 16, 2011 9:40 PM in CSS, Open Web, Tutorials
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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 - 2011-02-28 - 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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CSS WG specs
Some of you have noticed that some specs in the CSS Working Group (Selectors for instance) remain in Proposed Recommendation status and don't move to REC even if it seems there is no blocker. That is and will be the...
Filed by Daniel Glazman on October 9, 2010 5:00 PM in CSS
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Introducing the Web Font Awards
Introducing the Web Font Awards – a design competition for websites using Web fonts. Help celebrate the newfound typographic freedom that Web designers are enjoying by entering your site into the Web Font Awards.
Filed by Vladimir Levantovsky on October 4, 2010 7:56 PM in CSS, Technology, Web Design
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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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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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An Update on CSS 2.1
So where are we (that "we" meaning the CSS Working Group) on CSS 2.1? In short, we're making fast and excellent progress: we are currently resolving the last outstanding issues ; almost all our weekly conference calls are entirely dedicated...
Filed by Daniel Glazman on June 30, 2010 5:34 AM in CSS, Publications
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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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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 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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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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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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What would a new CSS validator look like?
What if the CSS Validator didn't exist, what if we decided to build it from scratch today. What would it be? What would you make it to be?
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 11, 2008 3:44 PM in CSS, Technology, Tools
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Give me a break! CSS WG meeting
CSS WG is meeting in Cambridge, UK and had an interesting discussion about br element and possible associated CSS properties.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 22, 2008 5:59 AM in Accessibility, CSS, Opinions & Editorial
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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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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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Web Typography - Your wish list
Give your feedback and tell about your wishes list on Web Typography.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 1, 2008 5:06 AM in CSS, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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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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Pre-Obsolete Design
Creating a specification is a challenge and a compromise. Far to be perfect it is an attempt at establishing stability for a little while. The difficulty is often how long?
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 25, 2008 2:23 AM in CSS, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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Get a CSS Drive
Get a CSS Drive with your favorite geek song.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 21, 2008 9:12 AM in CSS, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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CSS Validator gets an update
More than 50 bugs closed, a polished User Interface, and some useful core changes: the CSS validator got a great update, but did it have to take a year? Let's look at what is slowing down, and where you can help, too.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on March 18, 2008 3:18 PM in Bugs Life, CSS, Tools
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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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CSS Validator Translation - Polish and Chinese translators wanted!
The last time we gave news about the W3C CSS validator on this space was already over a year ago, for the "fuji release". No news since then? That doesn't mean there has been no progress. Far from it, actually:...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on January 29, 2008 2:22 AM in CSS, Tools
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Testing your browser while being lazy
I have to admit something, sometimes I'm a bum. It's why I like tools which makes my life easier. I had written in the past that [RDF is for the lazy person](http://www.w3.org/QA/2003/08/rdf-reloaded). I like also the [LogValidator](http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/LogValidator/) because it helps...
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 17, 2007 9:24 PM in CSS, SVG, Tools
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CSS Drop Shadows
fantasai from the CSS WG asked me if I could cross-post her weblog post on Q&A blog, so she could reach a broader and diverse community. Please read and comment here or on www-style. I'm working on the CSS3 Backgrounds...
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 17, 2007 8:17 PM in CSS
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I hear you: get a blog
A few months ago I took the 2007 Web Design Survey from A List Apart. I see 33,000 other Web professionals did, too. It's very exciting to see such enthusiasm among the designers. Indeed, almost 80% of the people who...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on October 22, 2007 12:14 PM in CSS, Opinions & Editorial, 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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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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CSS Validator available in Spanish
W3C's open source CSS Validator is now available in Spanish language, thanks to the translation work of the W3C Spanish office. The CSS Validator is also available in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian....
Filed by Karl Dubost on February 16, 2005 1:08 AM in CSS, Tools
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