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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 on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 on December 18, 2007 1:55 PM in HTML, Meetings, SVG
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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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 and XHTML 2.0 ; Many fights, many misunderstandings often due to deaf dialogs. Let's hope...
Filed 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 iPhone for Web Developers from the Apple Developer Connection; 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 on March 7, 2007 8:17 AM in HTML
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Reinventing HTML: Update
Filed 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 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 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 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 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 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 on May 11, 2005 12:57 AM in HTML, Publications, Tutorials
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