Archives for Category: Technology 101
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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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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How I explained Web Services Policy to my child
D: Dad? F: Yes? D: What are you working on all the time? F: It is called "Web Services Policy". D: That sounds complicated! Explain it so that a ... year old girl like me can understand it. (The...
Filed on October 26, 2007 1:14 AM in Technology 101
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EXI stance
XML is a popular language when it comes to sharing data. Surely, its human-readability was a key to its adoption in a wide range of applications, and as such it can be easily inferred that this feature has to be...
Filed on October 25, 2007 6:36 AM in Technology, Technology 101
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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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SVG Open 2007 Live from Tokyo
SVG open 2007 has started this morning in Tokyo. A list of papers about SVG are available on the Web site. SVG 101 A bright sun, it is 9:56am, and I'm following a session given by Doug Schepers on SVG...
Filed on September 4, 2007 12:55 AM in Meetings, Technology, Technology 101
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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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How I explained ITS to my child
My child: Dad, I saw on your computer a mail saying "comment on ITS". What is ITS? Me: it stands for "Internationalization Tag Set". That's some work I am dealing with every day. My child: So that's one of...
Filed on October 17, 2006 2:15 AM in Technology 101
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Content Negotiation: why it is useful, and how to make it work
We recently received a puzzled message from a visitor of the W3C Web site, asking how we were serving images without file suffix in their URI. Looking around, our visitor found that http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/logo-REC was not one file, but two: logo-REC.gif...
Filed on February 21, 2006 2:12 AM in HTTP, Technology 101
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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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