Archives for Category: W3C Life
W3C, Process and Perception
W3C Process is often misunderstood. Arnaud Le Hors shared his impressions about it.
Filed on May 1, 2008 12:59 AM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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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 on March 25, 2008 2:23 AM in CSS, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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World Map and Statistics Challenge
Showing statistics on an SVG world map is recurrent. I would love to have a program to do that.
Filed on March 24, 2008 5:17 AM in SVG, Tools, W3C Life
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W3C Team Planet... or Galaxy
The W3C staff (or W3C Team) are the people employed by the W3C organization. I'm one of them. Some of us have blogs for quite a long time, personal or professional, or both. The question of creating a public aggregation...
Filed on March 24, 2008 2:29 AM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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If you had to fix the Web...
"If you had to fix the Web... what would you do?"
Filed on March 24, 2008 2:22 AM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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Get a CSS Drive
Get a CSS Drive with your favorite geek song.
Filed on March 21, 2008 9:12 AM in CSS, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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Many ways to access W3C mailing-lists
W3C may be about Web technologies, but a lot of its discussions happen... by e-mail. With more than 600,000 public mails archived to date, how can we manage the information overload? And how can that influence our online behaviour?
Filed on March 18, 2008 4:10 PM in W3C Life, Web Spotting, XML
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W3C reaches its 1000th translation!
As W3C gets ready for its upcoming Advisory Committee Meeting in Beijing, we have reached another important milestone as an International Consortium. We have received the 1000th volunteer translation of a W3C document!
Filed on March 12, 2008 7:25 AM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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XML 10 has been launched
W3C has launched a very mini site for XML tenth anniversary. Already ten years of XML.
Filed on February 12, 2008 9:56 PM in W3C Life, XML
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Get Involved!
The Web exists because people wanted to connect to each others and share. They got involved. The first Web site was a kind of blog written by Tim Berners-Lee. People were experimenting, implementing, writing manual and tutorials. Tim was announcing the new servers that you could count each month on your fingers. You too can be part of it.
Filed on December 20, 2007 10:47 PM in Opinions & Editorial, Tutorials, W3C Life, Web Spotting
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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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Yet Another Design in W3C Team
Working at W3C is an interesting experience. The Team is usually composed of 60 to 70 persons, with the possibility to edit mostly all parts of the Web site which is under cvs (thank you for giving the possibility of...
Filed on November 30, 2007 3:00 AM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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Video On the Web - the articles!
You might remember that the W3C is organizing a workshop about Video On the Web in the Silicon Valley at San Jose (12-13 December 2007). The Workshop will be simultaneously displayed in Brussels allowing remote participation from Europe. When W3C...
Filed on November 29, 2007 7:44 PM in Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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Blue Beany Day - Web standards!
Today is Blue Beany Day. A good opportunity to be goofy with an excuse ;) Monday, November 26, 2007 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for...
Filed on November 26, 2007 8:20 PM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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W3C on Freenode
Just realized that some of you might not know, but some people of W3C hang out on #w3c channel on IRC freenode server. I will be there too, not 24/7, but as much as possible. You are welcome....
Filed on November 21, 2007 1:14 AM in W3C Life
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Three Buckets of Thoughts
Kevin Lawer has written a great blog post Web Standards' Three Buckets of Pain explaining cultural differences between communities. Opening up the W3C Justin Thorp commented (emphasis is mine): Karl, I'm really excited by your efforts with opening the W3C....
Filed on November 21, 2007 12:50 AM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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Links Feast about Technical Plenary 2007
It was an amazing long week for the W3C community. Meetings, talks, corridors discussions, shared meals over brackets and parsers, many new projects started and some communities started to have a better understanding of each other. Some people posted their...
Filed on November 18, 2007 6:35 PM in Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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W3C "Minority Report" Workshop aka Multimodal
Today, at SFC Keio University, a workshop on Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is starting. MMI Architecture is a loosely coupled, event-based architecture for integrating multiple modalities into applications. A bit hard to understand, I bet. Let's start with a hollywood...
Filed on November 15, 2007 8:11 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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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 - Cracks and Mortar
Tim Berners-Lee is taking the floor: "The world is a mess of interconnected communities and it is why it is working." Content-Type: is a way to define the content available at a specific URI. It gives flexibility for evolution. It...
Filed on November 7, 2007 6:14 PM in Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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TPAC 2007 - Making Video a First-Class Citizen of the Web
After an entertaining and though-provoking session of lightning talks featuring (among others) fonts on the Web, efficient XML interchange and a dog in a plane cockpit, we return to the panel format for a discussion on "Making Video a First-Class...
Filed on November 7, 2007 5:17 PM in 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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TPAC 2007 - "Real World Perspectives on the W3C" panel
What better way to kick in this TPAC meeting than with a panel tackling the perception of W3C in the "real Web world"? What happens when you ask a small group of developers, designers, experts of making the Web work...
Filed on November 7, 2007 9:36 AM in Meetings, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - Let's start
The mics are being tested in the room. People are slowing joining the room. There will be more than 300 persons participating today to the Technical Plenary Day. It is quite exciting. One of the strong emphasis of the day...
Filed on November 7, 2007 9:10 AM in Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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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 on October 22, 2007 12:14 PM in CSS, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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Semantic Web is a lot of fun
W3C released new Semantic Web logos, with a rather restrictive policy. The Web community let us know about it in the best possible way: humor and parody. W3C smiles and listens.
Filed on October 22, 2007 1:08 AM in Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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Paris Web 2007 - The French Web Connection
Paris Web 2007, the French Web conference, is happening in November 2007. Exciting. Cool. Take a look.
Filed on October 18, 2007 11:30 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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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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TPAC 2007 - W3C meets the Web community
Many W3C Working Groups are meeting from Monday 5 to Saturday 10 November 2007. It is a unique opportunity for the individual participating in these groups to coordinate, socialize, know each others better. Among the attendees will be engineers and...
Filed on October 2, 2007 4:50 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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Video on the Web
W3C will be looking at the impact and challenges of video on the Web in the upcoming months and will have a workshop on Video on the Web. So, if you have a strong opinion about what should happen at that workshop (or what shouldn't), don't hesitate to contact us.
Filed on September 18, 2007 6:16 PM in Opinions & Editorial, Technology, Video, W3C Life
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Tokyo hosts SVG Open 2007
Next week in Tokyo, the SVG community is having a cool and scalable conference: SVG Open 2007. You may have heard of SVG, a syntax to create cool vector graphics for your Web pages. SVG is being implemented in Safari...
Filed on August 31, 2007 7:23 AM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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How to to contribute to W3C work? Tutorials
We started a series about how you can contribute to W3C work. Last time, we have seen how to create and propose your own quick tips. This week, we will go a step further by looking at tutorials. Specifications...
Filed on June 13, 2007 7:30 AM in Tutorials, W3C Life
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How to to contribute to W3C work? Quick Tips
During the lunch break at the HTML in email workshop in Paris, a Web designer told me it was too expensive to participate to W3C work. This is a common myth about W3C. There are many ways to participate...
Filed on May 28, 2007 7:59 AM in W3C Life
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