Archives for Category: Web Architecture

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.

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Filed on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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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...

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Filed on January 18, 2008 3:39 PM in HTML, Web Architecture
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Version Identifiers Reconsidered

The Architecture of the World Wide Web includes a section on extensibility and versioning of languages and data formats. The TAG is having second thoughts about the suggestion that all data formats SHOULD provide for version identification. Sometimes it is a good thing to do, but sometimes not.

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Filed on December 18, 2007 6:10 PM in Web Architecture
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A story about namespaces, MIME types, and URIs

Noone seems to know where the story begins; Ian Jacobs reminded me about magic namespaces as I enjoyed breakfast on Thursday; Steven Pemberton and Bert Bos had told it to him, perhaps prompted by Ian Hickson's question in the URI-based...

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Filed on November 13, 2007 2:59 AM in Web Architecture
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The impact of Javascript and XMLHttpRequest on web architecture

This issue was raised briefly on the TAG telcon of 11 October 2007, but I think we dismissed it too quickly.The basic WebArch story about URIs, resources and representations makes sense to people because they can see the relationship between...

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Filed on October 18, 2007 11:26 AM in Web Architecture
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