Archives for Category: Opinions & Editorial
My Arms Are WAI Too Short
Web Accessibility for Older Users is a report on the needs and the issues that older adults face when using the Web.
Filed on May 15, 2008 2:50 AM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Reference
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SVG + XMPP = whiteboard
There are a few whiteboarding projects (sharing a drawing space) built around SVG and XMPP.
Filed on May 14, 2008 6:12 AM in Opinions & Editorial, SVG, Tools
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We, Robots Like Music Too
BBC is offering their data under many forms. Their Radio Labs just released a new way to access to their schedule in many formats.
Filed on May 14, 2008 5:24 AM in Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web
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utf-8 Growth On The Web
utf-8 is taking over traditional encodings on the Web.
Filed on May 6, 2008 11:51 PM in HTML, HTTP, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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Web Typography - Your wish list
Give your feedback and tell about your wishes list on Web Typography.
Filed on May 1, 2008 5:06 AM in CSS, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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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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WCAG 2.0 takes a giant leap forward — Now it's your turn
WCAG 2.0 is going, boldly, where it's never gone before: Today WCAG 2.0 is at "W3C Candidate Recommendation"! Can you feel the Web accessibility world shake? Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out in every-day situations....
Filed on April 30, 2008 5:35 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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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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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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Telephone Game about the Semantic Web
I'm no Mark Twain, but reports of Google's demise are greatly exaggerated. Today Tim Berners-Lee pointed me to this headline in the Times Online: "Google could be superseded, says web inventor." This, in turn, has morphed into more ominous restatements...
Filed on March 13, 2008 7:30 PM in Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web
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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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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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SVG Valentine's day
Cool stuff done with SVG, a game and a perl program. Share the love.
Filed on February 14, 2008 2:31 AM in Opinions & Editorial, SVG
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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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Open data, you and me
Data portability and open data are hot topics these months. The multiplication of social network sites has increased the aggregation of these data in silos. The Semantic Web activity encourages to open your data with a new series of cute logo. Geographical data such as the Open Street Map initiative, government budget such as USA are the trend. But when it comes to our personal data, we need more granularity.
Filed on January 7, 2008 1:04 AM in Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web
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Video On The Web - The Interviews
Three video interviews about Video On The Web Workshop have been published by videolectures.net.
Filed on December 25, 2007 8:21 PM in Opinions & Editorial, Video
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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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Is WCAG 2.0 almost done?!
A Last Call Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 was just published. This means that the WCAG Working Group has integrated all resolutions from previous comments. Yeah! Now the question is whether this draft of WCAG 2.0 is ready for the community to support moving it on towards becoming a Web standard (W3C Recommendation)...
Filed on December 12, 2007 2:52 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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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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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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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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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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Unexpected Kanji Rotation
Recently, my XML editor gave me a surprise. This is how it should display Kanji characters: However, this is how it displayed in the editor's source text: The issue is that in the source text, the Kanji characters are rotated...
Filed on November 20, 2007 1:34 AM in Bugs Life, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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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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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 - 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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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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Web spotting roundup: the WASP lead edition
A weekly roundup of some of the voices of the community that cares about HTML brings in an interesting, if challenging, program for Web developers and designers: read the specs, get involved in making them better, learn the craft, and help teach it to others.
Filed on August 16, 2007 2:14 PM in Opinions & Editorial
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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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Variability in Specifications
One of the documents produced by the QA Working Group addressed the important issue of "variability in specifications" and the consequences this can have for interoperability. I recently addressed this question again in a more light-hearted manner. See this blog...
Filed on May 14, 2007 12:06 PM in Opinions & Editorial
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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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When to standardize, especially an RDF API
The HTML 4.01 specification has an IMG element, but there is no normative dependency on the PNG or GIF or JPEG specifications. "What good is an HTML user agent that doesn't support GIFs?!?" you might ask. And you wouldn't be...
Filed on March 2, 2007 12:47 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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W3C is hiring!
There are 4 positions open right now at W3C. It is rare enough to be noted. You are encouraged to send your resume to the appropriate person (not to me). Women applications are welcome. Web Accessibility Engineer Voice Browser Specialist...
Filed on March 1, 2007 4:20 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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Standard Organizations Have a History
WASP has recently published an article about CSS 10 years anniversay weblog. One of the comments by Chris Hunt illustrates that we have a tendency to forget that organizations and technological developments have an history. Not wanting to rain on...
Filed on January 31, 2007 5:08 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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W3C Charters Now Public During Member Review
I participated in numerous discussions during the last few months of 2006 about how W3C needs to do a better job in its communications. We've taken a positive step this week: W3C has begun to make draft charters public while...
Filed on January 18, 2007 3:12 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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The New Voyagers - Find Information about Web standards
Voyager 1, already the most distant human-made object in the cosmos, reaches 100 astronomical units from the sun on Tuesday, August 15 at 5:13 p.m. Eastern time (2:13 p.m. Pacific time). That means the spacecraft, which launched nearly three decades...
Filed on December 4, 2006 5:37 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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XML, a decade…
Depending on how you count, you might consider that XML is 10 years old. Round years are not necessary meaningful but they are like milestones on a road helping us to look back and to summarize what has been achieved....
Filed on November 17, 2006 2:36 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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Celebrating OWL interoperability and spec quality
In a Standards and Pseudo Standards item in July, Holger Knublauch gripes that SQL interoperability is still tricky after all these years, and UML is still shaking out bugs, while RDF and OWL are really solid. I hope GRDDL and...
Filed on November 11, 2006 4:24 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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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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Transparent Negotiation - the Missing HTTP Feature
I have a story for you. A tale of love and Acceptance. A tale of betrayal. A tale of adventure, of finding riches hidden beneath our feet, spanning the world and its many languages: the story of HTTP and the fabled Transparent Negotiation.
Filed on October 20, 2006 1:01 AM in HTTP, Opinions & Editorial
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Web Architecture and Quality: closing the loop
In the first meeting of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), when we introduced ourselves to each other, I said I wanted to be able to use bookmarks in my bank web site. Over the next three years, we boiled...
Filed on October 11, 2006 6:58 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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The specification food chain
Recent times have seen a number of discussions about W3C, in mailing-lists or weblogs. Good discussions: food for thought and means for actions. Weblogs and their comments feature sound reproaches about W3C Activities and Process, as well as light support....
Filed on September 28, 2006 12:12 PM in Opinions & Editorial, QAIG Life
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Iconfactory Gets Busted by W3C Inspector
Watch out! if your Web site is not clean and standard the W3C QA Boys will come to inspect your Web site. It just happened to Iconfactory (direct link to the movie Day 1). Switch smoothly to Web Standards....
Filed on July 25, 2006 6:26 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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A Peaceful Ear
Jeffrey Zeldman has written a weblog entry An angry fix about Björn Hörmann's message on his reasons for leaving the group doing the development of W3C validators. He made a few points in his message which will be certainly discussed...
Filed on July 19, 2006 7:09 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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"Ciel ! Ma page invalide" or how to be caught!
We are often recommending Web developers to create good Web pages and to follow Web standards. But do we stand by our own criterias of quality? How much do we eat our own dog food? So we ran the Log...
Filed on April 9, 2006 2:47 PM in Opinions & Editorial
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Buy standards compliant Web sites
The topic is far from being new, but it reaches the surface of Web business at regular times. The Web community often struggles between a desire of creating a professional work and the necessity of making a living of one's...
Filed on February 7, 2006 11:19 PM in Opinions & Editorial
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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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