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Make your Data Web Friendly
What does it mean to make your data Web friendly. A very simple introduction and a few links to explore and understand RDFa, a technology to easily create hyperlinked data.
Filed on August 27, 2008 4:04 AM in Semantic Web, Technology 101, Tools
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HTML 5, a new step
HTML 5 conformance checking has been integrated into the beta W3C Markup Validator.
Filed on August 26, 2008 11:41 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Tools
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Markup Validator Updated
New release for W3C's most popular open source service: fewer bugs, more document types supported, more fun to hack with, and a few other goodies in the mix.
Filed on August 8, 2008 1:11 PM in Bugs Life, HTML, HTTP, Tools
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Proposed W3C Test Suite Licenses; Feedback Welcome
Several W3C Working Group participants have requested that W3C change its software license to make it easier for developers to re-use test cases in software development, bugtracking, and other scenarios. We have created a proposal for new licenses: a 3-clause...
Filed on July 18, 2008 5:18 PM in Tools, W3C Life
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RSS 1.0 and RDFa
How do you express a feed using RDFa in a plain XHTML page? A proposal…
Filed on July 15, 2008 3:32 AM in Semantic Web, Tools
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The How-To for html 5 parsing
You have read a lot about the html 5 specification. You heard that there were hidden dragons and acid rains. But what about looking by yourself practically how html 5 parsing is working? There are already some tools to play with html 5.
Filed on July 7, 2008 2:35 AM in HTML, Technology 101, Tools
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Update of the RDFa distiller
Published of a new version of the pyRdfa software (i.e., RDFa distiller) with new features, most notably the ability to parse “tag soup” HTML and/or HTML5.
Filed on June 23, 2008 10:44 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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Optimizing your Web server
Simple few techniques and tools to set up your HTTP caching will help you save time and money.
Filed on June 17, 2008 2:03 AM in HTTP, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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LogValidator 1.3.1 has been released
LogValidator is a perl open source tool which performs step-by-step log analysis and quality checking for web sites.
Filed on June 10, 2008 2:20 AM in Tools
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Open Standards Interoperability
Achieving interoperability is a tedious work. There is a lot of issues. Let's explore some of them and find solutions.
Filed on May 20, 2008 10:58 PM in Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101, Tools
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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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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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alt attributes authoring practices
There has been a lot of discussions around alt attributes on HTML WG mailing list. It's always difficult to move forward in such discussions because it seems to be easy when in fact it is rather complicated.
Filed on April 30, 2008 2:47 AM in Accessibility, HTML, Tools
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Unescape HTML Entities in Python
I'm not a real programmer, but here a piece of python code to unescape html entities in an XHTML file and convert them to utf-8.
Filed on April 8, 2008 2:21 AM in Bugs Life, Tools, XML
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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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CSS Validator gets an update
More than 50 bugs closed, a polished User Interface, and some useful core changes: the CSS validator got a great update, but did it have to take a year? Let's look at what is slowing down, and where you can help, too.
Filed on March 18, 2008 3:18 PM in Bugs Life, CSS, Tools
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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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CSS Validator Translation - Polish and Chinese translators wanted!
The last time we gave news about the W3C CSS validator on this space was already over a year ago, for the "fuji release". No news since then? That doesn't mean there has been no progress. Far from it, actually:...
Filed on January 29, 2008 2:22 AM in CSS, Tools
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link test suite
Building a web spider or link checker isn't as simple as the number of existing instances seem to show. Lots of things to check, from the many html attributes to the intricacies of HTTP's Content-Location. In order to see a little more clearly in all this, here comes the mini "Link Test Suite".
Filed on January 28, 2008 2:54 AM in Tools
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W3C Mail Search Engine gets an update
New year, new server and new features for W3C's Mail search service. Enjoy.
Filed on January 7, 2008 1:34 AM in Tools
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Testing your browser while being lazy
I have to admit something, sometimes I'm a bum. It's why I like tools which makes my life easier. I had written in the past that RDF is for the lazy person. I like also the LogValidator because it helps...
Filed on December 17, 2007 9:24 PM in CSS, SVG, Tools
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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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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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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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Nothing is perfect (and that is why we have QA)
Brian Kelly, of UK Web Focus, gives his thoughts about bugs in validators, in an article entitled Validators Don’t Always Work. I was very impressed with the speed with which this problem was addressed and a solution deployed. [...] I...
Filed on February 8, 2007 9:09 AM in Tools
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The Fuji CSS Validator release
Seasonal gift: a new version of the CSS validator just in time for the 10 years anniversary of CSS.
Filed on December 18, 2006 8:21 AM in Tools
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Kind of Blue
Validation icons. Now in Blue.
Filed on November 15, 2006 2:31 AM in Tools
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Playing with the new Validator API
A new release of the W3C Markup Validator is usually a good news for Web Designers: it means bug fixes, better documentation, more document types supported, and little usability improvements to make life of HTML coders easier. The latest version of the validator, released this week, is also good news for developers, giving us a new toy to play with, and build upon: a public API.
Filed on October 26, 2006 11:12 AM in Tools
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Unicorn Sighting (public preview)
A clear, simple, concise and complete assessment of the quality of a web page. Being able to get results of validation of HTML, checking of the style sheets, finding broken links, and more, much more, without having to visit ten different pages and services. That would be a rare sight, but it's not a fantasy. We give you: The unicorn (public preview)
Filed on September 7, 2006 5:51 AM in Tools
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Meet the Unicorn
Why should we have to use ten different tools to check the quality of a single web page? We think there should be a tool to gather observations made on a single document by various validators and quality checkers, and summarize all of that neatly for the user. Do you think we are dreaming? Meet our unicorn.
Filed on July 5, 2006 7:53 AM in Tools
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Markup Validator 0.7.1
New release of the W3C Markup Validator (a.k.a HTML Validator). Introducing performance enhancements and including minor fixes in the user interface and in the "Direct Input" validation results. Read the announcement for details....
Filed on October 18, 2005 12:22 AM in Tools
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CSS Validator updated
The latest update of the W3C CSS Validation Service includes a stable SOAP access and output to the CSS validator, the addition of a profile for the CSS 2.1 specification, and a large number of bug fixes. Read the announcement...
Filed on September 16, 2005 12:36 AM in Tools
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Log Validator 1.0
Release of the W3C Log Validator version 1.0. The Log Validator makes it easy to manage the quality of even large Web Sites,step by step, by finding the most popular documents failing Markup or CSS validation, or withbroken links. Read...
Filed on September 9, 2005 12:38 AM in Tools
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W3C Markup Validator v0.7.0 released
New release of the W3C Markup Validator (a.k.a HTML Validator). Includes usability enhancements, improved feedback, support for installation on Windows, and better support for both W3C and non-W3C document types....
Filed on August 8, 2005 12:49 AM in Tools
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Link Checker update (version 4.2)
W3C's free Link Checker was updated with a new bug fix release which includes accessibility improvements for the tool's Web interface. Use the link checking service online or check the release announcement for download information....
Filed on April 28, 2005 1:03 AM in Tools
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CSS Validator available in Spanish
W3C's open source CSS Validator is now available in Spanish language, thanks to the translation work of the W3C Spanish office. The CSS Validator is also available in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian....
Filed on February 16, 2005 1:08 AM in CSS, Tools
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