Archives for Category: Technology 101
Learn How To Write HTML 5
HTML 5 is too complex? Wait, wait, there is something coming.
Filed on November 18, 2008 8:12 AM in HTML, Technology 101, Web Spotting
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HTML 5, the markup
People interested only the html 5 content model were not satisfied with the huge html 5 specification. Discover html 5, the markup language.
Filed on November 14, 2008 3:01 AM in HTML, Reference, Technology 101
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With real world implementations WCAG 2.0 steps closer to expected December 2008 publication
Today W3C WAI published WCAG 2.0 as a "W3C Proposed Recommendation". This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been used successfully in real websites. Up next: final publication as a Web standard, which we expect in December!
Filed on November 3, 2008 6:34 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, Technology 101, Video, eGov
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Normative References to Moving Targets are Dangerous
When creating a requirement in a specification should I link to it or should I include it. The answer depends on the context.
Filed on October 20, 2008 2:22 PM in Technology 101, W3C Life
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Understanding HTTP PUT
HTTP is not very well understood, and most of the time, it is ok. But when it is time to create a Web application, having a solid understanding of HTTP verbs will help you to create a good citizen of the Web. This is my attempt to explain HTTP PUT. Your comments are welcome.
Filed on October 1, 2008 2:20 AM in HTTP, Technology 101
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HTML 5 And The Hear-Write Web
Is there a way to improve the HTML ecosystem in a way that creates more adoption of HTML 5? From parsing to serialization to fixing, how do we recover broken Web documents?
Filed on September 26, 2008 6:44 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101, Tools
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Learn about SMIL 3.0 and test it!
SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. It is an XML language which has been designed for creating interactive multimedia presentations, including timing and synchronization. For example, a fade effect from black to a photograph, or starting an animation at the same time than an audio file. What's new?
Filed on September 9, 2008 5:22 AM in SVG, Technology 101, Video
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How To Insert A Video From Youtube
I was struggling for inserting a video in a Web page, I had to change a bit the markup which was proposed to me to make it work in a way that satisfies me.
Filed on September 8, 2008 1:50 AM in HTML, Technology 101, Video
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Powdering logos (again)
Quite a while ago I wrote a short blog on how to use the upcoming POWDER spec. The example was to create RDF triples expressing copyright information on Semantic Web logos. Lot has happened with POWDER since, and most of what I wrote in that blog is now technically outdated:-( So here is the updated example.
Filed on September 5, 2008 8:54 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Technology 101, W3C・QA News
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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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Once Upon A Time, Web Standards Curriculum
Once upon a time, we started the Quality Assurance activity at W3C in 2001, one of the objectives was to find a way to improve the materials for communicating with Web developers. In the QA group, Snorre M. Grimsby (Opera) told me that we might find resources for producing educational materials. The discussion became quiet for a while and restarted in June 2006 with David Storey (Opera). As the same time, some people at WASP started a survey for defining requirements for a Web Standards Curriculum.
Filed on July 10, 2008 5:40 AM in Accessibility, CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101, Tutorials
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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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Improving Interoperability by Short Release Cycle
When a software is shipped, it has bugs. There are many reasons for these bugs. It can be poor in-house development, it can be careless testing, it can be unclear specifications, and many other things. We have to live with these bugs in software. Is there a way out?
Filed on July 7, 2008 12:53 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101
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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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How to add RDF information to a page using RDFa?
The Semantic Web Activity home page has a number of information that might be of interest for the Semantic Web (eg, for data integration). These should be made these available in RDF, too. How to do that without duplicating information? RDFa is your friend…
Filed on May 1, 2008 10:00 AM in Semantic Web, Technology 101, Tutorials
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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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