Archives for Category: W3C・QA News
RDFa and SVG Tiny (and the RDFa distiller)
W3C has just published the SVG Tiny 1.2 recommendation. Others are much more experts than me to describe the changes in the core functionality compared to the 1.1 version, so I let them do that. However, there is an interesting...
Filed on December 23, 2008 9:16 AM in SVG, Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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Small update of the RDFa distiller sofware
I have made a small update on the pyRdfa Python package that drives the RDFa distiller. The main differences between this version and the previous are: via a private communication Dan Brickley made me think on the following: what is...
Filed on December 19, 2008 1:05 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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Amaya Also for RDFa
Irène Vatton has just announced the availability of the latest Amaya version, namely Amaya 11. (For those who may not know what Amaya is, it is an open source (X)HTML browser and editor in one.) The interesting point in this...
Filed on December 17, 2008 1:36 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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Validator Donation Program: day 2
What's this new Validator Donation Program? Why a donation campaign? What would W3C do with that money? And isn't w3c really, really rich already anyway?
Filed on December 12, 2008 7:42 PM in CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Tools, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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A personal reflection on the WCAG 2.0 publication
Today W3C WAI published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This is a momentous occasion. Another post links to the official announcements. Here is another perspective, my personal perspective...
Filed on December 11, 2008 3:11 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized
WCAG 2.0 was published today as a final Web Standard "W3C Recommendation". Check out the official announcement, e-mail, press release, testimonials, and a personal reflection on WCAG. Here are some additional perspectives on a few points...
Filed on December 11, 2008 2:49 PM in Accessibility, Mobile, Publications, Technology, W3C・QA News
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Semantic Web Applications
It so happens that, in a short time, several entries appeared in the blogosphere on Semantic Web applications. David Provost published a report, Richard MacManus published a blog in ReadWriteWeb or, in the last issue of Talis’ Nodalities, Ian Davis...
Filed on October 2, 2008 9:24 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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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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Is your (mobile) browser ready for the Web?
To help establish better interoperability among browsers, especially on mobile devices, the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has created a test combining twelve Web technologies, allowing to visualize at a glance how ready your browser is for the Web.
Filed on April 16, 2008 6:58 AM in W3C・QA News
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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.
Filed on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, Video, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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Michael and a tiny XML Schema test suite
Michael has created a blog. He's telling us about the fun of testing and shares this tiny XML Schema test suite.
Filed on January 3, 2008 8:58 PM in W3C・QA News, XML
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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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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 - 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 - 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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