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28 November 2005: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web community to share their experiences and involvement with QA. Participation is open to W3C Members and the public. (News Archive)
18 October 2005: 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. (News Archive)
16 September 2005: 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 for details. (News Archive)
09 September 2005: 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 with broken links. Read the announcement for details. (News Archive)
06 September 2005: With a number of documents published in the past few days and more to come soon, W3C's QA Activity, and the QA Working group have reached the end of their charter. But W3C's commitment to quality continues! In a message to the QAIG mailing-list, Karl Dubost explains what the future holds for QA at W3C in general, and the QA IG in particular. (News Archive)
06 September 2005: The QA Handbook, designed to facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups, has been updated and published as a W3C Working Group Note. (News Archive)
31 August 2005: Variability in Specifications, a companion to the QA Framework: Specification Guidelines, has been updated and published as a W3C Working Group Note. The Note contains advanced specification design considerations and conformance-related techniques. It describes how design of a specification's conformance model affects implementability and interoperability. (News Archive)
18 August 2005: QA Framework: Specification Guidelines, the main document produced by the QA Working Group has been published as a W3C Recommendation on August 17. Publication as a W3C Recommendation is the sign that this document has received the endorsement of W3C Members and the Director. See also the related press release.
08 August 2005: 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. (News Archive)
29 June 2005: The next version of the W3C Markup Validator is now in Beta Test. Read the announcement for details, and participate in the test by sending feedback before July 26th. (News Archive)
29 June 2005: The QA Working Group has released the QA Framework: Specification Guidelines as a Proposed Recommendation. Proposed Recommendation is the sign that the document is now a mature technical report that, after wide review for technical soundness and implementability, W3C has sent to the W3C Advisory Committee for final endorsement. (News Archive)
29 June 2005: The QA Working Group has published an update of Variability in Specifications, with a clearer structure matching better the existing concepts in the Specification Guidelines. (News Archive)
31 May 2005:
Last week, in a new instance of the WaSP asks W3C
project, the QA Team completed its answer on Adding Multimedia in Web Documents with more details on the use and implementation of the object tag in HTML.
Discussion and debate are welcome on the
public-evangelist mailing list.
11 May 2005: The QA Team has written an article for A List Apart, entitled More About Custom DTDs, explaining when custom DTDs make sense, and when they don't.
11 May 2005: The QA Working Group has released a Test FAQ. The 17 questions it addresses match the different topics the QA Working Group has found particularly important for most Working Groups in W3C and incorporate examples and ideas from various existing testing efforts in W3C.
28 April 2005: The QA Working Group has published an update of two of its documents: QA Framework: Specification Guidelines and Variability in Specifications. The new version of Specification Guidelines includes the resolutions of the comments received during the Last Call period, and is the last version before the Working Group requests Proposed Recommendation status to the W3C Director.
28 April 2005: 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.
26 April 2005: A new technical article on the topic of Ampersands, PHP Sessions and Valid HTML was published by the QAIG, courtesy of David Dorward. The QA Interest Group welcomes such contribution of material, see our Contribution Guidelines for details.
16 February 2005: 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.
16 February 2005: The QA WG and IG will have their face to face meeting in Boston, MA, during the W3C Technical Plenary 2005. If you have been an active participant of the QA IG, you might want to contact the QA IG chairs to be invited. (News archive).
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