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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 by Felix Sasaki 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 by Carine Bournez on October 25, 2007 6:36 AM in Technology, Technology 101
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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 by Ian Jacobs on October 22, 2007 12:14 PM in CSS, Opinions and 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 by Karl Dubost on October 22, 2007 1:08 AM in Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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Paris Web 2007 - The French Web Connection
Paris Web 2007, the French Web conference, is happening in November 2007. Exciting. Cool. Take a look.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 18, 2007 11:30 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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The impact of Javascript and XMLHttpRequest on web architecture
This issue was raised briefly on the TAG telcon of 11 October 2007, but I think we dismissed it too quickly.The basic WebArch story about URIs, resources and representations makes sense to people because they can see the relationship between...
Filed by Henry S. Thompson on October 18, 2007 11:26 AM in Web Architecture
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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 by olivier Théreaux on October 11, 2007 3:45 AM in HTML, Tools
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Shorttags - the odd side of HTML 4.01
Validation can be a very useful way to detect typos in markup... unless the typos disguise as shorttags, one of the little known features of HTML, valid but misunderstood by most browsers. Fortunately, there is hope, whether one prefers to author XHTML and never worry about shorttags, or stick to HTML.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on October 9, 2007 4:42 PM in Bugs Life, HTML
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HTML WG in Cambridge, USA - 8-10 November 2007
Come and meet the HTML WG in Cambridge, Mass, USA, in November 2007.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 9, 2007 3:00 PM in HTML, Meetings, W3C Life
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Setting media type headers on your Web site
On the Web, no one knows you're a dog... unless you are served with the proper HTTP headers. This article looks at the important Content-Type HTTP headers, and how to set them for static or dynamic resources.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on October 4, 2007 1:46 AM in HTTP
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TPAC 2007 - W3C meets the Web community
Many W3C Working Groups are meeting from Monday 5 to Saturday 10 November 2007. It is a unique opportunity for the individual participating in these groups to coordinate, socialize, know each others better. Among the attendees will be engineers and...
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 2, 2007 4:50 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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