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Yet Another Design in W3C Team
Working at W3C is an interesting experience. The Team is usually composed of 60 to 70 persons, with the possibility to edit mostly all parts of the Web site which is under cvs (thank you for giving the possibility of...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 30, 2007 3:00 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Video On the Web - the articles!
You might remember that the W3C is organizing a workshop about Video On the Web in the Silicon Valley at San Jose (12-13 December 2007). The Workshop will be simultaneously displayed in Brussels allowing remote participation from Europe. When W3C...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 29, 2007 7:44 PM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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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 by Karl Dubost on November 26, 2007 8:20 PM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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W3C on Freenode
Just realized that some of you might not know, but some people of W3C hang out on #w3c channel on IRC freenode server. I will be there too, not 24/7, but as much as possible. You are welcome....
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 21, 2007 1:14 AM in W3C Life
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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 by Karl Dubost on November 21, 2007 12:50 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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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 by Felix Sasaki on November 20, 2007 1:34 AM in Bugs Life, Opinions and Editorial, Tools
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Links Feast about Technical Plenary 2007
It was an amazing long week for the W3C community. Meetings, talks, corridors discussions, shared meals over brackets and parsers, many new projects started and some communities started to have a better understanding of each other. Some people posted their...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 18, 2007 6:35 PM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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W3C "Minority Report" Workshop aka Multimodal
Today, at SFC Keio University, a workshop on Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is starting. MMI Architecture is a loosely coupled, event-based architecture for integrating multiple modalities into applications. A bit hard to understand, I bet. Let's start with a hollywood...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 15, 2007 8:11 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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What comes after Web 2.0? TV Raman says: 2^W
TPAC talk molly's item wish for mathml in HTML...
Filed by Dan Connolly on November 15, 2007 12:53 PM in Web Architecture
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A story about namespaces, MIME types, and URIs
Noone seems to know where the story begins; Ian Jacobs reminded me about magic namespaces as I enjoyed breakfast on Thursday; Steven Pemberton and Bert Bos had told it to him, perhaps prompted by Ian Hickson's question in the URI-based...
Filed by Dan Connolly on November 13, 2007 2:59 AM in Web Architecture
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TPAC 2007 - HTML Working Group had informal jamming session!
It was intended to be a fun session for the HTML Working Group face to face meeting, but the word spread out and suddenly many people joined us at the room. The jam started and suddenly Tim Berners-Lee joined Dan Connolly, Steven Pemberton, Ian Jacobs, Janet Daly and others on the lyrics...
Filed by Mauro Nunez on November 9, 2007 12:19 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - HTML Working Group holds first face-to-face meeting
The time has come for the much anticipated HTML Working Group face to face meeting, at the W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week in Cambridge, MA (USA).
Filed by Mauro Nunez on November 8, 2007 3:11 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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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 by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 6:14 PM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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TPAC 2007 - Making Video a First-Class Citizen of the Web
After an entertaining and though-provoking session of lightning talks featuring (among others) fonts on the Web, efficient XML interchange and a dog in a plane cockpit, we return to the panel format for a discussion on "Making Video a First-Class...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 7, 2007 5:17 PM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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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 by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 3:26 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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TPAC 2007 - Openness of W3C Working Groups
The participants of the W3C tech plenary are back from their lunch overlooking the gorgeous Charles river, to tackle the question of "openness". This is a development from a topic already raised today: a lot of people's lives and living...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 7, 2007 1:30 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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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 by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 11:24 AM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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TPAC 2007 - "Real World Perspectives on the W3C" panel
What better way to kick in this TPAC meeting than with a panel tackling the perception of W3C in the "real Web world"? What happens when you ask a small group of developers, designers, experts of making the Web work...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 7, 2007 9:36 AM in Meetings, W3C Life
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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 by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 9:10 AM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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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 by Ian Jacobs on November 2, 2007 6:31 PM in HTML, Technology 101, Tools
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