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Towards better Web professionals
Good news come in twos: Within the span of a mere few weeks we have seen the opening of Opera's Web Standards Curriculum, and, announced today, the creation by the Web Standards Project of its WaSP Curriculum Framework as a follow-up to the publication of their education survey result. It's a good time to be a student in Web technologies…
Filed by olivier Théreaux on July 31, 2008 3:18 PM in Opinions and Editorial, Reference, Technology, Tutorials, Web Spotting
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Pleasure of Reading Tech Blog Posts
Tech blog posts offer sometimes gems for reading. Here a selection of articles, I have been reading, by Robert O'Callahan, John Resig, and Michael Sperberg-McQueen.
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 24, 2008 7:55 AM in CSS, HTML, Opinions and Editorial, SVG, Semantic Web
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Interview: Roberto Scano on IWA/HWG and Promoting Web Standards
As part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about their support for standards and participation in W3C, I asked Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG Advisory Committee Representative at W3C) some questions. Q. Would you mind introducing...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on July 22, 2008 3:06 PM in Interviews
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Proposed W3C Test Suite Licenses; Feedback Welcome
Several W3C Working Group participants have requested that W3C change its software license to make it easier for developers to re-use test cases in software development, bugtracking, and other scenarios. We have created a proposal for new licenses: a 3-clause...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on July 18, 2008 5:18 PM in Tools, W3C Life
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Dear W3C…
What is the best place to talk to the W3C? With many mailing-lists, blogs or wikis, groups in the organization have more than a couple of ears on. Yet sometimes one stumbles upon the best feedback or ideas on other random blogs or sites. And there comes the dilemma: centralize and simplify feedback, or spend more time scouting for faraway ideas?
Filed by olivier Théreaux on July 16, 2008 10:41 PM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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RSS 1.0 and RDFa
How do you express a feed using RDFa in a plain XHTML page? A proposal…
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 15, 2008 3:32 AM in Semantic Web, Tools
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Interview: Charles McCathieNevile on Opera 9.5 and W3C Standards
In June 2008, Opera Software released version 9.5 of its browser. As part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about their support for standards and participation in W3C, I asked Charles McCathieNevile (Opera's Advisory...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on July 10, 2008 11:50 AM in Interviews
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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 by Karl Dubost on July 10, 2008 5:40 AM in Accessibility, CSS, HTML, Opinions and Editorial, Technology 101, Tutorials
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Getting closer to a standard for client-side cross-site requests
Good news today from Sunava Dutta of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team in regard to the W3C Access Control for Cross-Site Requests specification: Sunava writes that, as early as IE8 Beta 2, IE8 will ship the updated section of Access Control...
Filed by Michael[tm] Smith on July 10, 2008 1:09 AM in HTML
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life without MIME type sniffing?
In a recent item on IE8 Security, Eric Lawrence, Security Program Manager for Internet Explorer, introduced a work-around to the security risks associated with content-type sniffing: an authoritative=true parameter on the Content-Type header in HTTP. This re-started discussion of...
Filed by Dan Connolly on July 7, 2008 5:19 PM in Bugs Life, HTML, Web Architecture
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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 by Karl Dubost 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 by Karl Dubost on July 7, 2008 12:53 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Opinions and Editorial, Technology 101
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Video in the Web
The W3C Members are now invited to formally review a proposal for a W3C Activity on Video in the Web. Feel free to pitch in as well.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on July 3, 2008 12:53 PM in Video
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