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Musing with Element Traversal
The new Element Traversal specification is out and here is a way to enjoy it today.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on December 23, 2008 9:24 PM in Tools
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Social networks at W3C: foreseeing a 2009 success story!
The W3C social networks workshop is already a blast and it hasn't happened yet! We received a record number (72) of interesting position papers from a wide range of key players. Have a look at the impressive list (papers and...
Filed by Marie-Claire Forgue on December 23, 2008 4:10 PM in Accessibility, Mobile, Workshops
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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 by Ivan Herman on December 23, 2008 9:16 AM in SVG, Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・Resources
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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 by Ivan Herman on December 19, 2008 1:05 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・Resources
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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 by Ivan Herman on December 17, 2008 1:36 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・Resources
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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 by olivier Théreaux on December 12, 2008 7:42 PM in CSS, HTML, Opinions and Editorial, Tools, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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A Few Predictions for 2009
Last week I asked my colleagues on the W3C staff to predict Web trends in 2009. I compiled (with some editing) a few of the predictions I received. Naturally, these informal utterances are not endorsements and do not represent W3C...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on December 12, 2008 7:28 PM in Mobile, Semantic Web, eGov
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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 by Shawn Henry on December 11, 2008 3:11 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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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 by Shawn Henry on December 11, 2008 2:49 PM in Accessibility, Mobile, Publications, Technology, W3C・Resources
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From Iran, with love
Season greetings are slightly in advance! And what a lovely surprise! I received a big envelope from Iran, containing 66 letters printed on glossy paper for each of the people of W3C. The letter bears a message of acknowledgment...
Filed by Coralie Mercier on December 10, 2008 8:46 PM in W3C Life
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XML and language resources
Language resources are needed by many people and tools: language teachers use computers to store example sentences, present grammars patterns, help learners to find mistakes etc. machine translation tools use word classes, grammar and other information, or large sets...
Filed by Felix Sasaki on December 5, 2008 7:53 AM in Technology, XML
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How to evaluate Web Applications security designs?
I could use some help getting my head around security for Web Applications and mashups. The first time someone told me W3C should be working on specs help the browser prevent sensitive data from leaking out of enterprises, I...
Filed by Dan Connolly on December 3, 2008 5:00 PM in HTML, Web Architecture
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