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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-06-21 - 2011-06-28
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. I like the fact that Anne Van Kesteren has a different overview than mine. His last report. HTML5 is still in Last Call. Conversations Proposals WebKit Team has been experimenting...
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 29, 2011 9:00 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Beta Testing Community and Business Groups
In April I wrote about W3C Community Groups and Business Groups, two new programs designed to make it easy for developers, users, and other stakeholders to discuss and develop Web technology. Since then we have been generating interest in new...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on June 28, 2011 7:47 PM in W3C・Resources
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What's in the pipe for Web and TV?
HTML5 goes some way to bringing media to the Web but additional requirements need to be addressed for use in commercial video provider services. The Media Pipeline Task Force is to clarify these requirements and propose extensions to HTML media elements.
Filed by François Daoust on June 23, 2011 5:59 PM in Video, Web and TV
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Do Not Track: The Regulators' Challenge.
The fine people at the UC Berkeley law school have pulled together an amazing two-day workshop about Web Tracking in Brussels. The conversation kicked off today with European Commissioner Neelie Kroes talking about privacy, self-regulation and do not track,...
Filed by Thomas Roessler on June 22, 2011 4:36 PM in Privacy
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Tracking Protection and Do Not Track at W3C
We see broad support for specification work on both Tracking Protection Lists and Do Not Track. Furthermore, there is widespread interest in also working towards consensus on the definition of tracking: what is it that a user setting "Do Not Track" asks for, and how do sites comply with such a request? What are the next steps at W3C?
Filed by Nick Doty on June 22, 2011 9:02 AM in Privacy
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-05-17 - 2011-06-20
Let's restart the Openweb platform weekly summary. It has been almost one month since the last time. HTML5 is in Last Call and there were a lot of discussions on many mailing lists.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 21, 2011 8:08 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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CSS wiki-based documentation
Back in April, I introduced the "wiki-based documentation project". At that time, it only contained the HTML documentation. I'm glad to now report that the CSS documentation is now completed. CSS Educational Materials for Beginners I have organized a curriculum...
Filed by Hiroki Yamada on June 16, 2011 9:40 PM in CSS, Open Web, Tutorials
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Privacy Dashboard now hosted as W3C open source project
The Privacy Dashboard is a Firefox add-on designed to help you understand what personal information is being collected by websites, and to provide you with a means to control this on a per website basis. It was developed with funding...
Filed by Dave Raggett on June 8, 2011 2:04 PM in Privacy
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Workshop Tackles the Hard Problem of Identity in the Browser
Today's approaches for managing trusted identities online, social networking, security, and privacy are uneven and at times incompatible. Tackling this market fragmentation, the W3C organized the Identity in the Browser workshop on 24-25 May in Mountain View (California, USA).
Filed by Harry Halpin on June 7, 2011 3:18 PM in Workshops
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