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What Benevolent Dictator?
From time to time I hear people refer to Tim Berners-Lee as a "benevolent dictator." In most cases they utter the phrase through a smile, but I find the phrase distasteful. It is also inaccurate. The W3C process has evolved...
- architecture
- consensus
- process
The War of the Worlds
Some people are amazing, they are creators. They make complex things, beautiful and simple. They make the world a place of exploration and discovering.
- html
- html5
- javascript
- microformat
- rdfa
- semantic-web
Shipbuilding (or, cruel to be kind)
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By: Michael[tm] Smith
When groups of implementors and others (working groups in standards bodies and what have you, or groups of implementors and others with shared interest in a certain set of technologies) gather together publicly for focused technical discussion on a particular...
- html
Documenting the Web vs. reinventing it
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By: Michael[tm] Smith
Ian Hickson, the editor of the current HTML5 draft, posted an Error handling in URIs message to the uri@w3.org mailing list outlining some issues related to browser error handling behaviour for URIs, and to IRIs and character encodings other than...
- html
Old School Netiquette… still good!
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By: Karl Dubost
Netiquette is a good read, but unfortunately, not very well-known by new generations of engineers.
- community
- netiquette
- w3c
- working-group
Update of the RDFa distiller
Published of a new version of the pyRdfa software (i.e., RDFa distiller) with new features, most notably the ability to parse “tag soup” HTML and/or HTML5.
- rdf
- rdfa
How to contribute to W3C work… with a PhD
A few months ago, I was explaining how you can participate to W3C work in a different way: writing tutorials, writing quick tips. I found out last week a new and original way to participate to W3C work.
- editing
- html
- process
- specification
- w3c
