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What's in the pipe for Web and TV?
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By: Ada Rose Cannon
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.
- adaptive-streaming
- tv
- video
Do Not Track: The Regulators' Challenge.
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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,...
Tracking Protection and Do Not Track at W3C
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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?
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.
- api
- dom
- html
- html5
- open-web
- w3c
- webapps
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...
- css
- education
- html
- open-web
- tutorial
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...
- web-privacy
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).
- browser
- identity
- workshop
RDFa 1.1 distiller and validator (beta)
The distiller for RDFa 1.0 has been around for quite some time now, and has been widely used. With the advance of RDFa 1.1, I have made a fairly extensive re-write of the distiller, though, which is now available...
- html
- rdf
- rdfa
- semantic-web