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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...
- content-type
- error-handling
- html
- html5
- mime
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.
- dom
- html
- html5
- rdfa
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?
- bug
- html
- html5
- interoperability
- qa
- quality
Video in the Web
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By: Philippe le Hegaret
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.
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