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Failed Commitments?
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By: Karl Dubost
Do you remember? it was just three years ago or so. There were parades and brass bands. Many large Web sites were, at long last, making the switch to Web standards. For example, the Web designer Douglas Bowman was announcing...
- css
- html
W3C Renews Quality Assurance Interest Group
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By: Karl Dubost
W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a...
Markup Validator 0.7.1
New release of the W3C Markup Validator (a.k.a HTML Validator). Introducing performance enhancements and including minor fixes in the user interface and in the "Direct Input" validation results. Read the announcement for details....
CSS Validator updated
The latest update of the W3C CSS Validation Service includes a stable SOAP access and output to the CSS validator, the addition of a profile for the CSS 2.1 specification, and a large number of bug fixes. Read the announcement...
Log Validator 1.0
Release of the W3C Log Validator version 1.0. The Log Validator makes it easy to manage the quality of even large Web Sites,step by step, by finding the most popular documents failing Markup or CSS validation, or withbroken links. Read...
The QA Handbook published as a W3C Working Group Note
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By: Karl Dubost
The QA Handbook, designed to facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups, has been updated and published as a W3C Working Group Note....
QA at W3C continues: future of the QAIG
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By: Karl Dubost
With a number of documents published in the past few days and more to come soon, W3C's QA Activity, and the QA Working group have reached the end of their charter. But W3C's commitment to quality continues! In a message...
Variability in Specifications published as a W3C Working Group Note
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By: Karl Dubost
Variability in Specifications, a companion to the QA Framework: Specification Guidelines, has been updated and published as a W3C Working Group Note. The Note contains advanced specification design considerations and conformance-related techniques. It describes how design of a specification's conformance...
QA Framework: Specification Guidelines is a W3C Recommendation
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By: Karl Dubost
QA Framework: Specification Guidelines, the main document produced by the QA Working Group has been published as a W3C Recommendation on August 17. Publication as a W3C Recommendation is the sign that this document has received the endorsement of W3C...
W3C Markup Validator v0.7.0 released
New release of the W3C Markup Validator (a.k.a HTML Validator). Includes usability enhancements, improved feedback, support for installation on Windows, and better support for both W3C and non-W3C document types....