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This weblog has been created for information and discussions between W3C and the Web community at large, as an informal companion to the news items on the W3C homepage 01 Dec 2009. Announcements, issues on Web standards and educational materials among other topics will be published on this weblog.

Individual blog entries, posted by W3C Staff or Working-Group participants, generally do not represent the consensus of the W3C, but express individual opinions of the respective author.

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This page used to be the home page for the Quality Assurance activity at W3C, and has since been broadened in scope and audience to become the W3C Blog.

W3C continues to strive for quality, through testing and a quality process (see the QA Matrix 25 Nov 2009), Quality Tools 08 Dec 2008 and documents 08 Dec 2008.

Archives of the life of the Quality Assurance are still available: visit the home page of the QAIG 17 Nov 2008, the former QAWG 17 Nov 2008 or its calendar 15 Mar 2006.

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Latest News / Articles

Default Prefix Declaration 29 Nov 2009

In this posting, my intention is to provide a concise statement of an idea which is neither particularly new nor particularly mine, but which needs a place that can be referenced in the context of the current debate about distributed extensibility and HTML5. It's a very simple proposal to provide an out-of-band, defaultable, document-scoped means to declare namespace prefix bindings.

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W3C community bridges unicorns and werewolves #tpac09 29 Nov 2009

The theme photo for W3C presentations at the TPAC09 showed the Natural Bridges state beach of Santa Cruz, California. We met in Santa Clara (not far from Santa Cruz) 2-6 November in order to bridge various communities and bring...

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W3C Cheatsheet for developers 23 Nov 2009

Yesterday, as part of the W3C Technical Plenary day, I got the opportunity to introduce a new tool that I had been working on over the past few weeks, the W3C Cheatsheet for Web developers. This cheatsheet aims at providing...

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W3C Developer Gathering Next Week; Registration Closes Today 19 Nov 2009

Next week's W3C Developer Gathering will bring together some great speakers: Leslie Daigle (ISOC) on Internet Ecosystem Health Mark Davis (Unicode Consortium) on controversies around international domain names Brendan Eich (Mozilla) on "ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript" Fantasai...

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W3C Site Bugs! 12 Nov 2009

We've received a number of helpful bug reports about the new site. I thought I should list a few here so that we can refer to them. We are working to have these particularly tricky ones fixed as quickly as...

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