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CSS Validator Translation - Polish and Chinese translators wanted!

The last time we gave news about the W3C CSS validator on this space was already over a year ago, for the "fuji release". No news since then? That doesn't mean there has been no progress. Far from it, actually:...

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Filed by olivier Théreaux on January 29, 2008 2:22 AM in CSS, Tools
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link test suite

Building a web spider or link checker isn't as simple as the number of existing instances seem to show. Lots of things to check, from the many html attributes to the intricacies of HTTP's Content-Location. In order to see a little more clearly in all this, here comes the mini "Link Test Suite".

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Filed by olivier Théreaux on January 28, 2008 2:54 AM in Tools
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IE8 versioning snowstorm

keeping track on what is being said about IE8 and opt-in versioning mechanism.

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Filed by Karl Dubost on January 22, 2008 7:58 PM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial
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www.w3.org/TR/html5

It's been a long time coming. Either 10 months (if you count back to when the current W3C HTML Working Group was chartered) or 10 years (if you consider when the HTML 4.0 Recommendation was published. Or maybe just 4...

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Filed by Michael[tm] Smith on January 22, 2008 3:10 PM in HTML
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IE8 and opt-in versioning mechanism

Microsoft proposes an opt-in versioning mechanism for IE8 for Web developers using the meta element of HTML.

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Filed by Karl Dubost on January 22, 2008 1:43 AM in HTML
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SVG On Acid?

SVG has had a huge surge of popularity in the past few years... so we thought ACID3 would be a great chance for a push for SVG interoperability. The SVG Working Group... devised a few tests that we hope will be included in ACID3.

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Filed by Doug Schepers on January 21, 2008 1:21 AM in SVG
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Simple things make firm foundations

You can look at the development of web technology in many ways, but one way is as a major software project. In software projects, the independence of specs, has always been really important, I have felt. A classic example is...

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Filed by Tim Berners-Lee on January 18, 2008 3:39 PM in HTML, Web Architecture
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Are You MobileOk?

Another one to go. The biggest mobile industry event is taking place in less than a month. Huge really -- maybe too big, for my own taste. I miss the time when it was held in Cannes: it was easier...

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Filed by Marie-Claire Forgue on January 18, 2008 11:09 AM in Mobile
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HTML 5, one vocabulary, two serializations

It seems not very clear for many people. So let's set the record straight. HTML 5 can be written in html and XML.

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Filed by Karl Dubost on January 15, 2008 9:03 PM in HTML, Technology 101, Tutorials, XML
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W3C Mail Search Engine gets an update

New year, new server and new features for W3C's Mail search service. Enjoy.

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Filed by olivier Théreaux on January 7, 2008 1:34 AM in Tools
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Open data, you and me

Semantic Web Data portability and open data are hot topics these months. The multiplication of social network sites has increased the aggregation of these data in silos. The Semantic Web activity encourages to open your data with a new series of cute logo. Geographical data such as the Open Street Map initiative, government budget such as USA are the trend. But when it comes to our personal data, we need more granularity.

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Filed by Karl Dubost on January 7, 2008 1:04 AM in Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web
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RDFa and HTML imagemap

RDFa is a way to enrich your Web pages with local data. The clear benefit is that your data are in context and then easier to manage. Yesterday, on the RDFa mailing list, Dan Brickley asked how we could use RDFa to extract the information of an HTML imagemap.

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Filed by Karl Dubost on January 6, 2008 8:57 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology 101
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Michael and a tiny XML Schema test suite

Michael has created a blog. He's telling us about the fun of testing and shares this tiny XML Schema test suite.

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Filed by Karl Dubost on January 3, 2008 8:58 PM in W3C・Resources, XML
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