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Pre-Obsolete Design
Creating a specification is a challenge and a compromise. Far to be perfect it is an attempt at establishing stability for a little while. The difficulty is often how long?
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 25, 2008 2:23 AM in CSS, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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World Map and Statistics Challenge
Showing statistics on an SVG world map is recurrent. I would love to have a program to do that.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 24, 2008 5:17 AM in SVG, Tools, W3C Life
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W3C Team Planet... or Galaxy
The W3C staff (or W3C Team) are the people employed by the W3C organization. I'm one of them. Some of us have blogs for quite a long time, personal or professional, or both. The question of creating a public aggregation...
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 24, 2008 2:29 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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If you had to fix the Web...
"If you had to fix the Web... what would you do?"
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 24, 2008 2:22 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Get a CSS Drive
Get a CSS Drive with your favorite geek song.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 21, 2008 9:12 AM in CSS, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Many ways to access W3C mailing-lists
W3C may be about Web technologies, but a lot of its discussions happen... by e-mail. With more than 600,000 public mails archived to date, how can we manage the information overload? And how can that influence our online behaviour?
Filed by olivier Théreaux on March 18, 2008 4:10 PM in W3C Life, Web Spotting, XML
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CSS Validator gets an update
More than 50 bugs closed, a polished User Interface, and some useful core changes: the CSS validator got a great update, but did it have to take a year? Let's look at what is slowing down, and where you can help, too.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on March 18, 2008 3:18 PM in Bugs Life, CSS, Tools
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Telephone Game about the Semantic Web
I'm no Mark Twain, but reports of Google's demise are greatly exaggerated. Today Tim Berners-Lee pointed me to this headline in the Times Online: "Google could be superseded, says web inventor." This, in turn, has morphed into more ominous restatements...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on March 13, 2008 7:30 PM in Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web
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HTML WG members working together
Web standards are made by people. They interact, discuss, debate. They find issues, argue about them and finally try to settle down on what should be done. In the end, eventually it would be specified properly in a W3C Working Draft and then implemented in an interoperable way. It takes time and energy. I give here an example of a recent discussion between members of the HTML WG.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 13, 2008 1:12 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Opinions and Editorial
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W3C reaches its 1000th translation!
As W3C gets ready for its upcoming Advisory Committee Meeting in Beijing, we have reached another important milestone as an International Consortium. We have received the 1000th volunteer translation of a W3C document!
Filed by Mauro Nunez on March 12, 2008 7:25 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Browser wars, HTML test jam, and CSS awards at SXSW Interactive in Austin
When he opened the panel today to a packed room, Arun admitted that the "browser wars" title was a little sensationalist; mostly Brendan Eich, Chris Wilson, and Charles McCathieNevile are on the same side, trying to make the Web better...
Filed by Dan Connolly on March 10, 2008 10:06 PM in CSS, HTML
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Character encoding in HTML
In this first issue in the cookbook for the web series, we look at character encoding, or "charset"s. Discussing the ingredients, giving a reliable recipe for the detection of character encodings in (x)html, and a quick tip for web authors on an html diet.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on March 10, 2008 4:11 PM in HTML, HTTP
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Templating Language for Authoring Tools
Structure editing of Web pages is not a simple task. XTiger is a language for authoring Web content including rich information such as microformats and RDFa. Try it.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 10, 2008 7:06 AM in HTML, Tools, Tutorials
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