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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...

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Filed on June 27, 2008 8:08 PM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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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.

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Filed on June 27, 2008 7:27 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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Shipbuilding (or, cruel to be kind)

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...

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Filed on June 26, 2008 4:18 AM in HTML
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Documenting the Web vs. reinventing it

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...

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Filed on June 26, 2008 12:23 AM in HTML
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Old School Netiquette… still good!

Netiquette is a good read, but unfortunately, not very well-known by new generations of engineers.

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Filed on June 24, 2008 1:52 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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Update of the RDFa distiller

Published of a new version of the pyRdfa software (i.e., RDFa distiller) with new features, most notably the ability to parse “tag soup” HTML and/or HTML5.

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Filed on June 23, 2008 10:44 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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How to contribute to W3C work… with a PhD

A few months ago, I was explaining how you can participate to W3C work in a different way: writing tutorials, writing quick tips. I found out last week a new and original way to participate to W3C work.

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Filed on June 23, 2008 3:00 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life
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Interview: David Baron on Firefox 3 and W3C Standards

At the news of the official release of Firefox 3 (FF3), I asked David Baron, Mozilla's Advisory Committee Representative at W3C (see photo), a few questions about the browser release and support for standards. Note: I anticipate interviewing (lots...

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Filed on June 20, 2008 7:29 PM in CSS, HTML, Interviews, SVG, Security
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Lithuania is first

With the release of Firefox 3, it appears that 30% of Internet users in Lithuania already downloaded the software within 48 hours.

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Filed on June 20, 2008 2:15 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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About the Love - w3.org Redesign

I mentioned last October that W3C is redesigning key pages of its site, including the home page. Love in the air, Karl Dubost waxed the other day. I am managing this project and have enlisted Airbag Industries to design the...

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Filed on June 17, 2008 4:11 PM in
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Optimizing your Web server

Simple few techniques and tools to set up your HTTP caching will help you save time and money.

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Filed on June 17, 2008 2:03 AM in HTTP, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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love is in the air

Love is in the Air at W3C…

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Filed on June 13, 2008 7:57 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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HTML 5 Publications

Four documents have been recently published for HTML 5 by the HTML Working Group.

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Filed on June 11, 2008 1:51 AM in HTML, Publications
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Standards Fun

Marcos and Anne started Standards Suck, a site talking about Web standards.

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Filed on June 10, 2008 7:47 AM in Opinions & Editorial
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LogValidator 1.3.1 has been released

LogValidator is a perl open source tool which performs step-by-step log analysis and quality checking for web sites.

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Filed on June 10, 2008 2:20 AM in Tools
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