Archives for Category: HTTP
Understanding HTTP PUT
HTTP is not very well understood, and most of the time, it is ok. But when it is time to create a Web application, having a solid understanding of HTTP verbs will help you to create a good citizen of the Web. This is my attempt to explain HTTP PUT. Your comments are welcome.
Filed on October 1, 2008 2:20 AM in HTTP, Technology 101
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Caching XML data at install time
The W3C web server is spending most of its time serving DTDs to various bits of XML processing software. While XSLT processors such as xsltproc and Xalan have no technical dependency on the XHTML DTDs, I suspect they're used with XHTML enough that shipping copies of the DTDs along with the XSLT processing software is a win all around.
Filed on September 4, 2008 9:29 PM in HTTP, Web Architecture
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Build Your Own Browser
Little Web bricks help to create new browsers.
Filed on September 2, 2008 6:23 AM in HTML, HTTP, Opinions & Editorial
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Markup Validator Updated
New release for W3C's most popular open source service: fewer bugs, more document types supported, more fun to hack with, and a few other goodies in the mix.
Filed on August 8, 2008 1:11 PM in Bugs Life, HTML, HTTP, Tools
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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.
Filed on June 17, 2008 2:03 AM in HTTP, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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utf-8 Growth On The Web
utf-8 is taking over traditional encodings on the Web.
Filed on May 6, 2008 11:51 PM in HTML, HTTP, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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Proposed Activity for Video on the Web
W3C organized a workshop on Video on the Web in December 2007 in order to share current experiences and examine the technologies (see report) and is now following up with a proposal for a Video on the Web activity.
Filed on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, Video, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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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 on March 10, 2008 4:11 PM in HTML, HTTP
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Setting media type headers on your Web site
On the Web, no one knows you're a dog... unless you are served with the proper HTTP headers. This article looks at the important Content-Type HTTP headers, and how to set them for static or dynamic resources.
Filed on October 4, 2007 1:46 AM in HTTP
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Setting the default style sheet language on your Web site
Very often Web creators are using an external style sheet, or a style element to add style information to their html pages. By doing, we specify what is the style language used in the Web page. For example using the...
Filed on September 27, 2007 6:45 AM in CSS, HTML, HTTP, Technology 101
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Transparent Negotiation - the Missing HTTP Feature
I have a story for you. A tale of love and Acceptance. A tale of betrayal. A tale of adventure, of finding riches hidden beneath our feet, spanning the world and its many languages: the story of HTTP and the fabled Transparent Negotiation.
Filed on October 20, 2006 1:01 AM in HTTP, Opinions & Editorial
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Read-Write Web
HTTP is mostly used in two ways, to read or to send data to a resource, that translates into two HTTP verbs: GET and POST. But those are not the sole ones, and one is used to edit documents: PUT....
Filed on October 12, 2006 1:34 PM in HTTP
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Content Negotiation: why it is useful, and how to make it work
We recently received a puzzled message from a visitor of the W3C Web site, asking how we were serving images without file suffix in their URI. Looking around, our visitor found that http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/logo-REC was not one file, but two: logo-REC.gif...
Filed on February 21, 2006 2:12 AM in HTTP, Technology 101
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