Archives for Category: Web Design
Schema.org and RDFa 1.1 Lite: how does it look now?
In his latest blog entry on the Schema.org, Dan Brickley announced that Schema.org would also process RDFa 1.1 Lite as an alternative syntax to encode Schema.org terms. As he emphasized: This work opens up new possibilities also for developers...
Filed by Ivan Herman on November 12, 2011 9:12 AM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology, Web Applications, Web Design
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Interview: Filament Group on HTML5 and Design
On 14 October I spoke with Todd Parker (TP), Mat Marquis (MM), and Patty Toland (PT) of the Filament Group about their experience with HTML5 and other Open Web Platform technology in work for the Boston Globe. IJ: Tell me...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on October 27, 2011 8:14 PM in Interviews, Web Design
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Serving XHTML with math: a recipe for Apache
The future version 5 of HTML will allow math in a Web page, but the current version 4 does not. You can use XHTML instead, but not all Web clients understand it. Here is a recipe for the Apache Web server to make it return XHTML as HTML to such clients. That HTML will be invalid, of course, because it contains math, but the non-math parts are still handled. It's not as good a solution as having two versions of a page, but it's cheap.
Filed by Bert Bos on October 19, 2011 10:35 AM in HTML, HTTP, Tutorials, Web Design
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Proposing two new SW Interest Group Task Forces
One of the exciting events of the past few months was the joint announcement of schema.org from three major search engine providers (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft). It was a major step in the recognition that structured data, embedded in Web...
Filed by Ivan Herman on September 20, 2011 3:57 AM in HTML, Semantic Web, Web Applications, Web Design
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How to fold Jeff's table columns with CSS
The 'collapse' keyword in CSS is designed for HTML viewers that interactively expand & collapse table columns. Current browsers don't do that by themselves, but with the help of some other features of CSS you can make browsers collapse columns, too. Here is the story behind the tutorial that explains how.
Filed by Bert Bos on July 21, 2011 4:37 PM in CSS, Tutorials, Web Design
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RDFa 1.1 distiller and validator (beta)
The distiller for RDFa 1.0 has been around for quite some time now, and has been widely used. With the advance of RDFa 1.1, I have made a fairly extensive re-write of the distiller, though, which is now available...
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 31, 2011 5:10 PM in Semantic Web, Tools, Web Design
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Get ready for HTML5 Graphics: Start the new year learning SVG - Early bird rate expiring soon!!
W3C is delighted to announce its latest online training course: Introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) which will start on Jan 10 2011. SVG is getting increasingly important for Web designers given that SVG now directly supported in HTML5 IE...
Filed by Philipp Hoschka on December 31, 2010 6:05 PM in SVG, Technology, Tutorials, Web Design
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New and Improved WCAG 2.0 Techniques
Today W3C WAI published updated Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and Understanding WCAG 2.0, following a public review and comment period. The WCAG Working Group is developing more techniques and would like your help...
Filed by Shawn Henry on October 14, 2010 1:14 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Web Design
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Introducing the Web Font Awards
Introducing the Web Font Awards – a design competition for websites using Web fonts. Help celebrate the newfound typographic freedom that Web designers are enjoying by entering your site into the Web Font Awards.
Filed by Vladimir Levantovsky on October 4, 2010 7:56 PM in CSS, Technology, Web Design
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SVG Training at W3C (early bird ends Friday 1st October)
The early bird period for the new W3C online training course Introduction to SVG ends this Friday, 1st October.
Filed by Phil Archer on September 27, 2010 8:41 PM in SVG, Tutorials, Web Design
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W3C Unicorn Launch off to good start
On July 27th, 2010 we made the first official release on Unicorn. We are elated with the response from the community. Within two days after the announcement we received 7 additional translations. There are already a couple new checkers in...
Filed by Ted Guild on July 30, 2010 5:15 PM in CSS, HTML, Tools, Web Design
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W3C Model-Based UI Workshop Report
The report from the W3C Workshop on Future Standards for Model-Based User Interfaces is now available. The workshop took place in central Rome on 13-14 May 2010, and focused on ideas for making it easier to create Web applications that...
Filed by Dave Raggett on June 30, 2010 2:34 PM in Technology, Web Design, Workshops
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