Archives for Category: W3C Life
Proposed Permissive Copyright Experiment in HTML Working Group
The W3C Director proposed to the W3C Membership a >draft revision to the HTML Working Group charter.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on May 1, 2013 8:22 PM in Open Web, W3C Life
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Summer hacking with W3C #GSoC2013
W3C is pleased to announce that we've been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2013. We work on standards and we have always known that code is king, which is why W3C worked for...
Filed by Alexandre Bertails on April 11, 2013 7:52 PM in Open Web, W3C Life
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mobiLead: a French startup joining W3C
We welcome mobiLead, a French startup that recently joined W3C as a Member. Based on its commitment to promoting open standards and its expertise in Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC), Near Field Communications (NFC) and in the Internet of...
Filed by Bernard Gidon on April 10, 2013 7:08 AM in W3C Life
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I was Master of the Web... and you can be too!
It's this time again: the W3C is searching for its new Webmaster. So I thought I would share my experience as a former Webmaster. Let's start with some history, as the Webmaster position is an old one here at...
Filed by Alexandre Bertails on February 26, 2013 1:41 PM in W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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W3C Host in China
We just announced the establishment of a fourth Host location for W3C, at Beihang University in Beijing. The Host locations house the W3C Team that facilitates the creation of standards for the Web. The W3C Team acts as a single...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on January 20, 2013 9:00 PM in CEO, W3C Life
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HTML5 — Smile, it's a Snapshot!
Today, the HTML WG is publishing a set of new documents including Candidate Recommendations for HTML and Canvas, first drafts for HTML 5.1 and Canvas Level 2, and our first extension specification, the main Element. I thought that would...
Filed by Robin Berjon on December 17, 2012 4:53 PM in Testing, W3C Life, Web Applications
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Chinese Developers endeavor to get more involved in the community - Test The Web Forward hackathon in China
W3C China Office and Adobe co-organized the Test The Web Forward event on Oct 20-21, 2012 in Beijing. The intention of this hackathon was to help more Chinese developers to get involved in contributing to the web platform. Three W3C...
Filed by Angel Li on November 9, 2012 3:58 AM in Open Web, Testing, W3C Life
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TPAC2012 Storified: "See, sketch and fun"
[View the story "TPAC2012: \"See, sketch and fun\"" on Storify]...
Filed by Coralie Mercier on November 5, 2012 9:27 AM in Meetings, Open Web, W3C Life
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Celebrating World Standards Day
Sunday, 14 October is World Standards Day. This is the day when many people celebrate the work of those who strive to level the playing field, and their efforts to create a world with better tools for simplifying and enhancing...
Filed by Daniel Dardailler on October 12, 2012 12:15 PM in Open Web, W3C Life
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The Flowing Standard
Looking at it in terms of rebounds, plot twists, nurtured healing and abandonment, love and betrayal, strife, toil, stunning victories, dispersions and last minute rallies the only thing that distinguishes HTML's history from a charts-topping teenage fantasy saga seems...
Filed by Robin Berjon on September 4, 2012 3:35 PM in HTML, W3C Life
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Community and Business Groups: The First Year
Almost one year ago, we launched Community and Business Groups. We wanted to make it easier for people to bring their ideas to W3C. And they have. In May of this year we issued a press release as participation rose...
Filed by Coralie Mercier on August 1, 2012 1:52 PM in Open Web, W3C Life
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W3C and Internet Governance
I'd like to take the opportunity of my (but not W3C!) leaving a "board seat" on the UN/IGF MAG after 5 years of service to make a short report on our presence in this forum, and introduce our new W3C...
Filed by Daniel Dardailler on June 7, 2012 11:29 AM in W3C Life
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W3C Incubator Activity, a post-mortem
Launched in 2006, we're closing the W3C Incubator Activity in 2012. Six years of operation, nearly 30 groups, a third of which became W3C Working Groups. Good bye Incubator Activity, hello W3C Community and Business Groups.
Filed by Coralie Mercier on April 19, 2012 8:21 AM in Tools, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-03-26 - 2012-04-01
The [Open Web Platform][openweb] [weekly][weekly] ### HTML5 #### `translate` attribute - no more conflicts Adam Barth [noted](http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-March/035173.html) that there was a conflict between the HTML5 [`translate` attribute](http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/global-attributes.html#the-translate-attribute) and some pages on Orange Web site. An Orange implementer chimed in to...
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 10, 2012 9:10 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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First European Members to join the new W3C Startup Program: Joshfire, Data2Type, Temesis, SC IQ Tech Labs.
After introducing the new W3C startup program in February, I am very pleased to welcome our first Startup Members: Joshfire in France; Data2Type in Germany; Temesis in France. SC IQ Tech Labs in Romania. These four first Startup members demonstrate...
Filed by Bernard Gidon on April 2, 2012 10:09 AM in W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-03-19 - 2012-03-25
This openweb weekly is about HTTP, Canvas, Modal dialogs, Web apps notification, Shadow DOM and pre-rendering pages.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 27, 2012 7:58 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-03-12 - 2012-03-18
The Open Web Platform weekly summary with HTML, ARIA, ITS, Webapps, DOM and Canvas.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 26, 2012 9:31 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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W3C Day in Spain: HTML5 and Government Linked Data
Every year, since 2006, the W3C Spain Office organizes W3C Day in Spain, an event on Web standards for the Spanish community. The 2012 edition, held in Granada, Andalusia, gathered together over 200 people for a couple of days. W3C Members are the protagonists of the event. All of them are invited to share their professional experiences, challenges, and thoughts taking part either in panels or giving talks. As in previous years, the event served as a forum to discuss common topics regarding standards, and Web technologies in general. The Open Web Platform was the cornerstone of the conference, complemented with a recurrent and interesting subject: Open Government Data, which is in the limelight at all levels of the Spanish public administration.
Filed by Martin Alvarez-Espinar on March 23, 2012 8:25 AM in Conference, Meetings, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-02-06 - 2012-03-11
A long overdue [Open Web Platform][openweb] [weekly][weekly] summary, check also Anne's [blog post](http://blog.whatwg.org/httpaes-url-scheme) about http+aes and control Referer as well as the [new API canvas features](http://blog.whatwg.org/weekly-canvas-goodies). ### HTML5 There is a [joint meeting](http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Mar/0220) in the Silicon Valley (California) on May...
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 12, 2012 7:51 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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W3C in Russia
Back from Russia! After 2 days in Moscow with snow and low temperature I am back in France. During this trip, we have officially launched our W3C office in Russia, with a Press event at Ria Novosti, thanks for their...
Filed by Bernard Gidon on February 18, 2012 4:15 PM in Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-01-30 - 2012-02-05
Time for your Open Web Platform weekly summary dose. A bit of HTML5, a bit of Web apps, a pinch of Web Architecture and HTTP and everything tied with a Web Education ribbon.
Filed by Karl Dubost on February 6, 2012 11:06 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-01-23 - 2012-01-29
There is a proposal for rechartering HTTP WG to start work on HTTP 2.0. The main discussions are happening on the webapps mailing list when the HTML WG is trying to finalize the few remaining open issues.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 30, 2012 10:34 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-01-16 - 2012-01-22
A release mostly about Web apps.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 22, 2012 10:18 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-12-12 - 2012-01-15
I’m just back from 3 weeks off. I’m restarting the Open Web Platform weekly summary with an incomplete summary of what happened in the last few weeks, but mostly things that caught my eyes. The next weeks editions will be hopefully better.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 16, 2012 5:11 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-12-05 - 2011-12-11
The Open Web Platform weekly summary is about love for the open Web, about the work we do together, about the hours we spent every day to create a better Web. I can work in this domain, because others gave an open environment for working. Let’s keep it open.
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 12, 2011 11:32 PM in HTML, HTTP, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-29 - 2011-12-04
The Open Web Platform weekly summary is about HTML5 oldies, shadows and intents, and protocols.
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 5, 2011 7:42 PM in HTML, HTTP, Open Web, W3C Life, Web Applications
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Ben Schwarz joins CSSWG
The better part of a year ago I decided to [make a bookmarklet](http://germanforblack.com/articles/moving-towards-readable-w3c-specs) that improved the display of W3C specifications. To my surprise and delight people took notice, including some of my heros. Fast forward 8 months, I released "[HTML5...
Filed by Ben Schwarz on November 30, 2011 12:52 PM in CSS, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-21 - 2011-11-28
This week, one of the main discussions has been around developing (or not) a support for XPath in find and findAll methods. The Open Web Platform weekly summary is also mentioning Web architecture, Web Apps WG hosting new work.
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 28, 2011 3:18 AM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-14 - 2011-11-20
This week, the Open Web Platform weekly summary is about HTML5 Tidy (yes it is back!), A few things about web apps such as storage mechanisms, and a few discussions about DOM properties. CSS has been discussing a few things including the issue of vendor extensions. And more bite sized information. Enjoy!
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 22, 2011 8:05 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-07 - 2011-11-13
This week, the Open Web Platform weekly summary is about hgroup and time elements, lang attribute. There are discussions on starting work on Web Intents and how to create a simpler DOM for documents fragments. Plenty of other things. Enjoy.
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 15, 2011 2:15 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-10-31 - 2011-11-06
Last week, there was the annual W3C TPAC. The HTML Working Group met (day 1, day 2) and many other groups for discussing general issues. I introduced the Open Web Platform weekly summary and asked feedback on how to improve...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2011 9:36 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-08-30 - 2011-09-11
In my tracking of the Open Web Platform for writing the weekly summary, I decided to be a bit more careful on what is happening on the HTML WG bug tracker. A lot of the discussion is happening there too. The biggest issue being the number of useless comments or spam.
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 12, 2011 8:22 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Monthly Summary - 2011-07-29 - 2011-08-29
I have decided to change a bit the style of weekly summary of the Open Web Platform. Instead of just going through the list of mails, I will try to focus on more specific things and give more context...
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 30, 2011 8:17 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-07-13 - 2011-07-28
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. A lot of discussion about HTTP. The IETF has been meeting recently in Canada. Anne Van Kesteren covers what I have not in his report.
HTML5 is still in Last Call but the last call is finishing on August 3, 2011
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 29, 2011 7:44 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-07-06 - 2011-07-12
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. The big discussions from last week have continued this week. Mutation and Canvas accessibility. Anne Van Kesteren covers what I have not in his report.
HTML5 is still in Last Call.
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 14, 2011 8:46 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-06-29 - 2011-07-05
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. There was a few giant threads, be prepared to mutate any opinions about these events. Read also Anne van Kesteren's report. HTML5 is still in Last Call. Conversations Proposals Maciej...
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 6, 2011 8:16 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-06-21 - 2011-06-28
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. I like the fact that Anne Van Kesteren has a different overview than mine. His last report. HTML5 is still in Last Call. Conversations Proposals WebKit Team has been experimenting...
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 29, 2011 9:00 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-05-17 - 2011-06-20
Let's restart the Openweb platform weekly summary. It has been almost one month since the last time. HTML5 is in Last Call and there were a lot of discussions on many mailing lists.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 21, 2011 8:08 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-05-09 - 2011-05-16
The HTML WG is about to reach a very important step of the current W3C Process: Last Call. For a W3C Technology, it is the moment where the WG members think, they have solve any major issues. The document is considered mature and stable enough. Last Call is here to give another chance for all participants to review a stable version of the specification. All comments will be formally recorded and answered.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 16, 2011 8:22 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-04-25 - 2011-05-08
I have been busy the last two weeks with traveling for conferences and workshop. I skipped the last weekly summary of the Open Web Platform. Let’s get that right on track and give information for the last two weeks about HTML5 and broader topics such as Web apps discussions and HTTP. The May 22 deadline for entering Last Call is approaching quickly. In two weeks, a new challenging phase of the work is starting. As a reminder we do not exit a recommendation phase but always entering the next one.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 8, 2011 7:51 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-04-18 - 2011-04-24
This was quite a quiet week for the 8th edition at the exception of the CSS Working Group which I could not follow properly. Feel free to chime in the comments to add information about CSS or other groups.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 24, 2011 9:27 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-04-11 - 2011-04-17
For this 7th edition, the HTML WG had discussions about accessibility related to images and tables with a few formal objections. The Last Call of HTML5 is approaching at a fast pace. There are active discussions about FileAPI and IndexedDB, which are fundamental bricks to enable Web applications in the browser. In the meantime, the HTTP Working Group has published a new series of drafts.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 17, 2011 8:17 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Coming Soon: W3C Community Groups and Business Groups
This May, W3C plans to launch two new programs designed to make it easy for developers, users, and other stakeholders to discuss and develop Web technology. The first we call Community Groups. A Community Group is an open forum for...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on April 12, 2011 9:19 PM in W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-04-04 - 2011-04-10
Shelley Powers, like me, published a late weekly. We are totally in synchronization in covering the Open Web Platform weekly news from HTML5 and broader topics. That said it was again quite active not only on the HTML WG mailing list but also on the Web apps WG mailing list. W3C is opening more ways to contribute and the CSS 2.1 is officially reaching Proposed Recommendation. Read and tell me if anything is missing.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 10, 2011 8:49 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-03-28 - 2011-04-03
When we start writing and or read about the activities around the Open Web Platform, we realize that the Web has never been that active. Everyone is proposing, developping, testing. And even if this weekly news from HTML5 and broader topics seemed to be long, it doesn’t cover everything. It is also important to realize that if you are passionate about one of these topics, the full information is accessible and open. Quite exciting. Some of these topics could be the source of long technical blog posts. If you do, please leave a comment or let me know.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 3, 2011 8:43 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life, Web and TV
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-03-21 - 2011-03-27
As Shelley Powers mentioned this week was quite quiet, but there were a couple of decisions. A few new drafts and proposals and an interesting discussions about Web applications caching systems. The debate around longdesc attribute is far to be finished.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 27, 2011 8:28 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-03-14 - 2011-03-20
This was a big week in terms of decisions. I recommend to read carefully the decision made by the HTML Working Group. They are always very detailed and give a very good overview about the issues. They also propose a way to reopen the issue with meaningful materials. There have been many proposals and there are two workshops. W3C Workshops are opened to anyone.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 20, 2011 9:52 PM in HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-03-07 - 2011-03-13
This is the second edition of our weekly summary about the Open Web Platform. The intent is to give an overview of the discussions, proposals, decisions which have happened during the last week around HTML5 and sometimes more broadly the Open Web Platform. This weekly summary covers events in multiple W3C groups, and some outside events as well. Feel free to chime in the comments and add information or ask for more details.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 13, 2011 9:26 PM in Open Web, W3C Life
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Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-02-28 - 2011-03-06
We are starting this week a weekly summary about the Open Web Platform. The intent is to give an overview of the discussions, proposals, decisions which have happened during the last week around the Open Web Platform with a focus on HTML5. This weekly summary covers events in multiple W3C groups, and some outside events as well. Feel free to chime in the comments and add information or ask for more details. This is an experiment; please send feedback to Karl Dubost or here in the comments.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 7, 2011 10:34 PM in CSS, HTML, Open Web, W3C Life
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100 Specifications for the Open Web Platform and Counting
W3C's release of the HTML5 logo has prompted a lot of discussion about the state of standardization of the open web platform. W3C is standardizing more than 100 specifications in at least 13 W3C Working Groups that one could consider part of the platform.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on January 28, 2011 3:28 PM in W3C Life, Web Applications
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Progress in Lyon - TPAC 2010
W3C met in Lyon, France 1-5 November for an annual W3C gathering we call "TPAC" (for Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee, pronounced "T-pack"). This was my first TPAC. Based on what I saw and what I heard it was a...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on November 29, 2010 7:54 PM in CEO, Meetings, W3C Life
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W3C Technical Plenary: To HTML5 and beyond!
Next week is the annual W3C technical plenary, aka TPAC 2010. It brings together participants in the W3C Community for an energetic week of coordinated work and discussion. Some sessions during the middle of the week are relevant to the HTML platform and its future.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on October 29, 2010 5:04 PM in HTML, W3C Life, Web and TV
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One Web Day and W3C Community Groups
Happy One Web Day from Web standards land! One of the themes for One Web Day 2010 is "the internet model" which "relies on processes and products that are local, bottom-up, and accessible to users around the world." I'm...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on September 22, 2010 5:03 PM in W3C Life
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Making W3C the Place for New Standards - The Survey!
Before taking a short vacation starting last week I announced a public survey: Making W3C the place for new Web standards. The survey is part of the work of the task force I'm chairing that has a number of goals:...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on July 7, 2010 6:34 PM in W3C Life
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Make Your Presentations Accessible to All
Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? You could be doing a similar thing to your audience — leaving some people out.... Read on to learn how to make presentations, talks, meetings, and training accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others...
Filed by Shawn Henry on June 15, 2010 3:45 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Reference, Technology 101, Tools, W3C Life
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Thanks for a great 15 years at W3C
After 15 years working with all of you all around the world on Web technologies and standards, I'm taking a position as a Biomedical Informatics Software Engineer in the department of biostatistics at the University of Kansas Medical center. The...
Filed by Dan Connolly on June 2, 2010 7:04 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, W3C Life, Web Architecture
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Working Group Publication Requests and Approval
In response to some questions about W3C process from the past few days, a brief FAQ is being published regarding the Working Group publication requests and approval.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on February 16, 2010 5:04 PM in Publications, W3C Life
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W3C Chairs angels
Some of you are familiar with the W3C Chairs angels, three home-made bots living in IRC, that are truly essential to the W3C Working Groups conducting their work on the phone: Trackbot, the toolbox, is the bot for creating and...
Filed by Coralie Mercier on February 8, 2010 3:52 PM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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W3C community bridges unicorns and werewolves #tpac09
The theme photo for W3C presentations at the TPAC09 showed the Natural Bridges state beach of Santa Cruz, California. We met in Santa Clara (not far from Santa Cruz) 2-6 November in order to bridge various communities and bring...
Filed by Coralie Mercier on November 13, 2009 5:41 PM in Meetings, Social Networking, W3C Life, Web Spotting
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W3C Site Bugs!
We've received a number of helpful bug reports about the new site. I thought I should list a few here so that we can refer to them. We are working to have these particularly tricky ones fixed as quickly as...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on October 15, 2009 1:48 PM in Bugs Life, W3C Life
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W3C Site Launch
Today we launched the new W3C. We've been working on it for a while, so I'm happy that it is seeing the light of day. Comments are flowing in, some touching on issues we identified when we announced the beta...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on October 13, 2009 11:38 PM in Bugs Life, W3C Life
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Let's Make Every Day One Web Day!
Today is One Web Day! Since 1994 W3C has sought to ensure the Web is available to all people, from anywhere, on any device. Today I'd like to invite people to help build One Web by: Learning about the Web...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on September 22, 2009 3:08 PM in Accessibility, Internationalization, Open Web, W3C Life
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First Ever Developer Gathering during W3C Technical Plenary Week
Each year about 300 people who participate in various W3C groups meet face-to-face to exchange ideas, resolve technology issues, and socialize. We call this the W3C Technical Plenary (TPAC) Week, and it's my favorite set of W3C meetings. I enjoy...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on September 21, 2009 2:01 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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W3C is micro-blogging
This is a quick note to announce that we're joining the µ-blogging community! We can be followed on identi.ca/w3c, as well as twitter.com/w3c....
Filed by Coralie Mercier on May 12, 2009 11:57 AM in W3C Life
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SemTech 2009 conference program public
The program of the 2009 Semantic Technologies conference is now public. Just as last year, it promises to be a busy and interesting week! The conference is on Semantic Technologies in general, but a large percentage (majority?) of the papers...
Filed by Ivan Herman on April 7, 2009 9:26 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, W3C Life
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beta.w3.org
Today we made public our beta of the redesigned W3C Web site. I am sure we will learn a lot now that it is live. Last night, as I was thinking about what to highlight in this post, I concluded...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on March 20, 2009 4:54 PM in Bugs Life, W3C Life
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Validator Donation Program: day 2
What's this new Validator Donation Program? Why a donation campaign? What would W3C do with that money? And isn't w3c really, really rich already anyway?
Filed by olivier Théreaux on December 12, 2008 7:42 PM in CSS, HTML, Opinions and Editorial, Tools, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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A personal reflection on the WCAG 2.0 publication
Today W3C WAI published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This is a momentous occasion. Another post links to the official announcements. Here is another perspective, my personal perspective...
Filed by Shawn Henry on December 11, 2008 3:11 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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From Iran, with love
Season greetings are slightly in advance! And what a lovely surprise! I received a big envelope from Iran, containing 66 letters printed on glossy paper for each of the people of W3C. The letter bears a message of acknowledgment...
Filed by Coralie Mercier on December 10, 2008 8:46 PM in W3C Life
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Joys and challenges of organizing TPAC2008
I invite you to read about TPAC2008, the event that was organized twice. I invite you to read about the main challenges faced by the meeting planner(s). I will also share the joys it brings.
Filed by Coralie Mercier on November 19, 2008 12:33 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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W3C Open Web Standards
Last week in Tokyo, there was the wonderful Web Directions East 2008. It was yet another opportunity to hear and discuss how people feel about W3C open Web standards. Two patterns often arise in these discussions: implementation first and specification first. Both lead to reproaches. What is the role of W3C?
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 10, 2008 2:32 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Meet W3C Staff version 2008
Who is the W3C Staff? A big picture…
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 5, 2008 12:52 AM in W3C Life
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W3C TPAC 2008 - Listen, Read, Discuss
Not in Mandelieu for the W3C TPAC? You can still listen to the plenary day presentations, and even discuss with others on the IRC channel.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on October 22, 2008 7:26 AM in Meetings, W3C Life
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Normative References to Moving Targets are Dangerous
When creating a requirement in a specification should I link to it or should I include it. The answer depends on the context.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 20, 2008 2:22 PM in Technology 101, W3C Life
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W3C Chairs T-Shirt
This year the chairs have a t-shirt. Discover the story behind this.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 20, 2008 12:21 PM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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The network at W3C TPAC 2008
Vivien gave us technical details about tpac wifi.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 19, 2008 1:05 PM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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W3C TPAC 2008 - starting
The big social event of W3C is starting. Join the fun locally or remotely.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 19, 2008 11:40 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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The Slideshow Must Go On
These are a few hints on how to create a slideshow for a conference. Web conferences busy bees are often in need of illustrations for their slides. There are solutions to easily spice up your technology talk.
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 25, 2008 1:23 AM in Opinions and Editorial, Tutorials, W3C Life
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ParisWeb 2008 - registration is open
ParisWeb 2008 registration is open. This is a unique opportunity to meet active participants of the W3C communities.
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 18, 2008 4:49 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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World Wide Web Foundation Launched
Last week, I was busy with the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation, but I will resume to my normal schedule on Q&A blog.
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 16, 2008 3:33 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Web Directions East 2008
Web Directions is in Tokyo for the first time on November 7-9, 2008.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 19, 2008 6:05 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Proposed W3C Test Suite Licenses; Feedback Welcome
Several W3C Working Group participants have requested that W3C change its software license to make it easier for developers to re-use test cases in software development, bugtracking, and other scenarios. We have created a proposal for new licenses: a 3-clause...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on July 18, 2008 5:18 PM in Tools, W3C Life
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Dear W3C…
What is the best place to talk to the W3C? With many mailing-lists, blogs or wikis, groups in the organization have more than a couple of ears on. Yet sometimes one stumbles upon the best feedback or ideas on other random blogs or sites. And there comes the dilemma: centralize and simplify feedback, or spend more time scouting for faraway ideas?
Filed by olivier Théreaux on July 16, 2008 10:41 PM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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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...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on June 27, 2008 8:08 PM in Opinions and 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.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 27, 2008 7:27 AM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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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.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 23, 2008 3:00 AM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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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...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on June 17, 2008 4:11 PM in Bugs Life, W3C Life
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W3C, Process and Perception
W3C Process is often misunderstood. Arnaud Le Hors shared his impressions about it.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 1, 2008 12:59 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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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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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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XML 10 has been launched
W3C has launched a very mini site for XML tenth anniversary. Already ten years of XML.
Filed by Karl Dubost on February 12, 2008 9:56 PM in W3C Life, XML
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Get Involved!
The Web exists because people wanted to connect to each others and share. They got involved. The first Web site was a kind of blog written by Tim Berners-Lee. People were experimenting, implementing, writing manual and tutorials. Tim was announcing the new servers that you could count each month on your fingers. You too can be part of it.
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 20, 2007 10:47 PM in Opinions and Editorial, Tutorials, W3C Life, Web Spotting
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On considering the role of W3C Members in Working Group decisions
On 29 November 2007, Dan Connolly, co-Chair of the HTML Working Group pointed me to an IRC log of discussion about HTML 5 which prompted this question: is it acceptable to take into consideration the role of each W3C member...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on December 14, 2007 11:12 AM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Yet Another Design in W3C Team
Working at W3C is an interesting experience. The Team is usually composed of 60 to 70 persons, with the possibility to edit mostly all parts of the Web site which is under cvs (thank you for giving the possibility of...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 30, 2007 3:00 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Video On the Web - the articles!
You might remember that the W3C is organizing a workshop about [Video On the Web](http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/) in the Silicon Valley at San Jose (12-13 December 2007). The Workshop will be simultaneously displayed in Brussels allowing remote participation from Europe. When W3C...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 29, 2007 7:44 PM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Blue Beany Day - Web standards!
Today is Blue Beany Day. A good opportunity to be goofy with an excuse ;) >Monday, November 26, 2007 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 26, 2007 8:20 PM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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W3C on Freenode
Just realized that some of you might not know, but some people of W3C hang out on #w3c channel on [IRC ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC) freenode server. I will be there too, not 24/7, but as much as possible. You are welcome....
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 21, 2007 1:14 AM in W3C Life
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Three Buckets of Thoughts
Kevin Lawer has written a great blog post Web Standards' Three Buckets of Pain explaining cultural differences between communities. Opening up the W3C Justin Thorp commented (emphasis is mine): Karl, I'm really excited by your efforts with opening the W3C....
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 21, 2007 12:50 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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Links Feast about Technical Plenary 2007
It was an amazing long week for the W3C community. Meetings, talks, corridors discussions, shared meals over brackets and parsers, many new projects started and some communities started to have a better understanding of each other. Some people [posted](http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tpac2007/) their...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 18, 2007 6:35 PM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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W3C "Minority Report" Workshop aka Multimodal
Today, at [SFC Keio](http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/) University, a [workshop](http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/agenda.html) on Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is starting. [MMI Architecture](http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/) is a loosely coupled, event-based architecture for integrating multiple modalities into applications. A bit hard to understand, I bet. Let's start with a hollywood...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 15, 2007 8:11 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - HTML Working Group had informal jamming session!
It was intended to be a fun session for the HTML Working Group face to face meeting, but the word spread out and suddenly many people joined us at the room. The jam started and suddenly Tim Berners-Lee joined Dan Connolly, Steven Pemberton, Ian Jacobs, Janet Daly and others on the lyrics...
Filed by Mauro Nunez on November 9, 2007 12:19 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - HTML Working Group holds first face-to-face meeting
The time has come for the much anticipated HTML Working Group face to face meeting, at the W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week in Cambridge, MA (USA).
Filed by Mauro Nunez on November 8, 2007 3:11 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - Cracks and Mortar
[Tim Berners-Lee](http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/) is taking the [floor](http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1107-tpac-tbl/): "The world is a mess of **interconnected** communities and it is why it is working." * Content-Type: is a way to define the content available at a specific URI. It gives flexibility for evolution....
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 6:14 PM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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TPAC 2007 - Making Video a First-Class Citizen of the Web
After an entertaining and though-provoking session of lightning talks featuring (among others) fonts on the Web, efficient XML interchange and a dog in a plane cockpit, we return to the panel format for a discussion on "Making Video a First-Class...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 7, 2007 5:17 PM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - URI-Based Extensibility: Benefits, Deviations, Lessons-Learned
The Technical plenary day is continuing. Someone in a comment earlier asked what TPAC was. TPAC means Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting. All W3C Working groups and representatives of W3C are meeting. This year we open a bit more...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 3:26 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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TPAC 2007 - Openness of W3C Working Groups
The participants of the W3C tech plenary are back from their lunch overlooking the gorgeous Charles river, to tackle the question of "openness". This is a development from a topic already raised today: a lot of people's lives and living...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 7, 2007 1:30 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - HTML 5, XHTML 2.0, Future Formats
The title, just by reading it, reminds me of long discussions for the past 6 months as the (interim) HTML WG staff contact. [HTML 5](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/) and [XHTML 2.0](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/) ; Many fights, many misunderstandings often due to deaf dialogs. Let's hope...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 11:24 AM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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TPAC 2007 - "Real World Perspectives on the W3C" panel
What better way to kick in this TPAC meeting than with a panel tackling the perception of W3C in the "real Web world"? What happens when you ask a small group of developers, designers, experts of making the Web work...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 7, 2007 9:36 AM in Meetings, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - Let's start
The mics are being tested in the room. People are slowing joining the room. There will be more than 300 persons participating today to the [Technical Plenary Day](http://www.w3.org/2007/11/TPAC/). It is quite exciting. One of the strong emphasis of the day...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 9:10 AM in Meetings, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・Resources
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I hear you: get a blog
A few months ago I took the 2007 Web Design Survey from A List Apart. I see 33,000 other Web professionals did, too. It's very exciting to see such enthusiasm among the designers. Indeed, almost 80% of the people who...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on October 22, 2007 12:14 PM in CSS, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Semantic Web is a lot of fun
W3C released new Semantic Web logos, with a rather restrictive policy. The Web community let us know about it in the best possible way: humor and parody. W3C smiles and listens.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 22, 2007 1:08 AM in Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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Paris Web 2007 - The French Web Connection
Paris Web 2007, the French Web conference, is happening in November 2007. Exciting. Cool. Take a look.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 18, 2007 11:30 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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HTML WG in Cambridge, USA - 8-10 November 2007
Come and meet the HTML WG in Cambridge, Mass, USA, in November 2007.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 9, 2007 3:00 PM in HTML, Meetings, W3C Life
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TPAC 2007 - W3C meets the Web community
Many W3C Working Groups are meeting from Monday 5 to Saturday 10 November 2007. It is a unique opportunity for the individual participating in these groups to coordinate, socialize, know each others better. Among the attendees will be engineers and...
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 2, 2007 4:50 PM in Meetings, W3C Life
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Video on the Web
W3C will be looking at the impact and challenges of video on the Web in the upcoming months and will have a workshop on Video on the Web. So, if you have a strong opinion about what should happen at that workshop (or what shouldn't), don't hesitate to contact us.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on September 18, 2007 6:16 PM in Opinions and Editorial, Technology, Video, W3C Life
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Tokyo hosts SVG Open 2007
Next week in Tokyo, the SVG community is having a cool and scalable conference: SVG Open 2007. You may have heard of SVG, a syntax to create cool vector graphics for your Web pages. SVG is being implemented in Safari...
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 31, 2007 7:23 AM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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How to to contribute to W3C work? Tutorials
We started a series about how you can contribute to W3C work. Last time, we have seen how to create and propose your own quick tips. This week, we will go a step further by looking at tutorials. Specifications...
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 13, 2007 7:30 AM in Tutorials, W3C Life
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How to to contribute to W3C work? Quick Tips
During the lunch break at the HTML in email workshop in Paris, a Web designer told me it was too expensive to participate to W3C work. This is a common myth about W3C. There are many ways to participate...
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 28, 2007 7:59 AM in W3C Life
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