Archives for: December 2009
2009-12-21
Minutes of December 7 teleconference published
The MW4D IG held its 30th teleconference on December 7 2009.
The approved minutes are available at http://www.w3.org/2009/12/07-mw4d-minutes.html
Previous meeting minutes are available from the teleconference archives
2009-12-17
Two new Candidate Recommendations
Two CSS modules became Candidate Recommendation: CSS Backgrounds and Borders and CSS Multi-column Layout.
It is now time to see if the specifications can be implemented. Large parts of both modules have already been implemented experimentally in various browsers and other software. Over the next six months, the working group plans to develop a test suite and then use the results of testing to decide if the specifications are ready to become W3C Recommendations.
Feedback on the specifications, in particular experience with implementing them, can be sent to the mailing list <www-style@w3.org>. Please, include the short name of the specification between square brackets [] in the subject of any message you send. That is:
[css3-multicol]
or
[css3-background]
2009-12-15
Selectors is a Proposed Recommendation
Many thanks to all who helped with comments, tests, and implementations! The Selectors specification was just advanced to Proposed Recommendation by the W3C Director. That means that the specification has successfully passed public review and has been sufficiently implemented to no longer need a status as Candidate Recommendation (which is also known as “call for implementations”).
Currently, the W3C members are reviewing the specification one last time. Of course, we think we have done our job well and they won't find anything wrong. They have a little over a month for that task.
However, the specification will not immediately become a W3C Recommendation at the end of the review period. That is because Selectors has normative references in its bibliography to CSS 2.1 and to the CSS Namespaces module, and so it was decided that those have to become Recommendations first. That ensures that W3C Recommendations are as stable as possible, by only depending on other Recommendations.
A bit of history: Selectors became Candidate Recommendation already in 2001, but a couple of proposed features (':contains', '::selection') were never implemented and turned out to be difficult enough that we abandoned them for now. To fix the draft with respect to those problems, a new working draft was made in 2005, which was updated one last time earlier this year.
You can see the last changes we made to the specification in the disposition of comments. Nothing major changed, but a number of descriptions were improved.
The CSS Validator supports Selectors level 3
The CSS Validator implements the latest Selectors. To check a style sheet, it is enough to choose “CSS level 3” as the profile in the Web interface.
WWW2010 Workshop: The Future of the Web for Collaborative Science
New translations into Romanian
Thanks to the Sorin Velescu, the following articles have been translated into Romanian.
Schimbarea codificarii paginii (X)HTML in UTF-8 (Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8)
CSS3 si textul international (CSS3 and International Text)
[search keys: qa-changing-encoding article-css3-text]
2009-12-11
New translations into Spanish
Thanks to the Spanish Translation Team, Spanish Translation US, the following articles have been translated into Spanish.
Verificación de encabezados HTTP (Checking HTTP Headers)
Configuración de información charset en .htaccess (Setting charset information in .htaccess)
Verificación de la codificación de caracteres mediante el verificador (Checking the character encoding using the validator)
[search keys: qa-headers-charset qa-htaccess-charset qa-validator-charset-check]
14:50:14, by Richard Ishida 
, 82 words, 97242 views 
Categories: Miscellaneous, w3cSemanticWeb, w3cWebDesign, w3cWebServices, w3cWebUserAgents
Unicode Releases Common Locale Data Repository, Version 1.7.2
Minutes of November 9 teleconference published
The MW4D IG held its 29th teleconference on November 9 2009.
The approved minutes are available at http://www.w3.org/2009/11/09-mw4d-minutes.html
Previous meeting minutes are available from the teleconference archives
2009-12-09
Decentralized versioning system at W3C
We’ve heard from several groups and individuals that they would like W3C to host a public decentralized versioning repository for W3C-related work items, such as editors drafts, test suites, tools and software.
The goal of such a repository would be to host the reference versions of these items, while allowing as many people as possible to modify, branch, patch the content of the repository, without the hurdles that CVS creates for this kind of cooperation.
As we are looking into experimenting with such a service, we are hitting the question that many others have encountered in that process: which decentralized versioning system to choose?
The main two contenders seems to be Git and Mercurial; Git seems to have a growing number of tools, and more advanced features; Mercurial seems to be easier to use, and possibly easier to set up on a larger number of platforms. Here are some of the comparions we have found in our early investigations:
- Analysis of Git and Mercurial for DVCS support in Google Code
- Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax by Patrick Thomson
- The Differences Between Mercurial and Git by Dustin Sallings
We’re interested to hear feedback on this question, in particular in the form of sharing experience of using them (inside or outside of the W3C community), and pros and cons of both systems.
We’re trying to have that discussion on our publicly archived mailing list public-qa-dev@w3.org (where I sent a message similar to this post), but feel free to use blog comments if you find that more practical.
2009-12-08
12:39:12, by Richard Ishida , 91 words, 119147 views Categories: Highlight, New resource, Articles, w3cSemanticWeb, w3cWebDesign, w3cWebArchitecture, w3cWebServices, w3cXMLCore, w3cWebUserAgents
New article: Choosing a Language Tag
FAQ-based article: Which language tag is right for me? How do I choose language and other subtags?
Following the publication of RFC 5646 earlier this year (replacing RFC 4646 as part of BCP 47), the IANA Subtag Registry now contains almost 8,000 subtags, and the list of subtag types was increased with the introduction of extended language subtags. This article tries to simplify the choice of an appropriate language tag for your needs by outlining the necessary decisions in a step-wise fashion.
By Richard Ishida, W3C. [search key: qa-choosing-language-tags]
New drafts of EARL and HTTP vocabularies in RDF
The W3C Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) has published new or updated a number of RDF vocabularies that are part of the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL). These working drafts include:
- Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0
- HTTP Vocabulary in RDF 1.0
- Representing Content in RDF 1.0
- Pointer Methods in RDF 1.0
See also the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Guide.
EARL provides a format for expressing test results, such as those generated by Web accessibility evaluation tools, using a vendor-neutral and platform-independent format. While the review period has ended, ERT WG encourages you to review EARL 1.0 documents and submit any comments. See Call for Review: EARL 1.0 Last Call Working Draft e-mail for more information.
2009-12-03
12:29:52, by Richard Ishida , 20 words, 90322 views Categories: Miscellaneous, w3cWebArchitecture, w3cWebServices, w3cWebUserAgents
Charlint updated
2009-12-02
Minutes and Resolutions 2009-12-02
- Mozilla and WebKit have both implemented
pointer-eventsapplied to HTML (not just SVG). Only two values are supported:autoandnone. - fantasai sent and Tab will send comments on Doug's Spec Conventions proposal. There were no other comments at this point.
- Resolved: Publish CSS3 Color as CR or PR without proposed
color-correctionaddition. - Reviewed implementation status for CSS Namespaces based on Chris's report. Only one test does not have two passes.
- Resolved: Add
startandendvalues tofloat(CSS3 Box Model) - Resolved: Publish Snapshot as CR along with CSS3 Color CR or PR.
- Resolved: Snapshot will replace /TR/css3-roadmap, and will also be the target of /TR/CSS3 and /TR/CSS, pending the Director's approval.
Minutes and Resolutions 2009-11-18
- Resolved: Accepted fantasai's proposed text for requiring that the the area outside the border edge, considering the border-radius curve and not considering border-image, does not accept mouse events on behalf of the element.
- Resolved: Not adding
background-opacity; considering functionality for future specs, but probably not in that form. (See previous discussions on targetting filters.) - Resolved: Rejected proposal to allow extra slashes in border-image shorthand.
- Noted:
box-break: continuous | each-boxwill be renamedbox-decoration-break: slice | cloneunless there is consensus on a better proposal. - Resolved: Publish new Working Drafts of Transitions and 2D Transforms.
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