GRDDL, a mechanism for putting RDF data in XML/XHTML documents, is specified mostly at the XPath data model level. Some GRDDL software goes beyond XML and supports HTML as she are spoke, aka tag soup. HTML 5 is intended to...
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life without MIME type sniffing?
In a recent item on IE8 Security, Eric Lawrence, Security Program Manager for Internet Explorer, introduced a work-around to the security risks associated with content-type sniffing: an authoritative=true parameter on the Content-Type header in HTTP. This re-started discussion of...
Syntax for ARIA: Cost-benefit analysis
The ARIA spec. defines roles, states and properties to manage the interface between rich web documents and assistive technologies. The primary expression of roles, states and properties in markup languages is via attributes. ARIA has to specify how its vocabulary of attributes and values can be integrated into both existing and future languages. This analysis assesses alternative approaches to ARIA syntax.
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.
Simple things make firm foundations
You can look at the development of web technology in many ways, but one way is as a major software project. In software projects, the independence of specs, has always been really important, I have felt. A classic example is...