In this posting, my intention is to provide a concise statement of an idea which is neither particularly new nor particularly mine, but which needs a place that can be referenced in the context of the current debate about distributed extensibility and HTML5. It's a very simple proposal to provide an out-of-band, defaultable, document-scoped means to declare namespace prefix bindings.
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TAG Status Report: July, 2009
The latest status report to the W3C membership from the TAG is available at http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/sum07. Noah...
Orthogonality of Specifications
HTTP,HTML,URI The general principle of platform design is that platforms consist of a set of standard interfaces. Standard interfaces allow substitution of components across the interface boundary, while independence of interfaces allow evolution of the interfaces themselves. In a PC,...
Language semantics and operational meaning
W3C and other standards organizations are in the business of defining languages -- conventions that organizations can choose to follow -- and not in mandating operational behavior -- telling organizations and participants in the network how they are supposed...
Search Engines take on Structured Data
Structured data on the web got a boost this week, with Google's announcement of Rich Snippets and Rich Snippets in Custom Search. Structured data at such a large scale raises at least three issues:SyntaxVocabularyPolicyGoogle's documentation shows support for both microformats...