Web Design and Applications - W3C

Changes in the W3C Internationalization Team

2009-03-06T20:17:56+00:00

At the end of February, Felix Sasaki left the W3C to take up a post at the University of Applied Sciences at Potsdam in Germany.

We wish Felix success for the future, and thank him for his dedication and hard work in supporting the internationalization effort for the past four years.

Guidelines for Writing Device Independent Test Cases

2009-03-04T21:33:01+00:00

The Mobile Web Test Suite working group is developing a set of guidelines for writing test cases that targets mobile devices.

The guidelines represent the current thinking of the Mobile Web Working Group. The Guidelines addresses that are relevant to mobile devices such as screen limitation, CPU power, memory limitations and external resources.

A draft of the guidelines can be found at Guidelines for Writing Device Independent Tests. Comments and suggestions on this document are welcome.

New translation: CSS versus marcação para suporte bidirecional

2009-03-04T17:45:11+00:00

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Thanks to Gaston Diego Valente the FAQ-based article "CSS vs. markup for bidi support" has now been translated into Portuguese. [search key: qa-bidi-css-markup]

New translation: Hojas de estilo en cascada en contraposición al etiquetado para la compatibilidad bidireccional

2009-03-04T17:43:41+00:00

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Thanks to Gaston Diego Valente the FAQ-based article "CSS vs. markup for bidi support" has now been translated into Spanish. [search key: qa-bidi-css-markup]

New translation: Rozmiar tekstu w tłumaczeniu

2009-03-03T16:22:43+00:00

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Thanks to Kamil Wiśniewski the article "Text size in translation" has now been translated into Polish. [search key: article-text-size]

WCAG 2.0 Official in Multiple Languages

2009-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 will soon be available in several languages as W3C Authorized Translations. The Policy for Authorized W3C Translations provides a process for stakeholder review and designation as an official translation. Draft "Candidate Authorized Translations" available for review will be announced to the WAI Interest Group (IG) mailing list. WCAG 2.0 Translations lists completed and planned translations, and links to more information on W3C translations. (2009-03-03)

Mobile Bar Camp Boston 2, 21 March

2009-03-02T18:57:22+00:00

Last year I wrote about my experience at the Mobile Bar Camp Boston, where (despite the snow and rain) we had a great turn out. It was a great day, everyone learned a lot, had fun, and now it's happening again!

So, gather up your great ideas, favorite topics, demos, and all things mobile and come on out for a whole day with Boston's mobile enthusiasts, hobbyists, entrepreneurs and experts.

All of the details are available on the Mobile Bar Camp Boston site. The event is free, but space may be limited, so register early.

See you there!

-Matt

Palm webOS approach to HTML extensibility: x-mojo-*

2009-02-26T17:34:22+00:00

I got pretty excited about the iPhone, and even more about the openness of Android and the G1, and then I learn that the Palm Pre developer platform is basically just the open web platform: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Just after the mobile buzz at Web Directions North and the TAG declared victory on how to build The Self-Describing Web with URI-based Extensibility , I get some details on how Palm is building on the open web platform:

A widget is declared within your HTML as an empty div with an x-mojo-element attribute.
<div x-mojo-element="ToggleButton" id="my-toggle"></div>

Oh great; x- tokens... aren't those passe by now?

The suggestion in the HTML 5 draft is data-* attributes. The ARIA draft suggests @role. The Palm design looks like new information for issue-41, Decentralized-extensibility, in the HTML WG.

Anybody know how frozen the Palm design is? Or if they looked at ARIA, data-* or URI-based namespaces?

For Review: WAI-ARIA Last Call

2009-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

WAI has published the Last Call Working Draft of WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications technical specification. This Last Call is provided for public review of the document with all resolutions from previous comments incorporated. See: Call for Review: WAI-ARIA Last Call and New Document for Browsers announcement e-mail;WAI-ARIA Overview, which links to WAI-ARIA FAQ and related documents for Web site developers and browser developers; How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. Please send comments by 17 April 2009. (2009-02-24)

For Review: New WAI-ARIA document for browsers

2009-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

WAI has published the First Public Working Draft of the WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide that describes how browsers and other user agents should support the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) technical specification, particularly how they should expose WAI-ARIA features to platform accessibility APIs. See: Call for Review: WAI-ARIA Last Call and New Document for Browsers announcement e-mail,WAI-ARIA Overview. Please send comments by 17 April 2009. (2009-02-24)