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Video On The Web - The Interviews
Three video interviews about Video On The Web Workshop have been published by videolectures.net.
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 25, 2007 8:21 PM in Opinions and Editorial, Video
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XML On The Web - A Choice
The browsers offer one rendered view of information on the Web among many possibilities. JSON, RDF, Atom, plain text, xhtml, html are parts of the choices to represent an information resource.
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 25, 2007 12:00 AM in HTML, XML
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XML Dev Day Tokyo 2007
Today (21 December 2007) I am attending the Tokyo 10th XML Developers day. This is an annual event, held in Japanese, with latest news from the Japanese XML developers community. The event is organized by Murakta-san. The presentations are of a great variety, providing both technical and rather "political" aspects of XML trends. Below is a summary of the talks, focusing on the technical aspects.
Filed by Felix Sasaki on December 24, 2007 6:08 PM in Technology, 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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When Widgets Go Wrong
Widgets provide front-ends to all kinds of information sources on the Web; several thousand are available for download. Obviously, the use of Web technologies has been a huge success here, enabling people to adapt their programming experience from the Web to their local platform. With the Web programming platform, though, come the Web's programming practices and security issues, sometimes with more serious consequences than before.
Filed by Thomas Roessler on December 20, 2007 8:51 PM in Security
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Version Identifiers Reconsidered
The Architecture of the World Wide Web includes a section on extensibility and versioning of languages and data formats. The TAG is having second thoughts about the suggestion that all data formats SHOULD provide for version identification. Sometimes it is a good thing to do, but sometimes not.
Filed by Noah Mendelsohn on December 18, 2007 6:10 PM in Web Architecture
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When will HTML 5 support <video>? Sooner if you help
To make the distance to home when I travel a little shorter, for my birthday I got one of these digital picture frames. With a little fiddling, I got the picture and music features working, but I'm stumped on...
Filed by Dan Connolly on December 18, 2007 1:55 PM in HTML, Meetings, SVG, Video
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Testing your browser while being lazy
I have to admit something, sometimes I'm a bum. It's why I like tools which makes my life easier. I had written in the past that RDF is for the lazy person. I like also the LogValidator because it helps...
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 17, 2007 9:24 PM in CSS, SVG, Tools
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CSS Drop Shadows
fantasai from the CSS WG asked me if I could cross-post her weblog post on Q&A blog, so she could reach a broader and diverse community. Please read and comment here or on www-style. I'm working on the CSS3 Backgrounds...
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 17, 2007 8:17 PM in CSS
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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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Is WCAG 2.0 almost done?!
A Last Call Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 was just published. This means that the WCAG Working Group has integrated all resolutions from previous comments. Yeah! Now the question is whether this draft of WCAG 2.0 is ready for the community to support moving it on towards becoming a Web standard (W3C Recommendation)...
Filed by Shawn Henry on December 12, 2007 2:52 PM in Accessibility, Opinions and Editorial, Publications
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The Need for Diversity
Chris Wilson (Microsoft) in a recent interview with Kevin Yank at Sitepoint stressed the need of diversity for a healthy Web Ecosystem: Chris Wilson: As for building on WebKit or Gecko or any of the other engines, part of that...
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 10, 2007 9:10 PM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial
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Nicholas Zakas on HTML5
Nicholas Zakas works on UI design with the My Yahoo team at Yahoo. He's written a What I'd like to see in HTML 5 posting on his blog....
Filed by Michael[tm] Smith on December 7, 2007 10:15 AM in HTML
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DogFood
Sam Ruby initiates an interesting thread on public-html: I took a stab at converting the front page of my weblog to use more features from html5. You can see the results here: http://intertwingly.net/blog/index.html5 But this is clearly just the start....
Filed by Michael[tm] Smith on December 5, 2007 8:20 PM in HTML
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Preview of HTML 5 at A List Apart
"Go with the flow and open your mind to HTML 5" is the tagline for issue 250 of the online magazine A List Apart, which features A Preview of HTML 5 -- written by HTML working group member Lachlan Hunt....
Filed by Michael[tm] Smith on December 4, 2007 12:58 AM in HTML
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html 5: doctype to version
At a regular pace, there are discussions about the need of versioning for HTML 5. The issue breaks down around a few points including identification of the language itself for different kind of user agents, and parser libraries. A while...
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 2, 2007 10:21 PM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial
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