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What Benevolent Dictator?
From time to time I hear people refer to Tim Berners-Lee as a "benevolent dictator." In most cases they utter the phrase through a smile, but I find the phrase distasteful. It is also inaccurate. The W3C process has evolved...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on June 27, 2008 8:08 PM in Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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The War of the Worlds
Some people are amazing, they are creators. They make complex things, beautiful and simple. They make the world a place of exploration and discovering.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 27, 2008 7:27 AM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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Shipbuilding (or, cruel to be kind)
When groups of implementors and others (working groups in standards bodies and what have you, or groups of implementors and others with shared interest in a certain set of technologies) gather together publicly for focused technical discussion on a particular...
Filed by Michael[tm] Smith on June 26, 2008 4:18 AM in HTML
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Documenting the Web vs. reinventing it
Ian Hickson, the editor of the current HTML5 draft, posted an Error handling in URIs message to the uri@w3.org mailing list outlining some issues related to browser error handling behaviour for URIs, and to IRIs and character encodings other than...
Filed by Michael[tm] Smith on June 26, 2008 12:23 AM in HTML
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Old School Netiquette… still good!
Netiquette is a good read, but unfortunately, not very well-known by new generations of engineers.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 24, 2008 1:52 AM in Opinions and Editorial
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Update of the RDFa distiller
Published of a new version of the pyRdfa software (i.e., RDFa distiller) with new features, most notably the ability to parse “tag soup” HTML and/or HTML5.
Filed by Ivan Herman on June 23, 2008 10:44 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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How to contribute to W3C work… with a PhD
A few months ago, I was explaining how you can participate to W3C work in a different way: writing tutorials, writing quick tips. I found out last week a new and original way to participate to W3C work.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 23, 2008 3:00 AM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial, W3C Life
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Interview: David Baron on Firefox 3 and W3C Standards
At the news of the official release of Firefox 3 (FF3), I asked David Baron, Mozilla's Advisory Committee Representative at W3C (see photo), a few questions about the browser release and support for standards. Note: I anticipate interviewing (lots...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on June 20, 2008 7:29 PM in CSS, HTML, Interviews, SVG, Security
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Lithuania is first
With the release of Firefox 3, it appears that 30% of Internet users in Lithuania already downloaded the software within 48 hours.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on June 20, 2008 2:15 AM in Opinions and Editorial
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About the Love - w3.org Redesign
I mentioned last October that W3C is redesigning key pages of its site, including the home page. Love in the air, Karl Dubost waxed the other day. I am managing this project and have enlisted Airbag Industries to design the...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on June 17, 2008 4:11 PM in Bugs Life, W3C Life
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Optimizing your Web server
Simple few techniques and tools to set up your HTTP caching will help you save time and money.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 17, 2008 2:03 AM in HTTP, Opinions and Editorial, Tools
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love is in the air
Love is in the Air at W3C…
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 13, 2008 7:57 AM in Opinions and Editorial
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HTML 5 Publications
Four documents have been recently published for HTML 5 by the HTML Working Group.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 11, 2008 1:51 AM in HTML, Publications
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Standards Fun
Marcos and Anne started Standards Suck, a site talking about Web standards.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 10, 2008 7:47 AM in Opinions and Editorial
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LogValidator 1.3.1 has been released
LogValidator is a perl open source tool which performs step-by-step log analysis and quality checking for web sites.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 10, 2008 2:20 AM in Tools
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