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HTML5 isn't a standard yet
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By: Philippe le Hegaret
Watching the Google I/O first day keynote, I'm pleased to see the level of support and interest from Google about HTML5. Sure enough, I wished SVG would have been mentioned there, as they did for the Canvas API, since...
- html
- html5
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...
- html
- policy
- rdfa
W3C is micro-blogging
This is a quick note to announce that we're joining the µ-blogging community! We can be followed on identi.ca/w3c, as well as twitter.com/w3c....
- community
- micro-blogging
Data interchange problems come in all sizes
I had a pretty small data interchange problem the other day: I just wanted to archive some play lists that I had compiled using various music player daemon (mpd) clients. The mpd server stores playlists as simple m3u files,...
- digital-media
- html
- microformat
- music
- rdfa
- web-architecture
