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Interview: Huawei, Maxthon, Qihoo 360, UC Web, and the Chinese Browser Perspective
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By: Ian Jacobs
At W3C's Membership meeting in May, An Qi (Angel) Li of the W3C China Office organized a panel of Chinese browser vendors. The panel generated a lot of excitement among meeting participants and so I asked for a follow-up...
How to fold Jeff's table columns with CSS
The 'collapse' keyword in CSS is designed for HTML viewers that interactively expand and collapse table columns. Current browsers don't do that by themselves, but with the help of some other features of CSS you can make browsers collapse columns, too. Here is the story behind the tutorial that explains how: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/folding
- css
Hash URIs
There's been quite a bit of discussion recently about the use of hash-bang URIs following their adoption by Gawker, and the ensuing downtime of that site. The TAG at the W3C have also been drafting a document on Repurposing the Hash Sign for the New Web which takes a rather wider view than just the hash-bang issue, and on which they are seeking comments. All matters of design involve weighing different choices against some criteria that you decide on implicitly or explicitly
- http
- uri
An HTML5 Logo
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By: Ian Jacobs
W3C unveiled a logo for HTML5 today. HTML5 in the broad sense covers many different technologies at varying degrees of standardization and adoption. Commercial sites have begun to take advantage of some of the technology, and we are excited...
- html
New Release of the W3C Cheat Sheet
Back in November, I announced the first release of the W3C cheat sheet, a compact, mobile-friendly Web application that allows to look up keywords in various W3C specifications, as well as to access various guidelines and best practices at...
W3C Cheatsheet for developers
Yesterday, as part of the W3C Technical Plenary day, I got the opportunity to introduce a new tool that I had been working on over the past few weeks, the W3C Cheatsheet for Web developers. This cheatsheet aims at providing...
- css
- html
- svg
News from the Video Media Annotations front
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By: Coralie Mercier
More and more multimedia objects (images, videos, music) are available on the Web. A key for accessing these objects (e.g. in a search engine) is to master the variety of metadata about the author of a media object, its creation...
Food, agriculture, and SKOS
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has a number of (online) publications (e.g., “Food, Nutrition and Agriculture”). As all such sites, they also have to offer an easy way to search through the articles, find the right papers based...
- knowledge-representation
- semantic-web
- skos
- w3c
Valid sites work better(?)
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By: Olivier Thereaux
I learned to write standard-compliant Web pages when the likely alternative was “the browser will likely crash on your tag soup”. In an age of graceful error recovery, does it still matter to produce valid code? Share your stories here.
- authoring
- css
- html
- standards
- validator
The Slideshow Must Go On
These are a few hints on how to create a slideshow for a conference. Web conferences busy bees are often in need of illustrations for their slides. There are solutions to easily spice up your technology talk.
- conference
- howto
- slideshow
- tutorial
