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New RDF Working Group, RDF/JSON, RDF API…
After long discussions the call for votes on a new RDF Working Group has been sent to W3C members; the goal is to set up a new W3C Working Group taking care of some technical issues around RDF. It was...
- api
- javascript
- json
- rdf
- rdfa
- semantic-web
High Performance Web Socket Server
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By: Dave Raggett
The Web still has a long way to go to fulfill its potential for distributed applications. HTTP and JSON have proven their worth, but can overload servers trying to handle large number of simultaneous connections. A promising new technology is...
Progress in Lyon - TPAC 2010
W3C met in Lyon, France 1-5 November for an annual W3C gathering we call "TPAC" (for Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee, pronounced "T-pack"). This was my first TPAC. Based on what I saw and what I heard it was a...
- ceo
Boosting privacy online - anonymous credentials in the browser
Identity matters! In everyday life we present different "faces" to different people according to the social context, e.g. family, personal, and professional. Our online life is the same, and our privacy depends on keeping these different faces compartmentalized. To support...
A toucan describedby data
An intense discussion on the Linked Open Data mailing list has lead to at least two distinct outcomes: a proposal for a new way to resolve URIs identifying non-information resources without losing the important distinction from information that describes them; and a correction to an ambiguity in the specification of wdrs:describedby.
- errata
- linked-data
- powder
HTML5 Testing
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By: Philippe le Hegaret
We need all the help we can get to make the test suite relevant and informative. Unless the community starts helping W3C, we won't be able to properly test HTML5.
- html
- html5
W3C Technical Plenary: To HTML5 and beyond!
Next week is the annual W3C technical plenary, aka TPAC 2010. It brings together participants in the W3C Community for an energetic week of coordinated work and discussion. Some sessions during the middle of the week are relevant to the HTML platform and its future.
- html
- html5
- tpac
