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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.
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...
- html
- html5
- patent
- svg
- video
- w3c
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...
- collaboration
- css
- mobile
- qa
- quality
- svg
- test-suite
CSS Drop Shadows
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By: Karl Dubost
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...
- collaboration
- css
- specification
- working-group
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...
- html
- process
- w3c
- working-group
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)...
The Need for Diversity
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By: Karl Dubost
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...
- html
- implementation
- quality