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Proposed W3C Test Suite Licenses; Feedback Welcome
Several W3C Working Group participants have requested that W3C change its software license to make it easier for developers to re-use test cases in software development, bugtracking, and other scenarios. We have created a proposal for new licenses: a 3-clause...
Dear W3C…
What is the best place to talk to the W3C? With many mailing-lists, blogs or wikis, groups in the organization have more than a couple of ears on. Yet sometimes one stumbles upon the best feedback or ideas on other random blogs or sites. And there comes the dilemma: centralize and simplify feedback, or spend more time scouting for faraway ideas?
- collaboration
- community
- w3c
- working-group
Interview: Charles McCathieNevile on Opera 9.5 and W3C Standards
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By: Ian Jacobs
In June 2008, Opera Software released version 9.5 of its browser. As part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about their support for standards and participation in W3C, I asked Charles McCathieNevile (Opera's Advisory...
Once Upon A Time, Web Standards Curriculum
Once upon a time, we started the Quality Assurance activity at W3C in 2001, one of the objectives was to find a way to improve the materials for communicating with Web developers. In the QA group, Snorre M. Grimsby (Opera) told me that we might find resources for producing educational materials. The discussion became quiet for a while and restarted in June 2006 with David Storey (Opera). As the same time, some people at WASP started a survey for defining requirements for a Web Standards Curriculum.
- css
- education
- html
- tutorial
- web-standards
Getting closer to a standard for client-side cross-site requests
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By: Michael[tm] Smith
Good news today from Sunava Dutta of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team in regard to the W3C Access Control for Cross-Site Requests specification: Sunava writes that, as early as IE8 Beta 2, IE8 will ship the updated section of Access Control...
- access-control
- cross-site
- html
- ie
life without MIME type sniffing?
In a recent item on IE8 Security, Eric Lawrence, Security Program Manager for Internet Explorer, introduced a work-around to the security risks associated with content-type sniffing: an authoritative=true parameter on the Content-Type header in HTTP. This re-started discussion of...
- content-type
- error-handling
- html
- html5
- mime
The How-To for html 5 parsing
You have read a lot about the html 5 specification. You heard that there were hidden dragons and acid rains. But what about looking by yourself practically how html 5 parsing is working? There are already some tools to play with html 5.
- dom
- html
- html5
- rdfa
Improving Interoperability by Short Release Cycle
When a software is shipped, it has bugs. There are many reasons for these bugs. It can be poor in-house development, it can be careless testing, it can be unclear specifications, and many other things. We have to live with these bugs in software. Is there a way out?
- bug
- html
- html5
- interoperability
- qa
- quality
