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W3C may be about Web technologies, but a lot of its discussions happen... by e-mail. With more than 600,000 public mails archived to date, how can we manage the information overload? And how can that influence our online behaviour?
CSS Validator gets an update
More than 50 bugs closed, a polished User Interface, and some useful core changes: the CSS validator got a great update, but did it have to take a year? Let's look at what is slowing down, and where you can help, too.
- css
Telephone Game about the Semantic Web
I'm no Mark Twain, but reports of Google's demise are greatly exaggerated. Today Tim Berners-Lee pointed me to this headline in the Times Online: "Google could be superseded, says web inventor." This, in turn, has morphed into more ominous restatements...
HTML WG members working together
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By: Karl Dubost
Web standards are made by people. They interact, discuss, debate. They find issues, argue about them and finally try to settle down on what should be done. In the end, eventually it would be specified properly in a W3C Working Draft and then implemented in an interoperable way. It takes time and energy. I give here an example of a recent discussion between members of the HTML WG.
- html
- html5
- implementation
- interoperability
- w3c
- working-group
W3C reaches its 1000th translation!
As W3C gets ready for its upcoming Advisory Committee Meeting in Beijing, we have reached another important milestone as an International Consortium. We have received the 1000th volunteer translation of a W3C document!
- html
- rdf
- translations
- unicode
- w3c
- xml
Browser wars, HTML test jam, and CSS awards at SXSW Interactive in Austin
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By: Dan Connolly
When he opened the panel today to a packed room, Arun admitted that the "browser wars" title was a little sensationalist; mostly Brendan Eich, Chris Wilson, and Charles McCathieNevile are on the same side, trying to make the Web better...
- css
- html
Character encoding in HTML
In this first issue in the cookbook for the web series, we look at character encoding, or "charset"s. Discussing the ingredients, giving a reliable recipe for the detection of character encodings in (x)html, and a quick tip for web authors on an html diet.
- html
Templating Language for Authoring Tools
Structure editing of Web pages is not a simple task. XTiger is a language for authoring Web content including rich information such as microformats and RDFa. Try it.
- authoring
- cms
- editing
- html
- structure
- template
