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Combining XHTML and SVG (and MathML) (and XForms) (and...)
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By: Olivier Thereaux
A reader asked us recently whether there existed a profile to easily combine XHTML and SVG. The short answer is, yes, there is. The slightly longer answer is that indeed, in 2002, the W3C SVG and HTML working groups got...
- html
"Ciel ! Ma page invalide" or how to be caught!
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By: Karl Dubost
We are often recommending Web developers to create good Web pages and to follow Web standards. But do we stand by our own criterias of quality? How much do we eat our own dog food? So we ran the Log...
Minutes of QA IG F2F at the W3C Tech Plenary - February 2006
The first meeting of the QA IG has been very successful with a lot of interesting discussions and many projects for the future. Patrick Curran, participant of the QA IG, wrote about the meeting on his weblog and conclude by:...
Content Negotiation: why it is useful, and how to make it work
We recently received a puzzled message from a visitor of the W3C Web site, asking how we were serving images without file suffix in their URI. Looking around, our visitor found that http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/logo-REC was not one file, but two: logo-REC.gif...
Buy standards compliant Web sites
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By: Karl Dubost
The topic is far from being new, but it reaches the surface of Web business at regular times. The Web community often struggles between a desire of creating a professional work and the necessity of making a living of one's...
Ruby Annotation Under The Sunlight
(Updated on Friday 3 February 2006 to add valuable source of information given by Richard Ishida) In the concepts of microformats, there is a key concept which is design for humans first, machines second. We have often been faced to...
- html
Quality Assurance Interest Group meets at the W3C Technical Plenary 2006
Once a year, W3C hosts a five day event, the W3C Technical Plenary, where Working Groups (WG) and Interest Groups (IG) hold their face to face meetings in one place and have the opportunity to meet and liaise with participants...
Failed Commitments?
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By: Karl Dubost
Do you remember? it was just three years ago or so. There were parades and brass bands. Many large Web sites were, at long last, making the switch to Web standards. For example, the Web designer Douglas Bowman was announcing...
- css
- html
W3C Renews Quality Assurance Interest Group
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By: Karl Dubost
W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a...
Markup Validator 0.7.1
New release of the W3C Markup Validator (a.k.a HTML Validator). Introducing performance enhancements and including minor fixes in the user interface and in the "Direct Input" validation results. Read the announcement for details....
