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QA at W3C continues: future of the QAIG
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By: Karl Dubost
With a number of documents published in the past few days and more to come soon, W3C's QA Activity, and the QA Working group have reached the end of their charter. But W3C's commitment to quality continues! In a message...
Variability in Specifications published as a W3C Working Group Note
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By: Karl Dubost
Variability in Specifications, a companion to the QA Framework: Specification Guidelines, has been updated and published as a W3C Working Group Note. The Note contains advanced specification design considerations and conformance-related techniques. It describes how design of a specification's conformance...
QA Framework: Specification Guidelines is a W3C Recommendation
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By: Karl Dubost
QA Framework: Specification Guidelines, the main document produced by the QA Working Group has been published as a W3C Recommendation on August 17. Publication as a W3C Recommendation is the sign that this document has received the endorsement of W3C...
W3C Markup Validator v0.7.0 released
New release of the W3C Markup Validator (a.k.a HTML Validator). Includes usability enhancements, improved feedback, support for installation on Windows, and better support for both W3C and non-W3C document types....
“WaSP asks W3C", Adding Multimedia in Web Documents (part 2) published
Last week, in a new instance of the WaSP asks W3C project, the QA Team completed its answer on Adding Multimedia in Web Documents with more details on the use and implementation of the object tag in HTML. Discussion and...
- html
“More About Custom DTD" article published in A List Apart
The QA Team has written an article for A List Apart, entitled More About Custom DTDs, explaining when custom DTDs make sense, and when they don't....
- html
Link Checker update (version 4.2)
W3C's free Link Checker was updated with a new bug fix release which includes accessibility improvements for the tool's Web interface. Use the link checking service online or check the release announcement for download information....
Specification Guidelines and Variability in Specifications updated
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By: Karl Dubost
The QA Working Group has published an update of two of its documents: QA Framework: Specification Guidelines and Variability in Specifications. The new version of Specification Guidelines includes the resolutions of the comments received during the Last Call period, and...
New Article: Ampersands, PHP Sessions and Valid HTML
A new technical article on the topic of Ampersands, PHP Sessions and Valid HTML was published by the QAIG, courtesy of David Dorward. The QA Interest Group welcomes such contribution of material, see our Contribution Guidelines for details....
