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Most of the preparation for the May meeting of W3C’s Advisory Committee was already done when it became clear that travel was not going to be possible, due to COVID-19. It had to be a ‘virtual’ meeting. But because you cannot ask people to be in a video conference eight hours a day, the usual […]
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CSS development started some 25 years ago. Originally the goal was to provide some good but simple typography for a single column of text with the occasional image. But the technology proved popular, and flexible enough that the scope could be made much wider. And since then the work of adding new capabilities hasn’t stopped. […]
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The STREWS project, a joint project on Web security by KUL, TCD, SAP and W3C, is asking for your help: A very short, 5-question survey aimed at people who help create or maintain Web sites.
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The STREWS project, of which W3C is the coordinator, is asking everybody who maintains Web sites to fill in a survey about Web site security.
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Pervasive monitoring is probably the hottest topic in Internet security right now. W3C and the IAB decided to organize a workshop as part of their efforts to strengthen the Web against this type of attack. The workshop, called “STRINT,” will be held in London on March 1. The deadline for submitting a paper is January 20.
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A little over a week ago, I attended Sud Web, a regional conference for people who work in Web site development: front- and back-end developers, designers, project leaders, consultants, educators, etc. The language is French and the audience comes mainly...
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The future version 5 of HTML will allow math in a Web page, but the current version 4 does not. You can use XHTML instead, but not all Web clients understand it. Here is a recipe for the Apache Web server to make it return XHTML as HTML to such clients. That HTML will be invalid, of course, because it contains math, but the non-math parts are still handled. It's not as good a solution as having two versions of a page, but it's cheap.
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The 'collapse' keyword in CSS is designed for HTML viewers that interactively expand and collapse table columns. Current browsers don't do that by themselves, but with the help of some other features of CSS you can make browsers collapse columns, too. Here is the story behind the tutorial that explains how: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/folding
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