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We recently announced that we are planning to start redirecting all of www.w3.org to https, as is commonly done elsewhere. To get an understanding of whether this change is feasible for our site and what issues might arise, we conducted some limited tests of this configuration change, on August 1 and August 18-19. Here are […]
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W3C’s main web site www.w3.org has been available via https for over a decade, but until now we have not been redirecting all requests to https as is commonly done on most other sites. The primary reason for this is that we wanted to avoid causing issues for software requesting machine-readable resources from www.w3.org such […]
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We are pleased to announce the availability of a group calendaring service to help W3C Groups schedule their meetings and share them with the W3C community. Helping our international groups work well across time zones is especially important as work continues to move online. This new service is in beta-test for now but we encourage […]
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To facilitate participation and scheduling of group meetings, W3C Groups have requested for a long time the possibility to manage calendars of events, subscribe to them as well as easily view them on the Web. A full set of requirements was produced and we started evaluating candidate solutions, third-party or home-made.
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It's this time again: the W3C is searching for its new Webmaster. So I thought I would share my experience as a former Webmaster. Let's start with some history, as the Webmaster position is an old one here at...
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W3C’s main web site www.w3.org is load-balanced over a number of servers using the excellent HAProxy load balancing software. Before we discovered HAProxy we used round-robin DNS for a number of years, with www.w3.org rotated among a number of servers with names like web1.w3.org, web2.w3.org, etc. One unfortunate side effect of this practice was that […]
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There are a number of email message headers that people may use to filter messages from W3C lists. The best header to use for this purpose is List-Id: (specified in RFC 2919), because this header is intended to remain constant throughout the lifetime of a list. Using other headers to filter mail from our lists […]
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After having asked the community about which decentralized versioning system W3C should use, we made our DVCS platform operational a few months ago, powered by Mercurial. The obvious contender was Git — here are some of the reasons why we picked Mercurial over Git, in the hope that this analysis can be useful to others. […]
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Over the past year, millions of pages were validated every day using W3C’s services. We’d like to thank those who keeping service running smoothly by helping other users, carefully reporting problems, and developing code. We’d especially like to thank Ville Skyttä for continuing maintenance of the validator check perl script and Henri Sivonen for continuing […]
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We’ve heard from several groups and individuals that they would like W3C to host a public decentralized versioning repository for W3C-related work items, such as editors drafts, test suites, tools and software. The goal of such a repository would be to host the reference versions of these items, while allowing as many people as possible […]
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