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Interview with Internet Explorer's Patrick Dengler
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By: J. Alan Bird
- ie
- implementation
- interviews
Learn about SMIL 3.0 and test it!
SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. It is an XML language which has been designed for creating interactive multimedia presentations, including timing and synchronization. For example, a fade effect from black to a photograph, or starting an animation at the same time than an audio file. What's new?
- implementation
- interoperability
- qa
- smil
- svg
- test-suite
utf-8 Growth On The Web
utf-8 is taking over traditional encodings on the Web.
- html
- html5
- i18n
- implementation
- unicode
- validator
Vertical Layouts for Canvas Text (CJK)
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By: Karl Dubost
How to handle vertical layouts (for example CJK) with Canvas Text API. I give some references to have a snapshot of the constraints and issues.
- api
- cjk
- html
- html5
- i18n
- implementation
- working-group
Pre-Obsolete Design
Creating a specification is a challenge and a compromise. Far to be perfect it is an attempt at establishing stability for a little while. The difficulty is often how long?
- css
- implementation
- interoperability
- specification
- standards
- w3c
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
IE8 versioning snowstorm
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By: Karl Dubost
keeping track on what is being said about IE8 and opt-in versioning mechanism.
- html
- html5
- implementation
- interoperability
The Need for Diversity
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By: Karl Dubost
Chris Wilson (Microsoft) in a recent interview with Kevin Yank at Sitepoint stressed the need of diversity for a healthy Web Ecosystem: Chris Wilson: As for building on WebKit or Gecko or any of the other engines, part of that...
- html
- implementation
- quality
