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W3C started working on Web Payments after our Workshop in 2014, and support for Streamlined Checkout is now available in most browsers. While we have had some merchants interested in this work, they have been telling us they need more than that from the Web. In response to those conversations and the needs of retailers […]
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There is a First Public Working Draft of HTML 5.2. There is also a Proposed Recommendation of HTML 5.1. What does that mean? What happened this year, what didn’t? And what next? First, the Proposed Recommendation. W3C develops specifications, like HTML 5.1, and when they are “done”, as agreed by the W3C, they are published […]
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Since we published the Working on HTML5.1 post, we’ve made progress. We’ve closed more issues than we have open, we now have a working rhythm for the specification that is getting up to the speed we want, and we have a spec we think is a big improvement on HTML5. Now it’s time to publish […]
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The European Commission has been funding work on developing a number of vocabularies designed to help improve data interoperability, particularly in the public sector. Time to see those vocabularies in action and, in the vernacular of the day, eat some dog food.
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The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. I like the fact that Anne Van Kesteren has a different overview than mine. His last report. HTML5 is still in Last Call. Conversations Proposals WebKit Team has been experimenting...
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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?
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When a software is shipped, it has bugs. There are many reasons for these bugs. It can be poor in-house development, it can be careless testing, it can be unclear specifications, and many other things. We have to live with these bugs in software. Is there a way out?
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Achieving interoperability is a tedious work. There is a lot of issues. Let's explore some of them and find solutions.
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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?
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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.
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