Dear Web Observers The Web Observatory Face to Face meeting on Friday November 16 will be held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, i.e. the same location as ISWC 2012 [1]. This will be an all day meeting and is … Continue reading
Two public pre-WWW information systems were recently shut down: France Telecom’s Minitel, after 30 years in operation, and BBC’s Ceefax, after 38 years. Both looked very much the same, but the comparison ends there. Ceefax implemented “links” as references to … Continue reading
Talking to Ian at W3C it seems that Google Chrome and IE9 have issues when editing Community pages. On Chrome I overcame this by allowing Chrome to load the page by selecting the small ‘shield’ shape at the right hand … Continue reading
Based on http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html a post by Jeff Atwood, where he introduces his ideas for standardizing Markdown for the future. Quote I don’t want to extend Markdown by adding tons of crazy new functionality, or radically change the way it currently … Continue reading
The Customer Experience Digital Data Community Group has been proposed by Viswanath Srikanth: The Customer Experience Digital Data Community Group will work on reviewing and upgrading the W3C Member Submission in Customer Experience Digital Data, starting with the Customer Experience … Continue reading
W3C has launched the Markdown Community Group The mission of this group is to specify a syntax and provide tests for Markdown. See http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. This group was originally … Continue reading
The Markdown Community Group has been proposed by Dave Pawson: To specify a syntax and provide tests for Markdown. See http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, … Continue reading
I thought you might be interested in an XForms based web application www.forms4health.com – the foundation for which was created at a 2-day health hack known as NHS hack-day (NHS is the National Health Service in the UK). At the hack … Continue reading
I’ve created a moderator driven LinkedIn group to help us connect to adjacent networks. Let’s limit membership to the CG until we discuss how to move forward. I would like some feedback on setting up the rules and objectives to … Continue reading
With XForms 2.0, the switch control can have a new attribute named caseref. It can be very useful for authors in common situations: many forms require conditional parts according to a expression value. With this new attribute, the XForms switch … Continue reading
