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RDFa 1.1 distiller and validator (beta)
The distiller for RDFa 1.0 has been around for quite some time now, and has been widely used. With the advance of RDFa 1.1, I have made a fairly extensive re-write of the distiller, though, which is now available...
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 31, 2011 5:10 PM in Semantic Web, Tools, Web Design
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Wiki-based documentation project
Introduce myself My name is Hiroki Yamada. I am a W3C Fellow from Internet Academy (Japanese company). Internet Academy is a school for Web Designers and Web Developers. I've been in charge of developing on curriculum and educational materials. And...
Filed by Hiroki Yamada on April 4, 2011 8:02 PM in CSS, HTML, Open Web, Tools, Tutorials
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Boosting privacy online - anonymous credentials in the browser
Identity matters! In everyday life we present different "faces" to different people according to the social context, e.g. family, personal, and professional. Our online life is the same, and our privacy depends on keeping these different faces compartmentalized. To support...
Filed by Dave Raggett on November 13, 2010 11:42 AM in Privacy, Security, Technology, Tools, Web Applications
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W3C Unicorn Launch off to good start
On July 27th, 2010 we made the first official release on Unicorn. We are elated with the response from the community. Within two days after the announcement we received 7 additional translations. There are already a couple new checkers in...
Filed by Ted Guild on July 30, 2010 5:15 PM in CSS, HTML, Tools, Web Design
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HTML5 in W3C Cheatsheet
From the very first release of the cheatsheet, I’ve received requests to include the various new elements and attributes of the HTML5 specification in the cheatsheet. As a reminder, the cheatsheet is a mobile-friendly Web application that provides a compilation...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on July 20, 2010 3:26 PM in HTML, Tools
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W3C Cheatsheet on Android Market
Back in November, I announced the first release of the W3C cheatsheet for Web developers — a compact Web application that provides quick access to useful information from various W3C specs. Making that Web app mobile friendly has always...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on June 22, 2010 6:50 AM in Mobile, Tools
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Make Your Presentations Accessible to All
Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? You could be doing a similar thing to your audience — leaving some people out.... Read on to learn how to make presentations, talks, meetings, and training accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others...
Filed by Shawn Henry on June 15, 2010 3:45 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Reference, Technology 101, Tools, W3C Life
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New Release of the W3C Cheat Sheet
Back in November, I announced the first release of the W3C cheat sheet, a compact, mobile-friendly Web application that allows to look up keywords in various W3C specifications, as well as to access various guidelines and best practices at...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on April 27, 2010 7:11 AM in Tools
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Small add-ons to the RDFa distiller
A small addition has been made on the RDFa distiller service (pyRdfa): there is now a possibility to upload an XHTML file to be distilled, beyond referring to a URI or copying a text to a text box. This feature...
Filed by Ivan Herman on February 8, 2010 2:55 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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SWSWiki
A few days ago W3C opened a new wiki on Semantic Web Standards: … It is not the goal of this wiki to supersede other community wikis […] instead it is to provide a “first stop” for more information on...
Filed by Ivan Herman on January 18, 2010 1:15 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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W3C Cheatsheet for developers
Yesterday, as part of the W3C Technical Plenary day, I got the opportunity to introduce a new tool that I had been working on over the past few weeks, the W3C Cheatsheet for Web developers. This cheatsheet aims at providing...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on November 5, 2009 9:47 PM in Accessibility, CSS, HTML, Internationalization, Mobile, SVG, Tools, Tutorials
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How do we test a Web browser?
Testing all possible Web browsers out there is hard and requires more effort than one organization can afford by itself. The idea of increasing the level of Web browser testing done in W3C is to involve the community at large as much as possible. If we really want an interoperable Web, that's what W3C should move to.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on September 17, 2009 9:51 PM in CSS, HTML, SVG, Tools
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Semantic Data Extractor
Every so often, someone writes to me or to the public-qa-dev mailing list to report bugs, or simply to give thanks on the semantic data extractor. I'm always pleasantly surprised when I hear that, what started as a 10 minutes...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on February 12, 2009 10:27 AM in Semantic Web, Tools
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Musing with Element Traversal
The new Element Traversal specification is out and here is a way to enjoy it today.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on December 23, 2008 9:24 PM in Tools
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RDFa and SVG Tiny (and the RDFa distiller)
W3C has just published the SVG Tiny 1.2 recommendation. Others are much more experts than me to describe the changes in the core functionality compared to the 1.1 version, so I let them do that. However, there is an interesting...
Filed by Ivan Herman on December 23, 2008 9:16 AM in SVG, Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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Small update of the RDFa distiller sofware
I have made a small update on the pyRdfa Python package that drives the RDFa distiller. The main differences between this version and the previous are: via a private communication Dan Brickley made me think on the following: what is...
Filed by Ivan Herman on December 19, 2008 1:05 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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Amaya Also for RDFa
Irène Vatton has just announced the availability of the latest Amaya version, namely Amaya 11. (For those who may not know what Amaya is, it is an open source (X)HTML browser and editor in one.) The interesting point in this...
Filed by Ivan Herman on December 17, 2008 1:36 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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Validator Donation Program: day 2
What's this new Validator Donation Program? Why a donation campaign? What would W3C do with that money? And isn't w3c really, really rich already anyway?
Filed by olivier Théreaux on December 12, 2008 7:42 PM in CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Tools, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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W3C Validator, now with HTML5 flavour
For too long we struggled with the tension between “perfect support for standards” and “be cutting edge to help develop better new technologies”. With the latest version of our Markup Validator, integrating with the validator.nu engine, comes part of the solution.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 21, 2008 5:53 PM in HTML, Tools
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SVG Wireframe For Your Website Design
Can you use SVG for designing your Web site?
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 12, 2008 10:24 AM in SVG, Tools
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Do Not Steal My SVG Semantics
Auhtoring SVG became easier, but authoring tools have a tendency to forget the intended semantics. Please, do not steal my semantics. I want my square and circles.
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 12, 2008 2:12 AM in SVG, Tools
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What would a new CSS validator look like?
What if the CSS Validator didn't exist, what if we decided to build it from scratch today. What would it be? What would you make it to be?
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 11, 2008 3:44 PM in CSS, Technology, Tools
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Semantic Web Applications
It so happens that, in a short time, several entries appeared in the blogosphere on Semantic Web applications. David Provost published a report, Richard MacManus published a blog in ReadWriteWeb or, in the last issue of Talis’ Nodalities, Ian Davis...
Filed by Ivan Herman on October 2, 2008 9:24 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・QA News
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HTML 5 And The Hear-Write Web
Is there a way to improve the HTML ecosystem in a way that creates more adoption of HTML 5? From parsing to serialization to fixing, how do we recover broken Web documents?
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 26, 2008 6:44 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101, Tools
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Alexa Global Top 500 against HTML 5 validation
Following Brian Wilson lead and his validity survey, I tested against html 5. Less than 1% of top 500 Alexa Web sites seems to pass html 5 conformance checking.
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 19, 2008 6:57 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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Make your Data Web Friendly
What does it mean to make your data Web friendly. A very simple introduction and a few links to explore and understand RDFa, a technology to easily create hyperlinked data.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 27, 2008 4:04 AM in Semantic Web, Technology 101, Tools
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HTML 5, a new step
HTML 5 conformance checking has been integrated into the beta W3C Markup Validator.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 26, 2008 11:41 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Tools
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Markup Validator Updated
New release for W3C's most popular open source service: fewer bugs, more document types supported, more fun to hack with, and a few other goodies in the mix.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on August 8, 2008 1:11 PM in Bugs Life, HTML, HTTP, Tools
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Proposed W3C Test Suite Licenses; Feedback Welcome
Several W3C Working Group participants have requested that W3C change its software license to make it easier for developers to re-use test cases in software development, bugtracking, and other scenarios. We have created a proposal for new licenses: a 3-clause...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on July 18, 2008 5:18 PM in Tools, W3C Life
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RSS 1.0 and RDFa
How do you express a feed using RDFa in a plain XHTML page? A proposal…
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 15, 2008 3:32 AM in Semantic Web, Tools
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The How-To for html 5 parsing
You have read a lot about the html 5 specification. You heard that there were hidden dragons and acid rains. But what about looking by yourself practically how html 5 parsing is working? There are already some tools to play with html 5.
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 7, 2008 2:35 AM in HTML, Technology 101, Tools
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Update of the RDFa distiller
Published of a new version of the pyRdfa software (i.e., RDFa distiller) with new features, most notably the ability to parse “tag soup” HTML and/or HTML5.
Filed by Ivan Herman on June 23, 2008 10:44 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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Optimizing your Web server
Simple few techniques and tools to set up your HTTP caching will help you save time and money.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 17, 2008 2:03 AM in HTTP, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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LogValidator 1.3.1 has been released
LogValidator is a perl open source tool which performs step-by-step log analysis and quality checking for web sites.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 10, 2008 2:20 AM in Tools
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Open Standards Interoperability
Achieving interoperability is a tedious work. There is a lot of issues. Let's explore some of them and find solutions.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 20, 2008 10:58 PM in Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101, Tools
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SVG + XMPP = whiteboard
There are a few whiteboarding projects (sharing a drawing space) built around SVG and XMPP.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 14, 2008 6:12 AM in Opinions & Editorial, SVG, Tools
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utf-8 Growth On The Web
utf-8 is taking over traditional encodings on the Web.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 6, 2008 11:51 PM in HTML, HTTP, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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alt attributes authoring practices
There has been a lot of discussions around alt attributes on HTML WG mailing list. It's always difficult to move forward in such discussions because it seems to be easy when in fact it is rather complicated.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 30, 2008 2:47 AM in Accessibility, HTML, Tools
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Unescape HTML Entities in Python
I'm not a real programmer, but here a piece of python code to unescape html entities in an XHTML file and convert them to utf-8.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 8, 2008 2:21 AM in Bugs Life, Tools, XML
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World Map and Statistics Challenge
Showing statistics on an SVG world map is recurrent. I would love to have a program to do that.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 24, 2008 5:17 AM in SVG, Tools, W3C Life
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CSS Validator gets an update
More than 50 bugs closed, a polished User Interface, and some useful core changes: the CSS validator got a great update, but did it have to take a year? Let's look at what is slowing down, and where you can help, too.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on March 18, 2008 3:18 PM in Bugs Life, CSS, Tools
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Templating Language for Authoring Tools
Structure editing of Web pages is not a simple task. XTiger is a language for authoring Web content including rich information such as microformats and RDFa. Try it.
Filed by Karl Dubost on March 10, 2008 7:06 AM in HTML, Tools, Tutorials
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CSS Validator Translation - Polish and Chinese translators wanted!
The last time we gave news about the W3C CSS validator on this space was already over a year ago, for the "fuji release". No news since then? That doesn't mean there has been no progress. Far from it, actually:...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on January 29, 2008 2:22 AM in CSS, Tools
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link test suite
Building a web spider or link checker isn't as simple as the number of existing instances seem to show. Lots of things to check, from the many html attributes to the intricacies of HTTP's Content-Location. In order to see a little more clearly in all this, here comes the mini "Link Test Suite".
Filed by olivier Théreaux on January 28, 2008 2:54 AM in Tools
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W3C Mail Search Engine gets an update
New year, new server and new features for W3C's Mail search service. Enjoy.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on January 7, 2008 1:34 AM in Tools
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Testing your browser while being lazy
I have to admit something, sometimes I'm a bum. It's why I like tools which makes my life easier. I had written in the past that [RDF is for the lazy person](http://www.w3.org/QA/2003/08/rdf-reloaded). I like also the [LogValidator](http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/LogValidator/) because it helps...
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 17, 2007 9:24 PM in CSS, SVG, Tools
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Unexpected Kanji Rotation
Recently, my XML editor gave me a surprise. This is how it should display Kanji characters: However, this is how it displayed in the editor's source text: The issue is that in the source text, the Kanji characters are rotated...
Filed by Felix Sasaki on November 20, 2007 1:34 AM in Bugs Life, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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The Tracker, Tracked
Since W3C launched the new HTML Working Group in March, over 450 people have joined. This is great, but making sense of the thousands of mail messages that followed is too much for any one person. I think the new...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on November 2, 2007 6:31 PM in HTML, Technology 101, Tools
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Validator 0.8 getting stable - what next?
With the latest release, today, of the markup validator, comes a time to give a look at its development roadmap. Among the contenders for development time: localization, support for schema languages, and a richer API. Interesting times ahead...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on October 11, 2007 3:45 AM in HTML, Tools
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The craft of HTML
HTML is a practical art. In a professional context, it requires precise and extensive skills. As with many popular crafts, the vast majority of people do it on their own, but only a few do it for a living. The quality of products varies a lot.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 8, 2007 3:10 AM in HTML, Technology 101, Tools
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Nothing is perfect (and that is why we have QA)
Brian Kelly, of UK Web Focus, gives his thoughts about bugs in validators, in an article entitled Validators Don’t Always Work. I was very impressed with the speed with which this problem was addressed and a solution deployed. [...] I...
Filed by olivier Théreaux on February 8, 2007 9:09 AM in Tools
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The Fuji CSS Validator release
Seasonal gift: a new version of the CSS validator just in time for the 10 years anniversary of CSS.
Filed by Karl Dubost on December 18, 2006 8:21 AM in Tools
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Kind of Blue
Validation icons. Now in Blue.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on November 15, 2006 2:31 AM in Tools
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Playing with the new Validator API
A new release of the W3C Markup Validator is usually a good news for Web Designers: it means bug fixes, better documentation, more document types supported, and little usability improvements to make life of HTML coders easier. The latest version of the validator, released this week, is also good news for developers, giving us a new toy to play with, and build upon: a public API.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on October 26, 2006 11:12 AM in Tools
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Unicorn Sighting (public preview)
A clear, simple, concise and complete assessment of the quality of a web page. Being able to get results of validation of HTML, checking of the style sheets, finding broken links, and more, much more, without having to visit ten different pages and services. That would be a rare sight, but it's not a fantasy. We give you: The unicorn (public preview)
Filed by olivier Théreaux on September 7, 2006 5:51 AM in Tools
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Meet the Unicorn
Why should we have to use ten different tools to check the quality of a single web page? We think there should be a tool to gather observations made on a single document by various validators and quality checkers, and summarize all of that neatly for the user.
Do you think we are dreaming? Meet our unicorn.
Filed by olivier Théreaux on July 5, 2006 7:53 AM in Tools
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Markup Validator 0.7.1
New release of the W3C Markup Validator (a.k.a HTML Validator). Introducing performance enhancements and including minor fixes in the user interface and in the "Direct Input" validation results. Read the announcement for details....
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 18, 2005 12:22 AM in Tools
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CSS Validator updated
The latest update of the W3C CSS Validation Service includes a stable SOAP access and output to the CSS validator, the addition of a profile for the CSS 2.1 specification, and a large number of bug fixes. Read the announcement...
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 16, 2005 12:36 AM in Tools
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Log Validator 1.0
Release of the W3C Log Validator version 1.0. The Log Validator makes it easy to manage the quality of even large Web Sites,step by step, by finding the most popular documents failing Markup or CSS validation, or withbroken links. Read...
Filed by Karl Dubost on September 9, 2005 12:38 AM in Tools
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W3C Markup Validator v0.7.0 released
New release of the W3C Markup Validator (a.k.a HTML Validator). Includes usability enhancements, improved feedback, support for installation on Windows, and better support for both W3C and non-W3C document types....
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 8, 2005 12:49 AM in Tools
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Link Checker update (version 4.2)
W3C's free Link Checker was updated with a new bug fix release which includes accessibility improvements for the tool's Web interface. Use the link checking service online or check the release announcement for download information....
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 28, 2005 1:03 AM in Tools
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CSS Validator available in Spanish
W3C's open source CSS Validator is now available in Spanish language, thanks to the translation work of the W3C Spanish office. The CSS Validator is also available in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian....
Filed by Karl Dubost on February 16, 2005 1:08 AM in CSS, Tools
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