Archives for Category: W3C・QA News
Beta Testing Community and Business Groups
In April I wrote about W3C Community Groups and Business Groups, two new programs designed to make it easy for developers, users, and other stakeholders to discuss and develop Web technology. Since then we have been generating interest in new...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on June 28, 2011 7:47 PM in W3C・QA News
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HTTP Protocol for RDF Stores
Last week the W3C SPARQL Working Group has published a number last call working drafts for SPARQL 1.1. Much have been already said on various fora on the new features of SPARQL 1.1, like update, entailment regimes, property paths; I...
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 17, 2011 7:44 AM in HTTP, Publications, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・QA News
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Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) moves to Candidate Recommendation (CR)
Today the Protocols and Formats Working
Group (PFWG) published WAI-ARIA
1.0 as a Candidate Recommendation. This is a major milestone in development of
this technology, indicating that it is considered feature complete after
years of development and multiple public consultations. As ARIA enters the Candidate Recommendation phase, the focus shifts from specification
development to implementation testing.
Filed by Michael Cooper on January 18, 2011 5:12 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C・QA News, Web Applications
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Making W3C the Best Place for New Standards Work
In my previous blog entry I discussed the five major focus areas for W3C as an organization. They were: Drive a Global and accessible Web Provide a Better Value Proposition for Users Make W3C the best place for new...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on June 18, 2010 8:35 PM in CEO, W3C・QA News
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The Mission of W3C
I've now been with W3C for almost three months. My first priority was to meet with the global stakeholders of the organization. I began with W3C membership. Through meetings, phone calls, technical conferences, and informal sessions I've met upwards of...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on June 1, 2010 2:20 PM in Accessibility, CEO, Technology, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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Asia and W3C
A visit with staff at Keio University I continue to meet key stakeholders around the world as part of my introduction to W3C. The last two weeks have been focused on Asia. India I visited India last week partly...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on May 14, 2010 8:39 PM in CEO, HTML, Internationalization, Mobile, Social Networking, Technology, Video, W3C・QA News
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RIF and OWL
The W3C RIF Working Group has just published the RIF specification as a Candidate Recommendation. As a coincidence, the OWL 2 Working Group published the OWL 2 specification as Proposed Recommendation just a few days before. Ie, two major sets...
Filed by Ivan Herman on October 6, 2009 3:39 PM in Publications, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・QA News
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Food, agriculture, and SKOS
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has a number of (online) publications (e.g., “Food, Nutrition and Agriculture”). As all such sites, they also have to offer an easy way to search through the articles, find the right papers based...
Filed by Ivan Herman on March 20, 2009 8:42 AM in Publications, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・QA News
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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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A personal reflection on the WCAG 2.0 publication
Today W3C WAI published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This is a momentous occasion. Another post links to the official announcements. Here is another perspective, my personal perspective...
Filed by Shawn Henry on December 11, 2008 3:11 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized
WCAG 2.0 was published today as a final Web Standard "W3C Recommendation". Check out the official announcement, e-mail, press release, testimonials, and a personal reflection on WCAG. Here are some additional perspectives on a few points...
Filed by Shawn Henry on December 11, 2008 2:49 PM in Accessibility, Mobile, Publications, Technology, W3C・QA News
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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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Powdering logos (again)
Quite a while ago I wrote a
short blog
on how to use the upcoming POWDER spec. The example was to create RDF triples expressing copyright information on Semantic Web logos. Lot has happened with POWDER since, and most of what I wrote in that blog is now technically outdated:-( So here is the updated example.
Filed by Ivan Herman on September 5, 2008 8:54 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Technology 101, W3C・QA News
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Is your (mobile) browser ready for the Web?
To help establish better interoperability among browsers, especially on mobile devices, the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has created a test combining twelve Web technologies, allowing to visualize at a glance how ready your browser is for the Web.
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on April 16, 2008 6:58 AM in W3C・QA News
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Proposed Activity for Video on the Web
W3C organized a workshop on Video on the Web in December 2007 in order
to share current experiences and examine the technologies (see report) and is now following up with a proposal for a Video on the Web activity.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, Video, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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Michael and a tiny XML Schema test suite
Michael has created a blog. He's telling us about the fun of testing and shares this tiny XML Schema test suite.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 3, 2008 8:58 PM in W3C・QA News, XML
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Blue Beany Day - Web standards!
Today is Blue Beany Day. A good opportunity to be goofy with an excuse ;) >Monday, November 26, 2007 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 26, 2007 8:20 PM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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Three Buckets of Thoughts
Kevin Lawer has written a great blog post Web Standards' Three Buckets of Pain explaining cultural differences between communities. Opening up the W3C Justin Thorp commented (emphasis is mine): Karl, I'm really excited by your efforts with opening the W3C....
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 21, 2007 12:50 AM in Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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TPAC 2007 - Cracks and Mortar
[Tim Berners-Lee](http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/) is taking the [floor](http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1107-tpac-tbl/): "The world is a mess of **interconnected** communities and it is why it is working." * Content-Type: is a way to define the content available at a specific URI. It gives flexibility for evolution....
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 6:14 PM in Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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TPAC 2007 - URI-Based Extensibility: Benefits, Deviations, Lessons-Learned
The Technical plenary day is continuing. Someone in a comment earlier asked what TPAC was. TPAC means Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting. All W3C Working groups and representatives of W3C are meeting. This year we open a bit more...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 3:26 PM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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TPAC 2007 - HTML 5, XHTML 2.0, Future Formats
The title, just by reading it, reminds me of long discussions for the past 6 months as the (interim) HTML WG staff contact. [HTML 5](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/) and [XHTML 2.0](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/) ; Many fights, many misunderstandings often due to deaf dialogs. Let's hope...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 11:24 AM in HTML, Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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TPAC 2007 - Let's start
The mics are being tested in the room. People are slowing joining the room. There will be more than 300 persons participating today to the [Technical Plenary Day](http://www.w3.org/2007/11/TPAC/). It is quite exciting. One of the strong emphasis of the day...
Filed by Karl Dubost on November 7, 2007 9:10 AM in Meetings, Opinions & Editorial, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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