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fullasagoog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It can be tough to stay on top of web standards and best practices when you're churning away on projects- and god knows reading the W3C specs can be overwhelming. Recently Opera has taken a big step forward in releasing the Opera Web Standards Curriculum- a series of Creative Commons-licensed articles stepping through the breath of standards-based web development in an incredibly straightforward manner....
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fullasagoog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
PLAIN TEXT CSS: @font-face { font-family: Cambria; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; src: url(CAMBRIA2.eot); } We discussed the new font-face / EOT work yesterday. Ben loves typography, hence him wanting to give Tahoma a rest. Then we see Microsoft weighing in on the topic, and it made me ponder the politics going on. Bill Hill has a new post on the IEBlog [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
PLAIN TEXT CSS: @font-face { font-family: Cambria; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; src: url(CAMBRIA2.eot); } We discussed the new font-face / EOT work yesterday. Ben loves typography, hence him wanting to give Tahoma a rest. Then we see Microsoft weighing in on the topic, and it made me ponder the politics going on. Bill Hill has a new post on the IEBlog [...]
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maxdesign.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
W3C recently posts updated docs on relationship between usability and accessibility Aging and accessibility Conditional Comments for HTML Email Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks, Part 2 Can Interfaces be Evil? HeatMapAPI Fix Your CSS Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS What the Heck is the Open Web? Font Embedding on the Web The easy way and hard way to start blogging Web-Based Tools...
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QA Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
As part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about their support for standards and participation in W3C, I asked Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG Advisory Committee Representative at W3C) some questions. Q. Would you mind introducing...
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QA Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
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...
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eFoundations (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Spotted via an announcement to the W3C Linked Open Data mailing list, Vapour is a validation/checking service for "linked data", produced by the research team at the CTIC Foundation (Center for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies) in Asturias,...
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Web Social Architecture (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Wendy Chisholm presented on Universal Design last week at the social media event at ZAAZ. Wendy is an independent consultant wrapping up a forthcoming book for O'Reilly on accessibility, and she's been involved with accessibility issues, first with the W3C...
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QA Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
What is the best place to talk to the W3C? With many mailing-lists, blogs or wikis, groups in the organization have more than a couple of ears on. Yet sometimes one stumbles upon the best feedback or ideas on other random blogs or sites. And there comes the dilemma: centralize and simplify feedback, or spend more time scouting for faraway ideas?
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The worst mistake I made in the recent discussions about open compared to proprietary technologies was to allow myself to be pulled in by sweeping statements such as, "the W3C has failed". Not only be pulled in, but to get into some form of competition over which is the best: SVG/Ajax, Silverlight, or Flash. The W3C has failed because Rich Internet Applications are the way of the future , or so goes...
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Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Iconara DOM Framework - W3C DOM compliant framework for manipulating XML-data
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Code Monkey Ramblings (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Paul Ellis makes a strong case that the W3C and WHATWG are to blame for the increased use of proprietary technologies on the web. I don't think the problem is all of that serious yet because there are alternatives to...
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OS News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
A recent post about Firefox and my general view of corporations and organizations has caused a bit of a stir. It even caught the attention of Asa Dotzler. He said "It's really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when theyâre actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight." But are they really subverting it? Where...
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fullasagoog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Alex Russell has another one of his insightful posts titled Power and Authority. He talks about the core tenets and then ties it to the W3C, and who we should be "blaming" for the slow upgrade of the Web, and it requires a look in the mirror: As a case study in putting your faith in [...]
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peterbrooke58 | 07/05/2008
The World Wide Web Consortium is an international arena where member organizations, the public, and a full-time staff band together to ensure Web standards. The mission statement of W3C is as follows: “To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.” The W3C concedes that for the World Wide Web to reach and maintain its...
