- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:16:20 +0900
- To: "'public-evangelist@w3.org' w3. org" <public-evangelist@w3.org>
* W3C Breakdown Roundup
http://particletree.com/notebook/w3c-breakdown-roundup/
A list of recent articles on W3C bashing. I recommend to read the
comments of
http://www.w3.org/QA/2006/07/a_peaceful_ear.html Which gives mor
context.
* The dinosaur that is web-standards
http://unitstep.net/blog/2006/07/21/the-dinosaur-that-is-web-
standards/
The post says "If you're into web design or development at all,
you've probably run into the term "web standards"
and the W3C, the body whose job it is to organize and draft these
specifications. The truth is, web standards are still by-and-large,
just suggestions on how to do certain things, and are as of yet,
not completely and widely followed."
Still the same problem of the tension between idealism and
pragmatism, plus the author tends to forget there's not only one
community on the Web with sometimes conflicting needs. The challenge
being on how to ensure the development of the technology leaving
space for multiple possibilities.
* Some toughts about CSS by Eric Meyer
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/07/26/dvoraked/
The comments led to an interesting discussion. Specifically one
interesting comment which is about Web browser developers. When a
browser doesn't implement the specs, the Web designer who is at the
end of the food chain pays the price.
Related:
Why is CSS so damn HARD?
http://mikro2nd.net/blog/mike/design/2006/07/26/
* XHTML Role Attribute Module
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-role-20060725/
"A module to support role classification of elements"
That would be cool to see this in XHTML 1.0
* 8th WD of XHTML 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml2-20060726/
Finally, a new publication of XHTML 2.0. A review will come.
XHTML 2.0 seems to have less elements than HTML 4.01 and is a
simplication with regards to previous version of HTML. New semantics
being created not by adding new elements but by adding more
flexibility with attributes to create semantics.
http://eric.van-der-vlist.com/blog/
2987_XHTML_2.0_and_HTML_5:_The_figures.item
* Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged
http://labs.google.com/accessible/
Attempt of Google to release a search engine helping the person with
only one kind of disability. We would have preferred that the results
page is valid and don't use things like font element. Some built-in
templates?
* iTunes categories specification
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html#_Toc526931698
iTunes has a list of categories which is surprising. It seems it
comes
from previous internal classification plus polling users. If at
least there
were using SKOS, they could leverage the flexibility of tagging
with the
expressiveness of a taxonomy.
http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide/
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/06/22/skos.html
Related:
Time for Contextual Tagging
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/07/
time_for_contextual_tagging.html
Semantics, do we really need’em?
http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/07/24/semantics-do-we-really-needem/
* W3C Open Source Software
http://www.w3.org/Status
olivier has changed the layout and reorganized the page.
* Yahoo (Consistency factor) - Google (Fame factor)
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/
consistency_yahoo_vs_wow_google.php
http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/
is_don_norman_right_about_google.php
On the topic of raw indexing versus organized information. Two
schools, two methods.
Maybe both are complementary.
* CSS library for HTML tables
http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/
A kind of CSS garden but dedicated to tables. Some nice layouts.
* Fully conformant non-validating RDF/XML parser in JavaScript
http://swig.xmlhack.com/2006/07/26/2006-07-26.html#1153878135.272744
The Benefits of XHTML modularization
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/articles/askw3c/dec2003/
* Name and addresses
http://norman.walsh.name/2006/07/25/namesAndAddresses
a good reading about not creating new URI schemes on the web
* Spanish W3c Office 101 about W3C Technology
http://www.w3c.es/Divulgacion/Guiasbreves/
The W3C Office is very active and offers cool materials for
beginners.
--
Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead
QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/
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