- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:45:08 +0900
- To: "'public-evangelist@w3.org' w3. org" <public-evangelist@w3.org>
Hi,
Among the Web bits of things which have been collected.
Note: If long URIs are breaking in your MUA, it's because implements
strictly the last RFC 3626 and they do also for URIs.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/simons?entry=apple_spaces_out
* W3C Tempests
If you had one post to read about the tempests that W3C is facing
these days. I would highly recommend to read the post by David Baron
(Mozilla). A few minor mistakes (For example, W3C has around 70
employees, but only around 40 of them are technical employees.), but
the content of his post is a series of thoughts and argumented
opinions about what he feels is not right at W3C.
- More W3C Controversy
http://dbaron.org/log/2006-08#e20060818a
A few others found (not necessary all of them sound) but at least
triggering comments by their readers. Again the full list plus new
ones. If you have time, read the comments, which gives often a lot
more background
It also reminded me of the heated debates in the past, some of them
still going on.
- HTML 2.0 -> HTML 3.2
- SGML -> XML
- W3C Patent Policy (RF <-> RAND)
- XML Schemas <-> RelaxNG
- CSS <-> XSL
- XQuery <-> XSLT
- Web Services (OASIS/W3C)
- XML <-> RDF models
- Björn Hörmann stopped his participation to the development of
validators. (not leaving the W3C)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qa-dev/2006Jul/0011
- An angry fix
http://www.zeldman.com/2006/07/17/an-angry-fix/
- W3C Breakdown Roundup
http://particletree.com/notebook/w3c-breakdown-roundup/
- The dinosaur that is web-standards
http://unitstep.net/blog/2006/07/21/the-dinosaur-that-is-web-
standards/
- Dvoraked
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/07/26/dvoraked/
- Misplaced Anger: A Rebuttal to Zeldman’s Criticism of the W3C
http://www.webstandards.org/2006/07/26/misplaced-anger-a-rebuttal-
to-zeldmans-criticism-of-the-w3c/
- Angry Indeed
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/08/14/angry-indeed/
- Discussão sobre os rumos da W3C
http://www.revolucao.etc.br/archives/discussao-sobre-os-rumos-da-w3c/
- Angry, Not: Zeldman, Meyer, and Fair Concerns About the W3C
http://www.molly.com/2006/08/14/angry-not-zeldman-meyer-and-fair-
concerns-about-the-w3c/
- Whither the W3C?
http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2006/08/15/whither-the-w3c/
- W3C and the Broken Process + Two Shining Examples of
Committee-based Specification Development Done Right
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/08/
w3c_and_the_broken_process_two_1.html
- What's wrong with the SVG WG
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2006/08/
whats_wrong_with_the_svg_worki.html
- SVG Tiny 1.2 in Candidate Wreckommendation stage
http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1155235213&count=1
- W3C Process is Broken? Film at 11
http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?
guid=87576b0c-0f70-4913-9742-2541a512dc41
- W3C blocking its own members
A bit more context here. Yes the W3C is blocking access when
someone is behaving bad with requesting resources like million of
hits in a few hours. (a DOS Attack, misconfiguration of a software).
And usually it's done to help othe users to keep accessing the
resources.
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/08/14/banned
The never cited posts in this controversy. (I guess too positive)
- A Peaceful Ear
http://www.w3.org/QA/2006/07/a_peaceful_ear.html
- Structure et sens : ne confondons pas les torchons et les serviettes
http://fredericdevillamil.com/articles/2006/07/19/structure-et-
sens-ne-confondons-pas-les-torchons-et-les-serviettes
- W3C, Process, and failures
http://www.coolweblog.com/bilodeau/archives/002309.html
* On the More Peaceful front *
# CSS #
- Switch is a CSS preprocessor
http://code.google.com/p/switchcss/
- Properties CSS 3 in Gecko
http://www.geckozone.org/articles/2006/07/25/113-apercu-de-
proprietes-css3-avec-le-moteur-de-rendu-gecko
# Accessibility #
- Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers
http://juicystudio.com/displayarticle.php/making-ajax-work-with-
screen-readers.php?page=making-ajax-work-with-screen-readers.php
# Validation, QA, Process #
- Government Web Standards Usage: People's Republic of China
http://www.standards-schmandards.com/index.php?2006/02/26/35-gvmt-
standards-prc
- W3C Glossary and Dictionary
http://www.w3.org/2003/glossary/
- Hearbeat Requirements in SPARQL by Björn (yes the same one)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2006Aug/0010
- Google Valid and Strict
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/google_valid_and_strict/
- Putting the Web back in Web 2.0
http://www.mnot.net/blog/2006/08/14/webizing_ajax
- A source editor with syntax highlight and code completion in Gecko, #1
http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2006/08/14/1990-a-
source-editor-with-syntax-highlight-and-code-completion-in-gecko-1
- Valid Flash, video, and audio embed (object) markup
http://www.webstandards.org/2006/08/15/valid-flash-video-and-audio-
embed-object-markup/
- Validation funnies
http://justagirlintheworld.com/2006/08/14/validation-funnies/
- A long list of checking tools
http://www.scrutinizethis.com/
- IE7 and standards compliance - Microsoft's Chris Wilson charts
progress
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=260
- "unicorn" framework documentation updated - A tool for improving
Quality of Web sites
http://www.w3.org/QA/2006/obs_framework/
- Using Web Standards
http://174rambocourt.com/?p=6
# History #
- Old Browsers for Macintosh
http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html
# SVG #
- SVG support in Opera 9
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/opera9/svg/
- Blogging the state of SVG implemetations
http://svg.org/story/2006/8/3/8139/94771
- Blogging about SVG Implementations
http://the-mode.blogspot.com/
# SMIL #
- Implementation report for SMIL 2.1
http://www.w3.org/2005/SMIL21/SMIL21-implementation-result.html
- Ambulant - AMBULANT Open SMIL Player is an open-source media player
with support for SMIL 2.1. The current AMBULANT release provides
namespace-based support for the SMIL Language, Extended Mobile,
Mobile, and Basic profiles.
http://www.cwi.nl/projects/Ambulant/
- Real Player implements a good chunk of SMIL too.
# XSLT #
- XSLPalette - a full-featured XSLT debugging palette for macos x
(powered by libxml2, libxslt)
http://www.ditchnet.org/xslpalette/
- Safari Guide is a free application for Mac OS X Tiger that
allows developers to evaluate arbitrary XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and
JavaScript expressions against the current frontmost Safari webpage.
http://www.safariguide.net/
# RDF, SPARL and others #
- yet another technique for visualizing data with the Simile Timeline.
http://www.wasab.dk/morten/blog/archives/2006/07/14/planet-timeline
- SPARQL and SIMILE Timeline
http://www.wasab.dk/morten/blog/archives/2006/07/11/sparql-and-
simile-timeline
- What is RDF - republished with new material
http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1665
- Design Issues - Linked Data
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData
- RDF and Metcalf's law
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bblfish?entry=rdf_and_metcalf_s_law
- Drupal and Relationship (RDF) Manager
http://drupal.org/project/relationship
- mod_sparql- The code can be found at
http://david-reid.com/repos/public/mod_sparql
http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=468
- Ping in the SemanticWeb
http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2006/08/14/pinging-the-
semantic-web
- Python script to extract XMP data.
http://www.ivan-herman.net/WebLog/WorkRelated/SemanticWeb/
xmpextract.html
--
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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