Blog - 2008
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Musing with Element Traversal
The new Element Traversal specification is out and here is a way to enjoy it today.
- webapps
Social networks at W3C: foreseeing a 2009 success story!
The W3C social networks workshop is already a blast and it hasn't happened yet! We received a record number (72) of interesting position papers from a wide range of key players. Have a look at the impressive list (papers and...
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...
- metadata
- rdf
- rdfa
- semantic-web
- svg
- xhtml
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...
- rdf
- rdfa
- semantic-web
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...
- html
- open-source
- rdf
- rdfa
- semantic-web
- xhtml
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?
- css
- donation
- html
- standards
- validation
- validator
- w3c
A Few Predictions for 2009
Last week I asked my colleagues on the W3C staff to predict Web trends in 2009. I compiled (with some editing) a few of the predictions I received. Naturally, these informal utterances are not endorsements and do not represent W3C...
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...