11.23.06
Posted in Blogs, Mobile, News, WaSP, Web Standards at 5:43 am by Alice Pretchet
Have Your Say about the Future of HTML
By Molly E. Holzschlag
This article has been written on behalf of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) and has been cross posted on The Web Standards Project, Lachys Log, Molly.com and 456 Berea Street.
There has been a lot of discussion about the W3Cs recent decision to continue the development of HTML around the web lately. Blog posts, and messages that have been sent to mailing lists or posted on forums, revealed many questions and misconceptions about the future of HTML (including HTML 5 and XHTML 2), the WHATWG and the W3Cs new HTML Working Group.
Some people asked for new features; others were wondering if formerly deprecated elements would return; some had comments and criticisms about the decision itself, the WHATWG or W3C process; and a few raised concerns about the WHATWG and W3C ignoring the needs of particular groups. The WHATWG, who are in the process of developing the next version of HTML (called HTML 5), feel that it’s important to not only listen to all of this feedback, but to actively seek it out and respond so that we can develop a language that meets your needs.
There are many ways in which you can participate. The most direct approach is to make your voice heard by subscribing to the mailing list. However, not everyone has the time to participate, or keep up with the high volume of messages sent to that list. Some people feel that the current drafts of HTML 5 (Web Applications and Web Forms) are rather daunting. Others feel that because they can not afford the substantial W3C membership fees, they would not be listened to anyway.
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09.15.06
Posted in AJAX, Blogs, Mobile, WaSP, Web Standards, Widgets at 7:53 am by Alice Pretchet
AJAX for Eclipse
A group of organisations including IBM, Mozilla, Zimbra and Dojo have announced a project to develop a common set of AJAX interfaces, plugins and widgets for Eclipse. The project is aimed at providing a common target for tools developers to support, as opposed to the myriad open source and proprietary toolkits and libraries available today.
You can read more on the Dojo projects site
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09.05.06
Posted in Developers, Mobile, News, W3C, Web Standards at 7:22 am by Alice Pretchet
The Mobile Web Intiative
The Mobile Web Initiative’s goal is to make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality, explains Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web. W3C and mobile industry leaders are working together to improve Web content production and access for mobile users and the greater Web.
I could not write it any better so I used a paragraph from the homepage just wanted to let all those interested in the Mobile Web to start here they have listings of working group discussions, events and news and more related to the Mobile Web. They also have a great blog
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08.04.06
Posted in Blogs, Developers, Mobile, News, W3C, Web Standards at 10:15 am by Alice Pretchet
Feeling validated
The W3C validator is a great tool. It allows developers to quickly and easily find and fix the inevitable problems that creep into any markup document.
As well as the quick and easy version, the advanced interface allows you to get a more verbose output. Until recently, one of the options was to view an outline of the document being validated. I found this feature very useful: I could see at a glance whether or not the order of my headings (H1, H2, etc.) made sense.
A little while back, the outline functionality disappeared. This was not deliberate, but it turns out that it was due for deletion anyway. There is actually a different dedicated service for examining the semantic structure of documents: the semantic data extractor. This tool will do outlining and more. Personally, I think it is a bit of a shame that validation and outlining have been split into two different services, but both services are immensely useful in their own right.
For a quick and easy way to validate the current document in your browser, drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar and click on it whenever you want to run a check:
Validate this
Here is a bookmarklet to do semantic data extraction:
Extract semantic data
If you need to do batch validation, check out this desktop validator, which is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
But do not forget that the W3C validator is there for your benefit. If you think it can be improved in any way, be sure to give your feedback. Consider joining the mailing list, or simply hanging out in the IRC channel, #validator on the freenode network.
If you can contribute to the ongoing improvement of the validator, you’ll be in good company. Sir Tim Berners-Lee recently said:
The validator I think is a really valuable tool both for users and in helping standards deployment. I’d like it to check (even) more stuff, be (even) more helpful, and prioritize carefully its errors, warning and mild chidings. I’d like it to link to an explanations of why things should be a certain way.
The W3C validator is already a great tool. With the help of developers like you, it can become even greater
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Posted in Blogs, Mobile, News, W3C, Web Standards at 10:12 am by Alice Pretchet
From the W3C Quality Assurance blog
The New Voyagers - Find Information about Web standards
Voyager 1, already the most distant human-made object in the cosmos, reaches 100 astronomical units from the sun on Tuesday, August 15 at 5:13 p.m. Eastern time (2:13 p.m. Pacific time). That means the spacecraft, which launched nearly three decades ago, is 100 times more distant from the sun than Earth is.
It is often quite difficult to find information related to your domain of activity. Weblogs are pouring information about technologies: opinions, rants, technical details, jokes, everyone is taking a part of it. But you need a probe to travel from planet to planet, some Web sites are aggregating this content. Here comes a list a of resources we are using:
- HTML and CSS
- Mobile Web Initiative
- Apache: HTTP (for this one it would be good to fix the links.)
- Semantic Web
- Semantic Web (French)
- SVG
- Mozilla
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