W3C Talks in December
Sunday, November 30, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-12-01: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
Napoléon’s army of flying glass jellyfish [Flickr]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
michel v — intraordinaire.com posted a photo:
Rue de Castiglione, Paris, novembre 2008.
(Napoléon is on top of that pillar, unleashing the flying armada.)
Blue Beanie Day is here
Friday, November 28, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Today is of course Blue Beanie Day. Thank you for supporting web standards.
Comments off.
[tags]bluebeanieday, designingwithwebstandards, DWWS, webstandards[/tags]
Want to set up a Web Standards Café?
Friday, November 28, 2008 - The Web Standards Project
As a hat tip to Blue Beanie Day 2008 and in the spirit of helping spread the word of web standards, the International Liaison Group thought we'd celebrate by putting together a Web Standard Café Kit.
Web Standards Cafés have been held all over the world bringing together people passionate about ...
impossible conversation [Flickr]
Thursday, November 27, 2008 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
michel v — intraordinaire.com posted a photo:
Mannequins in Colette's display, Rue Saint Honoré, Paris, november 2008.
YouTube’s interactive video gaming
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - Constantinos Demetriadis
YouTube’s latest features – namely annotations – bring a new level of interactivity to video online. The latest game is titled The Time Machine, and features an array of video clips which if viewed in the right order will complete the story. An earlier game with similar features was Samsung’s Follow your instinct. Reminds me of the good ol days when I used to read those multiple timeline books…
W3C Invites Implementations of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-26: The XML Processing Model Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc, a language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. A pipeline consists of steps. Like pipelines, steps take zero or more XML documents as their inputs and produce zero or more XML documents as their outputs. The inputs of a step come from the web, from the pipeline document, from the inputs to the pipeline itself, or from the outputs of other steps in the pipeline. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Fifth Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-26: The XML Core Working Group has published the W3C Recommendation of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition). This fifth edition of the widely deployed standard XML incorporates corrections to errata found in previous versions. In particular, one correction relaxes the restrictions on element and attribute names, thereby providing in XML 1.0 the major end user benefit currently achievable only by using XML 1.1. As a consequence, many possible documents that were not well-formed according to previous editions of this specification are now well-formed, and previously invalid documents using the newly-allowed name characters in, for example, ID attributes, are now valid. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
WordPress 2.6 Easter Egg
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - Donncha
This is new to me, even though others have known about it for months. There’s a Matrix Easter Egg in WordPress 2.6 and in the betas of WordPress 2.7. To activate it:
- Edit a post.
- Scroll down to the revisions section of the page and click the latest revision.
- On the next page, scroll down again and select the same revision for comparison.
- The Matrix has you..
Danger !
Self-comparison detected.
Initiating infinite loop eschewal protocol.
Self destruct in… 3
2
1
Wake up, Donncha…
The Matrix has you…
Don’t let this happen again. Go Back.
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Workshop in Mozambique Continues W3C Focus on Mobile Technologies in Fostering Development
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-25: W3C announced a Workshop on Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social and Economic Development, April 1-2 2009, in Maputo, Mozambique. Participants will explore ways to fulfill the potential of mobile phones as a platform for deploying development-oriented ICT services towards the poorest segments of populations in developing countries, with an emphasis on the African context. The Workshop is open to the public; learn how to participate. You may also become a Workshop Sponsor to help support the participation of those with expertise who might not otherwise be able to attend due to travel or other costs. The Workshop is hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of Mozambique and is organized as part of the Digital World Forum project (European Union's FP7). Read the press release and learn more about W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI).(Permalink)
Last Call: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-25: The XML Schema Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators. XML Schema: Component Designators defines a scheme for identifying XML Schema components as specified by XML Schema Part 1: Structures and XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes. Comments are welcome through 19 January. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
Incubator Group Report: Elements of an EmotionML 1.0
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-25: The Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group published their final report. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including emotions. The report provides elements for an Emotion Markup Language striking a balance between scientific well-foundedness and practical applicability. The language is conceived as a "plug-in" language suitable for use in three different areas: (1) manual annotation of data; (2) automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user behaviour; and (3) generation of emotion-related system behaviour. This publication is part of the Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment. This work is not on the W3C standards track. (Permalink)
W3C Invites Implementations of Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1 and Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-25: The Service Modeling Language Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendations of Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1 and Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1. The former defines the Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1 (SML) used to model complex services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices. The latter defines the interchange format for SML 1.1 models. This format identifies the model being interchanged, distinguishes between model definition documents and model instance documents, and defines the binding of rule documents with other documents in the interchange model. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
WordPress MU 2.6.5
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - Donncha
WordPress MU, the multi blog version of WordPress that runs on such sites as WordPress.com has been updated to version 2.6.5 to address an XSS vulnerability in the feeds offered to users.
More details will be forthcoming but for the time being, there’s also the WordPress.org announcement post.
This release also has a number of bug fixes, including a fix and improvements to rss caching. This is a required upgrade, so please install it as soon as you can.
After you’ve upgraded, check out the nominations for the 2008 WPMU Awards and vote for your favourite!
In related news, a new version of WP Super Cache is also available. This version hopefully fixes:
- Issues with clients seeing compressed pages incorrectly
- Cache clean up
- Warnings if Apache modules are missing
- Better support for WordPress MU. The wp-content/cache/.htaccess rules are now displayed on the admin page
- Better documentation on file locking
- WP Cache files are written to a temporary file first
- Use WP_CONTENT_URL in mod_rewrite rules generator
It also adds a number of filters:
- “supercache_dir” filter so the supercache directory can be manipulated. “wp_cache_key” cache_action to modify the key the wp-cache file is named after. Using both of these should make it easier for plugin authors to manipulate the cache based on user agent or other criteria. ie. iPhone theme? Unfortunately .htaccess rewrite rules will have to be updated manually.
- Added “wpsupercache_buffer” filter so the current page can be manipulated before being stored in the cache.
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10 Best Things About Coming Depression
Monday, November 24, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
More family time.
Candlelight is romantic.
"Fed look" replaces "bling" as status conferrer.
Millions empowered to leave dead-end jobs.
Americans lower their carbon footprint.
Sleeping under the stars.
Homeopathic medicines gain new respect.
Top musicians develop a more personal relationship with their listener.
No more buggy software updates.
Rivalry between Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis devolves to who owns ...
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0: Updated Working Draft
Monday, November 24, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-24: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help Web developers produce Web content that is accessible and conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. ATAG also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Read the invitation to review the ATAG 2.0 Working Draft and about the Web Accessibility Initiative.(Permalink)
Web standards in China
Monday, November 24, 2008 - The Web Standards Project
En plus des versions anglaise et chinoise, l'article est désormais également disponible en français. Merci Armony
In early October I was lucky enough to spend some time in China talking to web professionals and students alike about web standards and their current status. It was an interesting couple of weeks that ...
Kids say the darnedest things. Say the darnedest things. Say the darnedest things.
Monday, November 24, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
"Daddy, let's play dinosaur. You can be the daddy dinosaur, mommy can be the mommy dinosaur, I can be the baby dinosaur, and doggy can be the doggy dinosaur."
"Okay."
"Daddy, let's play leprechaun. You can be the daddy leprechaun, mommy can be the mommy leprechaun, I can be the baby leprechaun, ...
State of the Art by Spaceballs
Monday, November 24, 2008 - Donncha
This Amiga demo blew me away when I first saw it. There are better ones out there but I think the dancing figures were such an unusual feature at the time it struck a chord with a lot of people.
Check out the follow up demo, Nine Fingers and other releases by Spaceballs. Of course, you should grab the original disks for State of the Art and 9 Fingers and watch on a real Amiga rather than watching a low quality Youtube video!
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Kids say the darndest things. Say the darndest things. Say the darndest things.
Sunday, November 23, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
"Daddy, let's play dinosaur. You can be the daddy dinosaur, mommy can be the mommy dinosaur, I can be the baby dinosaur, and doggy can be the doggy dinosaur."
"Okay."
"Daddy, let's play leprechaun. You can be the daddy leprechaun, mommy can be the mommy leprechaun, I can be the baby leprechaun, ...
Skimming the web
Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Donncha
The way I see it, there are three stages to web browsing:
- The web is new. You visit the blogs of friends and colleagues every day. You use Gmail or Yahoo mail and check in on your favourite sites a few times a day.
- It quickly becomes tiring visiting websites every day that may not have any new content. You discover feed readers and play around with a few of them. You find that Google Reader is a pretty good one and you start subscribing to every single interesting blog or feed you find.
- Not long after you suffer feed fatigue. There are just too many blogs. Too much noise, too much chaff. You discover Stumbleupon, Friend Feed and Twitter (I’m ‘donncha’ on each of those if you’d like to subscribe/follow!). Now the feeds or sites you read are recommended by your trusted circle of friends. You’ll still dig into your feed reader but it seems to happen less and less and that unread items count keeps going up and up.
Now if only I had time to check out Friend Feed properly. I find I’m skimming through the web these days. If I can’t scan a blog post and understand the main points of the page within a few seconds I’m gone. It’s a sad state of affairs.
If you’re time poor, how have your web surfing habits changed? (paradoxically, if you have time to comment here, you’re not that time poor. What a bind!)
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Last Call: SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0
Friday, November 21, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-21: The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0. This document specifies how SOAP should bind to a messaging system that supports the Java Message Service (JMS). The specification helps to ensure interoperability between the implementations of different Web services vendors. It should also enable customers to implement their own Web services for part of their infrastructure, and to have this interoperate with vendor provided Web services. Comments are welcome through 13 January. Learn more about the Web Services Activity.(Permalink)
Gmail adds themes
Thursday, November 20, 2008 - Alex Schleifer
Google has just announced the launch of themes for Gmail. Some are crazy fun, others offer an actual valid alternative to the current theme. Like the fact that some designs even change the Gmail logo. Takes a secure brand to allow that.
Blue Beanie Day II
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Announcing the second annual Blue Beanie Day. Please join us on Friday, November 28, 2008 to show your support for web standards and accessibility.
Participating's easy: get your picture taken wearing a blue toque or beanie. On November 28, switch your profile picture in Facebook, Twitter, et al., and post your ...
Call for Review: Element Traversal Specification Proposed Recommendation
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-19: The Web Applications Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of Element Traversal Specification. This specification defines the ElementTraversal interface, which allows script navigation of the elements of a DOM tree, excluding all other nodes in the DOM, such as text nodes. It also provides an attribute to expose the number of child elements of an element. It is intended to provide a more convenient alternative to existing DOM navigation interfaces, with a low implementation footprint. Comments are welcome through 15 December. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.(Permalink)
Cognition
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Two greatly gifted user experience professionals are contributing their time and talent to Happy Cog.
A veteran strategist and instructor, user experience director Kevin Hoffman creates compelling online experiences via patient research and sparkling creative insight. Prior to joining Happy Cog, he spent more than a decade building sites, developing strategies, ...
Call for Review: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification Proposed Recommendation
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-19: The SVG Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification.This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny, Version 1.2, a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. The specification enables the creation of graphical content, from static images to animations to interactive Web applications. SVG 1.2 Tiny is a profile of SVG intended for implementation on a range of devices, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers, and thus includes a subset of the features included in SVG 1.1 Full, along with new features to extend the capabilities of SVG. Comments are welcome through 15 December. (Permalink)
ALA 272: Accessible web video, better 404
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
In Issue No. 272 of A List Apart, for people who make websites:
This is How the Web Gets Regulated
by JOE CLARK
As in finance, so on the web: self-regulation has failed. Nearly ten years after specifications first required it, video captioning can barely be said to exist on the web. The ...
XML Signature Best Practices First Public Draft
Monday, November 17, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-17: The XML Security Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of XML Signature Best Practices. This document collects best practices for implementors and users of the XML Signature specification. Most of these best practices are related to improving security and mitigating attacks, yet others are for best practices in the practical use of XML Signature, such as signing XML that doesn't use namespaces, for example. Learn more about the Security Activity. (Permalink)
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0 Draft Published
Monday, November 17, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-17: The Math Working Group has published a Working Draft of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0, which defines the Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Learn more about the Math Activity. (Permalink)
W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0 Updated
Monday, November 17, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-17: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published an update of Working Draft of W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0. The document provides an overview of how the mobileOK specification helps ensure that content is suitable for use on very basic mobile devices. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity. (Permalink)
Give up and use tables
Monday, November 17, 2008 - Alex Schleifer
We’ve scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it’s 47 minutes. It’s time to give up and use tables. Via Ajaxian.
Four POWDER Documents published; three Last Call Drafts
Sunday, November 16, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-17: The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group published four Working Drafts today. The purpose of the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) is to provide a means for individuals or organizations to describe a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata.
Irish girls denied cancer vaccine
Sunday, November 16, 2008 - Donncha
I haven’t been listening to the news much of late. I’m not sure when that started but even if the news is on in the background, the droning voice of the newscaster usually goes in one ear and out the other.
Unfortunately for the Irish Government, and Mary Harney in particular, Red Mum is making sure that everyone hears about their disgraceful refusal to administer a vaccine against cervical cancer to every 12 year old girl in the country. More on the Irish Times website:
Minister for Health Mary Harney this evening said the economic situation had “rapidly and seriously” deteriorated since the plan was announced in August. The vaccination against strains of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) would have cost an estimated €9.7 milliion annually.The decision was immediately criticised by the Opposition and by the Irish Cancer Society, which asked Ms Harney to make a clear commitment to restore the vaccination scheme “at the earliest possible opportunity”.
Gavin has a clip taken from TV3 news featuring John Crown, a cancer specialist denouncing the decision:
So what can you do? Join the Facebook Group or send Mary Harney, the minister for health, pictures of your daughters. Blog about it, contact your TD and tell them you’re very unhappy with the situation. 9.7m Euro is pocket change in the budget of a country, even one in a recession.
While on the topic of vaccines, my wife was told that the area we live in, Blarney, is overrun with cases of childhood measles and mumps. I’m glad my little boy was vaccinated with the MMR.
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Minority Report, now.
Saturday, November 15, 2008 - Alex Schleifer
I give you a complete, real-world working version of the UI Tom Cruise was fondling in Minority Report. Not sure what type of repetitive stress injury you’ll bring upon yourself waving your arms around like that all day but it certainly is an awesome sight to behold.
W3C Publishes XML Signature Best Practices First Public Draft
Friday, November 14, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-14: The XML Security Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of XML Signature Best Practices. The XML Signature specification offers powerful and flexible mechanisms to support a variety of use cases. This flexibility has the downside of increasing the number of possible attacks. One countermeasure to the increased number of threats is to follow best practices, including a simplification of the use of XML Signature where possible. This document outlines best practices noted by the XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group, the XML Security Working Group, and other ideas cited at the Workshop on Next Steps for XML Security. While most of these best practices are related to improving security and mitigating attacks, yet others are for best practices in the practical use of XML Signature, such as signing XML that doesn't use namespaces. Learn more about the Security Activity. (Permalink)
Last Call: Selectors API
Friday, November 14, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-14: The Web Applications Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of Selectors API. Selectors, which are widely used in CSS, are patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. The Selectors API specification defines methods for retrieving Element nodes from the DOM by matching against a group of selectors. It is often desirable to perform DOM operations on a specific set of elements in a document. These methods simplify the process of acquiring specific elements, especially compared with the more verbose techniques defined and used in the past. Comments are welcome through 12 December. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)
Real type on the web?
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
A proposal for a fonts working group is under discussion at the W3C. The minutes of a small meeting held on Thursday 23 October include a condensed, corrected transcription of a discussion between Sampo Kaasila (Bitstream), Mike Champion (Microsoft), John Daggett (Mozilla), Håkon Wium Lie (Opera), Liam Quin (W3C), Bert ...
Postage stamps by type designers
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Neville Brody, Wim Crouwel, Adrian Frutiger, Eric Gill, Erik Spiekermann, and Hermann Zapf are among the creators of postage stamps by type designers on display at Kat Ran Press.
[tags]design, typography, postagestamps[/tags]
The Matrix Windows Style
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - Donncha
What would the Matrix be like if it ran on Windows XP? Very silly, but I love the ending! (Thanks Aehso!)
PS. Jason Roe is organising a blogger/webby meet up in Dublin on Thursday the 27th. I won’t be there but he’ll have some WordPress stickers and badges to give away!
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Pomme, beaming [Flickr]
Sunday, November 9, 2008 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
michel v — intraordinaire.com posted a photo:
A portrait of my friend Pomme, shot in a café in Paris, november 2008.
New Working Group to Refine Web Services Resource Access Specifications
Friday, November 7, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-07: W3C today launched the Web Services Resource Access Working Group with a mission to produce W3C Recommendations for a set of Web Services specifications by refining the WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-Enumeration, WS-MetadataExchange and WS-Eventing Member Submissions. The group will address existing issues in those specifications, and review implementation experience and interoperability feedback from implementers and considering composition with other Web services standards. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. (Permalink)
Is your (website’s) underwear showing?
Friday, November 7, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
It's astounding how many web designers forget to specify a background color on their site. They'll spend months iterating wireframes and design comps; write CSS hacks for browsers predating this century; test their work on everything from Blackberries to old Macs running System 7; and of course they'll validate their ...
Stix Bar in Beaconsfield
Friday, November 7, 2008 - Donncha
For lunch today we went to Stix in Beaconsfield. It’s a lovely restaurant in a picturesque area outside London, with a car park right next to it.
Before I go any further, the owners are related to Matt so I could be accused of being biased. Still we had a great lunch there. I ordered a burger, the others ordered various tapas portions and Adam had chicken goujons, chips and peas and hasn’t been as relaxed in a restaurant since he was a tiny baby and slept through our excursions to a local restaurant in Blarney.
If you’re ever in Beaconsfield, make sure you visit Stix and say hi to Suzy, Steve and Dan!
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W3C Invites Implementations of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation)
Friday, November 7, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-07: The Voice Browser Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1. The Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification is designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications. The essential role of the markup language is to provide authors of synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of speech such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across different synthesis-capable platforms. See the implementation report plan and learn more about the Voice Browser Activity. (Permalink)
Note: Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification
Friday, November 7, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-07: The XML Core Working Group has published the Group Note of Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification. For historic reasons, some formats have allowed variants of IRIs that are somewhat less restricted in syntax, for example XML system identifiers and W3C XML Schema anyURIs. This document provides a definition and a name (Legacy Extended IRI or LEIRI) for these variants for easy reference. These variants have to be used with care; they require further processing before being fully interchangeable as IRIs. New protocols and formats should not use Legacy Extended IRIs. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
WCAG 2.0 resources
Thursday, November 6, 2008 - The Web Standards Project
Here's a starter list of some resources to help transition to WCAG 2 from the world of WCAG 1, now the new standard goes to proposed recommendation status.
This is just a starter list; please add other resources that you recommend in the comments. It would be great to have ...
WCAG 2 and mobileOK Basic Tests specs are proposed recommendations
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - The Web Standards Project
WCAG 2 and the mobileOK Basic Tests specifications have been moved to "proposed recommendation status" by the W3C, which means that the technical material is complete and it has been implemented in real sites.
WCAG 2
Shawn Henry writes of WCAG 2,
Over the last few months, the Web Content ...
ALA 271: words and scripts that work
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
The fundamental things apply in Issue no. 271 of A List Apart, for people who make websites. Erin Kissane tells how non-writers (i.e. the people who write most of the stuff on the web) can make every word count in "Writing Content that Works for a Living." And Aaron Gustafson ...
Um, don’t blog, or something
Monday, November 3, 2008 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
In Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004, Wired, which ceased to be relevant in 1999, says you shouldn't write a blog because, um, Calacanis and Scoble.
Uh, wait, the problem is that some comments are not thoughtful. And I guess you can't turn off comments in blogging software ...
W3C Talks in November
Monday, November 3, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-03: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is a Proposed Recommendation
Monday, November 3, 2008 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2008-11-03: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 as a Proposed Recommendation, and published updated Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0, Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and How to Meet WCAG 2.0. WCAG defines how to make Web sites, Web applications, and other Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Comments are welcome through 2 December 2008. Read the announcement, Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (Permalink)