W3C Talks in February
Saturday, January 31, 2009 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2009-02-01: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
Family ties
Thursday, January 29, 2009 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
While my great grandfather hid in a rain barrel, a Ukrainian villager raped my great grandmother. Some time later, my grandfather was born.
He looked Ukrainian—so much so that he could slip away to the village, pass as a Christian child, and overhear the neighbors scheduling their next attack on ...
Camelot
Thursday, January 29, 2009 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Robert Goulet was a handsome singing star of the 1960s.
Carol Lawrence, an American actress and singer, was his second wife.
After the two thespians divorced, Lawrence wrote a tell-all book.
Asked to comment, Goulet had this to say:
"I wish her naught but happiness."
Always liked that.
Comments off.
[tags]robertgoulet, love, marriage, divorce[/tags]
XML Base (Second Edition) Is a W3C Recommendation
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2009-01-28: The XML Core Working Group has published the W3C Recommendation of XML Base (Second Edition). This document describes a mechanism for providing base URI services to XLink, but as a modular specification so that other XML applications benefiting from additional control over relative URIs but not built upon XLink can also make use of it. The syntax consists of a single XML attribute named xml:base. The functionality is similar to the base element in HTML. This document is part of W3C's ongoing work to maintain the core XML technologies. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
Note: XHTML Media Types - Second Edition
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2009-01-28: The XHTML2 Working Group has published the Group Note of XHTML Media Types - Second Edition. Many people want to use XHTML to author their web pages, but are confused about the best ways to deliver those pages in such a way that they will be processed correctly by various user agents. This Note contains suggestions about how to format XHTML to ensure it is maximally portable, and how to deliver XHTML to various user agents - even those that do not yet support XHTML natively. This document is intended to be used by document authors who want to use XHTML today, but want to be confident that their XHTML content is going to work in the greatest number of environments. Learn more about the HTML Activity. (Permalink)
pilgrim [Flickr]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
michel v — intraordinaire.com posted a photo:
In front of Pura Tanah Lot, Bali, (during the festival of Ulian Macekan Agung? not sure). Indonesia, september 2008.
Happy Cog is hiring: designer wanted
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Happy Cog Philadelphia is looking for a full time designer to join our team in Center City, Philadelphia.
We are a web design agency—not a marketing communications firm or a design firm that dabbles in the web. But if you're the right person for this job, we don't have to ...
Best visualization projects of 2008
Thursday, January 22, 2009 - Alex Schleifer
FlowingData has select its five best data visualization projects of 2008. Love the Britain from Above videos. Stunning.
ALA No. 276: Web design education
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
In Issue No. 276 of A List Apart, for people who make websites:
Elevate Web Design at the University Level
by LESLIE JENSEN-INMAN
Web education is out of date and fragmented. There are good people working hard to change this, but because of the structure of higher education, it will take time. ...
Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object 1.0
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2009-01-20: The Media Annotations Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Object 1.0. This document specifies use cases and requirements as an input for the development of the "Ontology for Media Object 1.0" and the "API for Media Object 1.0". The ontology will be a simple ontology to support cross-community data integration of information related to media objects on the Web. The API will provide read access and potentially write access to media objects, relying on the definitions from the ontology. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity. (Permalink)
impressionnist waves, south of Dingli [Flickr]
Monday, January 19, 2009 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
michel v — intraordinaire.com posted a photo:
impressionnist waves, south of Dingli [Flickr]
Monday, January 19, 2009 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
michel v — intraordinaire.com posted a photo:
a reflection on our hotel nights [Flickr]
Sunday, January 18, 2009 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
W3C Invites Implementations of CURIE Syntax 1.0
Friday, January 16, 2009 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2009-01-16: The XHTML2 Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of CURIE Syntax 1.0. This document defines a generic, abbreviated syntax for expressing URIs. This syntax is intended to be used as a common element by language designers. The intended audience for this document is Language designers, not the users of those Languages. Track implementations in an ongoing implementation report and learn more about the HTML Activity. (Permalink)
MFA Interaction Design deadline
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Today, January 15, marks the first application deadline for students to apply to the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts. The school will continue to accept applications on a rolling admissions basis as space allows, but don't count on spaces staying open long—the program is limited to ...
rabbit of the storm [Flickr]
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
Future of Social Networking Workshop Begins
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2009-01-15: Today began a 2-day Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, organized by W3C to explore the landscape of social networking technologies. Participants submitted 72 position papers on a wide range of topics regarding the growth and future of social networking, including, but not limited to, the mobile context. The meeting is hosted in Barcelona, Spain by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and ReadyPeople. Many thanks to the hosts and to Silver Sponsors Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, Flock, and Peperoni for their support. (Permalink)
Jobless Apple?
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - Alex Schleifer
Steve Jobs: “In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health (...) I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.”
After all the speculation Steve Jobs is stepping down temporarily to tackle his now “more complex” health issues. While many believe that Apple’s culture is strong enough to deliver good products post-Jobs, will the company’s impact still be the same without its champion? More on the story here, here, here and here (video).
Hollywood Squares Hydra [Flickr]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2009-01-13: The W3C Advisory Committee has elected John Kemp (Nokia), Larry Masinter (Adobe), and T.V. Raman (Google) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Ashok Malhotra (Oracle), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM, appointed), Jonathan Rees (Science Commons, appointed), and Henry Thompson (U. of Edinburgh). The Director is expected to appoint one individual as well. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. (Permalink)
Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web Standards Advisor
Monday, January 12, 2009 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Launched today (my birthday), Jeffrey Zeldman's Web Standards Advisor is a $49.99 extension for Adobe Dreamweaver. It includes two major interfaces:
The Web Validator validates your HTML and CSS and verifies the proper use of microformats, including hCard and hCalendar, for single pages or entire websites.
The Web Standards Advisor checks ...
Jason Has Left the Building
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
I owe it all to Douglas Bowman's bad back.
Doug and Brian Alvey and Adam Greenfield and I were working on a big client project when Doug's back went out. He was so sick, he couldn't work, and it was unclear when he would be able to work again.
As a friend, ...
ALA 275: Duty Now For The Future
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
What better way to begin 2009 than by looking at the future of web design? In Issue No. 275 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, we study the promise and problems of HTML 5, and chart a path toward mobile CSS that works.
Return of the Mobile Style ...
W3C Talks in January
Monday, January 5, 2009 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2009-01-05: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
W3C Talks in January
Monday, January 5, 2009 - World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
2009-01-05: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
ceiling rabbit is watching Alice [Flickr]
Friday, January 2, 2009 - michel v — intraordinaire.com
michel v — intraordinaire.com posted a photo:
What is Alice doing that is titillating the white rabbit's curiosity?
Galeries Lafayette, Paris, december 2008.
An Event Apart redesigned
Thursday, January 1, 2009 - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
There's a new aneventapart.com in town, featuring a 2009 schedule and a reformulated design. I designed the new site and Eric Meyer coded. (Validation freaks, only validator.nu is up to the task of recognizing the HTML 5 DOCTYPE used and validating against it; the validator.w3.org and htmlhelp.com validators can't do ...