W3C News

• Venue details for the RDF Next Steps workshop published

  As I announced a few weeks ago, the RDF Next Steps Workshop will take place at NCBO, in Standford, US. A separate page has now been published on the details of the location, especially on hotels. Let me also use...

  Posted on: Tue, March, 9 2010 9:24am

• W3C CEO blog – First posting – March 8, 2010

  A few simple reflections as I begin my new role at W3C. The role The World Wide Web is easily the most revolutionary development that has changed not only information technology, but everything about business, education, entertainment, and information retrieval....

  Posted on: Mon, March, 8 2010 9:31am

• Interview: Paul Cotton on Microsoft Participation in the W3C HTML Working Group

  As part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about their support for standards and participation in W3C, Philippe Le Hegaret is talking to Paul Cotton from Microsoft and co-Chair of the W3C HTML Working Group.

  Posted on: Fri, March, 5 2010 7:17pm

• Entity declarations without DTDs: yet another approach?

  With a Future of XML workshop in the offing, maybe it's time to revisit one of the oldest XML feature requests: binding general entities without using the internal/external subset. There have been numerous more-or-less serious proposals to address this...

  Posted on: Thu, March, 4 2010 11:05am

• W3C Track@WWW2010: LOD and HTML 5

  At this year's 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010 - Raleigh, NC, USA), W3C will organize two "camps": the "HTML 5 camp" and the "Linked Open Data (LOD) camp" (29 and 30 April 2010). The "camp" format of the...

  Posted on: Wed, March, 3 2010 6:13pm

• Web Compatibility Test strikes back

  We did it again! Back in 2008, the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group released its first Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers that packed 12 (and later, 16) important Web technologies into a single page that would tell you...

  Posted on: Tue, February, 23 2010 4:00pm

• Working Group Publication Requests and Approval

  In response to some questions about W3C process from the past few days, a brief FAQ is being published regarding the Working Group publication requests and approval.

  Posted on: Tue, February, 16 2010 5:04pm

• Date and place of the 'RDF Next Step' Workshop settled

  A few weeks ago W3C announced the organization of an "RDF Next Steps" Workshop. At the time of the announcement the dates and the place of the Workshop were not settled yet. They are now... The Workshop will indeed take...

  Posted on: Wed, February, 10 2010 1:41pm

• W3C Chairs angels

  Some of you are familiar with the W3C Chairs angels, three home-made bots living in IRC, that are truly essential to the W3C Working Groups conducting their work on the phone: Trackbot, the toolbox, is the bot for creating and...

  Posted on: Mon, February, 8 2010 3:52pm

• Small add-ons to the RDFa distiller

  A small addition has been made on the RDFa distiller service (pyRdfa): there is now a possibility to upload an XHTML file to be distilled, beyond referring to a URI or copying a text to a text box. This feature...

  Posted on: Mon, February, 8 2010 2:55pm

• SWSWiki

  A few days ago W3C opened a new wiki on Semantic Web Standards: … It is not the goal of this wiki to supersede other community wikis […] instead it is to provide a “first stop” for more information on...

  Posted on: Mon, January, 18 2010 1:15pm

• Take a few minutes to encourage web accessibility. You can make a difference.

  What do you do when you come across an inaccessible website?. . . ...WAI just published: Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites. It walks through steps, provides lots of tips, and includes sample e-mails...

  Posted on: Wed, January, 6 2010 12:00pm

• Share Resources Supporting the Web Accessibility Business Case

  W3C WAI today published a collection of statistics, case studies, and articles supporting the business case for web accessibility in Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization.... Would your organization be willing to share your case study to support the business case for web accessibility?...

  Posted on: Mon, December, 14 2009 3:21pm

• Discover new ways of thinking about accessibility

  As an employee of the W3C Web standards organization, you might think that I would say the most important thing to start with when addressing web accessibility is standards. I don't. I say the first step is learning how people with disabilities use the web. You might be surprised to learn that is the W3C's advice. We've now got it more clearly in writing, in the new document published today by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI): Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility and...

  Posted on: Wed, December, 9 2009 1:02pm

• Default Prefix Declaration

  In this posting, my intention is to provide a concise statement of an idea which is neither particularly new nor particularly mine, but which needs a place that can be referenced in the context of the current debate about distributed extensibility and HTML5. It's a very simple proposal to provide an out-of-band, defaultable, document-scoped means to declare namespace prefix bindings.

  Posted on: Wed, November, 18 2009 2:23pm