W3C News

• W3C Unicorn Launch off to good start

  On July 27th, 2010 we made the first official release on Unicorn. We are elated with the response from the community. Within two days after the announcement we received 7 additional translations. There are already a couple new checkers in...

  Posted on: Fri, July, 30 2010 5:15pm

• Augmented Reality: A Point of Interest for the Web

  Last month's Augmented Reality on the Web workshop in Barcelona has sparked a good deal of debate within and around W3C. As the final report shows, the workshop brought together many different companies and organizations working on or with a direct interest in the field of Augmented Reality — but how can W3C help in this area?

  Posted on: Thu, July, 22 2010 9:20am

• HTML5 in W3C Cheatsheet

  From the very first release of the cheatsheet, I’ve received requests to include the various new elements and attributes of the HTML5 specification in the cheatsheet. As a reminder, the cheatsheet is a mobile-friendly Web application that provides a compilation...

  Posted on: Tue, July, 20 2010 3:26pm

• The Core Mission of W3C

  New July 9, 2010 I reported in The Mission of W3C that a major focus of W3C is to Strengthen our core mission. This blog entry elaborates. Broad and / or deep Since the Web is central to everything...

  Posted on: Fri, July, 16 2010 6:14pm

• Making W3C the Place for New Standards - The Survey!

  Before taking a short vacation starting last week I announced a public survey: Making W3C the place for new Web standards. The survey is part of the work of the task force I'm chairing that has a number of goals:...

  Posted on: Wed, July, 7 2010 6:34pm

• New opportunities for linked data nose-following

  For those of you interested in deploying RDF on the Web, I'd like to draw your attention to three new proposed standards from IETF, "Web Linking", "Defining Well-Known URIs", and "Web Host Metadata", that create new follow-your-nose tricks that...

  Posted on: Tue, July, 6 2010 6:12pm

• W3C Model-Based UI Workshop Report

  The report from the W3C Workshop on Future Standards for Model-Based User Interfaces is now available. The workshop took place in central Rome on 13-14 May 2010, and focused on ideas for making it easier to create Web applications that...

  Posted on: Wed, June, 30 2010 2:34pm

• An Update on CSS 2.1

  So where are we (that "we" meaning the CSS Working Group) on CSS 2.1? In short, we're making fast and excellent progress: we are currently resolving the last outstanding issues ; almost all our weekly conference calls are entirely dedicated...

  Posted on: Wed, June, 30 2010 5:34am

• Point of Interest Working Group

  Following the successful W3C Workshop: Augmented Reality on the Web in Barcelona last week, work is now underway to establish a Working Group to develop one or more Recommendation Track documents to encode data about Points of Interest.

  Posted on: Thu, June, 24 2010 3:27pm

• W3C Cheatsheet on Android Market

  Back in November, I announced the first release of the W3C cheatsheet for Web developers — a compact Web application that provides quick access to useful information from various W3C specs. Making that Web app mobile friendly has always...

  Posted on: Tue, June, 22 2010 6:50am

• Making W3C the Best Place for New Standards Work

  In my previous blog entry I discussed the five major focus areas for W3C as an organization. They were: Drive a Global and accessible Web Provide a Better Value Proposition for Users Make W3C the best place for new...

  Posted on: Fri, June, 18 2010 8:35pm

• Make Your Presentations Accessible to All

  Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? You could be doing a similar thing to your audience — leaving some people out.... Read on to learn how to make presentations, talks, meetings, and training accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others...

  Posted on: Tue, June, 15 2010 3:45pm

• Interviews with SVG Implementers

  As the first in a series of interviews with SVG implementers for the SVG Working Group blog, I have posted a conversation with Patrick Dengler, the project lead for Microsoft's IE9 SVG team, and a new member of the SVG...

  Posted on: Fri, June, 4 2010 5:42pm

• SVG Contest

  The browser vendors have been making great progress on SVG recently, and now it's time for you to make progress in SVG, as well... that is, a progress bar, a spinner, or some other live graphic to indicate that the...

  Posted on: Thu, June, 3 2010 1:43pm

• XHTML Modularization: a markup language designer's toolkit

  The current maintenance update to XHTML Modularization is in response to the inevitable bug reports and clarifications that come from actual use. Since there have recently been some misconceptions expressed about the purpose of the spec, I'd thought I'd take...

  Posted on: Thu, June, 3 2010 8:45am