Blog - 2008
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A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized
WCAG 2.0 was published today as a final Web Standard "W3C Recommendation". Check out the official announcement, e-mail, press release, testimonials, and a personal reflection on WCAG. Here are some additional perspectives on a few points...
From Iran, with love
Season greetings are slightly in advance! And what a lovely surprise! I received a big envelope from Iran, containing 66 letters printed on glossy paper for each of the people of W3C. The letter bears a message of acknowledgment...
- letter
- seasons-greeting
- translations
XML and language resources
Language resources are needed by many people and tools: language teachers use computers to store example sentences, present grammars patterns, help learners to find mistakes etc. machine translation tools use word classes, grammar and other information, or large sets...
- language
- resources
- xml
How to evaluate Web Applications security designs?
I could use some help getting my head around security for Web Applications and mashups. The first time someone told me W3C should be working on specs help the browser prevent sensitive data from leaking out of enterprises, I...
- html
- security
- webapps
Interview: Dan Appelquist on Vodafone, Mobile Web, and W3C Standards
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By: Ian Jacobs
As part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about their support for standards and participation in W3C, I asked Dan Appelquist (Vodafone's Advisory Committee Representative at W3C) some questions. Q. First, congratulations on the...
- mobile-web
- mwi
- widgets
W3C Validator, now with HTML5 flavour
For too long we struggled with the tension between “perfect support for standards” and “be cutting edge to help develop better new technologies”. With the latest version of our Markup Validator, integrating with the validator.nu engine, comes part of the solution.
- html
- html5
- validator
- validatornu
- w3c
Extended deadline to submit position papers to workshop on the Future of Social Netorking
We have just announced that the deadline to send (1 to 5 pages long )position papers for the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking has been extended to 3 December 2008 - the initial deadline ended today. This...
- social-networks