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The How-To for html 5 parsing
You have read a lot about the html 5 specification. You heard that there were hidden dragons and acid rains. But what about looking by yourself practically how html 5 parsing is working? There are already some tools to play with html 5.
- dom
- html
- html5
- rdfa
Optimizing your Web server
Simple few techniques and tools to set up your HTTP caching will help you save time and money.
- http
- quality
- tutorial
- web-standards
LogValidator 1.3.1 has been released
LogValidator is a perl open source tool which performs step-by-step log analysis and quality checking for web sites.
- logvalidator
- open-source
- qa
- quality
- validation
- validator
Open Standards Interoperability
Achieving interoperability is a tedious work. There is a lot of issues. Let's explore some of them and find solutions.
- conformance
- interoperability
- qa
- quality
- specification
- test-suite
SVG + XMPP = whiteboard
There are a few whiteboarding projects (sharing a drawing space) built around SVG and XMPP.
- protocol
- svg
- xmpp
utf-8 Growth On The Web
utf-8 is taking over traditional encodings on the Web.
- html
- html5
- i18n
- implementation
- unicode
- validator
Many ways to access W3C mailing-lists
W3C may be about Web technologies, but a lot of its discussions happen... by e-mail. With more than 600,000 public mails archived to date, how can we manage the information overload? And how can that influence our online behaviour?
CSS Validator gets an update
More than 50 bugs closed, a polished User Interface, and some useful core changes: the CSS validator got a great update, but did it have to take a year? Let's look at what is slowing down, and where you can help, too.
- css
Templating Language for Authoring Tools
Structure editing of Web pages is not a simple task. XTiger is a language for authoring Web content including rich information such as microformats and RDFa. Try it.
- authoring
- cms
- editing
- html
- structure
- template
CSS Validator Translation - Polish and Chinese translators wanted!
The last time we gave news about the W3C CSS validator on this space was already over a year ago, for the "fuji release". No news since then? That doesn't mean there has been no progress. Far from it, actually:...
- chinese
- css
- polish
- translations
- validator
- w3c
- web-design
