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Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest

Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, XHTML, W3C, Microsoft Corp., standards, HTML, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, ISO

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium

Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web ConsortiumSemantic WebThe evolution of the web represents a new epoch for mankind if the data is made available in an accurate an palatable fashion. With infinite data available we essentially obtain a degree of knowledge never formerly imaginable, the...

Tags: Semantic Web, Ivan Herman, knowledge, W3C

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Microsoft to defend its IE policies in closed-door antitrust hearing

Microsoft to defend its IE policies in closed-door antitrust hearingHurting consumers."But I think it?s harder to prove Microsoft?s policies have hurt consumers."No, it's not difficult at all. Microsoft's persistent refusal to adhere to W3C standards has made many web sites utterly or partially unusable for non-IE users. alltel.com,...

Tags: Web browsers, antitrust, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, W3C

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium

Ivan Herman is Semantic Web Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and in this podcast he talks about a range of current activities across the Semantic Web community. by Paul Miller

Tags: W3C, Ivan Herman, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Gmail for iPhone goes offline, as in airplane mode

Google demoed an offline version of Gmail for the iPhone and Android that works in airplane mode at Mobile World Congress MWC 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. The app does its magic by implementing several features found in HTML5, including: Database (W3C HTML5) App Cache (W3C HTML5)...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, W3C, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-18

The HTML standards process grinds on

The HTML standards process grinds onCSS 3 is the same . . .On a related note, the CSS 3 standards are experiencing the same issues and are taking a long time.One thing that is happening is that "last call"s apparently aren't. The various parts of the standard fell back to...

Tags: XHTML, CSS 3, CSS 2.1, CSS3, HTML5, W3C, HTML, CSS

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

World Wide Web Consortium publishes updated mobile standards

I was reading jkOnTheRun this morning and found their article on the updated mobile web standards published today by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C announced updated standards and published the Mobile Web Best Practices and XHTML Basic 1.1 guidelines for website designers. by Matthew Miller

Tags: Web, W3C, Mobile, Standards, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Using Flash and Silverlight to move web standards forward

Via John Carroll I saw a blog post by Paul Ellis in which he talks about the shortcomings of open standards, or more specifically, standards bodies, and how that affects the open web. In short, it's led to the innovation and widespread adoption of proprietary technologies like Flash and Silverlight....

Tags: Innovation, Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Standards, Alex Russell, Channel Management, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Why Flash and Silverlight will save the web

Flash and Silverlight are viewed in some circles as undermining a free and open Internet. The truth, however, is that both technologies are part of the process by which we map out a problem domain sufficiently, laying the groundwork for standardization committees of the future. Deviation from standards,...

Tags: Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Technology, Paul Ellis, Standardization Committee, Problem Domain, Channel Management, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-15

How will HTML 5 change the Web?

If 2007 was the year of GPLv3, then 2008 will be the year of HTML 5. (Picture from ThinkQuest.) Just as we spent much of last year debating the revision of our most popular open source license, we're invited to spend this year having similar discussions around...

Tags: Web, HTML, W3C, Web Browser, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-23

XML Warehousing Meets Sociology: Introducing the W3C XQuery Working Group

This paper describes a novel application of XML and Web based technologies, a sociological study of the W3C standardization process. They propose a new methodology and tools, to be used by sociologists to study the standardization process, illustrated by the W3C XQuery Working Group. The novelty of the approach has...

Tags: W3C, XQuery, Standardization, University Of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Strategic Planning, XML, Strategy, Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

Opera: Setting the record straight on Microsoft and Web standards

Opera: Setting the record straight on Microsoft and Web standardsThey're doing no such thing.Don't think for a minute they're doing this for us. Microsoft is under no obligation to pass Acid2.Message has been deleted.There are no such things as "community standards"The writer is clearly not informed as to what a...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera Software ASA, standards, W3C, Yes IE

Discussion threads 2007-12-14

Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?

Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format vs ODF in newly public e-mail?No permission needed to circulate emails...... as once they leave your outbox, they belong to the recipient and the recipient can do with them as they please, within legal boundaries of course.Talk about standardized formats...or...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), CDF, office format, OpenDocument Format, W3C, Microsoft Corp., e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-12-04

Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?

Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...

Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'

When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...

Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

ValidSquirrel 1 (Windows)

ValidSquirrel is a desktop based markup validator, which works very much like the W3C validator. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: W3C, Delta Software Labs, ValidSquirrel, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-10-24

Queen to appoint Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to England's Order of Merit

Although he is already a Knight, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web is about to have an even more prestigious honor bestowed upon him. According to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) spokesperson Janet Daly, Sir Tim will, on Thursday, be appointed to England's Order...

Tags: Web, W3C, Tim Berners-Lee, England, Semantic Web, Wiki, Internet, Online Communications, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-09

Page Validator 0.3.2 (Windows)

Validates a page using the W3C Markup Validation Service. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. This is a simple extension that will work only for online pages....

Tags: W3C, Page, Michael Langley, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Offline Page Validator 0.3 (Windows)

Submits the current open page to the W3C validation tool, even if the page is on a non-public server, a local file, or requires login. Don't validate your confidential information. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: W3C, Ham S. Ter, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-09-26

Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0 Service Pack 7 (SP7) 1 (Windows)

The Microsoft XML Parser MSXML 3.0 SP7 release offers a number of bug fixes and security fixes over the previous MSXML 3.0 SP releases. All MSXML 3.0 releases provide: Server-safe HTTP access, complete implementation of XSL Transformations XSLT and XML Path Language XPath, changes to the Simple API for XML...

Tags: W3C, XSLT, XML Parser, Microsoft Windows, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft XML Parser, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2007-08-29