The DTDs and namespace documents are bringing in unwanted traffic at W3C (via Slashdot). DOCTYPE is a declaration you use to indicate the version of markup the site uses or is supposed to use. It is a declaration, not a hyperlink. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsThe DTDs and namespace documents are bringing in unwanted traffic at W3C (via Slashdot). DOCTYPE is a declaration you use to indicate the version of markup the site uses or is supposed to use. It is a declaration, not a hyperlink. [Continue]
W3C again finds itself fighting the Web designer and developer community. It seems to have started from Andy Clarke’s call for reorganizing the CSS Working Group. Andy raises a concern that browser vendors, which compete with each other, will act in good interest of collaboratively developing the new CSS standard. [Continue]
There is some turbulence in the web standards group, and a lot of designers and developers I respect and admire are part of it. Molly Holzschlag’s call to fix problems with the future of markup and Javascript got a lot of the community members together. She has also followed up it with the explicit issues, addressing the working group. [Continue]
Lorelle writes about the W3C Multipage Validator. Validating markup of the entire site with the traditional validator was time consuming and usually led to skipping some pages. The multipage validator makes it very convenient. [Continue]
Mozilla, Opera and Apple have joined hands to propose W3C to accept HTML 5 (via Ajaxian). Not very surprising since WHATWG, the group working on X/HTML 5, was composed of these three. Consequentially Microsoft’s does not appear anywhere near that. [Continue]
Sam Ruby mentions Ian Hickson’s entry informing that the W3C is restarting the HTML specification effort (press release). Since it was decided that HTML was going to live, X/HTML 5 specification had been in focus. The good part is that the new activity is going to be open to contributions from the field. [Continue]
W3C’s CSS validator ckimbs the mountain to a new release - Fuji. It now defaults to CSS 2.1 specification for validation. The layout is new, as that of the preview of Unicorn - a tool that checks the markup and stylesheet both. [Continue]
Widgets are getting an official approval (via Steve Rubel) from W3C. This is an attempt of standardising the widgets specification before it gets too late. This document describes widgets. [Continue]
Web has been invaded with a whole lot of brouhaha about XHTML, CSS, accessibility, readability, and the list can go on. What is this about? Is this about confirming to standards as part of a regulation or because it is really useful to someone? [Continue]
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