It’s the official HTML5 test that praises IE9's HTML5 features. The W3C has spoken, the IE9 is the best HTML5 browser. But my question is: How credible can the test be, if you discredit it yourself and if you quietly change the results?
Read more »Why Free Software Movement must get involved in Internet Privacy Workshop: 8 and 9 December 2010
« The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Internet Society (ISOC) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will hold a joint Internet privacy workshop on 8 and 9 December 2010 at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts on the question: How Can Technology Help to Improve Privacy on the Internet? ...»
Read more »“Behind the Open Codec FUD Attack, W3C Captured by Microsoft, Apple, Nokia and So On?”
Microsoft and Apple continue their attack on freedom facilitation in the World Wide Web and Apple's PR problem escalates
Read more »Jeff Jaffe now W3C CEO
Ex-Novell CTO, Jeff Jaffe, is now CEO of the web standards organisation
Read more »W3C proposes hardware interface
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) draft for a "System Information API" specifies JavaScript functions for accessing the battery, CPU, sensors and other hardware characteristics of a device. For this purpose, the window.navigator object's SystemInfo interface has to implement the get, set and watch methods.
Read more »Article for wide review: Choosing a language tag
"Comments are being sought on this article prior to final release. Please send any comments to www-international at w3 dot org. We expect to publish a final version in one to two weeks..."
Read more »W3C Detoxicated from Microsoft Influence, But Regains Microsoft and Apple Presence
The HTML Working Group at the W3C loses a co-chairing Microsoft employee, but gains two who are coming from freedom-hostile firms
Read more »HTML 5 - W3C Working Draft 25 August 2009
"This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
Read more »HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.
Read more »The IGF Success Story: Why Proprietary Software should be Prohibited!
"To understand the importance of a UN World Summit, one has to remember that they are held rarely; only when there is an issue of large societal impacts, such as women's rights in 1945, or global climate changes more recently.
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Mozilla Grant will help Wikipedia Support Video
"The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software.
Read more »Video, Audio and Cross Domain Usage
"This is a heads up for a change to the HTML5 media elements that may break existing usage. If you use 'video' or 'audio' then you may need to make changes to the way you serve your media resources..."
Read more »Seven OWL 2 Drafts Published
"2008-10-09: The OWL Working Group published seven documents yesterday relating to the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language. OWL 2 extends OWL, a core standard of the Semantic Web, adding new features that users have requested and that software providers are prepared to implement. The documents are: ..."
Read more »Understanding HTTP PUT
"I was in the process of writing an article to explain on how to make possible to edit your Web pages with HTTP PUT and Amaya (W3C technologies testbed authoring tool). The information is scarce on how to configure your server. This is my attempt at explaining HTTP PUT. Your comments are welcome. I'm pretty sure the lazyweb will fix any of my own misunderstandings..."
Read more »The Dangers of Weak Copyleft
"I’m trying to wrap my head around embedding, given the on-going attempts to make the DRM font format “Embedded OpenType” a W3C web standard..."
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