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The W3C and PageRank
You can donate to the W3C through their "W3C Supporters" program. By donating over $1,000 USD, you get a link from this page. No problem, right? Well... That page is has a Google PageRank of 9. And apparently they'll let "supporters" pick their link text, because there are hyperlinks on ...
Published: July 8, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Eolas Patent Under Review
Patent office to re-examine Eolas patent: It looks like the W3C's trip to the patent office may have paid off. "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has stepped squarely into a fight roiling the Web by agreeing to re-examine the Eolas patent for a browser plug-in, a development likely to ...
Published: November 12, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 875
w3ctextarea
bitter pill: w3ctextarea 'textarea xhtml validator': Huh. This is a pretty good idea. Or you could just use Markdown. w3ctextarea is a Firefox extension that allows you to validate data within a textarea as 'XHTML 1.0 Strict' using the w3c xhtml strict validator. It gleans any text from any and ...
Published: February 28, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 831
IE Changes May Affect Your Site
Ad Hoc Meeting on US Patent 5,838,906: Microsoft recently lost a patent dispute and is making changes to IE as a result (this, after they announced IE was frozen). The W3C posted this notice, with an ominous warning: "... Microsoft has indicated to W3C that they will very soon be ...
Published: August 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 822
Opera Files Formal Complaint Over IE Rendering
Opera tries to force IE into W3C compliance with EU complaint; Firefox s success may work against it: Opera has filed a complaint with the EU trying to get a ruling that forces IE into W3C compliance. Opera wants the EC to hold Microsoft s feet to the fire when it comes ...
Published: December 13, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 808
HSL Color Specification and CSS3
A (CSS) Horse of a Different Color: The W3C is busy working on the CSS3 specification. This article has information on an interesting twist to colors: specifying them in HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) instead of the traditional RGB (Red, Green, Blue). I tooled around the What's New page at the ...
Published: July 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 795
SOAP 1.2
World Wide Web Consortium Issues SOAP Version 1.2 as a W3C Recommendation: SOAP 1.2 is out.
Published: June 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 791
Composite Capability / Preference Profile
Here's something that's slowly making its way through the W3C working groups. CC/PP is a method by which a device browser, PDA, SmartPhone, whatever can describe itself and its user's preferences to a server in the HTTP request. Think of it as a User-Agent string on steroids. The device ...
Published: June 7, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 760
IE7 Details
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Details Begin to Leak: It stuns me that of all the things Microsoft is thinking about putting into IE7, improved CSS support is not one of them. Partner sources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0. ...
Published: March 15, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 705
More on the Eolas Case
The Eolas Patent: Don't Be a Victim: A well-written article on what the Eolas patent dispute means to you as a Web developer. "The ruling is likely to affect you either as a Web developer, or as a Web consumer. First, despite the fact that Eolas' lawsuit targeted only ...
Published: October 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
Opacity in CSS
A (CSS) Horse of a Different Color: A quick look at the upcoming opacity features in CSS3. "The draft CSS3 color module takes this a step further, adding an alpha channel to the RGB value, effectively allowing you to change the opacity of an object. This additional alpha value takes ...
Published: July 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 693
Mourning the Lack of HTML UI Controls
Knobs and Trees: A great rant about how HTML hasn't really gone anywhere for years and Web UIs lag woefully behind client UIs, much as Joel Solsky stated about a month ago or so. I think the essential problem with browsers is that users have not demanded of vendors [...] ...
Published: July 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 693
The Info on XForms
The Secret Life of XForms: XForms will be pretty cool when/if it happens. It's a W3C recommendation, but in the Microsoft-controlled world of browsers, that doesn't count for much. The idea here is pretty simple the View, or user interface, provides a set of controls that give the "public" ...
Published: November 16, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 691
Solutions for Web-Based Form Usability
Forms, usability, and the W3C DOM: A first-class article about one method of simplifying complex Web-based forms by making various elements appear and disappear based on other input. The solution he comes up with is quite ingenious. It has a link to this page with demonstrates a solution to another ...
Published: May 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 689
WYGIWYM
WYMeditor - standards-compliant XHTML editor: This is very interesting. It allows intra-text structure -- very XML-ish. Check the demo. WYMeditor's main concept is to leave details of the document's visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible ...
Published: December 16, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 683
Safari Extends HTML
Party Like It's 1996!: Apple has gone all Microsoft on us, creating new Safari-only HTML markup willy-nilly. Even more troubling is the opening phrase: "Another extension we made to HTML is..." I'd be really happy if someone explained to me how this is different from what Netscape and Microsoft did ...
Published: August 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 679
Silktide Sitescore v 1.7.2
Silktide's Sitescore is kind of a neat tool. Plug in your website, and it gives you a 1-10 score on... How well marketed, and popular the website is. How well designed and built the website is. How accessible the website is, particularly to those with disabilities. How satisfying the website ...
Published: November 21, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
HTTP and HTML: Obsolete or Timeless?
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but I got to thinking today about the major protocol and language that drive the Web HTTP and HTML and I reflected on the fact that this pair is essentially frozen in time. There hasn't been a major update to either of ...
Published: December 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 656
Firefox, ALT Tags, and Tooltips
Extension Room :: Popup ALT Attributes: Interesting little flamewar going on over at the Mozilla Extension Room. First, here's something I didn't know: The ALT tag for images is NOT supposed to produce a little tooltip when you mouseover an image, according to the HTML spec. This is supposed to ...
Published: November 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
The Semantic Web
The Semantic Web: This is one of the terms that s been lurking on the periphery of my mind for about a year. I keep hearing it and meaning to look into it. Today I stumbled onto a good article about The Semantic Web and what it means. Most of the ...
Published: June 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
Validating HTML
I've been playing around with the W3C HTML validator, and I've found, sadly, that there's no easy way to get this page to validate. There were some problems that I fixed, but when I try to validate against 4.01 Transitional, I get about 50 errors related to the use of ...
Published: June 5, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 630
The Well-Appointed Web Page
Web developers want one thing: control. HTML is such an imprecise language that building Web pages has continually been a struggle between what we want to do and what the language is capable of. As a result, the short history of the Web has been an exercise in perverting HTML ...
Published: August 19, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 458
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