Web Standards News
EduTF Report Highlights Curriculum Project
16 May 2008by hmkoltz
The WaSP Education Task Force (EduTF) report updates our activity, announces new members, and offers a report on a Web standards based Curriculum Project.
via [The Web Standards Project]
W3C Invites Implementations of XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 (Candidate Reco...
16 May 20082008-05-16: The W3C XML Query Working Group and the W3C XSL Working Group jointly published today a Candidate Recommendation of XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0. This document defines the syntax and formal semantics of XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 which is a language that extends XQuery 1.0 [XQuery ... continues
via [World Wide Web Consortium]
Last Call: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007
16 May 20082008-05-16: The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007. This document collects together into one definition all the specificaitons that together form the current state of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The pri... continues
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Google’s Encyclopædia Webtannica
15 May 2008by porter
... or, as Google folks call it internally, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Web.
via [The Web Standards Project]
FrontPage
15 May 2008via [css-discuss]
"Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review"; Comments Welcome on...
14 May 20082008-05-14: The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group Working Group (EOWG) has published Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review as a First Public Working Draft. The document includes reviews and analysis of guidelines and articles covering the requir... continues
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CssEditors
12 May 2008add links for wiki and add-ins
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IE7
11 May 2008Microsoft has removed or moved this link
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Holiday destination Question
9 May 2008Any thoughts from folks - either from personal experience, or even by reputation? Skiing holiday - Denver Colorado, or Salt Lake City, Utah? One constraint is it needs to be a major city, rather than a resort like Aspen -...
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Last Call: CURIE Syntax 1.0
8 May 20082008-05-08: The XHTML2 Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0, which outlines a syntax for expressing URIs in a generic, abbreviated syntax ("Compact URI"). The specification targets language designers who need a mechanism to permit the use of extensible value co... continues
via [World Wide Web Consortium]
On marriage
7 May 2008Pop quiz In which year did the US Supreme Court hold that a law in the state of Virginia (similar to laws in dozens of states) that provided "a penalty of up to five years in prison and a clause:...
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W3C Offers Online Training Course: Mobile Best Practices
4 May 2008by hmkoltz
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative is offering the online training course: An Introduction to W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices from May 26 - June 20, 2008. The course is free, registration is open, but limited.
via [The Web Standards Project]
BrowserDetection
2 May 2008Dead Link to CSS Write Pro
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ListMenus
2 May 2008report deadlink to Inigio Surguy's link
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Recent job listings
2 May 2008Last week following my session at An Event Apart, a gentleman stopped me in the hall to shake hands and say, "Thank you." His story, neither spectacular nor banal, was one of fulfillment: Having lost his job a year ago, he soon found employment in Georgia through a listing on Authentic Jobs. He's st... continues
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Canonical XML Version 1.1 Is a W3C Recommendation
2 May 20082008-05-02: The XML Core Working Group has published the W3C Recommendation of Canonical XML Version 1.1. Canonical XML Version 1.1 is a revision to Canonical XML Version 1.0 to address issues related to inheritance of attributes in the XML namespace when canonicalizing document subsets, including t... continues
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Product Modelling Incubator Group to Identify Basic Ontology for Product Mode...
1 May 20082008-05-01: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Product Modelling Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members TNO, POSC-Caesar Association, and Fraunhofer. Per the charter, the SWOP and S-TEN projects, with the POSC Caesar Association, believe that it is possible to define a small core of b... continues
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XProc: An XML Pipeline Language Draft Published
1 May 20082008-05-01: The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. Pipelines are made up ... continues
via [World Wide Web Consortium]
W3C Talks in May
1 May 20082008-05-01: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
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WCAG 2 now “candidate recommendation”
30 Apr 2008by blawson
The W3C announced today that WCAG2 is now a candidate recommendation and is likely to be “live” by the end of the year. The W3C says Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out i... continues
via [The Web Standards Project]
Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
30 Apr 2008by nospam at example.com (George Oates)
Q. What technology do you need to build the next Flickr? A. Trick question. What you need to build the next Flickr is people. George Oates, a key member of the core team that shaped the Flickr community, shares lessons that can help you grow yours. Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and ... continues
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W3C Invites Implementations of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2....
30 Apr 20082008-04-30: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 as a Candidate Recommendation, and published updated Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0 and Techniques for WCAG 2.0, along with How to Meet WCAG 2.0 and Comparison of... continues
via [World Wide Web Consortium]
Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider
29 Apr 2008by Roger Johansson
About a year and a half ago I mentioned Nikita the Spider: a bulk validation and link checking tool as a useful quality assurance tool. Well, Nikita the Spider has received a lot of fixes since then and has recently been taken out of beta. It is no longer completely free, but the first 125 pages it ... continues
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Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?
29 Apr 2008by nospam at example.com (Jessica Enders)
Just because a design convention exists doesn't mean it works. Our field runneth over with design patterns, but is low on evidence of their utility. Jessica Enders drops some science on the widespread belief that zebra stripes aid the reader by guiding the eye along a table row. Hide Your Sh... continues
via [A List Apart]
Authentic Jobs API and Affiliates program
26 Apr 2008by Roger Johansson
If you've been looking for a new job or looking to hire a skilled web professional you may have come across Authentic Jobs. You may also have noticed that there have been Authentic Jobs listings on this site for some time. The news is that now anyone can display job listings on their site. You can ... continues
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CssInheritance
25 Apr 2008via [css-discuss]
Craziest thing you've done for user research?
23 Apr 2008Me? I signed up as a full-fledged Tupperware rep for two months. At a former company, we delivered web-based marketing tools to distributors and consultants of network marketing companies. One of our biggest (and best) clients was Tupperware, purveyor of all things plastic. We were in the midst of ... continues
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AvoidingHacks
22 Apr 2008via [css-discuss]
ShowCase
17 Apr 20081
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Deranged
16 Apr 2008Who said this? Simply because an execution method may result in pain, either by accident or as an inescapable consequence of death, does not establish the sort of "objectively intolerable risk of harm" that qualifies as cruel and unusual. ......
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This is your mobile device on Acid
16 Apr 2008by adactio
The W3C’s Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group have just announced a new suite of tests for mobile devices. In the spirit of the Acid tests, the test results are returned in an easily grokable visual manner—the green squares are desirable, the red squares mean a feature isn’t yet suppo... continues
via [The Web Standards Project]
Techniques for designing with type characters
15 Apr 2008After weeks of code speak, let's totally shift gears and talk exclusively about visual design in all its splendor and beauty. Typography and typefaces, without a doubt, are two of the most fascinating aspects of visual design. Great designers can execute great designs with typefaces and nothing el... continues
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WikiCss
13 Apr 2008+oddmuse
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OverlappingAndZIndex
11 Apr 2008why older browsers get painting levels wrong
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Showing Off My and Loving It
7 Apr 2008by cschmitt
I'm so tired of people half-assing it on Casual Day, but Naked Day? Now you have my full attention
via [The Web Standards Project]
Swissmiss, SimpleBits, Big Noob join Authentic Jobs
7 Apr 2008I'm very pleased to announce Authentic Jobs has added three new partners: Swissmiss, SimpleBits, and The Big Noob, all of which now aggregate Authentic Jobs listings on their sites. Swissmiss
If my header image is any indication, it should come as no surprise that I'm a fan of all things Swiss. (... continuesvia [Authentic Boredom]
Acid3 Passed in 23 Days!
7 Apr 2008by kblessing
On March 3, the Web Standards Project launched the Acid3 Browser Test. On March 26, two browser teams reported that their builds passed.
via [The Web Standards Project]
Extensible CSS Interface IV: Testing for Extensibility
1 Apr 2008This series is sponsored by Authentic Jobs, a freelance and full-time job board for web professionals. This is the fourth and final article in the four-part series, "The Highly Extensible CSS Interface". Markup and images for this article: View the full demo Download demo.zip (all files)
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What does Acid3 mean to you and me?
1 Apr 2008by Roger Johansson
So, last week two browser vendors proudly announced that their rendering engines now achieve a 100/100 score on the Acid3 Browser Test: Opera (Opera and the Acid3 Test) and Apple (WebKit achieves Acid3 100/100 in public build). Getting a 100/100 score does not mean that the browser has completely p... continues
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New Initiative in Hyper-Localized Social Tagging
1 Apr 2008by porter
From marking books to tagging people, it's the logical progression.
via [The Web Standards Project]
Extensible CSS Interface III: Adding Ajax Interactivity
20 Mar 2008This series is sponsored by Authentic Jobs, a freelance and full-time job board for web professionals. This is the third article in the four-part series, "The Highly Extensible CSS Interface". Markup and images for this article: View the demo Download ajax.zip
This third article documents t... continuesvia [Authentic Boredom]
Designing Web Navigation (Book review)
19 Mar 2008by Roger Johansson
What? An entire book just about designing navigation on the Web? Yes, that's right. And if you think about it for a while you'll probably realise that there is a need for a book on that subject. Heck, considering the number of sites out there that are incredibly hard to navigate, there is room for ... continuesvia [456 Berea Street]
Mobileness
19 Mar 2008I wasn't planning on posting another article prior to Extensible CSS Part III (which is scheduled to be published tomorrow), but there's been too much news in the mobile space to ignore speaking of it any longer. Following is a random summary of stuff I've spotted in recent weeks. "Padded lampposts... continues
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A plug for New Orleans
13 Mar 2008Due to SXSW and travel, I'll be posting Part III of the Extensible CSS Series next week rather than this week. This is a good time to pause and put in a plug for An Event Apart New Orleans, April 24–25. Join Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer, Jason Santa Maria, Aaron Gustafson, Jeff Veen, Dave Shea, A... continues
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DOMAssistant bundle for TextMate
10 Mar 2008by Roger Johansson
Like many other Mac users I do most of my coding in TextMate. It has tons of really nice features, one of which is its extensibility – if you need support for a coding language that isn't included with TextMate, you can add it yourself. Well, I've been using Robert Nyman's DOMAssistant JavaSc... continues
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Announcing the Adobe Task Force
10 Mar 2008by ssullivan
Today WaSP announced that the Dreamweaver Task Force will be renamed the Adobe Task Force to reflect a widened scope.
via [The Web Standards Project]
Annual Public WaSP Meeting at SXSW
9 Mar 2008by kblessing
All SXSW Interactive attendees are welcome to attend WaSP’s annual public meeting which will be held tomorrow, Monday, March 10. The session runs from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Central Daylight Time) and will be held in room 19AB (Level 4). Everyone is welcome to join our Meebo chat as well. This ye... continues
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First impressions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
7 Mar 2008by Roger Johansson
So Microsoft released the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 to the public the other day. Press releases and documents on the IE 8 site contain plenty of exciting promises of new and improved features, such as: Full and complete CSS 2.1 support Partial CSS 3 support Better JavaScript performance... continues
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Extensible CSS Interface II: CSS Selectors & jQuery
6 Mar 2008This series is sponsored by Authentic Jobs, a freelance and full-time job board for web professionals. This is the second article in the four-part series, "The Highly Extensible CSS Interface". Markup and images for this article: View the demo Download selectors-jquery.zip
This second articl... continuesvia [Authentic Boredom]
Respect! at SXSW
5 Mar 2008
Though I'm a little leery of the massive size of SXSW this year, I'm really looking forward to seeing and catching up with friends new and old (and meeting a few more) in Austin later this week. It's that time of year, when geeks from all over the Web physically converge in central Texas, fight for ... continuesvia [Stopdesign]
Web Standards Links
Updated RSS Feed - Reminder
Just wanted to remind those of you still pointing your feed readers or links to this feed. The new RSS feed for design.Principles can be found here: http://resource.reh3.com/index.php/feed/Henri Sivonen's pages
The Sad Story of PNG Gamma "Correction"
Sadly, it turns out there is a reason not to switch: gamma "correction" gone wrong.Activating Browser Modes with Doctype
n order to deal both with content written according to Web standards and with content written according to legacy practices that were prevalent in the late 1990s, contemporary Web browsers implement various engine modes. This document explains what thoseFakeSmile
SMIL is a specification defining a set of elements that control animations. This is called declarative animations. FakeSmile is a SMIL implementation written in ECMAScript. It is primarily targeted to SVG animations.Home page - Web Standards
Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Doctype
The Web Standards Project
blueprintcss - Google Code
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.Digital Web Magazine - Architecting CSS
Happy Webbies
awesomenessInsert HTML via Object instead of IFRAME
Plaxo " A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site
Crazy Egg – visualize your visitors
doctype - Google Code
The CoverPages
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - The Web Standards Project
Top reasons your CSS columns are messed up - Warpspire
Fazendo Protótipos com o Fireworks CS3 " Pinceladas da Web - Reflexões ...
IE CSS Bugs That'll Get You Every Time - CSS-Tricks
Save The Developers
site that campaigns to update browsers to current versions for the sake of developers. i like the downloadable javascript that you can host from your own site.CSS Beauty | CSS Design, News, Jobs, Community, Web Standards
Google Doctype - Google Code
20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient
W3C Document Object Model
W3C overview of the DOMCascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1
Read the spec for CSS 2.1Web Standards: it's about quality, not compliance
Good article from Andy Rutledge on the furture of web standardsCSS Text Level 3
Working draft from W3CAcid3 browser test completed, available now
Acid 3 is now available with a great range of tests including HTTP, HTML, CSS, ECMAScript, SVG and XML. Any predictions for when IE will catch up this time?The New Browser War: Firefox v Opera Mini
Not so much of a war but more of a scrap. At least this time they are both using the same standards.Compatibility and IE8
Debate is likely to rage on how IE8 accounts for backwards compatibility. Some interesting comments at the bottom of the page.Google Doctype
Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing libraryCreate good queries in Spotlight
Incredibly helpful set of tips on composing queries in Spotlight (via Daring Fireball)Homer Simpson, with type and CSS
amazing what you can do with a little Verdana and some CSS (via Daring Fireball)Jeffrey Zeldman: The vanishing personal site
Some of the same thoughts I've been thinking, as I look to "outsource" pieces and components of my own sites (photos, links, tweets, etc). Maintaining everything on your own is hard work, and takes a lot of time.AT&T says Internet full by 2010
MacBook Pro Specs on Wikipedia
Helpful chart with all specs of recent MBPsYouTube: Design Coding
"Don't use I-talics... use _emphasis_"Adobe launches Photoshop Express
Simplified online version of PhotoshopYouTube: Building Gmail
35 Fantastic HDR Pictures
beautiful...Minimalist Web projec t- minimalist web design, theory and discussions
A collection of good-looking websites that are built with minimalism in mind, the idea of beauty through 'less is more'.Frames without frames
How to code HTML frames with CSS onlyCSS Stuff - XHTML/CSS - 3 column layouts - Netscape 4 compatible
Liquid compatible Web page layout with Web standardsCSS, Accesibility and Standards Links
CSS resources: links, tutorials, accessibility tools, books.CSS layout generator with parameters
CSS layout, 3 columns with Header and Footer, Ordered columns, Netscape 4 compatibleSemiotics: A Primer for Designers
Boxes and Arrows: Semiotics is important for designers as it allows us to understand the relationships between signs, what they stand for, and the people who must interpret them, the people we design for.Developing With Web Standards
How and why using web standards will let you build websites in a way that saves time and money for the developer and provides a better experience for the visitor. Also discussed are other methods, guidelines and best practices that will help produce high-Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools
Load and Performance Test Tools, Java Test Tools, Link Checkers, HTML Validators, Free On-the-Web HTML Validators and Link Checkers, PERL and C Programs for Validating and Checking, Web Functional/Regression Test Tools, Web Site Security Test Tools, ExterEdit-Work.com Web Style Guide
Why should I care if content work? How do I make web content work?Via Delicious.
