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04 Sep 09

Archive of W3C News in 2009

  • 2009-08-26: The HTML Working Group has published Working Drafts of HTML 5 and HTML 5 differences from HTML 4. In HTML 5, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. "HTML 5 differences from HTML 4" describes the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes. Learn more about HTML. (Permalink)
  • 2009-07-02: Today the Director announces that when the XHTML 2 Working Group charter expires as scheduled at the end of 2009, the charter will not be renewed. By doing so, and by increasing resources in the HTML Working Group, W3C hopes to accelerate the progress of HTML 5 and clarify W3C's position regarding the future of HTML. A FAQ answers questions about the future of deliverables of the XHTML 2 Working Group, and the status of various discussions related to HTML.
20 Jul 09

HTML5's Flash and Silverlight 'killer' potential chopped • The Register

  • Much has been made of how HTML5 will "kill" proprietary media tools and players from Adobe Systems and Microsoft.



    The idea has been partly predicated on the fact those working on HTML5 would enshrine a baseline spec for audio and video codecs everybody could agree on, buy into, and support.

  • But the hope of a universal media experience is now dead, at least for now. Apple, Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, and - yes - Google could not agree on a common set of audio or video codecs for use in the proposed HTML5 spec.



    That means major browsers and media player will continue to implement the codecs and APIs ordained by their owners as they’ve always done, leaving developers and customers to pick a side or go to the additional cost and effort of supporting different players.

04 Jun 09

Google to slip SVG into Internet Explorer • The Register

  • Microsoft might be hesitating on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Internet Explorer 8, but Google's pressing on.



    The search giant's engineers are building a JavaScript library to render static and dynamic SVG in Microsoft's browser. Google promised that the library, a Javascript shim, will simply drop into IE.

  • SVG has a huge presence on the web. This facet of the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML 5 spec is supported in Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and Apple's iPhone, and is used in Google Maps and Google Docs. It also topped a list of features wanted by developers in a OpenAJAX browser wish list last year.
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30 May 09

Google Wave Developer Blog

A must-see video if you're interested in the dance of sugar plum documents, what can be done with HTML5-plus, and an outside-the-box approach to online collaboration. Google just may have a winner in Wave.

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Google Wave html5

  • Google Wave is a new communication and collaboration tool that lets people work together more productively online. If you haven't already seen the demo presentation, please take a jump over to learn more about Google Wave by visiting http://wave.google.com/.
  • If you'd like to learn more about the Google Wave APIs: request access to the sandbox, check out the code samples, and join us in the Google Wave API forum.
28 May 09

Opera: Web standards could eclipse Flash - ZDNet.co.uk

  • The next revision of the HTML web language will make Adobe's Flash technology largely redundant, according to the chief executive of browser company Opera.



    The open web standards included in HyperText Markup Language version 5 (HTML 5) provide a viable alternative to Adobe's proprietary Flash for the delivery of rich media web content, Jon von Tetzchner told ZDNet UK on Wednesday.

  • Von Tetzchner said that HTML 5's handling of rich media meant that Flash — Adobe's ubiquitous, proprietary multimedia platform for the web — is becoming largely unnecessary. "You can do most things with web standards today," von Tetzchner said. "In some ways, you may say you don't need Flash."
25 Nov 08

[ANN] Markup Validator 0.8.4 released from Olivier Thereaux on 2008-11-20 (www-validator@w3.org from November 2008)

  • I am thrilled to announce today the release of a new version of the
    W3C Markup Validation Service, also known as "HTML Validator".

    Use it online

    http://validator.w3.org/

    .... or download it: it is Free and Open Source

    http://validator.w3.org/source/

    The new version, 0.8.4 may sound like a very minor step from the
    version 0.8.3 released in August, but this new release of the W3C
    Markup Validator brings some very important change: in addition to
    checking documents against etablished standards such as HTML 4.01 and
    XHTML 1.0, the validator can now check documents for conformance to
    HTML5, thanks to the integration with the Validator.nu html5 engine.
  • HTML5 is still work in progress and support for this next generation
    of the publishing language of the World Wide Web will remain
    experimental. The integration of the html5 engine in the validator
    should provide experimentation grounds for those interested in trying
    on authoring in this new version of HTML, as well as a feedback
    channel for the group working on building a stable, open standard.
28 Sep 08

Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group Demos from September 2008

24 Aug 08

Offline Web Applications

  • Abstract



    HTML 5 contains several features that address the challenge of
    building Web applications that work while offline. This document
    highlights these features (SQL, offline application caching APIs as well
    as online/offline events, status, and the
    localStorage API) from HTML 5 and provides brief
    tutorials on how these features might be used to create Web applications
    that work offline.

29 May 08

HTML 5 Draft Recommendation

  • Draft Recommendation — 29 May
    2008

  • Abstract



    This specification evolves HTML and its related APIs to ease the
    authoring of Web-based applications. Additions include the context menus,
    a direct-mode graphics canvas, inline popup windows, and server-sent
    events. Heavy emphasis is placed on keeping the language backwards
    compatible with existing legacy user agents and on keeping user agents
    backwards compatible with existing legacy documents.

Digital Web Magazine - HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web

The browser-centric view of why HTML5 is better than XHTML2. Notice that the entire discussion does not address the need for interoperable data exchange between different web applications, let alone for their interaction with more traditional desktop or mobile device editors. HTML5 is enormously under-specified for data exchange among anything but web browsers. As only one small example, neither HTML5 nor CSS Selectors have a specified standard element for footnotes and footnote calls, let alone attributes for their numbering style, formatting, and location. And even if CSS Selectors included such elements and attributes, CSS lives in web site page templates, not in the web app editors for site content that use HTML forms. Easy pickings for Microsoft and its proprietary stack that does interoperably integrate the desktop, servers, devices, and the Web.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee on 'Reinventing HTML'

  • The perceived accountability of the HTML group has been an issue. Sometimes this was a departure from the W3C process, sometimes a sticking to it in principle, but not actually providing assurances to commenters. An issue was the formation of the breakaway WHAT WG, which attracted reviewers though it did not have a process or specific accountability measures itself.
  • Some things are very clear. It is really important to have real developers on the ground involved with the development of HTML. It is also really important to have browser makers intimately involved and committed. And also all the other stakeholders, including users and user companies and makers of related products.
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19 May 08

Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight 'agenda' | Tech News on ZDNet

Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned.

Speaking at the Internet World conference in London on Tuesday, Tristan Nitot claimed such applications threaten the open nature of the internet because the companies behind them could "have an agenda".

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16 May 08

Do new Web tools spell doom for the browser? | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-05-12 | By Neil McAllister

Tomorrow's Web
Despite differences in approach between AIR and Gears, Adobe and Google actually share a common vision. Both companies aim to extend the current Web browsing experience with new features that allow developers to deliver RIAs more easily. And, because Web developers, too, have diverse goals and methods, the traditional browser is unlikely to disappear as an application-delivery platform, even as desktop-based Web apps proliferate.

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  • As these technologies mature, a new kind of browser is likely to emerge, one that combines the current Web experience with
    new capabilities based on emerging tools. The key to that evolution will be to integrate today's cutting-edge features with
    tomorrow's Web standards -- a process that Adobe and Google are both actively pursuing.
  • Adobe is similarly involved in the standardization process -- in particular, extending ECMAScript, the standard on which JavaScript
    is based,
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