2008 Apr 16, 6:53SVG doc on how to make URI fragments that reference parts of an SVG document.
standard svg w3c reference uri fragment 2008 Apr 16, 6:42A working group devoted to getting fragments to ID pieces of images or time positions or ranges in audio and video.
mime w3c standard uri fragment 2008 Mar 19, 11:30Excellent rant on the history and state of IE8's decision to default to super-standards mode vs IE7 mode.
browser internet browser-war ie microsoft history w3c standard standards html css joel-on-software 2008 Mar 18, 11:21End-of-line handling in XML. Spoiler: XML processor should normalize most newline character sequences to 0xA.
xml spec standard w3c unicode charset newline end-of-line 2008 Mar 5, 9:50"In conjunction with the Beta 1 release of Internet Explorer 8, we are posting a set of tests we are using to validate our interpretation and implementation of the CSS 2.1 specification. We are doing
this so we can get some feedback from you, the web desi
css test w3c microsoft msdn ie browser ie8 2008 Mar 3, 9:19A howto from W3C on using MathML in a way that many people will be able to use.
math mathml web w3c reference browser plugin 2008 Feb 22, 9:50FTA: "This page summarises results for a set of tests aimed at discovering whether bidirectional text is displayed as expected in the window title bar and tooltips." Punchline: generally, no they're
not.
bidi internationalization w3c browser web ie6 firefox opera 2007 Nov 7, 4:28Out of date W3C document containing stats on frequency of use of various charsets in HTML pages (in 1997)
charset encoding i18n language reference w3c statistics 2007 Oct 3, 10:21Tim Berners-Lee writes about principles for new technology in the context of the evolution of HTML and the development of namespaces and XML.
architecture article tim-berners-lee w3c internet history evolution html namespace xml web mmm multimedia-mesh humor test-of-independent-invention 2007 Sep 27, 2:17Starting on a new simple project I wanted to get the history of my Delicious links. Delicious has an export tool available via the settings section so I thought I'd try that. However, the links
aren't exported in XML not even in XHTML but rather in HTML. Shocking. An example:
"Don't Tase Me, Bro!" (UF Student Tasered Remix)
Remix of the 'Don't tase me, bro!' guy getting tasered.At this point I'm already not going to use this file because its in HTML but I'm even more disgusted by those date time values.
Raymond Chen of the Old New Thing posted about recognizing timestamps and timestamp sentinel values. From the first blog post and with the use of a calculator for base conversion one can tell that
those are UNIX style timestamps counting the number of seconds since 1970.
It reminds me of my hatred for the MIME date time format I developed working on my webpage's server side parsing of atom and RSS. Atom is
of course my favorite as Atom uses the Internet date time format described in the following documents. Here's an example of one
2007-09-27T020:50:00.000-08:00
On the other hand the evil and villainous RSS uses the MIME date time format now described in the more
recent IETF MIME standard. Here's an example Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:50:00 -0800
The Internet date time format has the advantage of being so easy to sort. An alphabetic sort with normal C-style collation rules of strings containing Internet date times will also sort them
chronologically. This is not the case for the MIME date time due to the preceding day of the week and the spelled out month name. This also means that when producing these you have to figure out
the day of the week and when parsing them you have to match month names rather than just parsing out numbers. Anyway now days if I see mention of a date time in a new proposed standard or spec I be
sure to point out the numerous advantages of the Internet date time format.
date xml html feed time technical date-time code atom rss 2007 Sep 11, 1:46The XML spec. Info on setting the default namespace including how to remove a default namespace once its been set.
specification reference w3c xml namespace 2007 Aug 27, 11:26The article is a bit rambling but he makes an excellent point at least in separating the FireFox description of the feature from what it actually does.
firefox security w3c standard via:swannman article 2007 May 14, 5:34The various predefined link types for use in the rev and rel attribuets of A and LINK HTML elements.
html w3c reference link profile 2007 May 10, 12:17The XPointer specification describing the fragment used with text/xml documents.
w3c xml xpath xpointer reference uri fragment 2007 Apr 17, 1:31The behaviors standard on the w3c.
behavior css w3c extension browser standard 2007 Apr 12, 12:35XML schema describes ISO 8601 date time formats including duractions.
date time xml schema w3c syntax reference standard 2007 Apr 12, 12:27W3C standard on date and time formats.
date time format w3c standard reference 2007 Apr 11, 10:27Summary of the various proposed replacements for HTML4.01.
article html internet xhtml xml html5 xhtml2 w3c chris-wilson 2007 Mar 13, 3:57Blog on web related things (with contributor Tim Berners-Lee!)
blog rdf software w3c research monthly tim-berners-lee
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