W3C today published the report of the Workshop on Data and Services Integration, hosted on 20-21 October 2011 by MITRE in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. This workshop provided a way for the community to meet and discuss some of the challenges...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The Media Analysis Management Interface Incubator Group published its final report, Media Analysis Management Interface XG Final Report. The Media Analysis Management Interface (MAMI) enables the understanding of the real world at a low cost by using analysis engines such...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Group Note: MMI interoperability test report. This document describes an interoperability test, executed by various members of the Multimodal Interaction Working Group, to demonstrate interoperability of multimodal components which are implementing the...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of XML processor profiles. This specification defines several XML processor profiles, each of which defines how any given XML document should be processed, both operationally and in...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The XML Security Working Group invites implementation of three Candidate Recommendations: XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 2.0, Canonical XML Version 2.0, and XML Signature Streaming Profile of XPath 1.0. XML Signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and/or signer authentication services...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The XML Schema Working Group has published Proposed Recommendations of two specifications: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures, W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes. The former specifies the XML Schema Definition Language,...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The XML Print and Page Layout Working Group has published a Working Draft of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 2.0. XSL-FO is an XML vocabulary that uses CSS and additional properties for formatting documents to paged media. Learn more about...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Text Level 3. This CSS3 module defines properties for text manipulation and specifies their processing model. It covers line breaking, justification and alignment, white space handling,...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of XMLHttpRequest Level 2. The XMLHttpRequest specification defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server. Learn more about the Rich Web...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

W3C today published the final report of the Linked Enterprise Data Workshop, hosted by W3C on the 6-7 December in Cambridge, MA, USA. This workshop provided a way for the community to meet and discuss some of the challenges when...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The Web Performance Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Navigation Timing. User latency is an important quality benchmark for Web Applications. While JavaScript-based mechanisms can provide comprehensive instrumentation for user latency measurements within an application, in many...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 (CSS3 UI). The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language for describing the rendering of HTML and XML...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

W3C today published the final report of the Social Business Jam. The report authors recommended starting a W3C Social Business Community Group to evolve social standards around customer-driven use-cases. Participants in the the event, which took place last November...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

Bootstrap is an open-source front-end toolkit created to help designers and developers quickly and efficiently build great stuff online. Its goal is to provide a refined, well-documented, and extensive library of flexible design components created with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for others to build and innovate on. Today, it has grown to include dozens of components and has become the most popular project on GitHub, with more than 13,000 watchers and 2,000 forks. Mark Otto, the co-creator of Bootstrap, sheds light on how and why Bootstrap was made, the processes used to create it, and how it has grown as a design system.[mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

Design is on a roll. Client services are experiencing a major uptick in demand, seasoned design professionals are abandoning client work in favor of entrepreneurship, and designer-co-founded startups such as Kickstarter and Airbnb are taking center stage. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that design has a massive role to play in the evolution of the web and the next generation of web products. The result, says Cameron Koczon, is that designers have now been given a blank check—one that lets web designers band together as a community to change the way design is perceived; change the way products are built; and quite possibly change the world.[mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

The pixel has long been the atomic particle of screen based design: a knowable, concrete unit of measurement. But layouts based on the hardware pixel are fast becoming an endangered species. Even the introduction of a new, W3C standard reference pixel, although it promises stability in the long-term, can't help us navigate the current chaos. Consider the two "standard" pixel definitions and 500 "standard" viewports your user's Android device may support. To create designs that transcend platform differences—the promise of the web and standards—you must normalize pixels across devices. Scott Kellum shows how math and media queries can keep you sane and help you design consistently across platforms.[mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces. The specification describes a loosely coupled architecture for multimodal user interfaces, which allows for co-resident and distributed implementations, and focuses on the role of...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

The HTML Data Task Force of the Semantic Web Interest Group has published two documents today: The HTML Data Guide aims to help publishers and consumers of HTML data. With several syntaxes (microformats, microdata, RDFa) and vocabularies (schema.org, Dublin Core,...[mehr] (Quelle: W3C News)

Happy new year everyone! We made great progress in standardizing the platform in 2011 and plan to continue doing just that with your help. You can join our mailing list to discuss issues with web development or join IRC if you prefer more lively interaction. I will be taking the remainder of the month off [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

You might have missed this. Because of this lengthy thread on throwing for atob() space characters will no longer cause the method to throw from revision>6874 onwards. This is the WHATWG Weekly, with some standards related updates just before the world slacks off to feast and watch reindeer on Google Earth. Shadow DOM Dimitri Glazkov [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

James Hawkins proposed the intent element in a way that brings back memories of HTML4. Happy to be reminded we are over SGML now. This is the WHATWG Weekly. Better autocomplete Overnight a complete proposal for better autocomplete appeared on the WHATWG Wiki, apparently already experimentally implemented in Chrome (prefixed). It proposes a new autocompletetype [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

As the year draws to a close, we asked some A List Apart readers to tell us what they learned about the web in 2011. Together their responses summarize the joys and challenges of this magical place we call the internet. We need to continue to iterate, to embrace change, and challenge complexity to keep shipping. Above all, we must continue to reach out to one another, to teach, to support, to help, and to build the community that sustains us.[mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

If you want to contribute to the WHATWG Blog or Wiki, join IRC (#whatwg on Freenode). We had to shut down user registration unfortunately due to excessive spam. Welcome to another WHATWG Weekly. If it were themed, this would be about Sinterklaas. Encoding problem In response to Faruk Ateş' plea for defaulting to UTF-8, David [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

Next to @WHATWG, we now have +WHATWG. Hopefully ⸮WHATWG is next. Not to dispair, WHATWG Weekly will remain right here, without funny characters preceding it. HTML is big, so follow what interests you! Ian Hickson announced a new system on the mailing list that allows people to subscribe to specific sub-topics in the HTML specification, [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

A List Apart strongly opposes United States H.R.3261 AKA the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an ill-conceived lobbyist-driven piece of legislation that is technically impossible to enforce, cripplingly burdensome to support, and would, without hyperbole, destroy the internet as we know it. SOPA approaches the problem of content piracy with a broad brush, lights that brush on fire, and soaks the whole web in gasoline. If passed, SOPA will allow corporations to block the domains of websites that are “capable of” or “seem to encourage” copyright infringement. Once a domain is blocked, nobody can access it, unless they’ve memorized the I.P. address. Under SOPA, everything from your grandma’s knitting blog to mighty Google is guilty until proven innocent. Learn why SOPA must not pass, and find out what you can do to help stop it.[mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

CSS’ simplicity has always been one of its most welcome features. But as our sites and apps get bigger and become more complex, and target a wider range of devices and screen sizes, this simplicity—so welcome as we first started to move away from font tags and table-based layouts—has become a liability. Fortunately, a few years ago developers Hampton Catlin and Nathan Weizenbaum created a new style sheet syntax with features to help make our increasingly complex CSS easier to write and manage—and then used a preprocessor to translate the new smart syntax into the old, dumb CSS that browsers understand. Learn how Sass (“syntactically awesome style sheets”) can help simplify the creation, updating, and maintenance of powerful sites and apps.[mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

You can now put a fullscreen in your fullscreen. Brought to you by Fullscreen. This is the WHATWG Weekly, not quite weekly, but you are still welcome. <time> police Revision 6827 introduced the new time element. The one that also allows for years, yearless dates, durations, and so on. It is based on extensive research [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

The profession that dares not speak its name needs you. Digital design is the wonder of the world. But the world hasn't bothered to stop and wonder about web workers—the designers, developers, project managers, information architects slash UX folk, content strategists, writers, editors, marketers, educators, and other professionals who make the web what it is. That’s where you come in. Take the survey![mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

A long week Filled with people and meetings WHATWG Weekly Last week the W3C held its yearly TPAC conference. See Unorganization for an impression of the event written by me. Karl wrote down some technical details. What follows is my brief technical takeaway. <time> and again The time element comes back and its new design [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

An expanding text area is a multi-line text input field that expands in height to fit its contents. Commonly found in both desktop and mobile applications, such as the SMS composition field on the iPhone, it’s a good choice when you don’t know how much text the user will write and you want to keep the layout compact; as such, it’s especially useful on interfaces targeted at smartphones. Yet despite the ubiquity of this control, there’s no way to create it using only HTML and CSS, and most JavaScript solutions have suffered from guesswork, inaccuracy, or a lack of elegance … until now.[mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

Deception is entwined with life on this planet. Insects deceive, animals deceive, and of course, we human beings use deception to manipulate, control, and profit from each other. It’s no surprise, then, that deception appears in web user interfaces; what is surprising is how little we talk about it. All the guidelines, principles, and methods ethical designers employ to design usable websites can be subverted to benefit business owners at the expense of users. Study the dark side so you can take a stand against unethical web design practices and banish them from your work.[mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

Revision 6695 made HTML attribute values match in a case-sensitive manner as far as Selectors are concerned. This approach was favored over having a hardcoded list of HTML attributes whose values had to be matched case-insensitively. Revision 6701 removed selectedOptions from the input element, a vestige from the Web Forms 2.0 era. Welcome to the [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

Should we introduce an isWhiteSpace attribute for Text nodes, and if we do, what would you use it for? Anyway, WHATWG Weekly, brief one this week. Fullscreen The big news last week was renewed activity on Gecko:FullScreenAPI, a proposal by Robert O'Callahan to make fullscreen work for the platform. Yours truly made an initial attempt [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

When organizing content and actions on mobile, solid information architecture principles like clear labeling, balanced breadth and depth, and appropriate mental models remain important. But the organization of mobile web experiences must also align with how people use their mobile devices and why; emphasize content over navigation; provide relevant options for exploration and pivoting; maintain clarity and focus; and align with mobile behaviors. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, Mobile First!, Luke Wroblewski explains how to do all that.[mehr] (Quelle: A List Apart)

Simon Pieters posted SRT timestamp research. Ryosuke Niwa updated his UndoManager and DOM Transaction proposal. This is the WHATWG Weekly. HTML standard In revision 6657 Ian Hickson removed the text/html-sandboxed MIME type from the HTML standard. The goal of the MIME type was to allow untrusted content to be hosted on the same origin as [...][mehr] (Quelle: The WHATWG Blog)

Die Barrierefreiheit von Webseiten wird in Deutschland durch die “Barrierefreie Informationstechnik-Verordnung”, kurz BITV geregelt. Wenngleich sich der Wirkungsbereich nur auf Seiten von Behörden erstreckt, hat die BITV auch eine große Bedeutung für Unternehmensseiten bekommen. Die BITV ist naturgemäß stellenweise abstrakt, ähnlich wie die verwandten englischen Texte des W3C. Um die Verständlichkeit zu erhöhen, haben wir [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)

Als Ergänzung zu den Zugänglichkeitsrichtlinien für Web-Inhalte steht ab heute auch die BITV hier zur Verfügung.

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Dem im März 2009 erschienenen Internet Explorer 8 wurde von Anfang an eine bessere Unterstützung von Webstandards bescheinigt. Wer Websites macht, wird das bestätigen können. Wer allerdings Javascript-Bibliotheken entwickelt, die von anderen auf ihren Seiten eingesetzt werden sollen, kann ein anderes Bild bekommen. Mit dem IE6 hat Microsoft die Unterscheidung in &#8220;Quirks Mode&#8221; und &#8220;Standard [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)

Am 3. Dezember hat die Ecma die Verabschiedung von ECMAScript5 bekanntgegeben. Im Gegensatz zu manch anderem Standardisierungsgremium, bietet die Ecma ihre Standards kostenfrei zum Download auf der Webseite an: Für ECMAScript siehe Ecma-262. ECMAScript ist die standardisierte Form von Javascript und damit ein wichtiger Baustein für die Weiterentwicklung des Web. Über die wichtigsten neuen Features [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)

Einmal mehr dürfen wir uns über Bestnoten für unseren XSLT-Workshop freuen. In der vergangenen Woche haben wir eine XSLT-Schulung für einen neuen Kunden durchgeführt. Die Kundenbewertungen auf den Feedbackbögen zeichnet uns und unsere Leistung aus. In allen Punkten, von &#8220;Inhalt&#8221; über &#8220;Präsentation&#8221; und &#8220;Übungen&#8221; bis zur &#8220;Gesamtbewertung&#8221; bekommen wir sehr gute Noten. Darüber hinaus sagen [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)

Heute geht eine überarbeitete Version der <edition W3.de> online.

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Zum Jahresende wird die Verabschiedung von EcmaScript 5 erwartet. In der aktuellen Ausgabe der iX schreibe ich über die wichtigsten neuen Features. Für alle Leser des Artikels oder diejenigen, die sich selbst einen Eindruck verschaffen möchten, stelle ich im Folgenden die Quellen zusammen. Wikipedia: ECMAScript Allen Wirfs-Brock: Steps Toward Creating Compatible ECMAScript 5 Implementations Allen [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)

Heute habe ich bei der Arbeit mit einer XSLT-Engine an meinem Verstand gezweifelt. Die Aufgabe war einfach: Ein kleines Verarbeitungsskript für eine Webseite. Doch leider brach die Verarbeitung immer ab, weil der XSLT-Interpreter die DTD nicht vom Server des W3C laden konnte. Natürlich sollte man besser eine lokale DTD verwenden, dennoch war es überraschend, dass [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)

Die ursprüngliche Idee der Adressen im Web beinhaltet auch, dass man über eine Adressangabe eine Seite finden kann. Schließlich heißt der Fachbegriff nicht umsonst URI &#8212; Uniform Resource Identifier. Es gibt aber zahlreiche Beispiele, bei denen das nicht der Fall ist. Oft sind Session-IDs, Query-Parameter oder andere temporäre Informationen in der Adresse enthalten. Die machen [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)

Es ist schön zu sehen, dass Semantic Web Technologien zunehmend zum Thema werden. Jüngster Zuwachs im Bereich der Semantic Web Community ist wohl semanticoverflow.com, eine Seite die sich ganz im stile ihres grossen Bruders stackoverflow.com der Aufgabe widmet Fragen rund um das Thema Semantic Web Community-basiert zu beantworten. Ich wünsche der Seite zumindest vergleichbaren Erfolg [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)

Na ja, ganz so weit ist es noch nicht. Aber sollte ich mal einen persönlichen, autonomen und wirklich intelligenten Software-Agenten mein Eigen nennen, könnte er ja auch mal Angst haben, sich überlastet oder ausgebrannt fühlen. Das W3C arbeitet jedenfalls schon mal an der passenden Auszeichnungssprache: EmotionML. Wer jetzt glaubt, die Initiative sei genauso sinnvoll wie [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)

&#8230;und der ein oder andere mag sich fragen, was ist &#8220;GeoCities&#8221;? In der Frage ist zumindest die Antwort auf die Frage zu finden, weshalb Yahoo die Site dicht macht. &#8220;Wow, eine geschlossene Website, das ist&#8217;n Blogartikel wert!&#8221; &#8212; Die Tatsache ist wohl nicht bemerkenswert, allerdings ist der Artikel der L.A. Times lesenswert für alle, die [...][mehr] (Quelle: blog.linkwerk.com » edition W3.de)