July 28th, 2010

Privacy Workshop Participants to Study Data Usage and Handling

W3C announces organization of a Workshop on Privacy and Data Usage Control, to take place in Cambridge, MA, UA on 4-5 October 2010. Users trust enormous amounts of personal information to a large variety of online services including social network…

July 27th, 2010

First Draft of WOFF File Format 1.0 Published

The WebFonts Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of WOFF File Format 1.0. This document specifies the WOFF font format. This format was designed to provide lightweight, easy-to-implement compression of the font data, suitable for use in…

July 27th, 2010

Last Call: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007. This document collects together into one definition all the specifications that together form the current state of Cascading Style…

July 27th, 2010

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Draft Published

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. User agents commonly apply same-origin restrictions to network requests. These restrictions prevent a client-side Web application running from one origin from obtaining data retrieved from another…

July 27th, 2010

W3C Releases Unicorn, an All-in-One Validator

W3C is pleased to announce the release of Unicorn, a one-stop tool to help people improve the quality of their Web pages. Unicorn combines a number of popular tools in a single, easy interface, including the Markup validator, CSS validator,…

July 23rd, 2010

PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the [...]

July 22nd, 2010

The Multilingual Web – Where Are We? Find out at the W3C Workshop

W3C is organizing a Workshop: The Multilingual Web – Where Are We?, to take place 26-27 October 2010 in Madrid, Spain. Workshop participants will survey and introduce currently available best practices and standards that help content creators, localizers, language…

July 20th, 2010

HTML Media Capture Draft Published

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Working Draft of HTML Media Capture. This specification defines HTML form enhancements that provide access to the audio, image and video capture capabilities of the device. The title of the…

July 13th, 2010

Last Call: Web Services SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions)

The Web Services Resource Access Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Web Services SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions). This specification defines two WS-Policy assertions that can be used to advertise the requirement to use a certain version of…

July 13th, 2010

Last Call: Mobile Web Application Best Practices

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Mobile Web Application Best Practices. The goal of this document is to aid the development of rich and dynamic mobile Web applications. It collects the…

July 9th, 2010

RDF Workshop Report Emphasizes Support for JSON, Turtle, Other Formats

The last week of June, participants at the W3C RDF Next Steps Workshop concluded that support for JSON, Turtle, and for "Named Graphs" are top priorities for any future work on RDF. Participants also highlighted the importance of compatibility with…

July 8th, 2010

Last Call: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0, Implementing ATAG 2.0

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and the companion document Implementing ATAG 2.0. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help developers produce accessible web content that…

July 8th, 2010

For Review: Updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group today requests review of draft updates to Notes that accompany WCAG 2.0: Techniques for WCAG 2.0 (Editors’ Draft) and Understanding WCAG 2.0 (Editors’ Draft). Comments are welcome through 9 August 2010. (This is…

July 2nd, 2010

100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting

WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads. The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major [...]

July 1st, 2010

Contacts API Working Draft Published

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Working Draft of Contacts API. This document defines the high-level interfaces required to provide access to a user’s unified address book, which may source address book data from several sources,…