PUBLIC MARKS with tag w3c

meeting of a group of W3C Members involved in XML and RDF to advance the general understanding of a unified approach to the expression of Web data models.

The best resource I've found is the W3C Validator. You can point it to a particular URL, upload an HTML file, or post HTML content in its Direct Input field. Click the "Check" button. You'll either find a congratulatory message, or a detailed list of HTML flaws, with line numbers, detailed description of the problems, and very clear tips about fixing them.

HTML is just one of many data formats on the Web. These are all facts that are not open to debate—they are decisions that we made over a decade ago and reaffirmed by consensus of the TAG. Whether or not Ian agrees with the architecture is irrelevant.

This is a wrapper around a SPARQL service. It helps in creating the query URI and, possibly, convert the result into a more manageable format. The package is licensed under W3C license, and it can be downloaded in .zip and .tar.gz formats from SourceForge (also from Debian).

On Google's blog, Mark Davis is explaining that Google is moving to Unicode 5.1. The article unfortunately mixes unicode and utf-8 as it has been noticed by David Goodger in Unicode misinformation. But the really interesting bit is the growth of utf-8 on the Web. These data should be interesting for the development of http, html 5 and validators.

La production de services en ligne attractifs, accessibles et respectant les standards W3C et la WAI est aujourd’hui un enjeu stratégique pour votre entreprise. Toutes les améliorations en matière de qualité, de conformité et d’accessibilité se traduisent à court terme par des bénéfices concrets :

Lately, I've seen some people criticize Mozilla because a particular bug (often a request for a new feature) that they care a lot about hasn't been fixed, on the basis that the bug was filed some number of years ago (generally more than five). I think this line of criticism is undeserved and seriously misguided. People who make this argument are, effectively, criticizing us for our openness.

Multimedia Semantics on the Web: Vocabularies

Multimedia Semantics: Overview of Relevant Tools and Resources

SWD f2f Library of Congress, 2008-05-06

The W3C process is so superior to that of ECMA and ISO/IEC, it’s these organizations that need to learn from W3C and those who are working for the W3C standard label to be recognized at an international level in its own right have all my support.