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Tag: web standards (page 2)
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A Summary of W3C Mobile Web Application Standards
Although the standards organizations are notoriously slow, somehow, it can seem almost impossible to keep up with long list of technologies the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) suggests, develops and approves.
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Using Web Standards to Create a Great Mobile Experience
Mobile is a rapidly evolving medium, with a constantly expanding range of devices. As a result, designing for mobile sites can be particularly challenging -- even more so given the need to keep your brand strong by maintaining cross-channel consistency. This challenge is reflected in our recent study which showed
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Open Standards: The Future of OpenSocial 2.0
OpenSocial is to Google as OpenGraph is to Facebook. Some might say that’s all you need to know about OpenSocial 2.0. But as leading technologists and innovators takes sides for and against it, there is much more to the story. Making Way for OpenSocial 2.
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W3Conf: A Practical Standards for Web Professionals Conference
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding its first ever conference in November. If you're interested in the latest news on HTML5 and the open web platform, mark your calendars and book it to Seattle.
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W3C Announces Work on 'Do Not Track' Standard
This year, almost every browser implemented a "do not track" feature, prompted by privacy-conscious consumers and the Do Not Track list proposed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Now the concept is gaining even more support.
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StumbleUpon Delivers Half of Traffic, Challenges Marketing Strategies
How do you use Stumbleupon? The discovery engine is reportedly responsible for delivering more than half of all social media referral traffic in the U.S. -- even more than Facebook and Twitter. What does this mean and why should you care? Discover, You Shall Find? The mere mention of a
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W3C Launches New Service for Participation
Last week, W3C’s Authoring Tool Accessibility Guideline Working Group released new working drafts of two documents focused on web development tools and accessibility. Today, W3C announced an agile track for developers and businesses to create Web technology within W3C's international community of experts. In other words -- diversity breeds innovation; anyone may apply. A Web of
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W3C Project Targets Accessible Web Content Authoring Tools
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (news, site) has been busy making the web a more accessible place. In focus today is a project dubbed the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) -- it aims to help software vendors make better web content authoring and management tools, including
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W3C Cuts Path for Global Government Linked Data (GLD)
The W3C (news, site ) has formed the Government Linked Data working group, the mission of which is to "provide standards and other information that help governments around the world publish their data as effective and usable Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies.
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Google Now Tracks and Ranks Authors
In a move that may shift the balance of power a bit, Google has begun indexing the attribution of content to content authors, rather than just websites. Essentially, links can now contain the code rel="author" which Google will understand to mean that the linked name is the linking page's author.
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(video) Jon Udell Keynote: Tags Are Information Services + 7 Ways to Think Web #jboye11
The Web, according to Jon Udell, is constructed of a number of small, easy to understand building blocks. Yet while billions of people make use of the Web every day, few really understand its fundamental concepts.
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Enterprise TinyMCE -- The WYSIWYG Editor Evolves
It's either a shame or a triumph for the developers (perhaps a bit of both), but many of you take your WYSIWYG content editor tools for granted. For the most part they just work and you go on your merry way.
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Silverlight 5.0 Plays Nice on the iPad
Microsoft (news, site ) adds new powers to Silverlight, as it unveils a new version that helps play content happily on iPads and Windows Phone 7, bringing high class visuals and interactivity to your apps and data.
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Web Optimization: W3C Takes Semantic Web to Next Level
If you think RDFa and the semantic web is only for geeks, it's time to take a second look. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is advancing the standards for tomorrow's Internet and web content management vendors are getting on-board.
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