Buzz Archives for April 2008
WCAG 2 now “candidate recommendation”
The W3C announced today that WCAG2 is now a candidate recommendation and is likely to be "live" by the end of the year. The W3C says Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out ...
By Bruce Lawson | Filed in Accessibility TF, Accessibility, W3C/Standards Documentation, General
- This is your mobile device on Acid
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The W3C's Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group have just announced a new suite of tests for mobile devices. In the spirit of the Acid tests, the test results are returned in an easily grokable visual manner—the green squares are desirable, the red squares mean a feature isn't yet supported. The ...
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in Browsers, W3C/Standards Documentation, Mobile, General
- Showing Off My <body> and Loving It
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I’m so tired of people half-assing it on Casual Day, but Naked Day? Now you have my full attention
By Christopher Schmitt | Filed in CSS, Outreach
- Acid3 Passed in 23 Days!
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On March 3, the Web Standards Project launched the Acid3 Browser Test. On March 26, two browser teams reported that their builds passed.
By Kimberly Blessing | Filed in Browsers, Acid3
- New Initiative in Hyper-Localized Social Tagging
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From marking books to tagging people, it’s the logical progression.
By Porter Glendinning | Filed in WaSP Announcement, April Fools
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Google’s Encyclopædia Webtannica
By Porter Glendinning | May 15th, 2008
… or, as Google folks call it internally, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Web.
Mark Pilgrim announced a new Google Code project yesterday on the Google Code Blog:
Google has built its business here, on the open web, and we want to help you build here too. To that end, we are happy to announce the formation of an encyclopedia for web developers, by web developers: Google Doctype.
Full of wikified goodness and entirely downloadable by SVN checkout, Google Doctype stands to become a fantastic resource for Web developers, provided a solid core community embraces it. So head on over, check it out, and maybe even contribute something.
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