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Web Standards and World Changing with Dave O X 2 - Raincity Radio
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An afternoon chat with W3C TAG member Dave Orchard talking with Dave Olson about the World-Wide Web consortium (W3C), gaining consensus among companies, and the shift from information to energy and intelligence economy.
More Dave Orchard at: http://www.pacificspirit.com
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Parkbench Chat About Web Standards and Accessibility - Raincity Radio
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While at Bay Area Drupal Camp, web developer and accessibility advocate William Lawrence sits down to talk about ensuring all people can use your website.
With Raincity Radio host Dave O, William discusses assistive browsing devices, SEO benefits of semantic code, Section 508 compliance for accessibility to public resources, plus applying business best practices and tips galore. Plus some chatter about William's time in Croatia as the UC football game crowd parties on by.
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Opera CTO Publishes Open Letter to Microsoft
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created on Fri, 2007-12-14 15:48
Opera Web Browser Corporation CTO Hakon Wium Lie recently published an open letter to Microsoft to encourage them to make their IE browser standards compliant. Opera has as well filed a complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to respect and use open Web standards in the design of its IE browser.
Håkon Lie is a respected authority in these matters not only as CTO of Opera, but also from his experience at CERN and W3C designing and contributing the standards the Web is based upon. In his open letter, Mr. Lie points out that despite Microsoft's considerable resources and talent, as well as for all the promises made on the subject, it still fails to implement open web standards. Mr. Lie points as an example how the Acid2 standard has not been implemented in IE, the web's most popular browser.
The sad state of weblog APIs
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created on Sat, 2005-12-10 22:31
Actually, the first issue I have is that it's called a weblog API....it's a CMS API, or maybe just a publish-editing API. We're stuck in this concept of "blog". With structured blogging (yep, that damn word again...but I guess that's what you get when all you have is one big text blob to shove data structures into*) just on the horizon, tools like ecto, Qumana, and MarsEdit are going to be pushed to work with the myriad number of web apps out there, and the different ways they've implemented some of the loose aspects of these APIs. Actually, this post was inspired by Gus Mueller's post on the MarsEdit 1.1 beta, where he mentions "the sorry state of weblog api implementations right now, and yes- that even includes you atom."
So...what to do? Well, this is one of the things that needs work both on the web app side and the client side. On the web application side, I'm hoping we'll have a special interest group focused on this at the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit here in Vancouver right before Northern Voice and MooseCamp.
*Why the rant about blogging and "big text blobs"? Well, I'm biased by my tool of choice, Drupal. We've got separate content types for structured information, like events or reviews, and so don't need to take a step back and find ways to mark up structured information inside text. Of course, we'll support structured blogging standards and formats as they arise (and yes, those funky XHTML level microformats, too). Canter's Law, and all that.
