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Unexpected Kanji Rotation
Recently, my XML editor gave me a surprise. This is how it should display Kanji characters: However, this is how it displayed in the editor's source text: The issue is that in the source text, the Kanji characters are rotated...
- i18n
Links Feast about Technical Plenary 2007
It was an amazing long week for the W3C community. Meetings, talks, corridors discussions, shared meals over brackets and parsers, many new projects started and some communities started to have a better understanding of each other. Some people posted their...
- conference
- tpac
- tpac2007
- w3c
W3C "Minority Report" Workshop aka Multimodal
Today, at SFC Keio University, a workshop on Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is starting. MMI Architecture is a loosely coupled, event-based architecture for integrating multiple modalities into applications. A bit hard to understand, I bet. Let's start with a hollywood...
- conference
- mmi
- multimodal
- w3c
- workshop
A story about namespaces, MIME types, and URIs
Noone seems to know where the story begins; Ian Jacobs reminded me about magic namespaces as I enjoyed breakfast on Thursday; Steven Pemberton and Bert Bos had told it to him, perhaps prompted by Ian Hickson's question in the URI-based...
- html
- mime
- uri
- xhtml
- xml
TPAC 2007 - HTML Working Group had informal jamming session!
It was intended to be a fun session for the HTML Working Group face to face meeting, but the word spread out and suddenly many people joined us at the room. The jam started and suddenly Tim Berners-Lee joined Dan Connolly, Steven Pemberton, Ian Jacobs, Janet Daly and others on the lyrics...
- html
- html5
- tpac
- tpac2007
- w3c
TPAC 2007 - HTML Working Group holds first face-to-face meeting
The time has come for the much anticipated HTML Working Group face to face meeting, at the W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week in Cambridge, MA (USA).
- html
- html5
- tpac
- tpac2007
- w3c
TPAC 2007 - Cracks and Mortar
Tim Berners-Lee is taking the floor: "The world is a mess of interconnected communities and it is why it is working." Content-Type: is a way to define the content available at a specific URI. It gives flexibility for evolution. It...
- conference
- tpac
- tpac2007
- w3c
