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Buy standards compliant Web sites
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By: Karl Dubost
The topic is far from being new, but it reaches the surface of Web business at regular times. The Web community often struggles between a desire of creating a professional work and the necessity of making a living of one's...
Ruby Annotation Under The Sunlight
(Updated on Friday 3 February 2006 to add valuable source of information given by Richard Ishida) In the concepts of microformats, there is a key concept which is design for humans first, machines second. We have often been faced to...
- html
Quality Assurance Interest Group meets at the W3C Technical Plenary 2006
Once a year, W3C hosts a five day event, the W3C Technical Plenary, where Working Groups (WG) and Interest Groups (IG) hold their face to face meetings in one place and have the opportunity to meet and liaise with participants...
Failed Commitments?
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By: Karl Dubost
Do you remember? it was just three years ago or so. There were parades and brass bands. Many large Web sites were, at long last, making the switch to Web standards. For example, the Web designer Douglas Bowman was announcing...
- css
- html
W3C Renews Quality Assurance Interest Group
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By: Karl Dubost
W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a...
Markup Validator 0.7.1
New release of the W3C Markup Validator (a.k.a HTML Validator). Introducing performance enhancements and including minor fixes in the user interface and in the "Direct Input" validation results. Read the announcement for details....
CSS Validator updated
The latest update of the W3C CSS Validation Service includes a stable SOAP access and output to the CSS validator, the addition of a profile for the CSS 2.1 specification, and a large number of bug fixes. Read the announcement...
Log Validator 1.0
Release of the W3C Log Validator version 1.0. The Log Validator makes it easy to manage the quality of even large Web Sites,step by step, by finding the most popular documents failing Markup or CSS validation, or withbroken links. Read...
The QA Handbook published as a W3C Working Group Note
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By: Karl Dubost
The QA Handbook, designed to facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups, has been updated and published as a W3C Working Group Note....
QA at W3C continues: future of the QAIG
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By: Karl Dubost
With a number of documents published in the past few days and more to come soon, W3C's QA Activity, and the QA Working group have reached the end of their charter. But W3C's commitment to quality continues! In a message...
