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At W3C, few practice what they preach
Members of the Web's leading standards consortium are leading by fiat, not example, according to a survey. Read more »
W3C looks at next-gen voice technologies
The World Wide Web Consortium on Tuesday said the next generation of VoiceXML will include specifications for speaker verification. Read more »
XML spec moves ahead despite gripes
The World Wide Web Consortium has been accused of favouring IBM through its decision to advance XML 1.1 Read more »
Opera's browser finds its voice
Norway-based Opera is adding voice control to its eponymous browser, allowing users to browse the Web by talking to their PC and have the contents of Web sites read back to them. Read more »
Microsoft discloses some IE 7 plans
Microsoft finally told Web developers what they've wanted to hear for years, promising support for graphics and style sheet standards. Read more »
Language barriers may stifle Web future
The lack of backwards compatibility between the Web scripting language XHTML 2.0 and its HTML predecessors could make billions of Web pages obsolete, experts fear. Read more »
Semantic labelling scheme for Web pages
The body responsible for web content labelling has adopted the principles and standards of the Semantic Web. Read more »
Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in
Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »
E-forms standard finalised
The main standards body for the Web released the final specification this week for XForms, a standard that will compete in the growing market for electronic forms. Read more »
Adobe aquire Macromedia
With its US$3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems is buying into a crucial battle to shape the next generation of Web application development. Read more »
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Should web developers keep up with browser statistics?
This article explains why developers may want to keep up with web browser statistics and describes where to find this information. It also discusses how browser market share impacts your development work. Read more »
Opera CTO: IE 8 will fail Acid test
Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly Read more »
W3C members: Do as we say, not as we do
A simple study points out that less than 5 percent of the premier Web standards group's own members follow consortium protocols in building their own Web pages. Read more »
When will Microsoft fully embrace Web standards?
I recently revisited the issue of using Web standards when working with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and Outlook 2007. The products' lack of adherence to Web standards was surprising given the advancements incorporated in Internet Explorer 7. Read more »
Web spec labels XML parts
The World Wide Web Consortium recommends XPointer, which is designed to identify discrete sections of a document that uses the Extensible Markup Language. Read more »
Abandon tables, simplify design with CSS
HTML developers often use tables to create page layouts. But Cascading Style Sheets offer a more nimble alternative. This quick tutorial shows you the way. Read more »
Berners-Lee honoured for creating the Web
The Millennium Technology Prize could soon be lined up next to the knighthood, honouring Tim Berners-Lee's achievement in building the foundations of the World Wide Web. Read more »
Review: Dreamweaver MX 2004 improves CSS support
Dreamweaver MX 2004 claims to support pure CSS layouts. No more funky tables or weird bump gifs. Does this latest version keep Dreamweaver at the top of the WYSIWYG HTML editing heap? Read more »
Use metrics to drop browser support
Browser version support is a difficult issue but a few metrics and testing tools can provide the hard data you need to choose which Web browsers your Internet site will support. Read more »
XML and Unicode: Mix with care
The character set that lets computers write in every language from Czech to Chinese could make Web browsers tongue-tied, two standards groups have warned. Read more »
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Spry Game
-- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.