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Web standards gain voice

Web developers are being called on for feedback, after the release of a speech recognition grammar from the World Wide Web Consortium. Read more »

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 »

Australians contribute to new W3C standards

Australian organisations have had input in a range of new Web standards, designed to increase interoperability of the Internet. Read more »

W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0

Supporters of the Sparql query language say using the Web without it would be like 'trying to use a relational database without SQL' Read more »

W3C recommends quicker XML transmission

The World Wide Web consortium issues three recommendations designed to make handling XML-formatted data more efficient. Read more »

W3C celebrates tenth birthday

The World Wide Web Consortium is planning a celebration to mark 10 years of setting specs for the Web - prompting the question, when did the Internet begin? Read more »

W3C issues key Web services standard

The Web's leading standards group puts its stamp of approval on SOAP, an important part of the move toward Web services software. 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 »

Cisco cleans up with SOAP alternative?

Cisco has announced an alternative to the Web-services protocol SOAP — and made it open source. Cisco says its Etch messaging protocol will be more efficient than the SOAP standard and the company will release the source code. Read more »

Microsoft admits IE7 will fail standards test

Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 browser won't pass a stringent standards test that rivals have embraced. 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 »

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 »

Developer Spotlight: Gian Sampson-Wild

Gian Sampson-Wild is an accessibilty expert and one of the speakers at this year's Web Directions conference to held in Sydney this year. Builder AU interviewed Gian via email prior to the commencement of Web Directions to talk about accessibility, how to make it a part of the development process and where to from here. Read more »

W3C standards: The relationship between RDF and Topic Maps

In this article we analyse the background of both the the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Topic Maps standards and their interoperability. Read more »

Get started with Web vector graphics

At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney, Dmitry Baranovskiy presented "Web Vector Graphics", giving an overview of the models available for creating vector graphics on the Web and tools to make them render correctly in all browsers. 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 »

Faster XML ahead?

The Net's top standards body is getting closer to speeding up XML-based software, a move that could benefit everyone from mobile phone carriers to television broadcasters to the military. 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 »

LBase: A tool to generalise the Semantic Web

To manage many semantic languages, the W3C has proposed the LBase tool to define the semantics for all Web semantic languages. Read more »

Tools for securing your XML documents

The W3C offers two specifications for securing your XML documents, XML Signature and XML Encryption. Find out which tools can help create secure XML documents that adhere to these standards. Read more »

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Opera Widget SDK released

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Opera has announced the release of Opera Widgets SDK beta, that allows Web developers to create Web applications capable of running on all devices. Read more »

Spry Game

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »

What's new in GWT 1.5?

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- I recently wrote an introduction to the Google Web Toolkit based on Lars Rasmussen's session at the Google Developer Day 2008 in Sydney. Following the introductory session Lars gave us a deeper insight into GWT, particularly what's new in version 1.5. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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