Seven OWL 2 Drafts Published
"2008-10-09: The OWL Working Group published seven documents yesterday relating to the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language. OWL 2 extends OWL, a core standard of the Semantic Web, adding new features that...
View ArticleVideo, Audio and Cross Domain Usage
"This is a heads up for a change to the HTML5 media elements that may break existing usage. If you use 'video' or 'audio' then you may need to make changes to the way you serve your media resources..."
View ArticleMozilla Grant will help Wikipedia Support Video
"The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and...
View ArticleThe IGF Success Story: Why Proprietary Software should be Prohibited!
"To understand the importance of a UN World Summit, one has to remember that they are held rarely; only when there is an issue of large societal impacts, such as women's rights in 1945, or global...
View ArticleHTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich...
View ArticleHTML 5 - W3C Working Draft 25 August 2009
"This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).read more
View ArticleW3C Detoxicated from Microsoft Influence, But Regains Microsoft and Apple...
The HTML Working Group at the W3C loses a co-chairing Microsoft employee, but gains two who are coming from freedom-hostile firms
View ArticleArticle for wide review: Choosing a language tag
"Comments are being sought on this article prior to final release. Please send any comments to www-international at w3 dot org. We expect to publish a final version in one to two weeks..."
View ArticleW3C proposes hardware interface
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) draft for a "System Information API" specifies JavaScript functions for accessing the battery, CPU, sensors and other hardware characteristics of a device. For this...
View ArticleJeff Jaffe now W3C CEO
Ex-Novell CTO, Jeff Jaffe, is now CEO of the web standards organisation
View Article“Behind the Open Codec FUD Attack, W3C Captured by Microsoft, Apple, Nokia...
Microsoft and Apple continue their attack on freedom facilitation in the World Wide Web and Apple's PR problem escalates
View ArticleWhy Free Software Movement must get involved in Internet Privacy Workshop: 8...
« The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Internet Society (ISOC) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will hold a joint Internet privacy workshop on 8 and 9...
View ArticleShocking: Did the W3C Sell Out to Microsoft?
It’s the official HTML5 test that praises IE9's HTML5 features. The W3C has spoken, the IE9 is the best HTML5 browser. But my question is: How credible can the test be, if you discredit it yourself and...
View ArticleDefend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards
There is a proposal currently before the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML5 Working Group to build DRM into the next generation of core Web standards. The proposal is called Encrypted Media Extensions,...
View ArticleDon’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal...
The Free Culture Foundation has posted a thorough response to the most common and misinformed defenses of the W3C's Extended Media Extensions (EME) proposal to inject DRM into HTML5. The FCF counters...
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