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Is a Faster Web on the Horizon With WebAssembly?
The benefits of using WebAssembly, a new portable binary format suitable as a compilation target for common programming languages.
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How Accessible is Your Search Application?
It's estimated that one in 10 people has some degree of dyslexia. People with dyslexia have a cognitive disorder which hinders their ability to recognize words. Yet when I brought up the topic of web accessibility with some delegates at the recent J. Boye Aarhus 2014 Conference, I was concerned
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Discussion Point: Encrypted Media Extensions in the HTML Standard
The debate continues over the W3C decision to move forward with the inclusion of encrypted media extensions (EME) in its HTML Working Group Charter. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released a formal objection, critics claim it will hurt the web experience and Tim Berners Lee weighed in. Here
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Web and Mobile Interest Group Emerges from W3C to Further Mobile Web Initiative
Everyone’s on the move these days -- the mobile Web movement that is. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is, too, and is adding more depth to its mission for increased Web technology for mobile apps.
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W3C Report Updates Web Applications on Mobile Standards
Developing Web applications for a dizzying array of mobile device types is a problem the World Wide Web Consortium has been standardizing for years, and the group has published the tenth version of its standards for mobile Web apps on mobile. HTML 5.
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Proposed W3C Standard for e-Commerce Customer Data Moves Forward
Wouldn’t life be easier if the customer data from website transactions was standardized? That’s the idea behind an effort from an industry group that includes Adobe, Google, IBM and Best Buy. The proposed standard, called Customer Experience Digital Data Acquisition, was submitted as a draft to the World Wide
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Elcom v8.1: Updated Web Accessibility & Editorial Management Tools
Web content management vendor Elcom has released version 8.1 of its flagship product, the first update to the v8 system that debuted last summer. When Elcom released version 8 last summer, it focused on its social intranet features. This time around, Elcom has focused on Web accessibility and collaboration tools.
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W3C Partners with Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Others to Create Web Standards Documentation Site
Who would have thought it? A group of some of the top companies in the IT industry have come together with the W3C organization to build a new community and website that, the group says, will become the authorities' source for documents for web developers.
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W3C Updates Standards for Web Applications on Mobile
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released an updated version of its “Standards for Web Applications on Mobile.” The document summarizes the many technologies developed by the W3C that developers can use to add mobile capabilities to a website.
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To Sir With Love: Celebrating 21 Years of the World Wide Web
Twenty-one years ago was a different time. In 1991, the cold war ended, Magic Johnson announced he had HIV, the first Sonic the Hedgehog game was released by Sega, and Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and the first website, "info.cern.
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What is Do Not Track? Web Standards and Privacy Under Scrutiny
Twenty-first century technology may be considered our servant, but the question of who exactly it serves is one that is coming up more and more as we advance into the Internet age. As far reaching in so many people’s lives as the Web tends to be, fundamental questions about privacy have not
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A Summary of W3C Mobile Web Application Standards
Although the standards organizations are notoriously slow, somehow, it can seem almost impossible to keep up with long list of technologies the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) suggests, develops and approves.
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W3C Specifies, Simplifies RDFa
The RDF (Resource Description Framework) Web Applications Working Group of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has published several recommendations and a primer for use of RDFa and RDFa Lite in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages.
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Twitter Allows 'Do Not Track' Privacy Feature
Micro-blogging website dynamo Twitter announced today that it will allow visitors to enable the Firefox Browser's Do Not Track feature, allowing users who don't want any info gathered about them to visit the site anonymously.
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