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Tag: web standards
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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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Where WebRTC Fits in the Digital Experience Puzzle
Think about the last time you tried to contact a customer service agent over the phone: The endless wait. The fun navigating the interactive voice response (IVR) system. And the possibility that your call could be randomly dropped at any time, which means you'd start the process all over again.
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Drupal Founder: We Can't Trust Google
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The founder of the open source Drupal content management system called for the creation of an Internet enforcement agency to monitor Google's algorithms to protect privacy and build web transparency. "We need to know how the data is used but also how the algorithms work," Dries Buytaert told
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Jahia to Offer Ethical Web Data Exchange to Apache
Open source CMS vendor Jahia intends to contribute a reference implementation for a standard protocol for the exchange of customer data between web servers, to the Apache Foundation as an incubator project, a Jahia spokesperson told CMSWire today. Jahia’s aim, as the company’s CTO told us last month,
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Has Adobe Found the Missing Link to Rich Web Experiences? #SXSW
Alert the Discovery Channel. I officially spotted a potential yeti at SXSW recently. Not the hairy kind with big feet, but a missing link nonetheless.
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WebRTC Video Decision Delayed, Stalling Development
A closely followed Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Vancouver last week took an anticlimactic and mysterious turn. Committee members failed to reach a consensus on an important component of the new web-based communications standards called WebRTC. RTC stands for Real Time Communication.
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WebRTC, Video Codecs and Why You Should Care
Right now, a bunch of nerds on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Vancouver are making big decisions about the next big wave in web communications standards. And these decisions will have a big impact on some of the largest technology companies, for many years to come.
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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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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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Will 2013 Be the Year that HTML5 Takes Over?
What does 2013 hold for the future of HTML5? If predictions by industry analysts are correct, mobile will be its calling card. And rightly so -- HTML5 has the power to help smartphones, feature phones, tablets, notebooks, desktop PCs, televisions and vehicles come together through cloud services.
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Using Web Tracking to Track Down Hackers #blackhat
There’s not really much you can do about web tracking, so you might as well figure out how you can take advantage of it. This was the theme of Web Tracking for You, a session at the tenth Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas presented by Gregory
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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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Open Data Standard for the Web Takes a Step Forward
If you have ever thought, “If I was defining standards, I would have never done it that way.” Here is your chance. Open standards organization the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS ) announced it is accepting participants for its newly created technical committee, the OASIS
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