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Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)
Both of these sentences divulge too much of the mechanics of getting the Amaya software. If you want to call your reader to action, use something like:
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W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
Following HTML, CSS and JavaScript, WebAssembly becomes the fourth language for the Web which allows code to run in the browser
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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
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W3C recommends WebAssembly
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Cool URIs don't change (1998)
There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
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Mozilla and Google Objections Overruled on “Decentralized Identifiers” by W3C
The W3C Member review of the Decentralized Identifier (DID) 1.0 Proposed Recommendation concluded with Formal Objections from three organizations.
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Payment Request API
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Personal names around the world
How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?
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Web Environment Integrity has no standing at W3C; understanding new W3C work
This article addresses that Web Environment Integrity is not being worked on at W3C, and proceeds to explaining how work is brought to W3C and the processes that foster the development of Web standards and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
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30 years on from introducing the Web to the World
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Sustainable Web Interest Group Is Formed
Announcement of the formation of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group.
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TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs (2015)
A few years after HTTP appeared, around when W3C was founded in 1994, it was clear that an unencrypted and unauthenticated connection was too much of a liability for a lot of serious stuff, such as e-commerce, which everyone wanted to do on the web. (In those days, mass Deep Packet Inspection was not technically…
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Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation
A new tool to empower everyone on the web with privacy-respecting online identity and consent-based data sharing
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W3C to become a public-interest non-profit organization
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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CSS Nesting Module
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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W3C finalizes HTML5 specification
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HTML 5.1 is a W3C Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Understanding and managing the impact of machine learning models on the web
This document proposes an analysis of the systemic impact of AI systems, and in particular ones based on Machine Learning models, on the Web, and the role that Web standardization may play in managing that impact.
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The XML spec is 25 years old today
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML…
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The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two Apple Patents.
The W3C seeks information about access control systems available before October 2005 and content distribution systems before April 2006 that offer a viable solution that may apply to the use of access requests policy in Widgets . Such information could suggest ways to define a specification that can achieve the…
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WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (1990)
HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It provides a single user-interface to large classes of information (reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line help). We propose a simple scheme incorporating servers already…
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No ARIA is better than bad ARIA
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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How people with disabilities use the web
Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
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HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (2011)
At a sad time at which the world has just lost Steve Jobs, it is well to reflect on some of the things which he, his passion, and his creations have given us, as now the technical community should take...
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The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized
A hand conversion to HTML of the original MacWord (or Word for Mac?) document written in March 1989 and later redistributed unchanged apart from the date added in May 1990. Provided for historical interest only. The diagrams are a bit dotty, but available in versioins linked below. The text has not been changed, even…