Tag Archives: W3C

Tim Berners-Lee on government data

During TPAC, we sat down for a chat with the Director of the W3C, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. During the interview, Tim filled us in about his goals for this year with regards to getting the world’s  governments to open up the people’s data (yes “raw data now!”). We grilled him about what that means: does …

November 17, 2009 – 6:46 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)

What developers want from HTML5

Update 3/9/09: Transcript is now available at the end of this post. Lachy caught up with with the world famous Blorsen (aka. Bruce Lawson), one of Opera Software’s developer relations guys, about what developers want from HTML5. Bruce and Lachy also discuss recent happenings in the W3C’s HTML Working Group, such as new alternative drafts, …

August 25, 2009 – 1:28 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

The fascinating world of i18n

During TPAC 08, Lachy got-a-chattin’ with Richard Ishida – the W3C’s Internationalization (i18n) activity lead. Richard gives an insight into all the complexities that the i18n activity is trying to deal with. Richard is a wonderful speaker with tremendously knowledgeable of all things 18n; he gives some great descriptions of i18n problems in this little …

June 12, 2009 – 1:00 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Conforming to Karl

At TPAC 2008, Anne talked to Karl Dubost (twitter), who at the time was working for the W3C (he is now the development director at vdl2 in Montreal, Canada). Karl was, and still is, involved with the HTML5 activity. Karl was also involved in the W3C‘s Quality Assurance process as “the conformance manager”: something that, …

June 1, 2009 – 1:00 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

…and we’re back!

I (Marcos) took a brief break while I was finishing my PhD and I moved to Norway to work for Opera Software, which has been pretty awesome I have to admit. Anyway, we have a few left over videos from TPAC 2008 that I never got around to publishing… So, sorry about that! Over the …

May 31, 2009 – 7:36 pm | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Ian Hickson on Editing HTML5

During TPAC, Lachlan caught up with Ian Hickson (Hixie), editor of the HTML 5 specification. Hixie discusses the tools he uses to gather and respond to feedback, which is fundamental to the open development of the standard. Hixie clarifies the whole “when will HTML5 be ready?!” thing and gives us some details about what part …

December 6, 2008 – 12:00 am | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

TPAC Wrap-up

Whoa! Apologies for dropping off the radar! I was supposed to upload this video before Anne and I took off to Tanzania to climb Mt Kilimanjaro, but had a crazy week at work and didn’t get time. Anyway, here is the Anne’s, Lachlan’s, and Marcos’ take on TPAC. What we learned, some interesting (and hopefully …

November 30, 2008 – 2:30 am | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Ben Millard on contributing to the W3C HTML WG

While relaxing by the beach in Mandelieu, Ben Millard and Lachlan Hunt had a chat about contributing to HTML working group. In particular, Ben discusses how he studied data tables used on the web and how that led to creating an improved algorithm for understanding the structure of a table, helping to improve accessibility.

October 24, 2008 – 8:55 am | By Lachlan Hunt | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Chaals on Web Apps and HTML5

Here in Mandelieu Marcos Caceres interviewed Anne’s manager on Web Apps, being a chair, and RDF & HTML5. Charles McCathieNeville works for Opera Software (duh) and is the Chief Standards Officer there. He travels around the world promoting standards and discussing them. And in some other time he chairs the W3C Web Apps Working Group …

October 21, 2008 – 6:06 am | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Standards Suck at TPAC 2008!

Anne, Lachlan, and Marcos will be bringing you coverage from W3C’s most important event of the year: Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week (TPAC). It’s basically W3C’s social event where all the working groups have a chance to intermingle, exchange ideas, eat too much and get really drunk! yes, we will have the cameras …

October 19, 2008 – 10:06 am | By marcosc | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)