Today at the W3C Advisory Committee meeting, we discussed the document license for HTML 5. We discussed use cases from the HTML Working Group that call for a more open license than the current W3C Document License . The result of discussion among the Membership is that there is strong support for: a license that allows the reuse of excerpts in software, software documentation, test suites, and other scenarios; a license (or licenses) that are familiar to the open source community; processes that encourage innovation and experimentation about Web technology, so that work can be easily brought to W3C for standardization; making the HTML Working Group a forum that is conducive to participation by the community at large; ensuring that the HTML 5 specification remains valuable to the entire Web community (see an update from Philippe Le Hégaret on HTML that he presented to the Membership)

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Update on HTML 5 Document License

A couple of days ago, Microsoft announced their OData API. In the first blog post at odata.org, they wrote: At the same time we are looking to engage with IETF and W3C to explore how to get broader adoption of the OData extentions & conventions. I would like to take Microsoft up on their suggestion: I invite you to create an Incubator Group at W3C

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Microsoft, Bring OData to a W3C Incubator

For those of you who will be in Cambridge, MA on March 27, a few of us will be giving several presentations around HTML 5, CSS 3, and SVG in the morning. We’ll have a hands-on session in the afternoon. This event is free and organized as part of the Boston Web Design Meetup group

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Looking at the Next Open Web Platform on March 27

China’s national standards body CNIS has a draft document out Guide for the Implementation of the Inclusion of Patents in National Standards. (For an English translation see the first column of this.) Wang Yiyi’s China’s Approach to Standards-related Intellectual…

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China’s proposed policy for mandatory standards: no patented technologies without RAND or RAND-RF?

As I announced a few weeks ago , the RDF Next Steps Workshop will take place at NCBO, in Standford, US. A separate page has now been published on the details of the location , especially on hotels. Let me also use this blog entry as a gentle reminder that the deadline for the position paper submissions is on April the 4th

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Venue details for the RDF Next Steps workshop published

As part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about their support for standards and participation in W3C, I ‘m talking to Paul Cotton from Microsoft and co-Chair of the W3C HTML Working Group. First, let me thank you personally on becoming a co-chair of the W3C HTML Working Group

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Interview: Paul Cotton on Microsoft Participation in the W3C HTML Working Group

With a Future of XML workshop in the offing, maybe it’s time to revisit one of the oldest XML feature requests: binding general entities without using the internal/external subset. There have been numerous more-or-less serious proposals to address this requirement over the years—here’s a new (?) one

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Entity declarations without DTDs: yet another approach?

We did it again ! Back in 2008, the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group released its first Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers that packed 12 (and later, 16) important Web technologies into a single page that would tell you at a glance how well your browser supported them. Fast forward to 2010, the level of support on this first Web compatibility test has tremendously improved, although the browsers that show a fully green grid are still few. But in the meantime, the technologies have also evolved, and while many of them are still not final by any means, it seemed that getting an overview of which of these technologies are available today on what browsers would make a good follow-up to our first test.

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Web Compatibility Test strikes back

Some of you are familiar with the W3C Chairs angels, three home-made bots living in IRC , that are truly essential to the W3C Working Groups conducting their work on the phone: Trackbot, the toolbox, is the bot for creating and tracking issues and action items during meetings. Zakim, the phone, is the bot connecting people on phone, controlling the agenda of meetings, and managing the questions and queue

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W3C Chairs angels

A small addition has been made on the RDFa distiller service (pyRdfa) : there is now a possibility to upload an XHTML file to be distilled, beyond referring to a URI or copying a text to a text box. This feature has been asked for by several users. Both the upload and the text box alternatives use POST, whereas distilling via URI-s uses GET

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Small add-ons to the RDFa distiller