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W3C HTML WG decisions and the ARIA meltdown

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One last decision I want to touch on, for now, was the decision related to Issue 129 on ARIA Mapping. In the decision, the co-chairs sided with the change proposal that added new role mappings for several elements. An uncomplicated change proposal that should require only some small edits to the ARIA mapping […]

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The W3C HTML WG decision on RDFa prefixes

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One HTML WG decision I agree with is the one associated with Issue 120 on RDFa prefixes. Considering that RDFa support in XHTML/HTML to this point has made use of prefixes, I don’t understand why we even contemplated not supporting prefixes just because RDFa is being ported to HTML5. Frankly, it’s […]

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W3C HTML WG Decisions: hidden, longdesc, table summary, and the myth of hidden metadata

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In preparation for HTML5 Last Call, the HTML WG (Working Group) co-chairs have been rolling out several decisions—among them ones related to the img longdesc and table summary attributes. The HTML decision on longdesc was based on the following observation: The strongest argument against inclusion was the lack of use cases that clearly and directly support […]

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Review and comment on the W3C HTML5 specification

The IE Blog recently posted a guide to the W3C process of taking HTML5 to Last Call (LC). The writing included a call to those not currently involved in the W3C HTML Working Group (WG) to review the HTML5 specification and file bugs and LC comments. The HTML WG has good representation from the browser companies, […]

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The W3C bites back?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This has been a long time coming, and not sure where it will go. It started innocuously enough: remove a paragraph associated with the alt attribute, about user agents using some form of heuristics to determine replacement text. It wasn’t associated with a bug—it predated the current decision process. It […]