Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This last weekend I finished my latest book for O’Reilly: HTML5 Media. This is one of O’Reilly’s shorter books (about 100 pages), primarily focused at the eBook market, though you can get a hard copy with print-on-demand. The book focuses on the HTML5 audio and video elements. I cover how to […]
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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 […]
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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That’s just not right
Earlier, I found a PR release from the AVMA (American Veterinarian Medical Association) undermining Missouri’s Proposition B in favor of its “model bill”. In an associated video, the AVMA’s CEO, Dr. DeHaven, states that Proposition B only sets limits on the number of dogs that can be kept, when in actuality, Proposition B does more (DeHaven’s video)—much […]