W3C accelerates HTML 5 (iTNews) 3 Jul 2009
More focus on next version of markup language.
Message of Chargé d’affaires, a.i. marking the 233 rd Independence Day of the United States of America (Daily News) 3 Jul 2009
Today marks the 233 rd anniversary celebrating the signing of America’s Declaration of Independence. America’s Founding Fathers knew that achieving independence would require winning a difficult war that risked bringing ruin on their fortunes, friends, and families if they did not succeed.
Message of Chargé d’affaires, a.i. marking the 233 rd Independence Day of the United States of America (Daily News) 3 Jul 2009
Today marks the 233 rd anniversary celebrating the signing of America’s Declaration of Independence. America’s Founding Fathers knew that achieving independence would require winning a difficult war that risked bringing ruin on their fortunes, friends, and families if they did not succeed.
New, highly contagious strains of potato virus Y in Switzerland (SeedQuest) 3 Jul 2009
The potato virus Y (PVY) is transmitted by several species of aphids and causes significant losses in yield and quality. Numerous new isolates of this virus have emerged in recent years in Swiss potato crops.
Roundup: News From Around the Web (The Advocate) 3 Jul 2009
In Oakland Park, Florida at least… The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network has been working to get local governments to support an act to eliminate “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The Oakland Park City Commission passed the Military Readiness Enhancement Act unanimously.
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec (ZDNet UK) 3 Jul 2009
The next version of the web-coding language will specify neither H.264 nor Ogg Theora as its native video codec, due to a lack of agreement between browser makers
XHTML 2 Cancelled (Slashdot) 3 Jul 2009
Jake Lazaroff writes “According to the W3 News Archive, the charter for the XHTML2 Working Group — set to expire on December 31st, 2009 — will not be renewed. What does this mean? XHTML2 will never be a W3C recommendation, so get on the HTML 5 bandwagon now. According to the XHTML FAQ, however, the W3C does ‘plan for the XML serialization of HTML to remain compatible with XML.’ Looks like with …
Morris Calendar (Daily Record) 3 Jul 2009
TRICKY TRAY for Joey Bella Memorial Fund from 6 to 10 p.m. at Gardner Field, Route 46 West, benefits families in Denville and contiguous towns that are affected by catastrophic illness.
Hudson County is cracking down on bad drivers (The Jersey Journal) 3 Jul 2009
Hudson County sheriff’s officers intend to crack down on speeders on county roads this Fourth of July weekend and through the end of the month as part of the statewide “Obey the Signs or Pay the Fines” initiative, officials…
W3C accelerates HTML 5 (vnunet.com) 3 Jul 2009
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Friday 3 July 2009 at 12:17:00 Web consortium says it will focus more attention on the new version of the markup language The World Wide Web Consortium is set to retire its XHTML 2 working group and concentrate its resources on HTML 5, highlighting its growing importance and development potential. HTML, or hypertext markup language, is the core markup language of the …
W3C accelerates HTML 5 (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) 3 Jul 2009
The World Wide Web Consortium is set to retire its XHTML 2 working group and concentrate its resources on HTML 5, highlighting its growing importance and development potential.
HTML Tags For Academic Printing? (Slashdot) 2 Jul 2009
meketrefi writes “It’s been quite a while since I got interested in the idea of using html (instead of .doc. or .odf) as a standard for saving documents — including the more official ones like academic papers. The problem is using HTML to create pages with a stable size that would deal with bibliographical references, page breaks, different printers, etc. Does anyone think it is possible to …
XHTML 2 language dumped in favor of HTML 5 (InfoWorld) 2 Jul 2009
Looking to focus on the budding — and game-changing — HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing further development of XHTML 2. XHTML been an XML-based version of HTML and has been the subject of several W3C efforts ranging from XHTML 1.0 to XHTML Modularization and XHTML 2. The 2 version of …
XHTML 2 language dumped in favor of HTML 5 (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) 2 Jul 2009
Looking to focus on the budding — and game-changing — HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing further development of XHTML 2.
Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs (Slashdot) 2 Jul 2009
snydeq writes “Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C spec that has been viewed as a threat to Flash, Silverlight, and similar technologies. ‘After an inordinate amount of discussions on the situation, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that …