Don’t call me DOM

The Web is a formidable tool to host documentation; nothing new about that.

But documentation, be it on the Web or not, tend to rot when not maintained. Nothing new about that either.

While documentation maintenance is probably better addressed at the social-engineering level, there are tools that can help manage it; namely, a few weeks ago, W3C Systems Team went through the process of cleaning up our internal documentation on processes, tools, services, configurations, etc. that sits on our Team-only Web site, but is too rarely kept up to date with the latest developments.  Read more... (1020 words, estimated 4:05 mins reading time)

I failed to mention a few weeks ago that I have submitted a proposal on GRDDL to XTech 2005 and that it was accepted! So, I’ll be in Amsterdam to present it on Thursday May 26 at 14:45; the conference program looks pretty exciting generally speaking, and at the very least, having been accepted there will allow me to attend all the other promising presentations…

(I’m noting it now because I’ve been working the last few days at preparing the accompanying paper; I would link to it, but I’m not sure this would be fair to do it before the conference…)

The days were you had to have PowerPoint to visualize slides show are fortunately going away; the current offer for XHTML-based slide shows is pretty good, and growing:  Read more... (135 words, estimated 32 secs reading time)

• the ancestor of all these, the now outdated W3C Slidemaker; Dean Jackson updated the markup and the styles in his SooperSlide
• … before developing the yet unreleased PHP-based outlet
• Opera has had for quite some time a mode to develop and present slides with its Opera Show
• Dave Raggett’s Slide Show and Eric Meyer’s S⁵ generate content with the expected behavior for a diaporama (e.g. being able to press the space key to go the following slide), and with plenty of space to make CSS customization