8 posts tagged “w3c”

This IBM developer works article discusses what you need to know to make your Web site part of the Semantic Web. It starts with a discussion of the problems the Semantic Web tries to solve and then moves to the technologies involved, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL), and SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL). You'll see how the Semantic Web is layered on top of the existing Web. It then covers some issues that you want to know about when you plan a new Web site and also gives specific examples of how to use technologies like RDFa and Microformats to enable your existing Web site to become a part of the Semantic Web.

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers.
It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl.

When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

You can see some sample browsershots screenshots @

• http://browsershots.org/screenshots/
• http://browsershots.org/http://fsse.info/

and you can download a set of PNGs to your PC for closer inspection !

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to non open editors using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping.

Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more.

It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

You can easily run Inkscape INSIDE a VMware Player Ubuntu virtual machine EVEN if you are not running GNU/Linux directly on your desktop !

In case I didn't mention it already "M$ HTML email" is not a W3C standard !

AND M$ have changed it again in their latest email client ! BUT they have been kind enough to create a special "M$ HTML email" validation program you can use to test your non-standard emails !

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338200.aspx

Join the VOX W3C Web Standards group today !

Flickcurl is a C library for calling the Flickr Web service API from Redland RDF.

It handles the API signing, token management, and parameter encoding and decoding, resulting in C functions for the Web services APIs.

FOAF is another piece of the semantic web

FOAF Project

Visual FOAF Explorer

FOAF Tools

The Semantic Web is about two things:

"It is about common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where on the original Web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents.

It is also about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects.

That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing."

editcss is a firefox addon that lets you edit and highlight any css element in a html webpage

editcss.png