CSS Intrinsic & Extrinsic Sizing Module Level 3 Draft Published

27 September 2012

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of CSS Intrinsic & Extrinsic Sizing Module Level 3. @@This module extends the CSS sizing properties with keywords that represent content-based "intrinsic" sizes and context-based "extrinsic" sizes, allowing CSS to more easily describe boxes that fit their content or fit into a particular layout context. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Learn more about the Style Activity.

W3C Renews Audio Working Group

26 September 2012

W3C announced today the renewal of the Audio Working Group, whose mission is to add advanced sound and music capabilities to the Open Web Platform. The new charter adds a new deliverable, the Web MIDI API, which will provide a bridge between the browser and MIDI capable devices, such as musical instruments and controllers, and has great interest from the MIDI Manufacturers Association. The charter also clarifies the Web Audio API deliverable and timeline. See the Audio Working Group Charter for more information, and read more about the Interaction Domain.

Effective way to promote products and services

Effective way to promote products and services

For many businesses and institutions, having a Facebook page is an effective way to promote their products and services, and can significantly expand their network. Getting tons of fans on Facebook is easy, if you just follow some of these simple ideas.

First off, start with what you already have. Click on the "Suggest to Friends" button and invite friends from your original profile. The number of fans you will get from this method depends mainly on the number of friends that you actually have and your relationship with them. Aside from this, you should also invite your e-zine and e-mail subscribers. Send out an e-mail to your subscribers informing them of your fan page, and place a logo of Facebook in your newsletters.

Get the people who regularly visit your site to go to your Facebook fan page by embedding eye-catching things on your website. Choose from a number of widgets that you can embed on your site, such as the Fan Box widget, where you can display your page stream and some fans, or the Live Stream widget, which fans can use to send comments in real time. You can also load nice videos on your Facebook page and embed them on your website or your blog. The video serves as a link to your Facebook fan page.

People are attracted to unique and interesting material. A great way to get more people to check out your Facebook page and like it is to add interesting stuff on your fan page. Make your fan page unique by uploading an attractive welcome video on your main canvas page. Here, you can share what your page is about and why people should "Like" it. There are also a number of Facebook applications that you can try adding to your page to make it more appealing, such as Vpype, a live video-streaming application where you can air Internet shows directly from your page. There are also several companies that create custom Facebook applications, depending on what you want.

After doing this you post interesting updates, articles and news relevant to your business on your Facebook, so that people who are added in your list get the post and are forced to comment on your profile. By doing this the user who will comment on your profile will in return automatically post your comment to all users in his profile. This will notify more users about your existence and you will end up getting more people in your network.

Don't forget to link, link, link. Make sure you add a link on your personal profile page that will direct your visitors to your Facebook fan page. Place your fan page’s URL right below your profile picture, on the "Write something about yourself" area, so that it will be easily visible to friends who visit your page. You can also link your fan page to other sites, such as Twitter. Your Facebook updates will automatically get posted to your Twitter account, and you can also promote your fan page on your background and Twitter bio field.

Above are the ways of doing it but the most important thing is that you keep on posting on your Facebook profile. You have to be very active on Facebook. An active profile is the key to attracting more and more users.
These are only a few of the things you can do to increase your Facebook fans. Try them out!

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W3C Workshop: Do Not Track and Beyond

20 September 2012

W3C announced today a Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond, 26-27 November in Berkeley, California. W3C is currently creating standards that define mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking. The Working Group has produced drafts of Do Not Track specifications, concurrent with various implementations in browsers and Web sites and heightened press and policymaker attention. At the same time, public awareness of online privacy issues has increased.

Workshop participants will discuss the Consortium's next steps in the area of tracking protection and Web privacy. What have we learned from Do Not Track standardization and real-world implementations? What should we look at next and beyond DNT?

There is no fee to participate in this Workshop and W3C Membership is not required. All participants are required to submit a position paper by 19 October and space is limited. W3C thanks UC Berkeley and TRUST Science and Technology Center for hosting the meeting, and Yahoo! for sponsoring the event. Learn more about the W3C Privacy Activity.

Web Cryptography API Draft Published

13 September 2012

The Web Cryptography Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Web Cryptography API. This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform these operations. Key storage is provided for both temporary and permanent keys. Access to keying material is contingent on the same origin policy. Uses for this API range from user or service authentication, document or code signing, and the confidentiality and integrity of communications. Learn more about the Security Activity.

Simple Delivery Profile for Closed Captions (US) Draft Published

13 September 2012

The Timed Text Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Simple Delivery Profile for Closed Captions (US). This document defines the behavior expected of a presentation processor using the player constraints for such an online delivery profile. The Simple Online Delivery profile is focused on streamlined delivery of closed captions on the Internet. This interoperability profile supports core TTML features to deliver content originating legacy formats such as CEA-608 and -708 content, and is targeted primarily for delivery in US markets. The Simple Delivery Profile for Closed Captions focuses interoperability using TTML 1.0 to support delivery of closed captions for video content. Other profiles based on TTML 1.0 may target other types of subtitles such as on-screen text or graphics. This interoperability profile is a proper subset of TTML 1.0 plus features required to support US Government closed captioning requirements for online presentation. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.

Three drafts published by the CSS Working Group

11 September 2012

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published three Working Drafts  .

• CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3. This module contains the features of CSS for conditional processing of parts of style sheets, conditioned on capabilities of the processor or the document the style sheet is being applied to. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2 are allowing nesting of certain at-rules inside '@media', the addition of the '@supports' and '@document' rules for conditional processing.
• CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 4. This module contains the features of CSS level 4 relating to the <image> type and replaced elements. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3. The main extensions compared to level 3 are several additions to the ‘<image>’ type, additions to the ‘<gradient>’ type, extensions to the ‘image()’ function, definitions for interpolating several ‘<image>’ types, and several properties controlling the interaction of replaced elements and CSS's layout models.
• CSS Transforms. CSS transforms allows elements styled with CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. This specification is the convergence of the CSS 2D transforms, CSS 3D transforms and SVG transforms specifications.

Learn more about the Style Activity.

HTML+RDFa 1.1 Draft Published

11 September 2012

The RDFa Working Group has published a Working Draft of HTML+RDFa 1.1.This specification defines rules and guidelines for adapting the RDFa Core 1.1 and RDFa Lite 1.1 specifications for use in HTML5 and XHTML5. The rules defined in this specification not only apply to HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4 and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing rules. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

Easy-to-Read on the Web - Online Symposium - Call for Papers

06 September 2012

The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) will hold an online symposium to explore easy-to-read language to meet the needs of people with cognitive disabilities or low language skills. The Call for Papers is open until 12 October 2012. Learn more about the Easy-to-Read on the Web Symposium and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

Last Call: Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification

06 September 2012

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification. This specification defines the Document Object Model Events Level 3, a generic platform- and language-neutral event system which allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides basic contextual information for each event. The Document Object Model Events Level 3 builds on the Document Object Model Events Level 2. Comments are welcome through 27 September. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Report: Current State and Roadmap of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile

05 September 2012

W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context.
A deliverable of the MobiWebApp project, this seventh edition of the document highlights changes since May 2012, particularly two new proposed charters to start work on Near-Field Communications (NFC) and System Applications (i.e. native apps built with Web technologies), and the work on Web Intents, storage quota management and multimedia integration.
Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices.

SEO - Right video at the right time is priceless

Using Videos In News Releases for Better SEO

In a survey conducted by Forbes Magazine, 75% of senior executives said that they watched work-related videos per week and another 52% related that they prefer to watch work-related videos on YouTube once a week.
Many Internet savvy people who used to harvest information by reading text have learned to appreciate the importance of videos.

Advantages of video in press release

•One of the most effective ways to grab the attention of media professionals.
•Raise the visibility of your Web page on search engine results pages.
•Promote your video content while generating more website traffic for your brand.

In some cases, photos and video can be featured on other websites that can drive their audience to your news story and garner more publicity for your business. Pictures might be worth a thousand words, but the right video at the right time is priceless.