SEO and w3c standards: SEO-Title of your Web page

SEO and w3c standards: SEO-Title of your Web page: The title of your Web page is the first piece of information that an Internet searcher will see about your site. Many people will decide whe...

SEO and w3c standards: About Google PageRank

SEO and w3c standards: About Google PageRank: PageRank is an analysis and ranking algorithm created by Larry Page and used in part by Google to assess the relative importance of website...

Registration Open for HTML5 Training Course; Early Bird Rate through 8 September

28 August 2013

Register now to the upcoming W3C HTML5 online course, to start 30 September 2013. Acclaimed trainer Michel Buffa will cover the techniques developers and designers need to create great Web pages and apps. This new course edition has been significantly enhanced since the June 2013 course. It features additional sections, including a JavaScript crash course, advanced sections on time based animation, 2D geometric transformations, Web Audio API, etc., all illustrated by numerous examples. Register before September 8 to benefit from the early bird rate. Learn more about W3DevCampus, the W3C online training for Web developers.

Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML Draft Published

22 August 2013

The HTML Working Group has published a Working Draft of Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML. This document adds an additional public identifier that should be recognised by XHTML user agents and cause the HTML character entity definitions to be loaded. Unlike the identifiers already listed by the HTML5 specification, the identifier added by this extension references the set of defintions that is used by HTML. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

WebCrypto Key Discovery Working Draft Published

22 August 2013

The Web Cryptography Working Group has published a Working Draft of WebCrypto Key Discovery. This specification describes a JavaScript API for discovering named, origin-specific pre-provisioned cryptographic keys for use with the Web Cryptography API. Pre-provisioned keys are keys which have been made available to the user agent by means other than the generation, derivation, importation functions of the Web Cryptography API. Origin-specific keys are keys that are available only to a specified origin. Named keys are identified by a name assumed to be known to the origin in question and provisioned with the key itself. Learn more about the Security Activity.

Three RDFa Recommendations Published

22 August 2013

The RDFa Working Group today published three RDFa Recommendations. RDFa lets authors put machine-readable data in HTML documents. Using RDFa, authors may turn their existing human-visible text and links into machine-readable data without repeating content. Today's publications were:

• HTML+RDFa 1.1, which 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.
• The group also published two Second Editions for RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1, folding in the errata reported by the community since their publication as Recommendations in June 2012; all changes were editorial.
• The group also updated the a RDFa 1.1 Primer.

Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

Top Tips for high ranking on bing

• First and foremost, make sure that social tactics are a huge part of your marketing strategies. A heavy presence on Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn and related sites is a must.
• Be a heavy Facebook user, as opposed to Google+. Leverage your fans, and encourage social signals (Likes, comments, etc.)
• Test your keywords specifically against the Bing audience. What will get you high rankings in Google will likely be different in Bing. The smaller audience also means less competition for your keywords, so you’re more likely to do well using more popular selections on Bing than on Google.
• Bing is a stickler for error free XML sitemaps. Make sure yours have zero 404s, or the Bingbot might ignore the whole thing.
• The Bingbot is also big on Robots.txt files. If your site doesn’t have one, it risks being completely ignored by Bing.
• Bounce rates are also big deciding factors. If most visitors bounce off a page before spending a certain chunk of time, the entire website may suffer a ranking decrease.
• Just like Google, content – good, quality, fresh, current, irresistible content – is essential to a high ranking.

Push API and Input Method Editor API Drafts Published

15 August 2013

The Web Applications Working Group has published two Working Drafts:

• Push API. This specification defines a “Push API” that provides webapps with scripted access to server-sent notifications, for simplicity referred to here as push notifications, as delivered by push services. Push services are a way for application servers to send messages to webapps, whether or not the webapp is active in a browser window.
• Input Method Editor API. This specification defines an “IME API” that provides Web applications with scripted access to an IME (input-method editor) associated with a hosting user agent.

Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

W3C Highlights - August 2013

W3C published W3C Highlights - August 2013, a survey of select recent work and upcoming priorities. The report includes: progress and work ahead in making the Open Web Platform a success on mobile devices, news in Web for All areas like accessibility and internationalization, how W3C is collaborating more closely with various industries that are being transformed by the Web, liaison updates, and new opportunities for more people to get involved in W3C.

HTML5 and Canvas 2D Candidate Recommendations Updated by the HTML Working Group

06 August 2013

The HTML Working Group updated two Candidate Recommendations today:

• HTML5, which defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
• HTML Canvas 2D Context, which defines the 2D Context for the HTML canvas element. The 2D Context provides objects, methods, and properties to draw and manipulate graphics on a canvas drawing surface.

Learn more about the HTML Activity.