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27 July 2012 The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group ( WCAG WG )  published the First Public Working Draft of Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT) . It is a draft of an informative (that is, not normative) W3C Working Group Note that will clarify how Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 can be applied to non-Web ICT. Please see important background information in the Call for Review e-mail . Comments are welcome through 7 September 2012. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

26 July 2012 The Web Performance Working Group invites implementation of three Candidate Recommendations: Page Visibility which defines a means for site developers to programmatically determine the current visibility state of the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web applications. Performance Timeline which defines an unified interface to store and retrieve performance metric data. This specification does not cover individual performance metric interfaces. User Timing which defines an interface to help web developers measure the performance of their applications by giving them access to high precision timestamps. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

26 July 2012 The Technical Architecture Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Best Practices for Fragment Identifiers and Media Type Definitions . Fragment identifiers within URIs are specified as being interpreted based on the media type of a representation. Media type definitions therefore have to provide details about how fragment identifiers are interpreted for that media type. This document recommends best practices for the authors of media type definitions, for the authors of structured syntax suffix definitions (such as +xml), for the authors of specifications that define syntax for fragment identifiers, and for authors that publish documents that are intended to be used with fragment identifiers or who refer to URIs using fragment identifiers. Learn more about the Technical Architecture Group .

24 July 2012 W3C is pleased to announce commitments from Adobe, Google, and Microsoft for sponsorship funding that will enable W3C to provide additional staffing in support of the HTML Working Group's full range of activities, including editing several specifications and developing tests. These sponsorships will help W3C fill a position announced in June in response to an April call for editors from the HTML Working Group Chairs. In their April email, the Chairs also outlined the group's parallel efforts to finalize a stable HTML5 standard by 2014 and engage with the community on future HTML features. Learn more about the HTML Working Group .

24 July 2012 The Provenance Working Group published three Last Call Working Drafts . Provenance is information about entities, activities, and people involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used to form assessments about its quality, reliability or trustworthiness. PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model introduces the provenance concepts found in PROV and defines PROV-DM types and relations. The PROV data model is domain-agnostic, but is equipped with extensibility points allowing domain-specific information to be included. PROV-O: The PROV Ontology expresses the PROV Data Model using the OWL2 Web Ontology Language (OWL2). It provides a set of classes, properties, and restrictions that can be used to represent and interchange provenance information generated in different systems and under different contexts. It can also be specialized to create new classes and properties to model provenance information for different applications and domains. PROV-N: T...

24 July 2012 The SPARQL Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of SPARQL 1.1 Query Language . RDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing information in the Web. This specification defines the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language for RDF. SPARQL can be used to express queries across diverse data sources, whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. SPARQL contains capabilities for querying required and optional graph patterns along with their conjunctions and disjunctions. SPARQL also supports aggregation, subqueries, negation, creating values by expressions, extensible value testing, and constraining queries by source RDF graph. The results of SPARQL queries can be result sets or RDF graphs. Comments are welcome through 21 August. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity .

Content drives most traffic when you offer something useful. There are many types of useful content you can create and they largely depend on the niche of your site. You can have articles with tons of advice, or short tips but one of the most powerful ways to get traffic is to create a free product or service. When this product or service gets popular and people start visiting your site, chances are that they will visit the other sections of the site as well. Free products and services are great for getting free traffic to your site and one of the best varieties in this aspect is viral content. Viral content is called so because it distributes like a virus – i.e. when users like your content, they send it to their friends, post it on various sites, and promote it for free in many different ways. Viral content distributes on its own and your only task is to create it and submit it to a couple of popular sites. After that users pick it and distribute it for you. Viral conte...

18 July 2012 W3C announced new momentum for making the Web the future interoperable platform for Digital Signage. W3C issued a summary of key topics and use cases for bringing Digital Signage to the Web, as well as a first gap analysis of enhancements to the Web to enable the transformation of the Digital Signage ecosystem. Digital signage covers a spectrum of display sizes and locations, from sports arenas and urban video terminals of every shape, to monitors in elevators, storefront windows, train stations, and public kiosks featuring rich interactivity. In June, an initial opportunity to discuss next-generation Web-based Digital Signage services drew industry stakeholders to a W3C Workshop " All Signs Point to the Web ," hosted by NTT. Read the full press release about the Workshop report and join the Web-based Signage Business Group to develop use cases and requirements for standardization.

18 July 2012 Registration is now open for a new round of mobile Web online training courses which begin on 3 September 2012. In these courses, you learn to "mobilize" pages and deliver a good Web experience on mobile devices. These 6-week long W3C online training courses, supported by experienced and professional trainers, let you study at your own pace. The courses are separately delivered in English and in Spanish: "Mobile Web 1: Best Practices" . An early bird rate is available until 6 August, so enroll now . El curso también está disponible en español: " Buenas Practicas en Web Móvil" (http://kwz.me/cv). El precio de inscripción antes del 14 Agosto es de 95€! Registrate ahora! . Learn more about W3C online training for developers .

Website optimization might sound like a technical rabbit hole, but even basic improvements can have a major impact on your site’s traffic. Whether you run a personal blog, a business site, or an e-commerce store, simple tweaks can make your site faster, more visible, and more user-friendly—resulting in more visitors and better engagement. 1. Improve Page Load Speed Why it matters: Visitors won’t wait around for a slow site. Studies show that 40% of users abandon a site if it takes more than 3 seconds to load. Optimization tips: Compress images using tools like TinyPNG or ImageOptim. Use lazy loading for images and videos. Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. Enable browser caching and use a content delivery network (CDN). Traffic impact: A faster site means lower bounce rates, higher retention, and better rankings in Google—leading to increased organic traffic. 2. Mobile Optimization Why it matters: Over 50% of web traffic comes from mobile devices. Google also uses mobile-f...

12 July 2012 The Device APIs Working Group has published four Working Drafts: a Last Call Working Draft of HTML Media Capture .The HTML Media Capture specification defines HTML form extensions that facilitate user access to media capture capabilities of the hosting device. Comments are welcome through 09 August. a First Public Working Draft of Pick Media Intent , which enables access to a user's media gallery from a Web application. a First Public Working Draft of Proximity Events , which defines a means to receive events that correspond to a proximity sensor detecting the presence of a physical object. a Working Draft of Pick Contacts Intent , which enables access to a user's address book service from a Web application. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

12 July 2012 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of File API . Web applications should have the ability to manipulate as wide as possible a range of user input, including files that a user may wish to upload to a remote server or manipulate inside a rich web application. This specification defines the basic representations for files, lists of files, errors raised by access to files, and programmatic ways to read files. Additionally, this specification also defines an interface that represents "raw data" which can be asynchronously processed on the main thread of conforming user agents. The interfaces and API defined in this specification can be used with other interfaces and APIs exposed to the Open Web Platform. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

12 July 2012 JSON has proven to be a highly useful object serialization and messaging format. JSON-LD harmonizes the representation of Linked Data in JSON by outlining a common JSON representation format for expressing directed graphs; mixing both Linked Data and non-Linked Data in a single document. The RDF Working Group has published two related First Public Working Drafts: JSON-LD API 1.0 outlines an API and a set of algorithms for transforming JSON-LD documents in order to make them easier to work with in programming environments like JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. JSON-LD Syntax 1.0 outlines a common JSON representation format for expressing directed graphs; mixing both Linked Data and non-Linked Data in a single document. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity .

SEO and w3c standards: SEO Tasks : Basic SEO Tasks 1. Table based layouts are an outdated and ineffective practice for web design         a. Check xhtml/css templates 2. ...

 Here we can refer some experts comments to analyze the Effect of W3C Validation over SEO 1. Aaron Wall, of  SEOBook:     If you want to get links from web designers who charge high rates then W3C validation is important to SEO, otherwise it has little direct importance outside of ensuring proper rendering to end users. When one visits Amazon.com or Google or Yahoo! (or just about any billion Dollar+ internet company) they will find a website that doesn’t validate. Why is that? 2. Brent Payne, SEO Director for Tribune     I like to keep errors under 25 or so, though Tribune has 100+ errors. Perfect code, I don’t think is necessary but you don’t want to have too malformed of HTML. Some say it is a ranking factor, I say you just don’t want to have stuff that is too unexpected for the bots. 3. Dennis Goedegebuure, Senior Manager & Head of SEO at eBay Inc.     It depends on the type of errors and how many, it all depends o...

The long and short of the answer would appear to be yes. Both Google and Bing admitted late last year to using "social signals" to help rank search results. Additionally Google has a Beta test version of social search under is Labs tools that directly signals which social media outlet it has pulled results from, as well as it's Beta version of the "+1 button" which is it's answer to the Facebook "Like" button.  From Bing: “We do look at the social authority of a user. We look at how many people you follow, how many follow you, and this can add a little weight to a listing in regular search results.” And from Google: “Yes, we do use [tweeted links and RTs] as a signal. It is used as a signal in our organic and news rankings. We also use it to enhance our news universal by marking how many people shared an article.” The bottom line is this.  Social signals do matter from an SEO standpoint, but they aren’t strong enough to justify artificially paddin...

28 June 2012 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of Selectors API Level 2 . Selectors, which are widely used in CSS, are patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. The Selectors API specification defines methods for retrieving Element nodes from the DOM by matching against a group of selectors, and for testing if a given element matches a particular selector. It is often desirable to perform DOM operations on a specific set of elements in a document. These methods simplify the process of acquiring and testing specific elements, especially compared with the more verbose techniques defined and used in the past. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

28 June 2012 The Web Real-Time Communication and Device APIs Working Groups published a Public Working Draft of Media Capture and Streams . This document defines a set of JavaScript APIs that allow local media, including audio and video, to be requested from a platform. Lean more about Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

26 June 2012 The Web Intents Task Force, jointly operated by the Device Applications (DAP) Working Group and the Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group , has published a First Public Working Draft of Web Intents . This document defines DOM interfaces and markup used by client and service pages to create, receive, and reply to Web Intents messages, and the procedures the User Agent carries out to facilitate that process. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity and the Rich Web Client Activity .