27 November 2013 W3C announced today a Workshop, Linking Geospatial Data , 5-6 March 2014, in London (UK). The event is hosted by Google. Many of the best data-driven Web applications have geospatial information at their core. Very often the common factor across multiple data sets is the location data, and maps are crucial in visualizing correlations between data sets that may otherwise be hidden. It’s this desire to work with multiple data sets in different formats about different topics and link those with the powerful technologies used in geospatial information systems that is behind the linking geospatial data workshop. How can geographic information best be integrated with other data on the Web? How can we discover that different facts in different data sets relate to the same place, especially when ‘place’ can be expressed in different ways and at different levels of granularity? W3C membership is not required to participa...

26 November 2013 The CSS Working Group and the SVG Working Group have published two Working Drafts today. A Working Draft of Filter Effects Module Level 1 . Filter effects are a way of processing an element’s rendering before it is displayed in the document. Typically, rendering an element via CSS or SVG can be conceptually described as if the element, including its children, are drawn into a buffer (such as a raster image) and then that buffer is composited into the elements parent. Filters apply an effect before the compositing stage. Examples of such effects are blurring, changing color intensity and warping the image. Although originally designed for use in SVG, filter effects are a set a set of operations to apply on an image buffer and therefore can be applied to nearly any presentational environment, including CSS. They are triggered by a style instruction (the filter property). This specification describes filters in a...

25 November 2013  W3C opens registration for a brand new W3C course on Responsive Web Design . This course leads students step by step through an approach that focuses on HTML and CSS to make Web sites work across diverse viewport sizes. Sponsored by Intel® XDK and taught by acclaimed trainer Frances de Waal , this Responsive Web Design course starts 29 November for 4 weeks, and is free of charge . Learn more about W3DevCampus , W3C’s online training for Web developers.

There are 9 main points you should focus on: • Keywords • URL Text • Description, Meta tags • Title tags • Image Names • ALT tags • Heading tags • Content • Hyperlinks The focus of these 8 steps is to load your pages with as many "keywords" as possible. Keywords Keywords are the most important aspect of good SEO, this is where you tell the Search Engines what your site is about. Search Engines use an algorithm to determine the "Keyword Density" of your site, this formula is: Total Words ÷ Keywords= Keyword Density Use this formula on your competitors web site and see how they score, then aim to beat that score. Choose keywords that best relate to the information, products or services that you are offering. For instance, if I am designing a site about "Web Design", I want my site to include the words "Web Design" as many times as possible. However, most people don't just search for just one word, they type phra...

19 November 2013 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Transitions . This document introduces new CSS features to enable implicit transitions, which describe how CSS properties can be made to change smoothly from one value to another over a given duration. Learn more about the Style Activity .

8 November 2013 The Model-Based User Interfaces Working Group has published a Working Draft of MBUI – Abstract User Interface Models . Model-Based User Interface Design facilitates interchange of designs through a layered approach that separates out different levels of abstraction in user interface design. This document covers the specification of Abstract User Interface Models, by defining its semantics through a meta-model, and an interchange syntax (expressed as XML Schema) for exchanging Abstract User Interface Models between different user interface development environments. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

7 November 2013 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of CSS Style Attributes . Markup languages such as HTML and SVG provide a style attribute on most elements, to hold inline style information that applies to those elements. This draft describes the syntax and interpretation of the CSS fragment that can be used in such style attributes. Learn more about the Style Activity .

6 November 2013 The Web Applications Working Group has published four Working Drafts: Streams API . This specification provides an API for representing binary data and string data in web applications as a Stream object, as well as programmatically building and reading its contents. This includes a Stream, a StreamConsumeResult and a StreamReadType interfaces, extensions to XMLHttpRequest and to URL.createObjectURL and URL.revokeObjectURL. This API is designed to be used in conjunction with other APIs and elements on the web platform, notably: File, XMLHttpRequest, postMessage, and Web Workers. Quota Management API . This specification defines an API to manage usage and availability of local storage resources, and defines a means by which a user agent (UA) may grant Web applications permission to use more local space, temporarily or persistently, via various different storage APIs. Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Sp...

5 November 2013 The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) today published the updated Last Call Working Draft of WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide , which describes how browsers and other user agents should support WAI-ARIA (the Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification); specifically, how to expose WAI-ARIA features to platform accessibility API s. Comments are welcome through 6 December. Learn more in the call for review e-mail and read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .