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Extended deadline to submit position papers to workshop on the Future of Social NetorkingYesterday

We have just announced that the deadline to send (1 to 5 pages long )position papers for the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking has been extended to 3 December 2008 - the initial deadline ended today.

This is a great opportunity to take some time and put your ideas on even just one page. Be part of this exciting workshop! We got a flow of excellent submissions so far, so do participate and we guarantee that you'll spend two days in excellent company with your peers and future partners!

If you really can't send us a position paper, there is another way to participate in this highly visible workshop: sponsor it! We offer a wide range of benefits and one of them is a great visibility of your what your business is. Choose your level of participation and have your organization logo displayed on the W3C home page (300 000 page views per day!) and/or the W3C Mobile Web Initiative Web page, and many more.

Do not miss it! and looking forward to meeting you in Barcelona.

Joys and challenges of organizing TPAC2008November 19

TPs (expanded as Technical Plenary and Working Groups Meeting Week) are the biggest W3C yearly events. They attract between 300 and 400 individual participants.

I have had the chance and pleasure, since 2002, to organize the four ones that took place in Mandelieu (France) every two years. The other four took place on the East Coast, every two years, since 2001.

Organizing TPAC2008 took about 2 years. The closest to the event, the busiest I was, of course.

In my TPAC2008 e-mail folder, I have accumulated 3132 messages, starting early November 2006. That is twice as many as the previous TPs I had planned. I could say it is because I have organized the TPAC2008 twice :) We had almost signed the contract with a hotel in the centre of Paris when we resolved in September 2007 to withdraw from a deal that was too expensive for us. I was glad I had started so early. I now had about a year to organize TPAC2008.

In order to experience the joys of TP planning, there are a number of challenges to face.

Including the Advisory Committee Meeting (the "AC" part of "TPAC") was not a challenge, really.

The biggest challenge is to find the venue that is accessible and can accommodate our meeting needs, and we need to have about twenty meetings taking place at the same moment, and preferably at the same venue :)

Back in 2001, I visited a lot of hotels and conference venues on the

Learn How To Write HTML 5November 18

Discovered through twitter, there is an interesting blog post from Kroc Camen on how to learn HTML 5. The author is giving good essential guidelines on semantics and elements. The conclusion of his blog post is spot on and shows one of the painful points of HTML 5 specification:

Once you have made a decent HTML4 site, then you will look at the HTML5 specification, and it will make sense—you will know what to do with it.

A document is being written for filling this hole: The Web Developer’s Guide to HTML 5

HTML 5, the markupNovember 13

HTML 5 is a giant specification. It contains things related to the content model, the APIs, the DOM, the parsing algorithm, etc. We received many comments that it was very hard to read for simple implementers and documentation writers who would like to better understand how html 5 documents are written.

Discover the editor's draft of HTML 5: The Markup Language! Mike Smith has extracted the parts of HTML 5 related to the content model. This document is aimed at people who would like to focus on the content model, be reviewers, authoring tools implementers, documentation writers.

We hope that it will help everyone to have a better understanding of html 5 content model. An additional document should be provided in the future for learning about html 5 with the name Web Authoring Guidelines.

SVG Wireframe For Your Website DesignNovember 12

Very often, when you are negociating a new Web site for your organization or company, the Web designer will hand over a photoshop mockup of your Web site. Personally, I have a tendency to ban this practice. I prefer to receive a solid xhtml/css mockup and sees how it is handled in different devices.

The community around SVG is building up a new Web site. They decided to use SVG for the wireframe mockup of their Web site.