Last weekend, on October 20th and 21st, the China web community got together to Test the Web Forward at the Jinma Hotel in Beijing. China Web Community The China web community is very diverse. According to An Qi (Angel) Li of the W3C China Office there are over 400,000 web developers in China, and the... Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: October, 2012
The Graphical Web Experiment
The Quest for the Graphical Web was an experimental presentation we put together to tell the story of how the web is evolving from a graphical perspective. You can watch the full recording of the presentation from the Create the Web event. A web version can be viewed online at thegraphicalweb.com. We’ve also open-sourced the... Continue reading →
CSS Exclusions Now Available Under Flag in Chrome Canary
Chrome Canary now has a flag to enable CSS Exclusions. In Canary, enter “about:flags” in the address bar, find “Enable experimental WebKit features”, click “Enable”, and relaunch Canary. Note that the implementation of this feature is still in progress, and currently only a subset of shape-inside functionality is available. You can find more information, and... Continue reading →
A tale of CSS Regions and CSSOM: moving forward within the web community
Soon after we proposed the CSS Regions in 2011, it became obvious that we have to allow content creators a good APIs for interacting with CSS regions. In this regard, the CSS Object Model (CSSOM) addition to the W3C CSS Regions specification defined the appropriate mechanisms to determine if there are enough regions to flow... Continue reading →
Q: What’s one of the biggest things missing from the web?
A: Documentation. Or at least it was. Today, Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and the W3C are announcing Web Platform Docs (WPD) on webplatform.org. The goal of WPD is to become the most comprehensive and authoritative resource for web technologies on the planet. And since we want everyone to contribute, WPD... Continue reading →
European WebKit hackathon wrap-up
Between September 22nd and September 24th the Adobe WebKit team in Bucharest organized and hosted an European WebKit hackathon. Why a WebKit hackathon? And an European one for that, you might ask. Well, there are a couple of reasons, having to do with both building code and building communities. Continue reading →