Hi,
I joined this group in 2005. I have learned a lot since. I am
currently completing an essay for my studies. I selected the topic of
web standards for my project covering the challenges of why web
standards haven't been achieved. My arguments are (to keep it simple):
-- Standardisation process in cyberspace needs to be faster and
accommodate field developments -- ie. formal vs. field conventions
-- MSIE vs Firefox as a bottleneck barrier to standards but also IE's
version targeting and MS IE8 dilemma
-- Metadata problems: two many projects for implementation such as
OWL, XML's Schema's, RDF, Dublin Core, Warwick Framework...
-- Education for future improvement
My essay examines more than the above and continues to look at issues
of open vs. proprietary standards, semantic web and data mining issues
and more.
I am actually writing this email for a few reasons:
1. When I joined this group, one of the resources on this site offered:
10 things a developer should do for his client. One of these
suggestions included implementing the Dublin Core metadata. Looking
for this resource today, I couldn't find it. Well I found the page but
it only had 4 points on it -- instead of 10 -- and none were on topic
of Dublin Core.
Would anyone know why?
2. I guess this is part of the ever changing nature of the web but
things that I thought were happening (I guess my time perception is
quite lacking) have been out of date. Examples are the WCAG samurai
does no loner exist (is that right???) and XMLHttpRequest is now
becoming a W3C recommendation.
So, just wanted to check that I haven't missed anything and that the
WCAG Samurai completed their work with their recent draft. Also , did
I miss any updates regarding the html5/xhtml2 specifications--meaning
what is happening with these specifications' drafts?
Lastly, if anyone is interested in reading my essay, I will happily
email it onward (please contact me off list) and I am very happy to
receive your constructive feedback.
Cheers,
Elle
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