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W3C Day Japan
Yesterday I went to W3C Day Japan, held at Keio University's Mita campus. There, I had the chance to watch speeches by many W3C people, including Tim Berners-Lee. Mac fans will be happy to know that the inventor of the Web uses an iBook!
From left to right at the front:
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The most interesting speeches to me were ones about RDF and Semantic Web, by Eric Prud'hommeaux and Tim Berners-Lee. Tim explained the basics of the RDF concept, and I was very impressed by his presentation which was very dynamic and also used good examples easy to understand.
Also, Wendy Chisholm talked about Web accessibility and did a great job at focusing her presentation on Japanese needs, warning against common practices like using images to show vertical text (which prevents screen reader users from hearing the text) and placing half-width spaces between kanji in order to give a justification effect (preventing search engines from indexing the words).
There were also interesting presentations by Philippe LeHégaret about SOAP and XML. The presentation by ISHIKAWA Masaharu (HTML activity lead) would have been great, since it included many demos such as SVG, but kept being interrupted by network problems.
In all, there were about 15 of those building up the Web's standards for all to use. And at the end they were all present on stage to answer questions from the public about any topic. It was truly a great event and I hope to attend a W3C Day again sometime!
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Posted on November 15, 2003 at 21:20 | Tweet
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Sounds cool, and glad to hear that Tim uses an iBook ;-)
Posted by Jean on November 15, 2003 at 21:14
Haha. :)
By the way we were close to not being able to see Tim, his plane was late and someone went to fetch him by car at the airport.
He was about an hour late for his presentation so they passed someone else one first.
Posted by Patrick on November 15, 2003 at 22:08