Videos tagged with standards


Shawn Henry: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Update

Shawn Henry: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Update

Posted in Web Technologies, Development, Companies, Conferences

Shawn Lawton Henry stopped by in 2007 to give us an update on the standards produced by W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative at Yahoo's European headquarters in London. Where the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 are very precise and contain a number of technical requirements that might be outdated, WCAG 2.0 takes a much more user-oriented approach. In her presentation, Shawn looks ...

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Douglas Crockford: Web Forward

Douglas Crockford: Web Forward

Posted in Web Technologies, Development, Companies, Conferences

Douglas Crockford keynoted the 2008 Frontend Engineering Summit at Yahoo!. In this talk, he proposes that the standards processes have stagnated, leaving us with an inadequate platform and no orderly mechanism for improving it. The solution, he suggests, is a disorderly mechanism: another browser war. In a new browser war, the web engineering community will face short-term pain but the Web's la...

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Google Internet Summit 2009: Standards Session

Google Internet Summit 2009: Standards Session

Posted in Companies, Conferences, Development

On May 5 and 6, 2009, in Mountain View, we brought together Googlers and leaders from academia and the corporate world for a 2-day summit to discuss the state of the global Internet. The goal of the summit was to collect a wide range of knowledge to inform Google's future plans--from product development and market reach to users' expectations and our ability to keep the Internet open yet secure...

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Google Internet Summit 2009: The State of the Internet. Security Session

Google Internet Summit 2009: The State of the Internet. Security Session

Posted in Companies, Conferences, Security, Cloud Computing, Development, Networking

On May 5 and 6, 2009, in Mountain View, we brought together Googlers and leaders from academia and the corporate world for a 2-day summit to discuss the state of the global Internet. The goal of the summit was to collect a wide range of knowledge to inform Google's future plans--from product development and market reach to users' expectations and our ability to keep the Internet open yet secure...

Tags: Google, Conferences, Security, Search, Cloud Computing, Applications, Wireless, standards, Development, Companies, networks, ...