Getting the Message Out

Steven Pemberton, CWI and W3C, Amsterdam

W3C has Loads of Success Stories

Microformats for instance:

HTML 4 was designed to allow microformats. Only the name is new. In W3C we've been doing microformats for ages.

AJAX for instance

Also not new (there are companies that have been using it since 1999). HTML didn't need to be changed to do it: there was just a single new call added to ECMAScript.

"Why isn't W3C doing X?"

Q: Why aren't we 'doing' microformats; why aren't we 'doing' Ajax?

A: We don't need to: there's nothing more to do.

We don't need to do csszengarden, or Webpatterns, or any other developments that signal that we have done our work well

So what do we need to do?

Get the message out about the successes.
But we have no structural mechanism for that...

Well, what can we do?

A W3C blog.

Needs an editor to ensure (weekly) content.
We should regularly brainstorm topics (in global).
People can then pick up topics and run with them.

The end