[LINK] Web Platform Docs Org

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

http://www1.webplatform.org

W3C Launches Web Standards Documentation Site

In an effort to better acquaint Web developers with the open technologies 
that can be used to build Web applications, the World Wide Web Consortium 
(W3C) has launched a Web site with tutorials and other documentation that 
cover most of today's Web standards.

The W3C is positioning Web Platform Docs as a one-stop shop for learning 
the Web app technologies and their underlying standards.

Through Web chats and discussion forums, the site should also provide a 
tighter feedback loop between those who write the standards and those who 
use the standards: Users will enjoy current information about a 
standard's state of development and implementation, and the developers 
can use the feedback from the user community to shape their own work. 

The site will provide in-depth detail on how to use technologies such
as, HTML5, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the various audio, video and 
animation tags. Image manipulation tools such as the Canvas tag, WebGL, 
and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image are covered. So are data storage 
and retrieval technologies such as media queries, IndexedDB and File API.

The tutorials are designed to teach app developers how to deploy these 
technologies in such a way that they can run across multiple platforms. 
They provide syntax and examples, as well as the latest on development 
and implementation status for each technology.

The W3C currently lists this site as an alpha release. Adobe, Facebook, 
Microsoft and others contributed raw material for the site, and the W3C, 
which will oversee the project, is encouraging volunteers to reshape the 
material in ways that would be most educational for Web app developers. 

The site has been set up in a manner similar to Wikipedia, in which users 
can flag areas that need improvement, as well as easily provide material 
and changes themselves." By Joab Jackson (IDG News) 09 October, 2012 16:35

  http://www.w3.org/2012/10/webplatform.html.en

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Cheers,
Stephen