A new site/community has opened up to promote open standards and a place for web developers. Essentially it is a resource site where web developers can obtain information on best practises for HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Accessability, and more.
This is a positive move from a number of organisations to bring together their knowledge and also to assist in promoting the internet and web development overall. Whilst the site and the community looks like it is still in it's infancy, it contains a number of articles as well as tutorials.
Looking at the documentation that is currently there, it looks as though it is pitched new comers to the web such as students and other professionals who have basic knowledge of the internet. The articles and the information stored within webplatform.org is based on a wiki format (think of wikipedia) where everyone, or anyone can edit the information. The idea behind this is to be open, and allow people to update the content to keep it updated and relevant for the audience.
My initial view on the site is that, like most tutorial/article sites, is that it is really verbose (think of large amounts of text). Take for example the page "how does the internet work" (http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/concepts/internet_and_web/how_does_the_internet_work), the information could have been improved for users (especially those who are new to this type of topic) by using diagrams, presentations, and videos.
However, this looks like it is only the start of the site and there appears to be more to come. I'm certainly excited by the fact that there is a central repository to get information about web technology, and I'd encourage anyone and everyone to participate.
There are a couple of anomalies with the site, namely it uses custom registration without proper identity management (i.e facebook, windows live, openID, etc...), and the registration page also doesn't use the best practises around CAPTCHA (although they are very annoying). Upon registration, I was also advised that the source couldn't be determined and recommended for me to enable cookies - after simply re-populating the fields and resubmitting the form it worked.
There is also a forums sections in the form of stackoverflow (www.stackoverflow.com), which at the moment contains questions about the site rather than anything real about web platforms.
There are a number of backers behind this initiative such as W3C, Google, Microsoft, and facebook just to name a few.
Anyway, here's promo vid of webplatform.org:
This is a positive move from a number of organisations to bring together their knowledge and also to assist in promoting the internet and web development overall. Whilst the site and the community looks like it is still in it's infancy, it contains a number of articles as well as tutorials.
Looking at the documentation that is currently there, it looks as though it is pitched new comers to the web such as students and other professionals who have basic knowledge of the internet. The articles and the information stored within webplatform.org is based on a wiki format (think of wikipedia) where everyone, or anyone can edit the information. The idea behind this is to be open, and allow people to update the content to keep it updated and relevant for the audience.
My initial view on the site is that, like most tutorial/article sites, is that it is really verbose (think of large amounts of text). Take for example the page "how does the internet work" (http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/concepts/internet_and_web/how_does_the_internet_work), the information could have been improved for users (especially those who are new to this type of topic) by using diagrams, presentations, and videos.
However, this looks like it is only the start of the site and there appears to be more to come. I'm certainly excited by the fact that there is a central repository to get information about web technology, and I'd encourage anyone and everyone to participate.
There are a couple of anomalies with the site, namely it uses custom registration without proper identity management (i.e facebook, windows live, openID, etc...), and the registration page also doesn't use the best practises around CAPTCHA (although they are very annoying). Upon registration, I was also advised that the source couldn't be determined and recommended for me to enable cookies - after simply re-populating the fields and resubmitting the form it worked.
There is also a forums sections in the form of stackoverflow (www.stackoverflow.com), which at the moment contains questions about the site rather than anything real about web platforms.
There are a number of backers behind this initiative such as W3C, Google, Microsoft, and facebook just to name a few.
Anyway, here's promo vid of webplatform.org:
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