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  1. Re:interesting technology... by KjetilK · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web

    The RDF geeks are allready discussing a marriage of Reiser4 and RDF.

  2. Re:John C. Dvorak by Jonner · · Score: 1 · on Time to Kill Microsoft Word?
    Now all we need is for some snarky Emacs user to chime in and we're good.

    That's my cue. I use nxml and it works quite nicely, thank you very much. Can your sixth-rate editor validate as you edit and do auto-completion? ;)
  3. Re:web standards should ignore IE by jooon · · Score: 1 · on Future for Web Standards Pondered

    XHTML is not fucking stupid, but it can be quite annoying, when you have to deal with

    • The mime type hell. text/html vs application/xhtml+xml
    • The difference between the HTML DOM and XML DOM in javascript
    • The much praised XML feature, fail hard if the syntax is wrong. It's great when developing software, but could be irritating when you have to deal with crappy markup (the one normal humans write).

    On the other hand, it's neat to edit XHTML in nxml-mode in emacs.

  4. Yes, there is... by msimm · · Score: 1 · on What Is The Future of PNG?

    Take a look at SVG. It supports vector graphics, PNG motion/animation and sound (at least in 1.2). Looks like Flash has also been opened up so you've got quite a selection. Here are some comparisons (look a little out of date) and a resource website.

  5. Use XHTML 2.0 (draft) today by leighklotz · · Score: 3, Interesting · on An XHTML Tutorial That Does Not Assume HTML?
    If you're interested in XHTML and XML, take a look at XHTML 2.0.
    XHTML moves the presentation out into CSS completely, and so can be presented by an XML+CSS rendering engine; what's left in XHTML 2.0 is the semantics.

    It's possible to use most of XHTML 2.0 in today's modern browsers, though crafting the style sheets to make it work is a job for serious experts. Here is a sample weblog page converted to XHTML 2.0 and it should display properly in most modern browsers: http://w3future.com/weblog/gems/xhtml2.xml

    The big missing pieces are XForms, which abstracts the form data model and operations out of XHTML into its own module, and XML Events, which does the same for events (though it is compatible with recent DOM events). There is aplugin for Internet Explorer that make XForms work seamlessly inside XHTML documents, so I suspect that if you are so inclined, in a month or two you can be targeting to the draft of XHTML 2.0 with support for most of its features, and get cross-browser standards-based support for the same kinds of features you're writing back-end ASP hacks and browser-specific JavaScript and ActiveX controls for today. (No, it won't work in IE 4.0 or Netscape 4.62, but neither will most of the hacks and ActiveX controls.)

    Here is an article on XHTML 2.0: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/08/07/deviant.html
    .

    Here is an XMLHack article by Simon St. Laurent: http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1741 who writes

    The new XHTML 2.0 introduces XForms integration, navigation lists, linking on every element, unordered section headings, and an expanded role for the object element.


  6. Yay, someone already started it.... by sahala · · Score: 2 · on The Open Source Cookbook?
    I think XML should be considered, in could be transformed into many different formats. They could be easily traded... Just a thought :)

    Ah, XML ... the be all and end all silver bullet for the web.

    I believe these are starting points.

    http://www.amk.ca/recipe/

    http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=192

  7. Re:Tabbed browsing? by savaget · · Score: 3, Interesting · on A First Look at Netscape 7

    Flash 5 work fine for me on Mozilla RC2

    One plugin that is broken is the Adobe SVG plugin, read about it here

  8. more details, background by simonstl · · Score: 3, Informative · on W3C Revises Patent Royalty Policy

    I wrote a story at xmlhack on the new draft this morning. It's got some extra details and links to background information. The exception handling process looks like it'll be the area to watch.

  9. W3C Approach by Bernal+KC · · Score: 1 · on How Are Standards Monitored And Enforced?
    The W3C recently decided to hire a "conformance manager" who will help ensure that their standards are adopted cleanly. I heard about this at XMLHack: "Towards better conformance". I don't see any mention of this on the W3C site.

    As noted in the XMLHack piece, conformance is typically monitored by external organizations like The Web Standards Project, or XML.COM.

    MS has been extremely effective with their logo certification program. My prior employer would jump through any hoop, do anything at all without regard to process, resources, etc. in order to get the MS logo compliance. I almost wish that IETF or W3C would try such heavy handed stuff.

  10. W3C Approach by Bernal+KC · · Score: 1 · on How Are Standards Monitored And Enforced?
    The W3C recently decided to hire a "conformance manager" who will help ensure that their standards are adopted cleanly. I heard about this at XMLHack: "Towards better conformance". I don't see any mention of this on the W3C site.

    As noted in the XMLHack piece, conformance is typically monitored by external organizations like The Web Standards Project, or XML.COM.

    MS has been extremely effective with their logo certification program. My prior employer would jump through any hoop, do anything at all without regard to process, resources, etc. in order to get the MS logo compliance. I almost wish that IETF or W3C would try such heavy handed stuff.

  11. Re:Open-Source OODBMS? by chocolateboy · · Score: 1 · on Is there An Enterprise-Level Open Source RDBMS?

    Check out Ozone. According to the blurb it's a "fully featured, object-oriented database management system completely implemented in Java and distributed under an open source license". And it fully supports XML.