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Video On The Web - The Interviews

Three video interviews about Video On The Web Workshop have been published by videolectures.net.

XML On The Web - A Choice

The browsers offer one rendered view of information on the Web among many possibilities. JSON, RDF, Atom, plain text, xhtml, html are parts of the choices to represent an information resource.

XML Dev Day Tokyo 2007

Today (21 December 2007) I am attending the Tokyo 10th XML Developers day. This is an annual event, held in Japanese, with latest news from the Japanese XML developers community. The event is organized by Murakta-san. The presentations are of a great variety, providing both technical and rather "political" aspects of XML trends. Below is a summary of the talks, focusing on the technical aspects.

W3C’s Device Description Repository Core Vocabulary Draft

Get Involved!

The Web exists because people wanted to connect to each others and share. They got involved. The first Web site was a kind of blog written by Tim Berners-Lee. People were experimenting, implementing, writing manual and tutorials. Tim was announcing the new servers that you could count each month on your fingers. You too can be part of it.

When Widgets Go Wrong

Widgets provide front-ends to all kinds of information sources on the Web; several thousand are available for download. Obviously, the use of Web technologies has been a huge success here, enabling people to adapt their programming experience from the Web to their local platform. With the Web programming platform, though, come the Web's programming practices and security issues, sometimes with more serious consequences than before.

Version Identifiers Reconsidered

The Architecture of the World Wide Web includes a section on extensibility and versioning of languages and data formats. The TAG is having second thoughts about the suggestion that all data formats SHOULD provide for version identification. Sometimes it is a good thing to do, but sometimes not.

When will HTML 5 support <video>? Sooner if you help

To make the distance to home when I travel a little shorter, for my birthday I got one of these digital picture frames. With a little fiddling, I got the picture and music features working, but I'm stumped on...

Cool URIs for the Semantic Web (First Public Draft)

Testing your browser while being lazy

I have to admit something, sometimes I'm a bum. It's why I like tools which makes my life easier. I had written in the past that RDF is for the lazy person. I like also the LogValidator because it helps...