Archives for the "Standard" tag
Standards as social contracts
Looking at the efforts Dave Winer is undertaking in terms of getting OPML to become yet another standard, I’ve been thinking about how formats get adopted. The key insight I came up with is that standards are actually a form of social contract and increasingly, data formats is following the same path. Looking at the history In [...]
Tags: HTML, HTTP, History, Linux, RSS, Standard, Syndication, XML
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Microsoft Loves RSS
The blogoshpere is buzzing about Microsoft’s announced support for RSS. Here’s a quick history of how they got there, and the good and bad on what they are adding to the standard. How we got there? Microsoft is not really a new player in the syndication space. With the release of Internet Explorer 4.0, in 1997, the [...]
Tags: Content, HTML, History, Microsoft, OS, RSS, Standard, Syndication
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A matter of Style
The WTH Remix contest has ended and the winners have been announced, showing that sometimes, the net community can do better than standards creator. The grand prize winner is a visually arresting page (compared to the original) that has only a few small things missing in order to make it perfect. First of all, I would [...]
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Mind the Gap
According to recent research, the digital divide may include people who are not interested in getting online. The implication of this are enormous, impacting areas like E-government initiative. The idea of providing more services online allows corporations and government to reduce costs by encouraging self service. However, if a number of people decide that there [...]
Tags: Standard, Trends, usability
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Much Ado About XHTML 2
There has recently been much grumbling about XHTML 2 in general and its deprecation of the IMG tag in favor of the OBJECT one. While XHTML 2 is indeed a departure from the existing standards instead of being an evolution, it is important to realize that some of the things the workgroup is trying to do [...]
Tags: Browser, HTML, Implementation, Microsoft, Standard, XHTML
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How new features appear
Today’s release of Beta 2 of the Safari browser heralds the introduction of tabbed browsing in the much talked about browser. This is an interesting development which shows that sometimes, the influence of a particular browser goes beyond its existing market share. Safari’s tabbed browsing is a result of an implementation that first appeared in [...]
Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Process, Standard
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