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- Mozilla: Still too dependent on Google for revenue; Can it diversify?
- well its in Google best interest ...that mozilla is healthy and and kicking .... anyone claiming monopole they point out that they support Mozilla foundation big time ...Google keep its competition alive they should do more invest in ubuntu ... so they...
- Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Operational accounting, revenue, Google Inc., Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest
- Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, XHTML, W3C, Microsoft Corp., standards, HTML, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, ISO
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- HTML Viewer 1.0 (Mobile)
- Use this program to display colored source code of any HTML and XML file. You can load the source files from any location on your SD memory card.The viewer also integrates with the Blazer web browser. Launch Blazer and use the View Page Source menu command to display the colored...
- Tags: HTML, Source Code, Mobile
- Software downloads 2009-05-21
- Google is the new Microsoft
- Google is the new MicrosoftRE: Google is the new MicrosoftNo company can be as evil as M$!Google is still the friend of OSS.This just confirms what I have always suspected2 years ago I told a colleague that Google would become the company everyone loves to hate. I am a little...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Demonstrating the value of SPARQL to the Semantic Web
- I wrote a piece on Nodalities last week, to draw readers' attention to the news that SPARQL had reached the dizzy heights of 'Recommendation'; the highest accolade that those guardians of the web's evolution, W3C, can award to a technology, and the closest that the group comes to...
- Tags: Software, Web, Database, SPARQL, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML
- Market researchers with the Burton Group have issued a 37-page study-- not commissioned by Microsoft or any other tech vendor -- that finds Microsoft's OOXML document format to be more useful than the rival ODF format backed by Microsoft's competitors. The new study, freely downloadble (in exchange...
- Tags: Burton Group, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...
- Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- O'Reilly and Spivack grapple with the Webs
- I've really enjoyed the recent flow of posts between Talis Platform Advisory Group member Nova Spivack and (not yet a member!) Tim O'Reilly. Through them it's possible to see some of the complex interrelationships between aspects of 'Web 2.0' and the more pragmatic areas of 'Semantic Web' development. 'Web 3.0'...
- Tags: Web, Nova Spivack, Tim, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters
- I've been a watcher of the great many standards setting processes for a great many years and there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that most people don't know about. In 2003, I even won an award for my coverage of standards from the American National Standards Institute:...
- Tags: JEDEC, Specification, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OpenDocument Format, Session, Standards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- The Emerging Concepts and Applications of the Spatial Web Portal
- Geospatial metadata, data, and services have been widely collected, developed and deployed in recent years. This flourishing of geospatial resources also added to the problem of geospatial heterogeneity. Interoperability research and implementation are needed for advancement in potential solutions to integrate and interoperate these widely dispersed geospatial resources. The paper...
- Tags: Portlet, Web, Web Portal, Channel Management, Portals, Marketing, Internet
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Dynamic HTML: Style Sheet Property Reference
- This paper provides a list of every web page style sheet property that is implemented in mainstream browsers, as well as those specified in the W3C recommendations for Cascading Style Sheets. So that one can readily see whether a particular entry applies to the browsers one must support, a version...
- Tags: Style Sheet, DHTML, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-12-01
- Making the Web fit for mobile
- Making the Web fit for mobileAnd the link is: http://www.w3.org/TR/dial/http://www.w3.org/TR/dial/Why Opera doesn't like itThe reason Opera folks are sceptical about it is because they've already built nice browsers for mobile phones which intuitively strip stuff off a regular web page so that it looks neat inside their browser running on...
- Tags: mobile, Opera Software ASA, Web, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2006-05-22
- Google Calendar - further progress on Google's Web Office suite
- Google Calendar - further progress on Google's Web Office suiteThinkfreeTake Google and add Thinkfree and you cover the whole list except Project Management - for this you can add projectcoordinator. Just integrate these and your away.Areas of concern[b]Putting my data in some else's hands[/b]I don't know that I can ever...
- Tags: Channel management, Web browsers, XML, Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Google Calendar
- Discussion threads 2006-04-13
- Promise yet questions at Ajax confab
- Promise yet questions at Ajax confabRADical Ruby on RailsGetting a website developed and running is one thing.Maintaining it is another.The Rails framework isn't the first to encapsulate the Model/View/Controller, but what sets it apart is perpaps more about the pure object-oriented nature of Ruby and how Rails acheives encapsulation, thanks...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Ruby on Rails, Google Inc., Ruby, AJAX, Eclipse
- Discussion threads 2006-03-15
- ODF subpar for the disabled? Not so fast says Google researcher.
- Perhaps this blog entry should have been entitled "What the Senator didn't hear during Massachusetts' Halloween Hearing on the OpenDocument Format." But that would have been too long for a headline. In that hearing, testimony was heard from several representatives of the community of People With Disabilities...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-12-05
- Microsoft ECMA/ISO move could give Office formats new lease on life
- I'm trying to grab a few vacation days here during the short week. But the news that Microsoft is looking to establish its Office XML Reference Schema (the new file format for it's Office productivity suite) as an International Organization of Standardization ISO ratified standard has pulled me out of...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-11-22
- The idea of less as a competitive advantage
- The idea of less as a competitive advantageMinimalistThere can surely be no doubt that minimalism has an important role to play in technology acquistion policy?If you are a 37 Signals customer and ask for more features, you didn't understand what you were buying in the first place.A minimalist ICT policy...
- Tags: Marketing research, Strategy, Fried, Jason, marketing, specification, competitive advantage, Ajax 2.0
- Discussion threads 2005-10-06
- Language barriers on the Web?
- Language barriers on the Web?XHTML is XMLJust to add my opinion here, the whole point of moving from HTML to XHTML ultimately is to migrate all your content to XML. XHTML is XML and the point is your web page should be stored and sent as XML data and eventaully...
- Tags: Web, XHTML, XML, CSS, barrier
- Discussion threads 2005-09-12
- Next Explorer to fail Acid test
- Next Explorer to fail Acid testNext Explorer to fail Acid testWho cares? The Acid test is a BS test anyway. Most browsers don't pass it.As well it shouldn't...My MCSD's have added proprietary extensions to all of our web content. My rep handed over the "keys to the castle" over lunch...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Acid-Test, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2005-08-01
- Fear and loathing of IE 7
- Hakon Wium Lie, CTO at the Olso, Norway-based Web browser maker Opera, has contributed a stinging commentary to CNET Networks that calls Microsoft out for using Internet Explorer 6 to slow down the adoption of Web standards. Lie, known by many as the father of cascading style sheets CSS, is...
- Tags: David Berlind, Hakon Wium Lie, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Opera Software ASA, standards
- Blog posts 2005-03-16
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