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XForms is the new forms standard from the W3C and is set to dramatically change how we build applications. Whether constructing a front-end to a contact database, providing powerful forms on your intranet, or building a full-featured online shopping-cart in multiple languages. XForms makes development easier and quicker, whilst also...

Tags: Web, Form, XForms, FormsPlayer, XML, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2007-01-29

IE7 not CSS compliant - argh, here we go again!

IE7 not CSS compliant - argh, here we go again!Pay attention[i]Tony Chor [...] stated that standards was a high on the agenda for IE7 along with things like security. He said that Microsoft will support "not only official standards, but defacto standards".[/i]And MSHTML is [u]the[/u] [i]de facto[/i] standard. You...

Tags: Quality, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, standards, XFORMS, CSS

Discussion threads 2006-08-07

Why a landmark court case could force you to redo your whole Web site

Why a landmark court case could force you to redo your whole Web siteThere was already a case about thisAgainst an airline, IIRC. They ruled in favor of the airline.ADA justificationsI'm red headed, left handed, brain damaged, near-sighted, missing part of a digit and have a semi-colon. I demand to...

Tags: Channel management, Internet, Adam Smith, XFORMS, Web, AJAX, Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2006-05-11

Additional Resources

Nokia and Google: Too much emphasis on the mobile OS?

Nokia and Google: Too much emphasis on the mobile OS?Partially agree, but......The argument is that ALL apps should be web interface with all of the work being done on remote servers. Forget wireless connectivity issues in the USA, the reality is that having apps on your mobile device will...

Tags: Operating systems, Cellular phones, operating system, Nokia Corp., Google Inc., mobile

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?

Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?They are waiting for the right time to pounce. Right now, they want to slowSOA as much as possible, to keep the money rolling in for the twin cash cows, but, there will come a time...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Microsoft Corp., XML, Microsoft Office, OOo, Web-Stack, SOA, MSOffice-OOXML, OOo team

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Do we need two open source office suites?

Do we need two open source office suites?That Made Me Scratch My Head, TooMethinks Dana needs to go back and double-check his sources. And, by the way, StarOffice's roots actually go back much further than that: Star Division's StarWriter was first developed back in the mid-80's for CP/M. ...

Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, open-source office suite, Symphony, StarOffice, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Adobe's Open Screen Project: Back at ya' Apple!

Flash maker Adobe on Thursday announced a consortium of phone and electronics vendors that will rally around Flash and Adobe Air content. But is the real target Apple? According to several Web and video developers, it's Adobe that needs to get on the iPhone bandwagon, not the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Safari Team, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating systemIn the long run, Live services...will not make the big splash everyone is hoping for. Individual consumers may find it useful but Enterprises will move the services back in house. Especially with Open Source providing more and better services that can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Game players, Internet, Yahoo! acquisition, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, cloud computing, Google Inc., computing, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

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

Roden Web Editor (exe)

Roden Web Editor is editor for many web languages - HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP,XSLT, RSS, SVG, and SMIL. Easy to use: intuitive interface, button and code hints and help, one click insertion of code, tags and programming blocks. Code helpers and wizards: autocomplete feature for many languages, code...

Tags: Web, Language, Roden Web Editor, Channel Management, Xhtml, CSS, AJAX, Marketing, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Web 2.0

Software downloads 2007-10-15

Generate Web Services for DB2 9 pureXML: A Proof of Concept Technique to Generate Bottom-Up Web Services for XML Data

Web services are important building blocks to achieve a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. As more and more applications move towards an SOA, often there is a need to expose application functionality as Web services. This paper shows how one can easily generate Web services using a simple Java class to insert...

Tags: Technique, Web, Web Service, SOA, XML-Data, IBM DB2, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

White papers 2007-06-14

WebBrowser4Widgets (widget)

WebBrowser4Widgets Sandbox is an example how to build and integrate HTML widgets working with Y WE. The WebBrowser4Widget is a COM extension for Yahoo widget Engine which supports HTML, Ajax, Flash Player SWF, SVG, FormPlayer XForms, Acrobat Reader PDF, Windows Media, RealPlayer, QuickTime. Good start point for building your own...

Tags: HTML, WebBrowser4Widgets Sandbox, WebBrowser4Widget, AJAX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-06-05

IE7 Release Candidate 1 - Review and Image Gallery

IE7 Release Candidate 1 - Review and Image GalleryLet me be the first to commentI posted these on the ie7 blog when beta 3 came out. Unfortunately I see they haven't been listened to. Oh well. 1. The UI really needs work. Some of us still like having a file...

Tags: XML, Web browsers, .NET, Microsoft development tools, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

Discussion threads 2006-08-29

Emagic CMS.Net (exe)

The emagiC CMS.Net framework is one of Europe's fastest growing Content Management Systems for building and maintaining Internet, Extranet and Portal websites.The emagiC CMS.Net framework includes features like wysiwyg editing, multi-site management, extranet security, versioning, content scheduling, search integration, role and task management, image editing, personalization. It comes with a...

Tags: Extranet, Framework, Emagine, emagiC CMS.Net Framework, Portals, Hardware Upgrade, Networking, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-08-23

Writely: Great changes, same paradox

A religious epiphany encapsulated as a business transaction. That's the only explanationEdwards calls it Microsoft's Pearl Harbor, it looks more like Google's Trojan Horse to me. for Gary Edwards' raving endorsement of Google's acquisition of Writely in response to Dan Farber's comments on the deal. The only explanation...

Tags: Writely

Blog posts 2006-03-10

Writely = Microsoft's Pearl Harbor?

In response to my post Blog swarm on Writely, Gary Edwards who is steeped in OpenDoc and OpenOffice penned this TalkBack:To understand why this deal is Peal Harbor for Microsoft, and a declaration of all out war for Google, i think one has to make a leap and consider that...

Tags: Google Inc., Writely

Blog posts 2006-03-10

Blog swarm on Writely

Blog swarm on WritelyIt's warTo understand why this deal is Peal Harbor for Microsoft, and a declaration of all out war for Google, i think one has to make a leap and consider that this isn't about applications. It's about the quality of the information experience one can find...

Tags: Blogging, killer, blog, collaboration, Google Inc., Writely, mankind, Internet

Discussion threads 2006-03-10

IBM's Sutor responds to ODF SDK analysis

IBM's Sutor responds to ODF SDK analysisReally Simple AJAX SDK for ODFA good start would a simple AJAX API and SDK that had some support for basic editing of a minimal subset of the ODF schema. I'd expect that this SDK could be relatively easily integrated into backend persistence APIs...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Fellowship, Writely, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-08

Code generation considered harmful

JDeveloper product manager Shay Shmeltzer recently wrote an article titled "Matisse is bad! (and not 'bad' in the good way)" describing what he calls a "disturbing" and "major" problem with the way the NetBeans GUI editor Matisse works. He quoted an eWeek review that was generally positive about NetBeans and...

Tags: Matisse

Blog posts 2006-03-04