Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML. The SSE specification is under a Creative Commons license ? Attribution-ShareAlike.
This is looking really interesting, there is more blog posts about it at Dave Winer’s Scripting News, TechCrunch and Alex Barnett.
Last 1.5 years I have been drifting towards Linux world since Microsoft has been pretty much dead when it comes to interesting stuff for web developers. I can see that Microsoft is working hard on creating new API’s like XAML which is (IMHO) from web developer’s point of view quite useless. Hopefully someone in Microsoft soon wakes up for SVG.
I have been running latest Ubuntu on my laptop which works like a charm. But still I have windows in dual boot because I need to sometimes work on Photoshop, Flash and Visual Studio. But slowly I have started to move my development environment to Linux.
I think SVG is going to be big in following years; SVG has more potential than XAML simply because SVG was designed for web and it’s part of web standard. It will revolutionize interface in internet as well as on operating systems. Therefore I have decided to start move to SVG world with the Mono, Cairo and Gtk+. Gtk+ is a library used to build GUI applications on UNIX and the heart of the Gnome desktop. Gtk+ is built on top of the 2D graphics engine Cairo which released version 1.0 in August: every widget is now written using Cairo operations and most importantly developers can now draw their own widgets using the PDF-like rendering model offered by Cairo.
Cairo also brings to the end user nice touches like anti-aliased rendering for a more pleasant experience. Gtk builds on this new functionality to bring vector-based themes to the desktop as well.
Developers and designers have come really crazy about AJAX. I started to look for AJAX framework for some simple form validation and I found huge amount of code samples and frameworks which are under development or already on version 5.0.
With Backbase software you can quickly create user-friendly and highly interactive Rich Internet Applications. These applications are based on Web Standards and can be viewed in almost any modern web browser without installing any plug-ins.
http://www.backbase.com/
Jesse James Garrett writes at Adaptive Path about Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. A new cool way of asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest and Document Object Model and JavaScript binding everything together.
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Here’s the call:
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Rakesh Pai writes The Economics of XHTML. Intresting reading for anyone who wants to know how to reduce costs by using xhtml instead html.
Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance, quickly see the latest headlines from your favorite sites. Go directly to the articles that interest you — saving you time.
See picture below:
As picture tells there is a little RSS button on page when there is a rss feed available for page contents. When you click it Firefox creates new folder into bookmarks with feed links and titles.
Niceee…
More information in Mozilla.org
Seems like Kurt Cagle is back on blogging at BlogSpot with he?s new Metaphorical Web -website. I also notice that Kurt Cagle is on XML Developers Conference talking about XSLT2 on .NET. Too bad this conference is in U.S a bit too far for me to go another continent.
Legendary XSLT books by Michael Kay are now in print. Here is related discussion in xsl-list about XSLT 2.0″ and “XPath 2.0″ books.
ISO Entities listed mainly for my own references.
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