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Monday, January 25th, 2010Over the years Web user interfaces have become more flexible, more refined, and more dynamic, but one thing that annoys me is: too many of them do a bad job of adjusting to different window sizes and font sizes. I think that’s something to which we should all pay more attention.
Continuing on the TAG
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010I am delighted and deeply honored that Tim Berners-Lee has appointed me to serve for another two years as chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG).  The TAG is the senior technical body responsible for the World Wide Web. Also in the official announcement is word that Dan Appelquist of Vodafone will be joining […]
Lotus Notes 1.0 was released 20 years ago today
Monday, December 7th, 2009Ed Brill has a post noting the 20th anniverary of the announcement of Lotus Notes 1.0. Today is also the 25th anniversay of the founding of Iris Associates, the company set up by Ray Ozzie, Tim Halvorsen and Len Kawell to to create notes.
Greg Pfister on Intel’s announcement of a 48 core experimental chip
Friday, December 4th, 2009Greg Pfister has a terrific post on Intel’s announcement of a 48 core experimental “Single Chip Cloud Computer”. Apparently this thing has shared memory, but no cache coherence — building software for this won’t be easy. According to Greg, this will (unlike Larrabee) be manufactured in very small quantities for experimental use.
Gig alert: appearing with Robert Cedrone on Saturday, Dec. 5th
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Robert Cedrone and I will be appearing a week from today on December 5th at 7 PM at the Starbucks (map) that’s on the north side of Lexington, MA (not the one in the center of town!) Robert plays acoustic guitar and sings a mix of covers including Van Morrison, Al Green, Southside Johnny, Roy […]
W3C TPAC Presentation on HTML Extensibility
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009This morning I gave an invited talk at the 2009 W3C Technical Plenary (TPAC) summarizing the ongoing controversy regarding HTML 5 Extensibility. The presentation files are available in .ppt, .odp, and .pdf formats in the W3C public archive. Discussion welcome here.
A response to Neil McAllister on the Mobile Web
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Last week, Neil McAllister of InfoWorld wrote an article titled The Sad State of the Mobile Web Gets Even Sadder. The community badly needs careful and balanced analysis of the mobile Web, of the various platform-specific SDKs (such as the iPhone and Android SDKs), and especially of which models are likely to be good for […]
Nikon D300s won’t mount as a USB drive
Sunday, October 25th, 2009(I’ve been intending for some time to start posting more photo-related items. I just happened to stumble on this surprising tidbit last week.) I’ve come to depend on the fact that pretty much every digital camera I’ve ever used, from small point-n-shoots to high end DSLRs, has allowed me to see the camera’s memory card […]
W3C Hosts Web Developer Gathering (Nov. 5, Bay Area)
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Approximately once a year, the W3C hosts a combined gathering of the many working groups that develop Web standards such as HTML, XML, Web Services, etc.  Traditionally, the attendees have been members of the working groups, who have the opportunity to visit each others’ meetings, etc. This year, the W3C is adding a Thursday afternoon […]
Happy Birthday, UNIXâ„¢
Wednesday, August 26th, 200940 years ago, in August of 1969, Ken Thompson‘s wife headed west for a few weeks on a family trip, leaving Ken the month it would take to allocate “one week each to the four core components of operating system, shell, editor and assembler” that he and Dennis Ritchie decided to write after work on […]
Excellent tutorial on XML Schema (XSD) 1.1
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009A few weeks ago I noted that XML Schema 1.1 is now a W3C Candidate Recommendation.  Roger Costello has put together a terrific tutorial which starts with a quick overview of the new features and why they matter, and then goes into detail on how to use them. He’s also put together some exercises. Highly […]
HTML 5
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Awhile ago I posted a pointer to Sam Ruby’s efforts to unify XHTML and HTML 5. Indeed, lots of people have considered lots of ways of getting the best of both of these technologies, but the net result is that W3C has now decided to focus exclusively on HTML 5 as the specification for future […]
Gig alert: appearing with Robert Cedrone on Saturday, June 6
Thursday, June 4th, 2009My good friend Robert Cedrone appears occasionally doing solo gigs north of Boston, and I often accompany him on bass.  This Saturday, June 6, we’ll be appearing for an hour starting at 7 PM at the Starbucks (map) that’s on the north side of Lexington, MA (not the one in the center of town!) Robert […]
Blog Performance Problems
Monday, May 18th, 2009The hosting service for this blog, Dreamhost, has mostly provided excellent support and good performance. Well, they continue to provide good support, which is to say that every time I’ve complained they’ve gotten back to me with very good and very sympathetic explanations, but the fact is they’re having some serious performance problems lately. They […]
XML Schema 1.1 is now a W3C Candidate Recommendation
Sunday, May 17th, 2009Many readers of this blog know that I was one of the original designers and editors of the W3C XML Schema Language Recommendation (XSD). Since publication of version 1.0 in May 2001, a small group of us has continued to work on incremental improvements. I am therefore delighted to announce that, a few days ago, […]
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