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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010By way of Slashdot, it looks like the folks who are building the experimental audio support in Firefox are making really fine progress. You get to manipulate the raw audio data using Javascript, more or less in real time. They’ve even had some success with doing the FFT’s in Javascript (I didn’t expect that would [...]
Ten Years of SOAP
Monday, May 17th, 2010Ten years ago today, at the 9th International Web Conference in Amsterdam, we held a panel discussion to introduce the SOAP networking protocol to the Web community. Just a week before, the SOAP 1.1 specification had been posted as a W3C Note. Many legitimate criticisms have been aimed at SOAP in the years since, but [...]
Retiring from IBM
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Today, April 7th 2010, I retired from my position as a Distinguished Engineer at IBM.
A nice little tutorial on modern trends in processor architecture
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Greg Pfister at Perils of Parallel has a nice little tutorial up on the tradeoffs among superscalar, VLIW, and “Simple Multicore”. I guess you’ve got to care a bit about hardware for this to be worthwhile, but I’d encourage anyone with an interest in modern computer systems to take a look. It’s reasonably accessible even [...]
Neil McAllister responds to my response
Thursday, February 25th, 2010A few weeks ago I posted A Response to Neil McAllister on the Mobile Web. Neil noticed my posting and he has now responded with a comment of his own; I have in turn posted a brief reply. A response to Neil McAllister on the Mobile Web
One year on the air
Friday, February 5th, 2010It’s been just about a year since this blog went “on the air“. In that time, almost 2000 people have “visited”, from over 75 countries. I don’t go out of my way to promote this blog, and these numbers are tiny in comparison to the most widely read blogs. Still, it’s very, very rewarding. Thank [...]
Web user interfaces should scale
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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