opensourcing the SL client might be the watershed event for metaverse standards. i wonder how linden intends to play out this platform strategy. will they allow other clients on that undermine the linden $?
Tag: standards
XML vs CSV
I was struck by the distance between DCStat’s namespace-rich XML formats and the CSV format that web apps like Swivel and Dabble DB want to read and write.
heh
GML Shenanigans
Didn’t we eliminate the circle geometry in discussion earlier this year? How is that the GML Profile can be modified without any discussion on this list?
i am still mystified how georss was hijacked by the OCG
AJAX and automation
For these 2 reasons — the transparency of the HTTP pipeline, and the accessibility of the JavaScript object model — I think that AJAX is inherently more automatable than conventional GUI apps ever have been.
the view source qualities of RESTy interfaces are only slightly impacted by JSON / XMLHTTP, imho. more problematic: the js obfuscation.
Mars
a reformulation of pdf in xml. if svg were not such a clusterfuck, this would be more exciting. still, has some promise.
Is Office Open XML A 1-Way Standard?
it would take ~150 person-years to fully implement office xml in a competing product.. oy
WHATWG Blog
tracking the evolution of (x)html5
ISO Public Standards
signs of reform? the ISO is putting some standards outside of the paywall, including schematron, relax ng, C, JPEG2000, old OSI crap, and ECMAScript
sitemaps.org
about time that the engines agree on a common sitemap format. now to take this forward with more TTL and other information, while making it hard to game.
The use of Metadata in URIs
This finding addresses several questions regarding Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). Specifically, what information about a resource can or should be embedded in its URI? What metadata can be reliably determined from a URI, and in what circumstances is it appropriate to rely on the correctness of such information? In what circumstances is it appropriate to use information from a URI as a hint as to the nature of a resource or its representations? Simple examples are used to explain the tradeoffs involved in employing such metadata in URIs.
a TAG finding on good URI design
Gregor J. Rothfuss 