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Atom 1.0 specs official
The Internet Engineering Taskforce has decided: It’s official, Atom 1.0 is here. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.txt
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Enough with the RSS, just call it webfeeds!
I’ve been following the ‘discussion’ a.k.a. mud-slinging for some time now. And sorry for mister Winer, but it’s everything against the name. Acronyms are fine, just as long as there’s something simple to back it up. A CD is a shiny silver disc that holds (expensive) music. A DVD is a shiny silver disc that…
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Google Earth: Impact Structures
I’ve spent the better part of my sunday examining the network link feature of Google Earth. For those who don’t know. You can share your placemarks. And you can do it in a way, in case of an update, that everyone ‘subscribed’ will be automatically updated. Network links give you the power to serve content…
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Macromedia Studio 8
If you were camping out in Siberia for the past year you may have missed the Adobe & Macromedia merger. Well, it boils down to a 3.5 BILLION dollar transaction in which Adobe takes over Macromedia. That is, IF the stockholders agree on August 24 and the DOJ does not intervene. Anyway, it did not…
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RSS Statistical facts
While we’re on the subject of RSS. It appears that “only 2% of online adults and 5% of online teens in North America use RSS, according to Forrester.” They are also mainly male, spend more time online than non-RSS readers, technically interested, surf broadband and/or wireless, mainly read news, research products and publish/maintain blogs. (In…
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RSS Ping
Here’s something interesting: RSS Ping combines RSS item metadata with site update information. It enhances the current ping specification, adding information about exactly what has been updated or published, with the notification that something has been updated. RSS Ping reduces the need to revisit or work done by aggregators and search engines when revisiting the…
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IE7 UserAgent string
Is it (Apart from being spoofed) ?: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Except for the .NET stuff… IS IE7 dependant on the .NET Framework? Just some thoughts… Anyhow, anyone building around a useragent-string isn’t doing the right thing. 🙂
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Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel
These are the new ‘web’ fonts as described earlier. Looking at my stats I’ve seen an interest for downloading these fonts. No I don’t have them (for download). But, earlier this week the beta of Windows Vista was released… and so did the new fonts… look around. 😉 This is probably totally crossing the EULA.…
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Firefox: Europe beats North America
According to French market analysis company XiTi the market share of Firefox in Europe is 14.11%. Market share in North America is only 11.78%. But Australia takes the lead with 14.41%. 😉 Zooming in on Europe, the leading country is Finland with a staggering 31.03% followed by Germany with a 24,5% market share. All in…
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Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla
IBM has published a lengthy article explaining how you can make your IE only site work in e.g. Firefox, Opera or Safari. The article handles browser, DOM, JavaScript, CSS, Event and XML differences. It even touches Quirks vs. Standards mode and Rich Text Editing. Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work…