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24 November 2013
Is Mozilla on the Bridge of Khazad - or on the Fence?
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Last week I explored at some length the curious reasons that Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave for supporting the proposal to add hooks for DRM in...
23 November 2013
Time to Fight Against a DRM'd Web - by Forking It
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At the beginning of the year, I wrote abut a shameful move by the BBC to support adding DRM to HTML to control the playback of video cont...
02 July 2011
The Rise and Fall and Rise of HTML
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HTML began life as a clever hack of a pre-existing approach. As Tim Berners-Lee explains in his book, “Weaving the Web”: Since I knew it wou...
25 June 2009
Authoring Beautiful HTML...
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...ain't easy in the open source world, as David Ascher points out in this post : However, for regular folks, life is not rosy yet in th...
07 March 2008
Enter the (Komodo) Dragon
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On Open Enterprise blog .
31 December 2007
Open Source Unoriginal? - How Unoriginal
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Here's a tired old meme that I've dealt with before, but, zombie-like, it keeps on coming back : The open-source software community ...
20 December 2007
Norway's Beautiful Plumage...
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... openness : Regjeringa har vedteke at all informasjon på statlege nettsider skal vere tilgjengeleg i dei opne dokumentformata HTML, PDF e...
21 November 2007
GNU PDF Project
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Around ten years ago I fought a fierce battle to get people to use HTML instead of PDF files, which I saw as part of a move to close the Web...
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09 August 2007
Welcome Back, HTML
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Younger readers of this blog probably don't remember the golden cyber-age known as Dotcom 1.0, but one of its characteristics was the co...
11 July 2007
The Secret World of S5
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Hm, I'd somehow missed this before: S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run ...
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09 May 2007
Learning from the Encyclopedia of Life
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One of the great trends online is to pool data to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. The Encyclopedia of Life is one...
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30 April 2007
Google Supports ODF
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Well, it already does with its online office suite, but now it lets you search for ODF files and displays converted online: In addition to ...
19 March 2007
Which Future for Adobe's Apollo?
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I have mixed feelings about Adobe's new Apollo : Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web deve...
29 January 2007
The Openness Spreads...to Adobe's PDF
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One campaign I have fought over the years has been for people to dump proprietary PDF files and use open HTML instead. Clearly, I lost that...
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21 December 2006
Wengo's Wideo Widget
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Wengo, the people behind OpenWengo , an open source VOIP project, are offering a free video widget (to the first 10,000 applicants, at lea...
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20 January 2006
Boons and Banes of Firefox and Thunderbird
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Among the many boons of Firefox and Thunderbird are the powerful keyboard shortcuts; among the banes - trying to remember them. Now you don...
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