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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
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Monthly Archives: January 2000
New Microsoft XML Parser Available
Microsoft has released a new version of MSXML for public review. It’s the first version to support the XSLT recommendation. The change documentation lists the XSL features not supported in this new release: xsl:transform xsl:import default-space, xsl:strip-space, xsl:preserve-space xsl:apply-imports named … Continue reading
XHTML Recommendation
XHTML has finally made it as a recommendation, paving the way for modular XHTML to build a future for mobile and TV based browsing. For the uninitiated, these are the differences between HTML and XHTML: Documents must be well-formed No … Continue reading
Traversing Trees in SQL
If you need to read up on techniques for traversing tree structures in SQL, Joe Celko is your man (as ever). Here are his three articles about constructing, traversing and manipulating hierarchical trees in SQL.
WapWarp Response to Geoworks
WapWarp has responded to the Geoworks patent announcement with an open letter. What a shame it would be if developing (content and software) for mobile phones were to become the preserve solely of large corporations. What a shame if innovation … Continue reading
YourWAP Wireless Companion
YourWAP have released a beautifully crafted WAP emulator. You can emulate the three main WAP phones including the Nokia 7110 and unlike the SDKs from Ericsson and Nokia it’s all self contained and very quick.
Netscape 128 Bit International Edition
At last common sense has prevailed and Netscape are now allowed to distribute an international version of Communicator with 128-bit encryption built in. Of course I’ve been using the patch from the good people at Fortify up until now. I … Continue reading
Creating Community Online
I found this Durlacher report today. It’s a good analysis of why building community is important. In fact they go further and argue that ‘…communities are not simply a nice to have adjunct for a web-based business, but that their … Continue reading
WAP Patent
Spotted on WAP Today was this piece of news about a patent claim by Geoworks on aspects of WAP and WML. Geoworks have a page devoted to the claim and have written a detailed white paper. The patent was issued … Continue reading
ZopeStudio
ZopeStudio is the start of something new. It’s an interface for managing Zope with a new twist: it’s built in XUL, the interface definition language designed for Mozilla. This is the birth of the true universal internet application. We all … Continue reading
WML to WMLC Compiler
There are two types of WML – straight WML and compiled WML. The latter is what the microbrowser in your phone understands and it’s the job of the WAP gateway to translate WML to WMLC. When measuring the size of … Continue reading
