Tag Archives: standards

some public transit data notes

I started writing this post a few weeks ago and have mostly forgotten what I was going to write about. whups… Headway Wiki is a great wiki for public transit data, which accompanies the Headway blog. I added some links … Continue reading

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Sniff browser history for improved user experience

Sniff browser history for improved user experience – Niall turns what was first revealed as sort of a web browser privacy problem, into a pretty neat feature. Depending on your perspective, this is either very elegant or very inelegant 😉

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Pattern Finder: Standards Work Doesn’t Have to Be Contentious

Pattern Finder: Standards Work Doesn’t Have to Be Contentious – I’ll second that. DeWitt has been doing great work with OpenSearch.

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Google Toolbar Button API Follow-up

In my last post was my initital reaction to this new API from Google. It’s not surprising that I’m worried about Google’s plans here, as their record on XML cooperation hasn’t been all that stellar. I haven’t fully looked into … Continue reading

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Google Toolbar API – Guide to Making Custom Button

Google Toolbar API – Guide to Making Custom Button – aaaargh. I see Google’s recreated the OpenSearch Description format. Nice job guys. Oh yeah, and it also functions as an RSS feed information thingy…. which as far as I can … Continue reading

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There is no XML without namespaces

Yes, this makes two blog posts today, and yes, I’m going to talk about XML again. I’ve suspected this for a while, but hadn’t looked into it. Thanks to Sam Ruby, I see that someone has: Who knows an XML … Continue reading

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‘my portal’ pages

Via Marc Canter, I learn that AOL is creating YAPP (yet another personal portal), in the DHTML/AJAX style. That’s by no means a bad thing, though. So now we have all the major players with a personalizable home page: Yahoo!, … Continue reading

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Tim Bray on XML Languages

Tim’s two recent pieces are just fantastic: On XML Language Design and Don’t Invent XML Languages. I was originally going to take out some points, and comment that I agree with them and why, but Tim makes a lot of … Continue reading

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Major OpenSearch upgrade

I’ve been hard at work at A9.com, working on the OpenSearch website. Here’s some of what’s new: OpenSearch 1.1 Draft 2 The first draft went up in September – hopefully the second draft will become final within a few weeks. … Continue reading

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IEBlog : Hello from LA!

IEBlog : Hello from LA! – placeholder until tomorrow when I comment on this

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