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Newspapers 2.0

Ifra has published a new special edition of their magazine, newspaper techniques, dedicated to Web 2.0. Ifra present themselves as the world’s leading association for newspaper and media publishing and this special edition shows the level of interest from the newspaper industry for these new technologies.
I had the pleasure to contribute to this edition a [...]

Teaching Professional Web 2.0 Programming

I’ll have the pleasure to give a training based on chapter 1 of our book this coming Thursday (23/11/2006) from 2:00 to 5:00 pm (CET) for the ATHENS program.
Although this training is not publicly accessible but reserved to students who have registered through their University or Institution, it will be publicly broadcast and archived on [...]

A short URI on Amazon.com for our book

I am impressed! I wasn’t aware that such things did exist… Amazon.com has been kind enough to give us a short URI for our book Professional Web 2.0 Programming. This URI is http://www.amazon.com/web2-0thebook/.
This is a short and cool URI indeed and if, being a cool URI, it doesn’t change our book will always remain THE [...]

Web 2.0, professional… and Fun!

Phew! said Danny Ayers, relieved said Erik Bruchez. Our upcoming Web 2.0 book is written and it’s been both hard work but also fun.
This book is a long story, almost as long as my interest for Web 2.0…
A long time Web and XML expert, the marketing around Web 2.0 kept me away for a while [...]

YUI and XHTML

Update: Good news, Matt Sweeney from Yahoo! answered that they are in the process of rolling in XHTML support. This issue should thus rapidly become an old story!
That’s probably well known but I have been surprised to see that the Yahoo! UI Library doesn’t support XHTML or rather that it supports only XHTML documents that [...]

XHTML 2.0 and HTML 5: The figures

This post has been updated to take into account a mail from Björn Höhrmann with a heads-up about missing elements in the XHTML 2.0 list of elements.
The future of (X)HTML appears to be searching its way between two conflicting visions:

The W3C and its XHTML 2.0 Working Drafts.
The WHATWG and its HTML 5 counter proposal

I have [...]

Bitten by text html for XHTML documents

The W3C “XHTML media types” note mentions that:
XHTML documents served as ‘text/html’ will not be processed as XML [XML10], e.g. well-formedness errors may not be detected by user agents. Also be aware that HTML rules will be applied for DOM and style sheets (see C.11 and C13 of [XHTML1] respectively).
I have been bitten by this [...]

Traduction automatique et survie des dinosaures

En 1998, j’étais responsable du support européen de deuxième niveau chez Sybase, pas peu fier d’être partenaire officiel de la coupe du monde. Compte tenu de la visibilité de l’évènement, nous étions tous sur le pied de guerre et d’astreinte 24h/24 et 7j/7.
Pour détendre l’atmosphère, j’avais eu l’idée bizarre de faire traduire la page d’accueil [...]

RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema compared (continued)

A lot of comparisons have already been published on this topic, but there are still plenty of misunderstanding when comparing W3C XML Schema so called Object Oriented features with RELAX NG patterns.
Many people complain that RELAX NG does not support complex type derivation nor substitution groups.
There are two ways to look at these features:

If you [...]

Client side XSLT brings live to static HTML pages and microformats

I am making all kind of tests for the chapter about multimedia of our upcoming Web 2.0 book and as it is often the case when I am writing, this is sparkling a number of strange ideas.
I was exploring the similarities between playlists, podcasts and SMIL animation when it occurred to me that it might [...]