HTTP,HTML,URI The general principle of platform design is that platforms consist of a set of standard interfaces. Standard interfaces allow substitution of components across the interface boundary, while independence of interfaces allow evolution of the interfaces themselves. In a PC,...
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Language semantics and operational meaning
W3C and other standards organizations are in the business of defining languages -- conventions that organizations can choose to follow -- and not in mandating operational behavior -- telling organizations and participants in the network how they are supposed...
Search Engines take on Structured Data
Structured data on the web got a boost this week, with Google's announcement of Rich Snippets and Rich Snippets in Custom Search. Structured data at such a large scale raises at least three issues:SyntaxVocabularyPolicyGoogle's documentation shows support for both microformats...
Data interchange problems come in all sizes
I had a pretty small data interchange problem the other day: I just wanted to archive some play lists that I had compiled using various music player daemon (mpd) clients. The mpd server stores playlists as simple m3u files,...
Once more into Versioning -- this time with HTML
The W3C TAG has worked on the general issue of "versioning" for many years, and many TAG members may be worn out on the issue. However, undeterred by past history, I'm taking another run at it, this time trying to...