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Web walls, digital signage and personalized content
There is increasing interest in multiscreen applications, and this is featured in the latest webinos video on multiplayer games. In the office, we are used to having to plug our personal computers into the room's projector, but perhaps these days...
Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-10-31 - 2011-11-06
Last week, there was the annual W3C TPAC. The HTML Working Group met (day 1, day 2) and many other groups for discussing general issues. I introduced the Open Web Platform weekly summary and asked feedback on how to improve...
- html
- html5
- open-web
- rdf
- webapps
The W3C Social Business Jam is a few days away!
There’s been a lot of discussion on how the social web is changing business. One of the challenges slowing down the adoption of social web is due to a lack of cross-industry interoperability, as social business is still in its early stages. Open standards are one way the industry can overcome this challenge. As the W3C is one of the organizations workinrmg to help, we've decided to host an event to deteine future directions for standardizing the social web for business-driven use-cases.
- social-business
- social-networks
- workshop
Interview: Filament Group on HTML5 and Design
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By: Ian Jacobs
On 14 October I spoke with Todd Parker (TP), Mat Marquis (MM), and Patty Toland (PT) of the Filament Group about their experience with HTML5 and other Open Web Platform technology in work for the Boston Globe. IJ: Tell me...
Some notes on the recent XML Encryption attack
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At last week's CCS'11 conference, Tibor Jager and Juraj Somorovsky from Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany published a paper "How to Break XML Encryption." This paper is good cryptography research: By generalizing the ideas behind previous padding-based attacks, they have found...
Publication of the "Ontology of Rhetorical Blocks" Interest Group Note
- hcls
- information-overload
- ontology
- rdf
- rdfa
Serving XHTML with math: a recipe for Apache
The future version 5 of HTML will allow math in a Web page, but the current version 4 does not. You can use XHTML instead, but not all Web clients understand it. Here is a recipe for the Apache Web server to make it return XHTML as HTML to such clients. That HTML will be invalid, of course, because it contains math, but the non-math parts are still handled. It's not as good a solution as having two versions of a page, but it's cheap.
- html
