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Building disaster-relief phone apps on the fly
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/building-disaster-relief-phone-apps-0930.html Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise. DIG’s focus is research that takes advantage of the standards developed by the W3C. The new app-development tool … Continue reading
Asynchronous Javascript functions call
With XForms 2.0, it is possible to associate properties when dispatching events. It appears that, if this new feature can be also used from Javascript, asynchronous functions calls can be performed. XForms 2.0 Specifications don’t mention how to dispatch an … Continue reading
Proposed Group: Web Copyright Community Group
The Web Copyright Community Group has been proposed by Robin Berjon: Irrespective of whether we like it or not, of whether W3C or other SDOs eventually accept it or not, DRM seems slated to come to the Web platform. We … Continue reading
EFF: Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C
October 2, 2013 | By Danny O’Brien “On Monday, the W3C announced that its Director, Tim Berners-Lee, had determined that the “playback of protected content” was in scope for the W3C HTML Working Group’s new charter, overriding EFF’s formal objection … Continue reading
Cory Doctorow: W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web’s standards, says it’s OK for your browser to say “I can’t let you do that, Dave”
Cory Doctorow at 9:34 pm Wed, Oct 2, 2013 “Here’s the bad news: the World Wide Web Consortium is going ahead with its plan to add DRM to HTML5, setting the stage for browsers that are designed to disobey their … Continue reading
JS library for converting RDF formats
I would personally love to see a pure-JavaScript library for converting RDF in various formats. Like RDF/XML to Turtle to JSON-LD. There’s various implementations either for Node or for the browser, but nothing pure JS that supports all major formats … Continue reading
RDF JavaScript Libraries for working with LDP
Linked Data Platform (spec) appears to solve for a number of real-world Linked Data use cases. Are there RDF JavaScript Libraries designed to work with LDP and/or common UI frameworks?
“What’s the best way to parameterize SPARQL queries?”
http://www.reddit.com/r/semanticweb/comments/1e3fq0/whats_the_best_way_to_parameterize_sparql_queries/ The gist: as a tokenized query protocol, it is not ‘safe’ to build SPARQL queries by concatenating strings which may contain user-supplied input. In SQL, this is called “SQL Injection”: CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of special elements used in an … Continue reading