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I have a confession to make: I’ve not always been a strong voice for standardization. As much as I believe in the necessity of standards, I was so concerned when the Mozilla organization was strongly chastised for spending time on new innovations rather than implementation of standards that I wrote an article, The Tyranny of Standards, about this […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The headline at news.com reads “Are Web Services Ready for the Web?” This really annoyed me. Last time I heard, there was a web before Microsoft. And there will be a Web in spite of Microsoft. So the company outreached itself with .Net My Services. Well, that’s not surprising considering how little […]
NJ Meryl has been having some interesting challenges accessing a specific web site so she tried accessing it using an older browser – Netscape 3.x to be exact. Well, as she found out, Burningbird breaks with Netscape 3.x. My reaction? No offense to the world, but I could give a flying squirrel (this is a polite […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If the Net is good for one thing, it’s the propagation of buzzwords and acronyms. In the case of P2P – Peer-to-Peer – you have a term that is both buzzword and acronym, and represents a group of technologies that is both very old (in Net terms) and very new. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One last post as a favor to my antipodean friends. (Antipodean — what a perfect word. You meet the most charming and erudite people in weblogging.) Victor wants to try to do a Googlestak — stacking the decks for a Google search by having webloggers link to a specific web site. The more links […]