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RDF patent dispute

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Over at the RDF interest online forum, at least two developers of implementations based on RDF have received a legal mailing from a firm representing Unified Data Technologies Ltd (UDTL), implying a possible patent infringement due to the use of RDF/RSS. The RDF working group is consulting with the W3C […]

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Specs

More WaSP Sucks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After the initial fairly unpleasant comments attached to a weblog I wrote earlier, basically blasting WSP (Web Standards Organization, at http://www.webstandards.org), I’ve had several thoughtful responses from readers leading me to want to respond in kind. To be honest, I never was that interested in WSP or its initial efforts. I support […]

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WaSP Sucks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Updated: 12/19/01 The really great thing about weblogging is you can set your own rules. When I wrote an article for O’Reilly about The Tyranny of Standards I had to accept the comments of the readers without being able to comment in return — O’Reilly would really prefer its authors to NOT get […]

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Technology

X-Objects: Clipping

Copy found at Wayback Machine archive. Clipping in the earlier releases of Mozilla and with Navigator 6.0 followed the CSS 2.0 release specification. Clipping boundaries are set at “0” for all four sides of the rectangle containing the content — to clip, you would offset the values, using positive numbers only. This differed from the […]

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Technology

X-Objects: HTML Replacement

Copy found at Wayback Machine Archive. HTML Replacement is functionality to replace the contents of an HTML tag. The contents could be the element’s data or could consist of one or more embedded HTML elements. Internet Explorer has four proprietary methods to replace the contents of an HTML tag: innerHTML to replace the contents with new HTML […]