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Specs Standards

Sugar and spice

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I finally found out what was causing the problems with the post When We Are Needed in IE: it’s called the “Magic Creeping Text” bug. It’s caused by having a left border for a blockquote (or other marginalized blocks), without having an accompanying bottom border. I’ve since fixed the bug, by adding […]

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RDF XHTML/HTML

Finger in the dike, thumb in the damned

Sam Ruby has asked people to publish a link to this post about the iTuned RSS 2.0 to generate enough noise to wake the dead. Or Apple, whichever comes first. I do admire Sam’s persistence in wanting to ensure that RSS 2.0 is and remains a valid syndication format. When asked why we should care, Mark Pilgrim wrote in […]

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RDF Technology Weblogging

A credible coder

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been silent in this weblog, primarily because I’ve been working on a couple of other projects. I had talked with a good, and wise, friend of mine about this effort and he made a point that I felt was valid: that I should implement those applications or functionalities I’ve […]

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RDF

PHP API for SPARQL?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Does anyone know of a PHP implementation of SPARQL? Not the adorable kitten who I happen to be god-mother to (and who I can’t connect to at the moment); the W3C RDF/XML query language. I have my old Query-o-Matic that works — barely — using RDQL, but need to create […]

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RDF Writing

2005 Errata and book updates: Chapter 1

I still like my analogy to the elephant and the blind men, in chapter 1. People still see RDF, and more generally, the Semantic Web (or my preferred, the lowercase semantic web), from different viewpoints, and with different expectations. That hasn’t changed, and by the nature of the beast, never will. Good. Keeps life interesting. […]