qooxdoo » Demo Browser
very cool platform independent brwoser rendering engine.
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Ajaxian » In Praise of Evolvable Systems
“Why something as poorly designed as the Web became The Next Big Thing, and what that means for the future.”
Well designed but "fixed" systems were over taken by the evolvable but poorly designed Web. I'm wonderig if these same "evolving" principles apply to standard organizations? Put WebKit up against the standard orgs in charge of key WebKit components, and you see clearly that WebKit would fail misably if they stuck to the hapless efforts of the W3C, Ecma and ISO.
Besides the fact that entrenched players such as Microsoft are sitting on those standards orgs in position to dumb down or put into terminal stall much needed innovations. For instance, WebKit deepneds on HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and JavaScript. All of which are stalled at various standards orgs.
As a reaction to this org stall, the WebKit group pushes forward anyway relying instead on OSS Community style innovation and consensus model sharing.
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Less Talk, More Code: The four rules of the web and compound documents
The four rules of the web and compound documents
A real quirk that truly interests me is the difference in aims between the way documents are typically published and the way that the information within them is reused.
A published document is normally in a single 'format' - a paginated layout, and this may comprise text, numerical charts, diagrams, tables of data and so on.
My assumption is that, to support a given view or argument, a reference to the entirety of an article is not necessary; The full paper gives the context to the information, but it is much more likely that a small part of this paper contains the novel insight being referenced.
In the paper-based method, it is difficult to uniquely identify parts of an article as items in their own right. You could reference a page number, give line numbers, or quote a table number, but this doesn't solve this issue that the author hadn't put time to considering that a chart, a table or a section of text would be reused.
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PT’s blog » Compound documents in ICE and beyond: referencing parts of things
Ben O’Steen has put up some thoughts on what he refers to as ‘compound’ documents and how to store them in repositories and allow for referencing of parts of a document, such as a table, a graph or even a paragraph.
Why did I add the scare quotes to compound?
While to a computer scientist a research paper with its graphs and tables and paragraphs might be compound, I suspect most authors tend to think of a research article as a single entity. Until we start giving them access to services that make it clear that it’s not monolithic, that is.
As background, Ben gives four rules:
Note that the four rules of the web (well, of Linked Data technically) are in essence:
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give everything a name,
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make that name a URL …
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which results in data about that thing,
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and have it link to other related things.
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Democrats Offer Stealth Liberalism: Sounding like Patriotic Conservatives but masking a liberal agenda for greatly expanding thee Great Society | Potomac Watch - WSJ.com
But for a party that supposedly has history on its side, the Democrats sure aren't acting like it. Substantively, Barack Obama's agenda would indeed result in the biggest expansion of government and income redistribution since LBJ. Not that voters would have picked that up in his acceptance speech last night. Democrats are instead pitching this program to Americans in terms that would make the Gipper proud.
Mr. Obama proposes one of the steepest tax increases in modern history, raising rates on personal income, capital gains, dividends and even death. The money Mr. Obama takes from taxpaying Americans he would hand to nontaxpaying Americans in the form of "refundable" tax credits. This is called a "tax hike" and "income redistribution" -- even in the Harvard economics department. And given Mr. Obama's concern with "inequality," you'd assume he'd be proud of it.
Instead, Mr. Obama is careful to declare these new government handouts a "tax cut for the middle class." Joe Biden, in his own nomination speech, stole a favorite Republican talking point, claiming Mr. Obama's dizzying array of tax credits would in fact "reform our tax code." And the Obama team likes to reassure voters his higher capital-gains and dividend tax rates would still be less than those under (can you guess?) Ronald Reagan.
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Freebase Parallax Taunts Us With Awesome Semantic Web Video - ReadWriteWeb
Staff researcher David François Huynh has created an interesting tool for browsing semantic database Freebase, called Freebase Parallax. Written up by ZDNet's Oliver Marks, the video Huynh recorded demonstrating Parallax (below) will knock your socks off.
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ongoing · Purple Pilcrows
First of all, I modified the approach by replacing # with ¶ per the suggestion of another Simon. Whereas # suggests Web anchors, it only suggests that to Web hacks, while ¶ has a long typographical history as a paragraph marker. Plus, it’s kind of pretty and it’s officially called a Pilcrow, which you gotta love. Now that the anchor is so evanescent, I wonder if it might work in a shade slightly less ethereally pale. ¶
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Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools
Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and others like it. Items can be either old or new as long as they are wonderful. We only post things we like and ignore the rest.
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Gizmo's - Welcome to Gizmo's Best-ever Freeware | Gizmo's Tech Support Alert
Best free software site ever!
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Gliffy.com
OpenLazlo RiA for diagramming
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Microsoft vs. Adobe: The Rivalry Heats Up - GigaOM
At face value, the fight is about Flash vs. Silverlight. Look deeper and the tussle is over not just online video but about cloud computing, rich Internet applications and mobile phones.
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Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Once you add in better email and calendar support WebEx could become more appealing to the enterprise. PostPath has a Linux based collaboration system built on an AJAX client that doesn’t need a browser. Cisco added that the company’s strategy is to develop “an integrated collaboration platform designed for how we work today and into the future.
And better yet: PostPath’s pitch is that it is an Exchange alternative and a “Linux-based corporate email server.”
Let’s read between the lines: Doesn’t this sound a lot like an end-run around Microsoft Office, Outlook and Exchange just like Google is trying to do with Google Apps? Cisco probably has no desire to compete head on with Microsoft (or at least admit it), but the company obviously sees something here and coupling PostPath with WebEx could be a threat to Redmond. In fact, Cisco could be a bigger threat to Microsoft in the enterprise than Google. Why? Cisco already sells enterprises a lot of stuff. Isn’t a collaboration suite really just an extension of the network?
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Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross Perot | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
If you want to hear the facts from everyone’s favorite Dallas billionaire and erstwhile presidential candidate on energy, education, health care and other major public issues, all you have to do now is go to PerotCharts.
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SVG Effects For CSS
This document defines how SVG effects are extended to apply to CSS-formatted elements. In particular, it makes the 'filter', 'mask' and 'clip-path' CSS properties and SVG paint servers applicable to CSS-formatted elements (such as HTML elements).
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ilovegom - Google Code
Gom allows you to write GTK applications using JavaScript and an HTML-like widget layout syntax.
It does this by first implementing a W3C DOM Level 1 (Core) API for interacting with GTK widgets and windows, then by providing a JavaScript binding to this layer.
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DocuLex Enters SaaS Document Management Space
DocuLex announced the release of its Archive Studio software as a service (SaaS), a web-based content management product providing remote document access, permissions, printing and distribution. The service enables secure document warehousing and sharing for practical knowledge management and collaboration.
These guys have nothing on wikiWORD!
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Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight | Tech News on ZDNet
Adobe vs. Microsoft
Gartner analyst Ray Valdes said 90 percent of the top global 1,000 companies have yet to deploy any sort of RIA, while 90 percent of the top 100 consumer Web sites have already done so using the nonproprietary and more simple AJAX format.
That opportunity has Microsoft eyeing current leader Adobe for business that extends beyond Silverlight and into the sale of design tools along with server and database software to enable these new applications.
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Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit
Excellent scan of my system! Motherboard and memory specs fully discovered. Security and OS specs fully discovered and reported. Excellent! More omplete than the quick inspection provided by Crucial.com (which was also correct)
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The Planned Destruction of America
I knew much of the information in this book before I read it, however, the depth and documentation this writer has presented are very thorough and believeable. This should be required reading my all Americans. Perhaps then enough will wake up and "throw the bastards" out of office. The scope of the book is long and large...too much to ignore and VERY credible. This makes it to my top ten list of "best reads". I thank the author for the time and dedication it took to write this.
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