Mozilla warns on Adobe, Microsoft hidden Web agenda Mozilla's Tristan Nitot warns of possible hidden agendas Adobe and Microsoft may have in regards to their Flash and Silverlight technologies, and "the dangers of the proprietary Web". "So far there has not been a problem," Nitot said. "Both Adobe and Microsoft have been willing to give [Flash and Silverlight away] for free. But maybe they have an agenda. They're not here for ... Read full entry

Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics The semantic web is four years old today! Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers and developers could add semantics to today's web rather than starting from scratch or waiting for a "purer" ... Read full entry

Suggestions For Plugin Standards. A suggested standard, or set of guidelines, for the writers of Wordpress plugins to consider. Your blog should be as creative as you want it to be when it's blogging but it needs some standardizing when it's about technical content, like plugins. A lot of plugin authors are already good about how they prepare their downloads. Establishing a standard, however, is mostly for the user. According to ... Read full entry

Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites. Guidance for just the sort of thing all web developers thrive on: the challenge of "web standardising" large, intricate, websites. So the book starts with the challenges a Web team might encounter while making the switch to a "Web Standards" - based Web development approach. If you don't know what that means, then you are probably not the intended audience for ... Read full entry

Question: RTF is a standard, true or false? If 90 per cent (or whatever very high number the figure actually is) of the globe's computer users are on Windows machines, then that possibly means 90 per cent of us are unaware that the Rich Text Format, or RTF, as used largely in Word documents, is in fact a Microsoft development. Using Linux exclusively at home I've become really interested in ... Read full entry

The Life and Times of Cool. An interesting discussion on future trends in web design, which also asks the question, "what is cool today in web design?" Many of us know in the back of our minds that the future of web design is closely connected with the future of the computers themselves, but we fail to realize the coming situations, where nearly everything we've learned (and practiced) is going to ... Read full entry

Wanted: Thinking Writers, ilker over at The Thinking Blog is on the look out for guest writers, and about the only proviso is that submissions be "thinking" articles! I'm not the greatest fan of guest blogging, but this may be something to think (no pun intended...) about. Google search rank drop: advice needed, this is something bloggers who sell advertising spots on their blogs, or those considering ... Read full entry