December 4th, 2007
A List Apart: Articles: A Preview of HTML 5 is a nice intro to HTML5 for those of you who haven’t been paying attention. I was among that group having spent more time looking at XHTML 1.1 and 2.0 development. The crossover with XML is the cooler set of toys in my mind.
I found myself cheering while reading this article. Can you believe there’s going to be semantic support for abstract page elements? How awesome is that? It just makes sense, no?
And then I got to the end of the article where the timeline puts HTML5 for the public somewhere near 2017 at the earliest. And then I cried.
Why can’t we have nice things?
Tagged with Semantic Web : Standards compliance : W3C
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November 6th, 2007
Is it Web 2 3.0? Is it just a jumble of Firefox extensions? Is it useful?
I’m not exactly sure. Still, the Hyperwords project is fascinating to me. It’s a Firefox extension that basically shortcuts a wide variety of search engines and other knowledge expansion tools. It also lets you work with the page or pages open in your browser in myriad ways. I have really only just started playing with it but have had some fun with it so far. See for yourself by watching the introductory video.
I can say that it dramatically reworks your context menu. This currently frustrates me but I’m willing to see if the frustration dissipates in the long term as the functionality proves its mettle.
Tagged with Browsers : Semantic Web : Technology
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