Posts Tagged ‘W3C’

IE8 not so impressive, as we thought it would be

March 6th, 2008 Web No Comments
Microsoft unveiled yesterday (March 05, 2008) its next generation of browser franchise, Internet Explorer 8, i.e. IE8 beta version at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas. Just like many others I have been playing with it. But as Microsoft noted, IE8 beta is not for general uses at this point, strictly for beta testers and developers, freezing and crashes should be expected. I have encountered couple of freezes and crashes during my tests. So far I have seen that IE8 isn’t an upgrade that will bring bunch of shiny, earth shattering features to make you amaze, rather you can say this is a small IE7 fix. Microsoft is promising IE8 will be fully compliant with W3C standards, which they have been overlooking ever since. Even with my not so smart brain I always wonder, why world’s most popular browser is deciding to get along with standards last in a row, where it should have been super compliant all along. Among new features Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is one of them that Microsoft was bragging a lot, is sounds very promising. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab…
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Future of HTML is about to change

January 29th, 2008 Web No Comments
22 January 2008 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first public working draft of the HTML 5.0 specification. The official press release can be found here. Its taken nearly 11 months since work began on HTML 5.0 for this first public working draft to get released. Too slow! No that’s way faster compare to most of the W3C working group’s pace. Slow or fast at least this working draft is the milestone to the bright future ahead, especially future of dynamic web development. The key purpose of HTML 5.0 is to make it easier for developers to create dynamic content and it introduces tons of new elements to enable this. A final release of HTML 5.0 is still far and far away but off course the future is looking bright. The key new elements are: section represents a generic document or application section. It can be used together with h1-h6 to indicate the document structure. article represents an independent piece of content of a document, such as a blog entry or newspaper article. aside represents a piece of content that is only slightly related to the rest of the page. header represents the header of a section. footer…
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Sparkling web with SPARQL

January 22nd, 2008 Web No Comments
The web standard body World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a new type of query standard designed to gather data from multiple sources. This new query standard SPARQL, pronounced ‘sparkle’, will allow users focus on what they want to know over distributed data sources rather than relying on data format. It’s is no brainer that, this will certainly boost the development speed of Web 2.0 applications (which is actually not so different than semantic web). So why is it so hot! Our known traditional query languages such as SQL/XQuery /DMX are engineered for accessing to a single source of data, tests shows it don’t work well when several source combined together. On the other hand SPARQL which is an RDF query language can create a single query for multiple sources and combine the results on the fly. This new standard brings about a standardized SQL-like query language for the Semantic Web. And, like most Semantic Web standards, it is heavily based on RDF (Resource Description Framework), although it also makes use of many Web services standards, such as WSDL (Web Services Description Language). As a data access language, it is suitable for both local and remote use, so imagine the…
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