IE8 To Have Compatibility View To Beat The Standards
Microsoft seems to be hell bent on making the standards secondary in the name of compatibility. Not a while back, Microsoft had agreed to use the standards mode by default for IE8 after many had...
View ArticleJava SE Not To Be An Open Standard Anymore?
Stephen Colebourne has a thoughtful post about one of the biggest possible changes in the Java landscape. Java SE will not be a open standard any more?. This seems completely in contrast to the spirit...
View ArticleAlready Seeing Worst Of Double Standards
We have already started to see the worst of living with more than one standard to do the exact same thing. Excel 2007 SP2′s ODF support has degraded, because it is no longer interoperable. Microsoft, a...
View ArticleMicroformats Get Flexible With Value Class Pattern
Microformats has introduced a new pattern – the value-class pattern to tackle accessibility and localization problems. The value-class pattern lets you two things – break value of a microformat...
View ArticleWe Need Standards In The Mobile World
Last week I helped a friend’s father to move his contacts from his Nokia phone to the his new Blackberry device. And it was not a pleasant experience. It involved: Nokia’s PC Suite to import the...
View ArticleGet OpenID With Google Profiles
Google profiles can be now used as OpenIDs. Unlike the federated login, now Google will allow the profile URLs will work with any site that accepts the generic OpenID. Though this is good for OpenID, I...
View ArticleIndia Publishes Its Policy On Open Standards
Government of India’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has published its policy on open standards for e-governance (pdf). It explicitly states that the Government will adopt Single...
View ArticleC++11 Published
The C++11 standard is now published by ISO. Check out the standard’s FAQ maintained by Bjarne Stroustrup himself, including the feature list. The published standard has a substantial cost. You can...
View ArticleHungarian Goverment Moving To ODF
The Hungarian Government is asking its public administration to move to open document standards (via The H). It is also asking its schools to move to open source office suites. While it is not...
View ArticleStandards v/s IE6, Err It Is WebKit This Time!
The story isn’t a lot different. The open Web needs us to program to the Web standards. If we program to tools, we pit standards against the innovations that tool has brought to the table. WebKit has...
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