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{ Monthly Archives } April 2004

Technology Works?

I’ve been slowly work­ing on a tutorial for using entity res­ol­u­tion cata­logs that I prom­ised the OASIS Entity Res­ol­u­tion Tech­nical Com­mit­tee (ERTC) I’d do (I chair the TC). As befits a proper tutorial, I figured I should test out the bits as I’m writ­ing them in more than one imple­ment­a­tion, just so I can warn people of the poten­tial pit­falls. This has proved to be a frus­trat­ing exper­i­ence for me, and I can see why so many people say tech­no­logy is just too hard.

2004 04 26 Rants
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Sometimes you have to laugh

The Nigerian spam action shows no signs of dying down, but some­times you do have to laugh… on scan­ning the TAG archives I came across this post­ing in which the sub­ject line is STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL but the email has been sent to no fewer than 6 pub­lic W3C mail­ing lists, as well as a bunch […]

2004 04 15 General
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Adding Accessibility

I’m up to Day 26 of Mark Pilgrim’s excel­lent series on access­ib­il­ity. For­tu­nately, the Word­Press tem­plates are mostly com­pli­ant out of the box so I had very little to change.

2004 04 13 WordPress Comments Off

DOM Level 3 a W3C Recommendation

It’s taken a long time, far longer than we anti­cip­ated when we star­ted. The W3C DOM Level 3 Core and Load and Save mod­ules are, as of today, W3C Recommendations.

2004 04 07 Standards Comments Off

Changing Schedules

The XML con­fer­ence I chair has tra­di­tion­ally run from Tues­day to Fri­day, with a clos­ing key­note at lunch on the Fri­day. Fri­day has always been a slow day, and was so last year des­pite some excel­lent talks.

So we’ve made some changes this year.

2004 04 05 Conference Comments Off

Communicating with reviewers

Send­ing email to review­ers is more dif­fi­cult than it should be.

2004 04 02 Conference Comments Off