There is a good post by Mathias Bauer on Sun Hamburg's GullFOSS blog. He deals with the practical importance of OASIS's "Feedback License" that governs any public feedback OASIS receives from non-TC members.The ODF TC receives ideas for new features … [Continue reading] about Suggesting ODF Enhancements
New Paths in Standardization
The world should be pleased to note, that with the approval of ISO/IEC 29500, Microsoft's Vector Markup Language (VML), after failing to be approved by the W3C in 1998 and after being neglected for the better part of a decade, is now also … [Continue reading] about New Paths in Standardization
Seeking Open Standards Activists
Some thoughts for Document Freedom Day 2008.Back a few weeks ago in Geneva, OpenForum Europe hosted an evening of mini-talks and a discussion panel with various well-known personalities in our field: Vint Cerf, Bob Sutor, Andy Updegrove and Håkon … [Continue reading] about Seeking Open Standards Activists
OOXML’s (Out of) Control Characters
Let's start with the concepts of “lexical” and “value” spaces in XML, as well as the mechanism of “derivation by restriction” in XML Schema. Any engineer can understand the basics here, even if you don't eat and drink XML for breakfast.The value … [Continue reading] about OOXML’s (Out of) Control Characters
Five (Bad) Reasons to Approve OOXML
If you don't approve OOXML, Microsoft will walk away, and you'll never hear from them again. Forget the fact that OOXML is already an Ecma standard (Ecma-376), and cannot be taken away. Forget the fact that Microsoft has other formats lined up for … [Continue reading] about Five (Bad) Reasons to Approve OOXML