User agent sniffing
sucks.
Be in Mobile or Desktop, it's why Opera is so active with the Open
The Web campaign. To
remove bad practices from the Web development.
Timed Text Markup Language (TTML)
1.0 is a W3C
Recommendation. "TTML 1.0 provides a standardized representation of
a particular subset of textual information with which stylistic,
layout, and timing semantics are associated by an author or an
authoring system for the purpose of interchange and potential
presentation."
RDF
sucks
or they say so, but go read the blog post further
:) "Also, triple stores just plain
ROCK."
Web SQL
database has
been released as a W3C Note. Not enough implementers across browser
vendors to expect interoperability. Result: Deprecated!. Let's
see what is happening in the next few months. Microsoft, Mozilla and
Google seems also to push IndexedDB
API.
New build of Opera
11,
approaching beta soon with some modifications for extensions. Expect
a bit of breakage ahead.
easyXDM is "a
Javascript library that enables you as a developer to easily work
around the limitation set in place by the Same Origin Policy, in
turn making it easy to communicate and expose javascript API's
across domain boundaries." The future will be secure… ah?
Deprecating
XML or maybe
not. Norman Walsh is advocating for using the right tool for the
right thing. JSON for atomic data and XML for unstructured data.
When is the right time to show
features
implemented in your browsers and how do you talk about them? What
are you trying to achieve for the Open Web when you are creating
a demo? What are the moves which help to bridge people more than
separate them.