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Kendall Clark finds the latest XHTML 2.0 draft contains good news

Kendall Clark finds the latest XHTML 2.0 draft contains good news

May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches. OpenLink announced the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.  [via Mono Project News]

May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches. OpenLink announced the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.

MyRSS.COM is a cool hosted service for generating RSS from HTML content! I found this just as I was about to commence attempts to convince the likes of Forbes and Fortune magazine to produce RSS feeds

Sue me, I'm a Linux User! In a great example of Linux users banding together to fight SCO's attempt to exert ownership over portions of the Linux operating system, there's now an on-line petition available where thousands of Linux users are literally offering SCO an opportunity to sue them. <p> The petition is appropriately titled, "Hey SCO - Sue Me!". <p> Check it out - or join the crowd!

Sue me, I'm a Linux User! In a great example of Linux users banding together to fight SCO's attempt to exert ownership over portions of the Linux operating system, there's now an on-line petition available where thousands of Linux users are literally offering SCO an opportunity to sue them. <p> The petition is appropriately titled, "Hey SCO - Sue Me!". <p> Check it out - or join the crowd!

WWW2003 -- day two Facts and figures about WWW2003; W3C standards update; progress report on 802.11b-enabled community coverage.

A Web service is a software system identified by a URI, whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. Its definition can be discovered by other software systems. These systems may then interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its definition, using XML based messages conveyed by Internet protocols.

Hugo Haas, W3C

As result of the above Web Services enable browserless consumption of services available at a URI. Good examples being the ability to purchase a book, CD, or any other item from Amazon without browser based interaction with the Amazon site (URI: http://soap.amazon.com/schemas2/AmazonWebServices.wsdl and UDDI Discovery URI: http://uddi.microsoft.com/discovery?businesskey=bfb9dc23-adec-4f73-bd5f-5545abaeaa1b) .

Further reading:

W3C Web Services Architecture Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/
W3C Web Services Glossary: http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-gloss/

WWW2003 -- day two Facts and figures about WWW2003; W3C standards update; progress report on 802.11b-enabled community coverage.

A Web service is a software system identified by a URI, whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. Its definition can be discovered by other software systems. These systems may then interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its definition, using XML based messages conveyed by Internet protocols.

Hugo Haas, W3C

As result of the above Web Services enable browserless consumption of services available at a URI. Good examples being the ability to purchase a book, CD, or any other item from Amazon without browser based interaction with the Amazon site (URI: http://soap.amazon.com/schemas2/AmazonWebServices.wsdl and UDDI Discovery URI: http://uddi.microsoft.com/discovery?businesskey=bfb9dc23-adec-4f73-bd5f-5545abaeaa1b) .

Further reading:

W3C Web Services Architecture Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/
W3C Web Services Glossary: http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-gloss/