Internet standards
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The Web is built on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a client-server protocol that simply allows client user agents to retrieve and manipulate resources stored on a server. It
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Inspired primarily by the fact that the guys behind the RevCanonical fiasco are still stubbornly refusing to admit they got it wrong (the whole while arrogantly brushing off increasingly
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’m a bit too busy right now for putting together my usual meticulously crafted blog posts and random thoughts have found a good home at Twitter (@samj), so I
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Yesterday I wrote rather critically about a surprisingly successful drive to implement a deprecated “rev” relationship. This developed virtually overnight in response to the growing “threat” (in terms of
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Sites like http://tinyurl.com/ provide a very simple service: turning unwieldly but information rich URLs like http://samj.net/2009/04/open-letter-to-community-regarding-open.html into something more manageable like http://tinyurl.com/ceze29. This was traditionally useful for emails with
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I write this letter in order to be 100% transparent with you about a new initiative that could prove critical to the development of computing and the Internet: the
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.In light of the rapidly increasing (and at times questionable) use of the term “Open Cloud” I hereby propose the following (draft) set of principles, inspired by the Open
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Almost a year ago in “Cloud Standards: not so fast…” I explained why standardisation efforts were premature. A lot has happened in the interim and it is now time
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.A couple of days ago I wrote about Why Adobe Flash penetration is more like 50% than 99%, which resulted in a bunch of comments as well as a
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Slashdot discussed PC PRO’s “99% Flash Player Penetration – Too Good to be True?” article today which prompted me to explain why I have always been dubious of Adobe’s