Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:54:19 GMT

Zeldman: "Some emerging specifications seem to have wandered away from the idea that standards are supposed to help people solve real problems in practical ways." [Scripting News]

Amen, brother! That goes double in the e-Learning world.

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:50:05 GMT

WSJ article on weblogs. [Scripting News]

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 03:41:07 GMT

What's coming up in XML.

RSS caught on because it was good at delivering stories from big news organizations and at the same time delivering weblog content. Interesting aggregation tools were possible because there was a critical mass of content. This was and remains the hard work. No format, no matter how interesting, sophisticated or powerful can gain traction without content.

RSS still has more to do. The next big innovation will be blog-browsers, native apps that browse archives of weblogs outside the limits of Web browsers, and archives of weblogs will be in RSS 2.0 because it's a very simple format, you can understand it without understanding any theory beyond what you've already learned with HTML, and because it's an easy evolution for the most deployed formats, 0.91 and 0.92.

The XML-RPC interface for the aggregator will be important as well, it will allow user interfaces to connect up to powerful engines. More XML-RPC interfaces are coming, particularly awaited is the next level of the Blogger API. We hope it will build on the MetaWeblog API.

[Scripting News]

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