Posts in: XML (including RSS and Atom)
- Jesse James Garrett on Ajax
- Jesse James Garrett breaks down the Next. Big. Thing. in web application development: AJAX. Ajax stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript + XML.” As Garrett explains: Ajax isn’t a technology. It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS; dynamic display and interaction using the Document [...] [22 Feb 2005]
- Recommended reading: Why RSS is important
- Via Hardscrabble: A CNet.com article on what RSS is and why it’s important. (Okay, so I’m late to the party on this article.)• Other posts on RSS [3 Oct 2004]
- R S S is Big Media’s Friend
- Dave Winer answers the question: Would a big media company lose traffic if they supported RSS? Winer hits the nail on the head with his response. But I’ll say it another way: RSS is Big Media’s most valuable delivery mechanism. As plenty of others have said: RSS is a “pull technology” instead of a “push technology.” It [...] [2 Jun 2004]
- Now with (validated!) RSS!
- I’ve been meaning to create an RSS feed for my site for quite some time now. Today, I jumped in and did it. I confess I cheated a bit by hijacking the basic code from a Search Engine Watch article on creating RSS feeds. But I still had to figure out how to automate the updating of [...] [27 May 2004]
- Updates to two news-specific XML standards approved
- The International Press Telecommunications Council approved updates to two of the leading XML standards for news syndication. [15 Oct 2003]
- Coming down the pike: InkML
- This is old news, really, but it’s new to me. In August, the World Wide Web Consortium released a working draft of InkML. InkML is an XML language that deals with “multimodal interaction” — such as drawing tablet input. I wonder if this — and this is totally one of those "I-don’t-exactly-know-what-I’m-talking-about-so-I-don’t- even-know-if-it’s-possible" types of things — [...] [10 Oct 2003]
- NewsML
- Wonder how XML can help news organizations and agencies manage their data? Get started thinking about it. Check out the News ML specification from the International Press and Telecommuniations Council. Is NewsML more than what you need? Investigate RSS instead. [24 Aug 2003]
- Fun with Scalable Vector Graphics
- Scalable Vector Graphics has been hailed as The Next Big Thing in web graphics (sort of like PNG). What is it? It’s a way to create graphics using XML syntax. That’s right: SVG allows you to create images out of text. Advantages? First: smaller file sizes. Since the images are text-based rather than binary code, they’re smaller [...] [23 Aug 2003]
