Wow. You can't be more wrong if you tried.
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:04:26 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Curl mounts Silverlight and AIR challenge
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>| Curl, the rich programming language specialist back from obscurity, is
>| turning to open source to gain a foothold in rich internet applications
>| (RIA).
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> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/10/curl_open_source/
First, unlike your misleading subjectline, Silverlight is *NOT* "binary".
It's XML, and well documented XML at that. Only in your dreams does
XML=Binary.
> California court tilts towards mandating web accessibility
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>| California law may require websites to be accessible to disabled internet
>| users, according to a ruling in a case against retail giant Target. Despite
>| recent improvements to the accessibility of Target.com, the case has now been
>| certified as a class action.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/14/california_target_web_accessibility/
Secondly, Accessibility != Standards. There are accessibility standards,
but one doesn't need to follow them to be accessible. For example, a
simple "text version" link is enough make a web site accessible.
> Related:
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> ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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>| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
>| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
>| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
>| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
>| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
>| etwork applications.
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> http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
Gee, and look here. This article, which you *MUST* have read, says quite
explicitly that XAML is XML-based. Now why would you claim that this is
"binary"? You must have deliberatly been misleading.
> Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe (at CNNMoney.com)
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>| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
>| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| "Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market
>| dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.
>|
>| It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML,"
>| the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet.
>|
>| Microsoft's own language would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory
>| against rival systems such as Linux, the group says.
>|
>| They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is
>| designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform.
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> http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
And this particluar article is largely BS. MS's competitors may be saying
that, but it's not true. First, XAML is like Flash. It can't replace
HTML, it's use is to augment it. It's not even possible for it to replace
HTML.
Second, it's not Windows Only. It exists on Mac now, and is available on
Linux via Moonlight, the Mono projects version.
Third, what does any of this have to do with Vista? XAML and OOXML are not
related to Vista at all, they run on multiple platforms.
> Windows Vista Product Guide: Free to Download, $149 to Read
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>| 'Windows Vista Product Guide' was released in two formats:
>|
>| Microsoft Office Word 2007
>| The standard .doc format isn't good enough, you need to be able to
>| read a .docx file, so all those users of Office XP are just plain
>| out of luck on
>| this one.
Once again, completely wrong. First, there's a free plug-in from MS to
allow older versions of Office to read docx files, and there's also a free
reader you download. It doesn't cost $149 to read it.
You could also download Novell's version of OpenOffice and read it.
>| XPS
>| What the heck is XPS? I hadn't heard of it before now, (a quick
>| Google tells me XPS is Microsoft's proprietary rival to PDF)
>| but apparently you need a special reader for it (which is
>| kindly enough built into Vista, but nothing else).
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> http://itsvista.com/2006/12/windows-vista-product-guide-free-to-download-149-to-read/
XPS isn't proprietary, it's a proposed ECMA standard.
> Adobe could still sue Microsoft: paper
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>| Microsoft's new Vista software, due to be released early next
>| year, contains a version of fixed document formats which would
>| compete with Adobe's PDF format. Microsoft has pledged to make
>| changes to its version.
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061118/tc_nm/adobe_microsoft_dc
This article is more than a year old, and useless since Adobe did NOT sue
anyone.
> Vista to give HD Photo format more exposure
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>| Microsoft is looking to supplant the ubiquitous JPEG with an image format
>| of its own--and it's hoping the debut of Windows Vista will help do the
>| job.
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> http://news.com.com/Vista+to+give+HD+Photo+format+more+exposure/2100-1045_3-6153730.html
And oh, gee.. HD Photo is being adopted by JPEG. Imagine that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Photo
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