Don’t call me DOM

I consider myself fairly fluent in XML technologies, but there is at least one technology that I have never bothered to fully learn, nor that I am planning to ever fully learn, and this would be XML DTDs.

Some people would like DTDs to disappear completely off the face of XML, and while I wouldn’t disagree with them, I still have to live in a world where some markup languages are formalized using DTDs, and even more importantly, where the greatest part of the developed markup language productions is checked using DTD (typically with the W3C Markup Validator).  Read more... (213 words, estimated 51 secs reading time)

I haven’t written about GRDDL for a long time, and in fact haven’t been much involved in its recent developments; but seeing it published as a Proposed Recommendation some 3 years after the first draft I wrote, and less than a year after its first public working draft in the Recommedation track, it feels like my baby just graduated!

Kudos to the GRDDL Working Group for the amazing job they did of formalizing, cleaning and working out the hard issues that existed in the original specification!

Most of the Web development I work on is, for good or for worse, using PHP – my natural preference would go to coding in Python, but PHP is what was and is available on the W3C servers, and I’ve become much more fluent in it than in any other programming language.  Read more... (503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)