Posts filed under "Standards"

# Romania says yes to OOXML once again

Posted: Mar 27, 2008, under Romania, Morals&Politics, Standards. Add a comment!

On March 26, Dan Matei, the president of CT210, the Technical Comittee within ASRO in charge of OOXML, made public the results of Romania's decision regarding the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard: 15 votes for it, 6 votes against and 5 abstentions. Read on for the dirty details.

# OOXML: What happened in Romania

Posted: Sep 27, 2007, under Romania, Standards. Add a comment!

This article presents my research regarding what went down in Romania as part of the process that allowed national standard organizations to express their position on the proposed ISO/IEC DIS 29500 specification, known as OOXML.

# ODF contra OOXML

Posted: Aug 20, 2007, under Romania, Morals&Politics, Standards, [În română]. Add a comment!

Domneşte o mare confuzie în rîndul publicului românesc în jurul OOXML, în general, şi al acceptării sale ca standard ISO, precum şi a comparaţiei cu ODF, în particular. Să încercăm să risipim măcar parţial această confuzie.

# Cookie separation in modern browsers

Posted: Oct 31, 2006, under Standards, DHTML. Add a comment!

A short analysis of how modern browsers separate session cookies between their different instances.

# Welcome to the forest

Posted: Feb 16, 2006, under Graphical design, Standards. Add a comment!

I come today to tell you that Web designers have lost sight of the forest because of the trees. They've painted the non-standard visitors as the last bastion of diversity, which must be conquered, and in doing so they also painted the vast majority as one big unified blob, which it isn't. Guess what, diversity isn't made up of just the technology that the user has available. What about the user preferences? What about the customizations that he or she applies to your site in order to make themselves more confortable?

# <a ping>: accurate link tracking

Posted: Jan 23, 2006, under Software, Standards. Add a comment!

Darin Fisher implemented a new attribute (ping) for the HTML link tag, which would instruct browsers to notify a certain URL of the link that was just followed. This is based on a WhatWG proposed specification and was only implemented so far in Firefox test builds.

# New canvas extension kicks serious butt

Posted: Nov 28, 2005, under Software, Standards, DHTML. Add a comment!

Altough still currently just a working draft, the new <canvas> tag proposed by WhatWG.org has the potential to kill off Java applets and Flash for good.