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Romania says yes to OOXML once again

Skippy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:16:38 +0000

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

Skippy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:39:25 +0000

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

Skippy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:35:06 +0000

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

Skippy — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:23:49 +0000

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

Welcome to the forest

Skippy — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:06:22 +0000

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

Skippy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:59:34 +0000

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

Skippy — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:49:07 +0000

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.