Blog - 2008
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Learn about SMIL 3.0 and test it!
SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. It is an XML language which has been designed for creating interactive multimedia presentations, including timing and synchronization. For example, a fade effect from black to a photograph, or starting an animation at the same time than an audio file. What's new?
- implementation
- interoperability
- qa
- smil
- svg
- test-suite
How To Insert A Video From Youtube
I was struggling for inserting a video in a Web page, I had to change a bit the markup which was proposed to me to make it work in a way that satisfies me.
- html
- html5
- video
Powdering logos (again)
Quite a while ago I wrote a short blog on how to use the upcoming POWDER spec. The example was to create RDF triples expressing copyright information on Semantic Web logos. Lot has happened with POWDER since, and most of what I wrote in that blog is now technically outdated:-( So here is the updated example.
- owl
- powder
- rdf
- rdfa
- semantic-web
Caching XML data at install time
The W3C web server is spending most of its time serving DTDs to various bits of XML processing software. While XSLT processors such as xsltproc and Xalan have no technical dependency on the XHTML DTDs, I suspect they're used with XHTML enough that shipping copies of the DTDs along with the XSLT processing software is a win all around.
- http
- uri
- xml
Build Your Own Browser
Little Web bricks help to create new browsers.
- browser
- html
- html5
- http
- libwww
- webkit
SVG, comics and E-books
SVG is a format that could be widely used on e-books for comics.
- ebook
- graphics
- svg
- xhtml
