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last updated at 2001-03-16 18:26
danbri: A short SW evangelism piece, arguing that P2P isn't an alternative to the Web, and that Web data principles (URIs for identification) and technology (RDF) are applicable to various P2P use cases.
danbri: ...re-reading this for first time in a while, I'm pretty fond of it. With hindsight there are things that might be said differently, but it feels like a useful thing to have written :-)
danbri: Was also nice having two hardcopies arrive by post this morning. Wish I'd used W3C affiliation on the cover too (at time I was concerned as P2P was all about finding pornography and pirate music on the Internet (but then so is RDF ;-))...
 
 
 
 
danbri: An excellent, ancient and timely piece on the logic and architecture of Dublin Core metadata records.
 
 
danbri: Short overview of the reimplemented HTML editor in Mozilla (and hence Netscape6).
danbri: The article lists Mozilla Editor goals including ease of use; tolerance poor input(!) but ultimately produce legal HTML output; WYSIWYG; not a 'web site editor'
danbri: "The Editor contains a new Image Map Editor, the functionality of which is written almost
danbri: ...that could be useful for RDFPic-style image description tools, eg. attaching metadata to regions of an image. It could be hacked to output SVG (which Mozilla also has primitive support for) annotated a la the Accessible SVG note.
 
danbri: An IRC implementation in Mozilla, using XUL, RDF, CSS, XML, Javascript...
danbri: "ChatZilla makes liberal use of RDF and CSS (with more RDF to come.)" [page dated: may 2000]
 
danbri: It uses the XML, Javascript, XP-COM infrastructure within Mozilla to implement a multi-protocol instant messaging / chat client.
danbri: there are (I think) XML-RPC and SOAP tools within Mozilla, so this would be one basis for experimenting with a non-IRC SW chat testbed using XML etc.
danbri: ...
 
danbri: "We should provide query and transformation languages for RDF that are as far as possible extensions of
danbri: Includes draft proposals for RDFPath and RDFT, based on the XPath and XSLT designs.
 
dajobe: Bits of technologies from Ximian including Camel generic messaging library, Calendering Framework, and Ibex indexing library. All GPL.
 
edd: After a long night's work packaging it up.
 
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