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This morning, I was pondering a particular aspect of XML Schema. After checking the specification, I wanted to put it into practice by writing an XML document and a corresponding schema. To validate the document with the schema, the simplest thing would have been to do it in the browser,... More

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Today, March 14, 2006, the second edition XForms 1.0 became a W3C recommendation. The intent of this 1.0 second edition is mostly to add clarifications and correct errors in the first edition. Maybe the only really new feature is the introduction of an instance attribute on <xforms:submission>. An XForms form... More

A few weeks ago Yahoo! released their Yahoo! User Interface Library, a set of JavaScript files with foundation classes to deal with events (YAHOO.util.Event) and the XMLHttpRequest object (YAHOO.util.Connect), as well implementations of three widgets: a calendar, a slider, and a tree view. The JavaScript is nicely commented and HTML... More

We are glad to announce that we will be at XTech 2006 in Amsterdam (May 16-19), where we will talk about XForms and Ajax. Here is the abstract that was accepted: XForms: an alternative to Ajax? Last year, we introduced server-side XForms as the most promising way of making XForms... More

Stephan Wissel (TAO Consulting Pte Ltd) will talk about Orbeon PresentationServer and its XForms implementation in Singapore on March 15, under the title "XForms - Putting your form processing on steroids". This talk will be part of the XML Standards Seminar 2006 organized by the XML Working Group of ITSC... More

I am just back from the W3C Technical Plenary week in Cannes-Mandelieu (South of France). The Tech Plenary is a week-long yearly meeting where all the W3C working groups are present. Overall, this is just a great opportunity to meet people and to get some work done. On Monday and... More

It's the weekend, time for something non-techie. I am convinced that we have a general tendency to over-estimate the value of rational explanations of past data. Consequently we over-estimate the accuracy our predictions based on those explanations. In his talk at Pop!Tech 2005 entitled The Scandal of Prediction, Nassim Nicholas... More

In August 2005, Google launched an instant messenger: Google Talk. It was similar to Yahoo! Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger in that you had to download and install a little program to be able to send and receive instant messages. A few weeks ago, Google Talk was integrated with Gmail,... More

Most of the time, we use the address bar in Firefox to type the address of a web site. But we can also use it to configure Firefox or get detailed information about plugins, the cache, and other things by typing a URI that starts with "about:". When you create... More