Thursday, 20. December 2007, 01:06:47
ie, Standards, news, Opera
According to the MOLLY's blog, guys from IE team finally brought their child to pass
Acid test!
But!
I think they just want to have this "trump card" when EU Commision will be reviewing
Opera's formal complaint against Microsoft Internet Explorer. We know you, Bill! And this trick won't work this time!
And I think, Bill didn't even know about this Acid2 test till a Opera compliant. And he became so mad when he saw this big smiley face on the Acid page (I'm 99.9% sure he used Opera to check it
) that he walked down to the IE dev. team and kicked someone's ass very nicely...
I think this is all Opera's merit, ladies and gentleman!
Thursday, 6. December 2007, 20:21:36
fun, Standards
XHTML Fist ShirtWhether you’re walking the angry streets at dawn or bare-knuckle boxing in an alley behind your local bodega, nothing says “Let’s debate Internet Explorer’s handling of MIME types” (or soaks up blood) better than our XHTML Fist Shirt. Also suitable for wrapping fish. Hurry! This offer ends soon.
Saturday, 3. November 2007, 17:16:39
Standards
There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, government and citizens;
There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification: Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
There is information missing from the specification document, for example how to do a autoSpaceLikeWord95 or useWord97LineBreakRules;
More than 10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed standard do not validate as XML;
There is no guarantee that anybody can write software that fully or partially implements the OOXML specification without being liable to patent lawsuits or patent license fees by Microsoft;
This format conflicts with existing ISO standards, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC 10118-3 (cryptographic hash);
There is a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids any date before the year 1900: such bugs affect the OOXML specification as well as software applications like Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007.
This standard proposal was not created by bringing together the experience and expertise of all interested parties (such as the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), but by Microsoft alone.
http://www.noooxml.org/petition
