Tuesday, April 14, 1998

New survey for people who have been following the recent developments in vector graphics standards.

Keith Swenson of Netscape explains yesterday's SWAP announcement publicly, to members of W3C and IETF.

Salon interviews Eric S. Raymond.

InfoWorld reports on the MacroMedia and Adobe announcements, including quotes from yesterday's DaveNet piece.

CNET's section of the Netscape Open Studio site points prominently to Frontier. Thanks!

Ken MacLeod wrote a Perl module that connects to Frontier via XML-RPC. Yay!

You can use the RPC debugger to test Ken's server. It's running on biff.bitsko.slc.ut.us on port 8000.

Macromedia opens Flash file format.

Wall Street Journal article on Steve Jobs.

Tish Williams says that Microsoft has been a miracle in her life and Tony Perkins chats up Arthur Van Hof.

Forbes has doubts about XML. But they think it's for web browsers. Hmmm. That's the boring application of XML. What's exciting? Using the standards of the Internet to connect previously incompatible software. They got one thing right, it changes the rules for Oracle.

Here's a server that should have an XML-RPC interface. Preston Holmes sent a pointer to its CGI interface. Thanks!

SJ Merc: Customization on websites.

Here's an example of the kind of email I love to get.

A note to my readers.