Posts in standards Category

Feb 10, 2012

Standards v/s IE6, Err It Is WebKit This Time!

The story isn’t a lot different. The open Web needs us to program to the Web standards. If we program to tools, we pit standards against the innovations that tool has brought to the table. [Continue]

Jan 6, 2012

Hungarian Goverment Moving To ODF

The Hungarian Government is asking its public administration to move to open document standards (via The H). It is also asking its schools to move to open source office suites. While it is not explicitly specified this combination hints use of ODF and OpenOffice or LibreOffice. [Continue]

Oct 11, 2011

C++11 Published

The C++11 standard is now published by ISO. Check out the standard’s FAQ maintained by Bjarne Stroustrup himself, including the feature list. The published standard has a substantial cost. [Continue]

Nov 15, 2010

India Publishes Its Policy On Open Standards

Government of India’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has published its policy on open standards for e-governance (pdf). It explicitly states that the Government will adopt Single and Royalty-Free Open Standard. Section 4.1 titled “Mandatory Characteristics” (of Open Standard) lists interesting points, like: the standard should be adopted and maintained by a not-for-profit organization the standard will have a technology-neutral specification Read the entire policy. [Continue]

Nov 26, 2009

Get OpenID With Google Profiles

Google profiles can be now used as OpenIDs. Unlike the federated login, now Google will allow the profile URLs will work with any site that accepts the generic OpenID. Though this is good for OpenID, I doubt of the average Joe is aware of Google profiles itself. [Continue]

Aug 22, 2009

We Need Standards In The Mobile World

Last week I helped a friend’s father to move his contacts from his Nokia phone to the his new Blackberry device. And it was not a pleasant experience. It involved: Nokia’s PC Suite to import the contacts into the Outlook addressbook Blackberry’s Desktop Manager to import the contacts from Outlook. [Continue]

May 18, 2009

Microformats Get Flexible With Value Class Pattern

Microformats has introduced a new pattern – the value-class pattern to tackle accessibility and localization problems. The value-class pattern lets you two things – break value of a microformat property into multiple sub-values, and mark specific relevant data using a special class name value. So, now you have multiple options to design your markup for datetime values and keep it accessible and machine readable, as Jeremy Keith illustrates.

May 11, 2009

Already Seeing Worst Of Double Standards

We have already started to see the worst of living with more than one standard to do the exact same thing. Excel 2007 SP2′s ODF support has degraded, because it is no longer interoperable. Microsoft, a company, which values backward compatibility over anything else, does not worry about interoperability when implementing ODF support. [Continue]

Mar 28, 2009

Java SE Not To Be An Open Standard Anymore?

Stephen Colebourne has a thoughtful post about one of the biggest possible changes in the Java landscape. Java SE will not be a open standard any more?. This seems completely in contrast to the spirit that is seen in efforts like Project Coin. [Continue]

Feb 16, 2009

IE8 To Have Compatibility View To Beat The Standards

Microsoft seems to be hell bent on making the standards secondary in the name of compatibility. Not a while back, Microsoft had agreed to use the standards mode by default for IE8 after many had opposed the degradation. If enough users vote a site into IE7 compatibility mode, it will be displayed using that, even if it was built using the standards. [Continue]