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Nice analysis of XML vs JSON
There’s been a lot of back and forth between the XMLers and the JSON proponents of late. I thought this post by James Bennett to be particularly insightful.
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OOXML and the Mac: More Bad News from Microsoft
Once upon a time, 5 months ago, I wrote a blog post with the title Is Office Open XML A One-Way Standard? Ask Microsoft. In it, I took Microsoft to task because OOXML was so difficult to implement,...
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Good standards
A nice post on making standards by Dave McAlister of Adobe: Good Standards. I posted on the same topic last April, and what I said there still stands: Contrast that with the process by which Adobe is...
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Open Government and PDF
Daring Fireball just linked to two equally foolish articles about how PDFs are “bad” for Open Government. The premise of these articles is that the world would be a much better place if all governments...
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