Posted in Future of the Web, tagged global reachability, interoperability, net neutrality, open on March 28 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the European Parliament Internet Freedom recommendations we discussed here earlier:
whereas it is important to deal with emerging issues such as network neutrality, interoperability, global reachability of all Internet nodes, and the use of open formats and standards,”
Openness and interoperability are classics, net neutrality is what Obama cares about and global reachability is a new [...]
Posted in Future of the Web, standards, tagged ISO, kei, ooxml, standards, wipo on March 28 2009 | 1 Comment »
Washington KEI kindly put an intervention online; it comes from the US delegation at the WIPO SCP session. An organisation I am affiliated with, the FFII, is represented by Dr Bakels at the meeting under its WIPO observer status. As of myself I thought that meeting would be unamusing, but instead I stumble upon the [...]
Posted in European Union, Future of the Web, tagged freedom, internet, ipred2 on March 27 2009 | 1 Comment »
This time a Parliament recommendation is different from the usual reports, because it is about the internet and communication freedoms. Most persons will overlook the provisions on criminal sanctions but that is the meat:
Strengthening security and fundamental freedoms on the Internet
European Parliament recommendation of 26 March 2009 to the Council on strengthening security and fundamental [...]
Posted in Future of the Web, tagged IE8 on March 25 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Osnews item:
Australia’s Nick Hodge has stated that Microsoft purposefully decided not to support Acid3, because the test tests against draft standards.
Isn’t that the very purpose of all the ACID tests?
Posted in European Union, Future of the Web on March 25 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The European website epractice.eu sents me an XLS file (good old binary excelformat) with 6444 columns:
Old URL
New URL
Title
And they write:
Dear ePractice Facilitator,
Find enclosed the url equivalences table of old and new items resulting from the
migration of ePractice.
We hope this will help in the task of updating any broken links appearing in
your community static content.
[..]
Your ePractice [...]
Posted in floss, tagged gpl, Microsoft on March 24 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new paper from Forrester Research concerning Open Source for Microsoft discusses the potential of the development model. Sure, you have the necessary portion GPL bashing folklore in there (which unfortunately prevents the substancial criticism that should be raised by neutral parties) but as a Microsoft document it sounds like Gorbatschev 1989 in Berlin, as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jon von Tetzchner from Opera does not like the new browser competitor IE8. He criticises that the IE8 does not support Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) which are part of the html5 standardisation effort at the W3C. Opera is currently involved in EU antitrust action against the manufacturer of the browser.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Still just a draft:
Everyone should have the possibility of accessing services provided by public administrations. This includes users with disabilities and elderly users as well as all those who have particular difficulties in becoming part of the digital society. The possibility of accessing services provided by public administrations should exist regardless of the software, communication
channel, [...]
