Recent Posts Tagged With 'standards'

• Policies on Drugs, Open Standards and Web Accessibility

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 04:40 in standards

  Over the weekend we’ve been hearing about the squabbles between the Government and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council, argued that cannabis was less harmful than alcohol and toba...

• The Network Effect Is Missing From The Standards Debate

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 03:00 in standards

  In a recent post I asked “Do We Want A Standards-based Voice/Video Service?“. The post suggested that the failure of the JANET Talk service to gain significant support or interest provided evidence of the failure of a development approac...

• Do We Want A Standards-based Voice/Video Service?

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 03:43 in voip, janet, standards, sip

  Last year JANET(UK) launched a trial of a voice, video and collaboration application called JANET Talk. As described in JANET News No.8 June 2009 (PDF format): “The aims of the trial were to understand the precise requirements and service provi...

• Standards are for Catholics

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 02:30 in standards

  Being brought up in an Irish Catholic environment in the 1960s meant that life was full of religious and moral absolutes. If you were good you’d go to heaven (with some time in purgatory a likelihood) whereas protestants would go to hell. Black...

• Are You Able?

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 02:34 in accessibility, preservation, standards, ozewai2009

  There were two invited keynote speakers who travelled from Europe to speak at the OzeWAI 2009 conference. As well as my talk (which I described recently ) Dr. Eva M. Méndez (an Associate Professor in the Library and Information Science Department at...

• “Standards Are Like Sausages”

  Posted on Friday February 13th, 2009 at 04:00 in standards

  “Standards are like sausages” suggested Charles McCathieNevile at the OzeWAI 2009 conference. “I like sausages” he went on to say “but I’m not keen on exploring too closely how they’re made“. This was a...

• Is The UK Government Being Too Strict?

  Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 02:17 in standards

  I recently noticed a blog post published on the home page of the WASP (Web Standards Project) Web site.  The blog post, UK government browser guidelines: good sense prevails by Bruce Lawson, Opera applauded the UK Government for responding to press...

• Are Your PDFs Conformant?

  Posted on Friday January 23rd, 2009 at 02:51 in standards, addressing

  I’ve never been much of a fan of the PDF format. Back in the early days of the Web I had hoped that the proprietary PDF format would be replaced by HTML and CSS. Back then there was an expectation that CSS would be developed to provide the fine...

• Thoughts On Erik Duval’s Post On Standards

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 03:00 in standards

  In a post entitled “Standards for Technology Enhanced Learning” Erik Duval gives his thoughts on the issues related to the standards which have a role to play in providing technology enhanced learning. Erik feels that: The main issue is...

• W3C’s Financial Difficulties Affects Their Validators

  Posted on Sunday December 28th, 2008 at 02:48 in standards

  Molly Holzschlag recently wrote a blog post entitled W3C Validators in Jeopardy in which she pointed out that “As many folks who follow the W3C are aware, financial and bureaucratic issues have challenged the organization for many years“....

• Why Did SMIL and SVG Fail?

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 01:45 in standards, svg, smil

  Following my blog post on Open Standards and the JISC IE which I wrote back in September Stephen Downes responded with some comments which I include below: “In retrospect many of the W3C standards which I had felt should form the basis of the ...

• Killed By Complexity

  Posted on Tuesday September 16th, 2008 at 15:37 in standards

  “If this is the death of Wall Street as we know it, the tombstone will read: killed by complexity” it was suggested on the front page of the Guardian today (Tuesday 16 September 2008).  A similar question might be asked about the roadmap...

• On the Videos from the Repository Fringe 2008

  Posted on Wednesday September 10th, 2008 at 01:53 in accessibility, standards

  On the The thoughts of a Code Gorilla blog a post on Videos from Repository Fringe 2008 provides a link to a number of videos of talks given at the Repository Fringe held recently in Edinburgh. The blog is written by a software developed who has bee...

• The George Bush and Microsoft Parallels

  Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 05:30 in standards, ooxml

  Back in May 2008 I published a blog post entitled George Bush IS President And Microsoft’s Office Open XML Format IS An ISO Standard which described how Microsoft’s Open Office XML (OOXML) had been approved as an ISO standard. However in th...

• Open Standards and the JISC IE

  Posted on Thursday September 4th, 2008 at 01:49 in standards

  The Ariadne article on Lost in the JISC Information Environment has generated some interesting discussions, including my colleague Paul Walk’s post in which he suggests that all models are wrong, but some are useful and Andy’ Powell̵...