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There is a W3C effort (working draft) titled Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format. EXI is the result of work by the W3C’s XML Binary Characterization (XBC) and Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Groups, and as you can see is applicable to (and might be useful on) restricted devices such as mobile handsets. The Efficient XML … Read more

Very interesting… the W3C has taken a stab at a Widgets spec for packaging and scripting and other! Awesome! Exactly what is needed — order, consistency, a common technical approach. From the W3C web site: 2006-11-09: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Widgets 1.0. Also known as … Read more

From W3C: Participants in the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository have published their report. … the workshop participants debated the expected nature of the Device Description Repository (DDR). All agreed it should be simple. The API and a vocabulary of essential properties are high priorities. The DDR should not merely … Read more

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the advancement of the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Of great importance is that these are the guidelines that are going to be used to enforce .mobi mobile website's behavior. From the W3C website: “Written for designers of Web sites and content management systems, these … Read more

The W3C has published The XMLHttpRequest Object specification working draft… As you may know, the XMLHttpRequest object is at the center of AJAX, and while it is implemented across Web browsers, the implementations are not 100% interoperable, requiring special handling by developers. The goal of this W3C XMLHttpRequest specification is to “document a minimum set … Read more