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Opera's browser finds its voice
Norway-based Opera is adding voice control to its eponymous browser, allowing users to browse the Web by talking to their PC and have the contents of Web sites read back to them. Read more »
You call that a standard?
Q&A Robert Glushko, a UC Berkeley professor who was involved in early XML proceedings, decries how powerful interests have distorted the standards process. Read more »
Sun, Microsoft join on Web app standard
A consortium of major technology companies, including newfound allies Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, submitted on Tuesday a proposed new standard intended to promote interoperability between Web applications. Read more »
XML: Extremely critical or exhaustingly complex?
Could the myriad standards and specifications surrounding XML seriously discourage users in the short-term? Read more »
Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in
Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »
Sun takes the covers off Mustang
At JavaOne, Sun gave developers a peek at what's coming in the next two major releases of Java, and we've rounded them up for you. Read more »
Adobe aquire Macromedia
With its US$3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems is buying into a crucial battle to shape the next generation of Web application development. Read more »
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W3C standards: The relationship between RDF and Topic Maps
In this article we analyse the background of both the the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Topic Maps standards and their interoperability. Read more »
Developer Spotlight: Gian Sampson-Wild
Gian Sampson-Wild is an accessibilty expert and one of the speakers at this year's Web Directions conference to held in Sydney this year. Builder AU interviewed Gian via email prior to the commencement of Web Directions to talk about accessibility, how to make it a part of the development process and where to from here. Read more »
Faster XML ahead?
The Net's top standards body is getting closer to speeding up XML-based software, a move that could benefit everyone from mobile phone carriers to television broadcasters to the military. Read more »
Open-source .Net takes shape
Builders of the Mono open-source development project has released an update that will let programmers write Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix operating systems. Read more »
Increase flexibility with the .NET schema object model
This article from Builder.com examines how the XML schema object model allows you to use .NET classes to manipulate schema components. Read more »
A better way to create XML documents in .NET
Creating XML documents in .NET isn't difficult, but it can be tedious. Here's what you need to know about .NET's streaming model for writing XML. Read more »
Microsoft: .Net starting to take hold
The company announces new software tools it hopes developers will use to build Web services. "We bet the company on .Net, but we can't do it alone," an executive says. Read more »
A better way to parse XML documents in .NET
The .NET Framework supports the XML DOM parsing model, but not the SAX model. .NET guru Dino Esposito tells you why this is actaully an improvement. Read more »
HTML 5: A change in course... straight for the iceberg
The W3C recently released a working draft specification for HTML 5. In its current iteration, this is the worst specification I have ever read. Read more »
Can you be a self-respecting Web developer without knowing HTML?
I can't accept a so-called Web developer who doesn't fully understand the technology used to create their applications. Do you think a Web developer is doomed if he doesn't know HTML? Read more »
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Down to Semantics
-- At this year's Web Directions South conference in Sydney, David Peterson presented "Semantic Web for Distributed Social Networks". Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.

