XML & Web Services magazine has a quite detailed article about Microsoft’s structured document editor – “XDocs”. Its nice to see Microsoft’s product-naming committee abandoning all this trendy “.net” nonsense and reverting to the tradition, dating back to when ActiveX was introduced in … well a long time ago, of simply sticking an ‘X’ on the name. The idea of subsuming Word, Excel, etc. into one super-app is also vaguely remenicient of the OLE idea of “compound documents” a la Cairo.
Anyway, the product seems pretty good. Quite a lot of the Word documents I read seem to be written with just a single style-tag, so anything that encourages structure and proper semantics gets my vote. #
Searching for answers to those niggling quiestions At the Tomb of the IUnknown Interface. #
The world’s first age simulator. This is a very good idea, but people’s experience of older age seems to vary a lot. My father will be seventy in March, but he still cycles and is one of the most active people I know. #
Looks like Eric Raymond is at it again. Not quite as mind-boggling as this, mind, but still pretty worrying for us elitist Euro-commies. Probably best not to make any sudden movements when that guy’s nearby…