{"id":251,"date":"2002-12-17T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-18T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2002-12-17T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-18T01:17:00","slug":"pointers-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2002\/12\/17\/pointers-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"

XML & Web Services magazine has a quite detailed article<\/a> 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<\/em>, 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<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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. # <\/p>\n

Searching for answers to those niggling quiestions At the Tomb of the IUnknown Interface<\/a>. # <\/p>\n

The world’s first age simulator<\/a>. 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. # <\/p>\n

Looks like Eric Raymond<\/a> is at it again<\/a>. Not quite as mind-boggling as this<\/a>, mind, but still pretty worrying for us elitist Euro-commies. Probably best not to make any sudden movements when that guy’s nearby… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Pointers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}