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Resource Meta-data and User Notices
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Resource Meta-data and User Notices. By Tom Lord, 19th September 2008. Two new standards are suggested and sketched: a proposed MIME type registration and a proposed W3C Recommendation. While these new standards would be orthogonal, they are also related and their combination useful. First: it is increasingly desirable to technologically facilitate the bundling of. Any arbitrary resource on the web. Second: Some meta-data is intended to be seen by users. Examples from HTML include link titles (". Notices...
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Thoughts on Ascender's 2009 proposal
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Thoughts on Ascender's 2009 proposal. By Tom Lord, 16th June 2009. Ascender's 2009 proposal for web fonts. Is a big improvement on the Microsoft-Adobe proposal that "Embedded Open Type" become a web standard. But the proposal could be better, and more likely to get traction, if it also served the needs of other media developers. Recently Bill Davis from Ascender has published a new proposal for web fonts. The proposal suggests that consensus might be formed around a standard web font file format that:.
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Help the Foundries But Reject an EOT Working Group
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Help the Foundries But Reject an EOT Working Group. In a brief note we try to summarize our position of strong objections to calls to form an EOT working group in relation to an EOT submission to W3C. We also try to summarize the reasons we would very much like to help EOT-backers achieve their goals, even if their proposal is flawed. Finally, we link to a counter-proposal that exemplifies how to support the goals while rejecting the deeply flawed EOT proposal. In Opposition to the EOT Submission. The pr...
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Against "Digital Rights Management" in W3C Recommendations
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Against DRM in W3C Recommendations. The Fatal Flaw in the EOT Submission. By Tom Lord, 19th September 2008. When you MUST NOT say "MUST NOT";. And you SHOULD NOT say "SHOULD NOT";. Because What You Really Mean is "MAY". If the [EOT] font embedding bits do not provide permissions for embedding, the user agent shall not use the font.". User Agents MUST NOT render using a font file whose embedding bits are set to 0. If the EOT proposal were "weakened", the requirement might read, instead:. We argue in this ...
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A Case for "Digital Rights Assistance"
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A Case for "Digital Rights Assistance". And Against "Digital Rights Management"). By Tom Lord, 19th September 2008. The paper begins with a tediously detailed list of definitions, so that we can speak with a modest level of precision. This is followed by the arguments for "DRA" and against "DRM". One can make sense of this paper even if one skips the details of the definitions and uses only these two summaries:. All system containing DRM necessarily contain bugs. For example, a font file format might inc...
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Introducing MAME: Media-Attached Metadata Expression
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By Tom Lord, 19th September 2008. Multimedia-Attached Metadata Expression (MAME) is a simple idea: allow all. We often think of the web as a system of two-party, point-to-point communication: a user asks for some resource from a page author and the page author transmits that content in reply. Multi party communication, web linking. Such as images, video and audio, and increasing even more esoteric media such as font files. Only page authors communicate their metadata. This document does not claim to conv...
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Uncovering scraper bikes in West Berkeley | Berkeleyside
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Convicted robber, with 15 priors, back in court Tuesday. Get Gone Traveler curates meaningful food tourism. Wildfire aims to put safety alerts in public's hands. Get Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email. Uncovering scraper bikes in West Berkeley. September 10, 2010 12:16 pm. Emauj Roos, Gianni Brown, Freddie Leary, Markez Robinson and Faheem Cokes. When West Berkeley’s Church Without Walls. So senior pastor Dana Cunliffe and filmmaker Chrissy Dodson. See also the video Scrapertown. The resulting 10-minute...
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The Sizzling Sound of Music - O'Reilly Radar
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Shop Video Training & Books. Shop Video Training & Books. Web Ops and Performance. We're in the process of moving Radar to the new oreilly.com. Check it out. The Sizzling Sound of Music. March 1, 2009. Are iPods changing our perception of music? Are the sounds of MP3s the music we like to hear most? 8221; She wondered why people accepted such poor quality, and so did Jonathan Berger, but a lot of people just don’t hear it the same way. Similarly, the equipment of reproduction. Most people can’t...So, I b...
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Berkeley seeks revenues from medical marijuana | Berkeleyside
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Feds file lawsuit over Berkeley’s main post office. Convicted robber, with 15 priors, back in court Tuesday. Wildfire aims to put safety alerts in public's hands. Get Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email. Berkeley seeks revenues from medical marijuana. June 10, 2010 7:57 am. I am shooting high with this tax, said Bates. It can be lower. Bates and City Council members Darryl Moore, Laurie Capitelli, Linda Maio, and Max Anderson have been meeting regularly to gain a better understanding of Berkeley’s ...
