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CC/PP Resources, specifications, and software implementing the W3C's CC/PP technology (Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles), a system that uses RDF for specifying hardware device profiles. GUIs XML vocabularies and technology used for designing Graphical User Interfaces. Hardware Hardware-related XML technologies. Macromedia Inc. Software, utilities, and resources from Macromedia, Inc. Music Music-related XML vocabularies designed to express everything from musical scores, to basic notation, to synthesis diagrams and more. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Resources and specifications related to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), the W3C's text-based language for the representation of 2-D graphics. SMIL SMIL specifications, white papers, tools, and software. SVG Software Prototype applications for importing, exporting, viewing or otherwise processing SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files. Telecommunications Specifications and technologies in the telecommunications, broadcast (tv and radio), and cable industries. Voice Browsers Specifications and software enabling the manipulation of web-based content via vocal interaction. VoiceXML Tutorials Tutorials explaining VoiceXML. WAP WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) links and related information. WML Wireless Markup Language information(see WAP software for WML software). |
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Music and Metadata
By Chris Mitchell Chris Mitchell offers an interesting take on music and the Semantic Web, using metadata to find a club with the right style of music. [Nov. 22, 2006] Big Lists in Small Spaces By Fabio Arciniegas A. After a long hiatus, our Sacré SVG columnist, Fabio Arciniegas, returns with a technique for displaying large lists or trees of information in small spaces. [May. 4, 2005] Speech Synthesis Markup Language: An Introduction By Peter Mikhalenko Peter Mikhalenko introduces SSML, an XML vocabulary for creating speech-synthesis capable web applications. [Oct. 20, 2004] SVG At the Movies By Antoine Quint Antoine Quint returns with a new column about SVG -- this time he focuses on the interesting new features for video integration in SVG 1.2. [Oct. 13, 2004] XMP Lowdown By Bob DuCharme Bob DuCharme introduces XMP, Adobe's RDF-based specification for embedding metadata into digital artifacts. Get ready to mark up your photos and images with Adobe tools. [Sep. 22, 2004] Mobile SVG By Antoine Quint Antoine Quint returns with a look at the growing market for implementations of the SVG Mobile specification. [Aug. 18, 2004] SVG and Typography: Animation By Fabio Arciniegas A. In the final part of our series on SVG and typography, we cover using animation with type. [Jun. 30, 2004] SVG and Typography: Bells and Whistles By Fabio Arciniegas A. This third installment of our look at typography in SVG introduces the SVG versions of well-known effects such as blurs, shadows, gradients and bevels. [Jun. 2, 2004] SVG and Typography: Characters By Fabio Arciniegas A. In this second part of our discussion of SVG and typography we explore some time-honored practices of typographic excellence. [May. 12, 2004] Developing Wireless Content using XHTML Mobile By Jean-Luc David XHTML Mobile provides an answer to the proliferation of incompatible mobile markup solutions. Find out how to make mobile content, and ensure backwards compatibility. [Apr. 14, 2004] SVG and Typography By Fabio Arciniegas A. Few things have as much power to make or break a visual work as typography. This article demonstrates good-look and appropriate use of typography within SVG. [Apr. 7, 2004] Television Listings and XMLTV By Kyle Downey On a quest to build a DIY personal video recorder, Kyle Downey gets to grips with XMLTV, a toolkit for screen-scraping TV listings data into XML. [Feb. 18, 2004] Geeks and the Dijalog Lifestyle By Kendall Grant Clark Much as we'd like, our personal media collections will never be purely digital. Kendall Clark embarks on a new column dedicated to the application of geek know-how to managing the hybrid analog and digital media collections that we own. [Feb. 18, 2004] The XML in Apple's Keynote By David Miller Dave Miller describes how to discover and use the XML format behind Apple's new presentation application. [Jan. 7, 2004] Extensible 3D: XML Meets VRML By Len Bullard A comprehensive introduction to X3D, the XML-based successor to the Virtual Reality Markup Language. This article explains the history of X3D, the tools available to use it, and provides an introduction to X3D's XML markup. [Aug. 6, 2003] Adding SALT to HTML By Simon Tang Introducing Speech Application Language Tags (SALT), an XML application to add speech interaction to other markup languages. Simon Tang shows how to install the Microsoft SALT SDK and add speech to an HTML web page. [May. 14, 2003] XML and JavaScript in the Browser By John E. Simpson In this month's Q&A column, John Simpson describes some JavaScript libraries for parsing XML in popular web browsers, and he offers a high-level explanation of XSL-FO. [Mar. 26, 2003] Transporting Binary Data in SOAP By Rich Salz In this month's Endpoints column, Rich Salz discusses the issue of transporting binary data in XML messaging, using the Soap with Attachments technique. [Aug. 28, 2002] A Realist's SMIL Manifesto, Part II By Fabio Arciniegas A. In the second part of his overview of SMIL 2.0, Fabio Arciniegas shows how SMIL can be used to implement common narrative strategies: condensation, synecdoche and spatial montage. [Jul. 17, 2002] A Realist's SMIL Manifesto By Fabio Arciniegas A. A look at the state of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, SMIL, and how it can realistically be used in video and multimedia deployment today. [May. 29, 2002] SVG Tips and Tricks, Part One By Antoine Quint In this month's SVG column Antoine Quint offers some tips and tricks for creating more useful and impressive SVG animations. [Mar. 27, 2002] All That is Solid Melts Into Air By Kendall Grant Clark Just when you think you know where you stand, someone suggests that the constants of life -- in this case HTTP and XML -- should be changed. Debate from the XML developer community. [Mar. 6, 2002] Server Side SVG By J. David Eisenberg SVG tools aren't just for the client side: find out how the Apache Batik toolkit can enable your web server to SVG on the fly, providing fallback to JPEG or PNG images for browsers without SVG support. [Feb. 27, 2002] The Visual Display of Quantitative XML By Fabio Arciniegas A. A tutorial on how to use SVG and XSLT to present your data in the most appropriate, efficient and attractive way possible. [Feb. 27, 2002] Digging Animation By Antoine Quint The first installment of our new SVG column takes a look at animation and how SVG compares to Flash. [Jan. 23, 2002] SVG: Where Are We Now? By Antoine Quint SVG expert Antoine Quint surveys the current state of tool support for the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics Recommendation. [Nov. 21, 2001] Creating Scalable Vector Graphics with Perl By Kip Hampton Kip Hampton demonstrates how to use Perl, XML, and SVG to generate useful and attractive graphics dynamically. [Jul. 11, 2001] DIDL: Packaging Digital Content By Vaughn Iverson, Todd Schwartz, Mark Walker Internet applications generally fall short in their ability to transfer multimedia content. This article describes an XML vocabulary for packaging digital content, breaking the one-to-one mapping between the notion of a content item and an individual file. [May. 30, 2001] An Introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics By J. David Eisenberg This introduction to SVG teaches you all you need to know about the W3C's vector graphics format in order to start putting it to use in your own web applications. [Mar. 21, 2001] A Question of Timing By Didier Martin The SMIL family of XML applications enables synchronized display of multimedia elements on the Web. Didier Martin explores SMIL, and the new synchronization features in Microsoft's IE5.5. [Aug. 2, 2000] Last Call Problems By Leigh Dodds This week the XML Deviant dips into the SVG developer lists to find developers frustrated with the specification, which is still at Last Call status. [Jul. 26, 2000] Low-Rent Virtual Reality with XML By Tim Bray 3DML is almost XML - though you wouldn't know it from its creator's marketing information. This 'economy' virtual reality language has some benefits that VRML doesn't, and proves that you can use XML to do some surprising things. [Jan. 19, 1999] An Introduction to 3DML By Tim Bray A detailed description of this alternative to VRML. [Jan. 19, 1999] Is HTML+Time Out-of-Sync With SMIL? By Lisa Rein Microsoft's HTML+Time submission is a proposed HTML extension for describing time-based media. Is this approach in conflict with the recently approved SMIL recommendation? [Oct. 7, 1998] XML and Vector Graphics By Lisa Rein A standard vector graphics format for the Web will provide lightweight Web graphics with more functionality and flexibility. [Jun. 22, 1998] PGML By Lisa Rein The Precision Graphics Markup Language is an XML-based format based on the PostScript imaging model. [Jun. 22, 1998] CGM and Web Schematics By Lisa Rein CGM is an established graphics standard for the CAD industry. It has proven too complex for the Web. The Web Schematics submission looks at a much simpler version for 2D diagrams. [Jun. 22, 1998] VML By Lisa Rein The Vector Markup Language submission is supported by Microsoft and likely will be deployed in IE5. [Jun. 22, 1998] |
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