BetaNews reports that Microsoft to Embed RSS in IE, Windows
Microsoft is attempting to bring RSS to the masses by making the emerging technology even simpler and closely tying it Windows and Internet Explorer.
More will be announced later today when Microsoft takes the stage at Gnomedex.
Dave Winer has given a quick preview of what Microsoft will be presenting at Gnomedex on Friday. He reports eludes to how deeply integrated RSS is in the architecture of the browser. Dave says:
But that’s just the tip of what may turn out to be a very big iceberg. The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only peripherally—that there were applications of RSS that aren’t about news. Like Audible’s NY Times Best Seller list, or an iTunes music playlist, or lists of Sharepoint documents, or browser bookmarks. Lists are all over the place, and people are starting to move them around via RSS, and they are not the usual kind of data that has been carried by RSS in the past.
X Factor Studio has a nice XPath implementatin for Flash. Available for both ActionScript 1 and 2, XPath4AS2 is very close to being a complete XPath implementation.
[link via Vinnie Stubbs]
Nathan Torkington from O’Reilly Radar discusses How To Roll Out An Open API for your web applications.
IBM has an article titled – Get dynamic Web content with HTTPRequest – that will show you how to use the XMLHttpRequest object to facilitate the transfer of data between a web page and a server. This is the same technique that is being used in GMail, Google Suggest, and Ta-da Lists.
Cameron McCormack has released a nice XPath JavaScript Implementation. XPath let’s you use the XML based language for addressing parts of an XML document.
Joe Gregorio’s inaugural article of his new column, The Restful Web, he discusses How to Create a REST Protocol in his article he helps you answer the following questions that are key in writing a good REST protocol:
The O’Reilly Network discusses Mozilla and the Value of XUL as a Development Platform for targeted web applications. The article explains that:
With regards to custom applications for specific clients/environments however, we can focus on a single browser platform; this is common within intranet application development. This is where Mozilla is pushing the potential for Mozilla dependent web applications with its XML User Interface Language (XUL) framework.
dbXml 2.0 is a Native XML Database that is capable of storing and indexing collections of XML documents. It provides highly efficient querying, transformation, and retrieval.
Version 2 supports:
Binaries are available for Windows, OSX and of course Linux/Unix.
Mary Harrsch from the Michigan Virtual University suggests that RSS could be the next killer app for education.
I’m in the process of writing an online learning management system and I am placing RSS feeds throughout the application. Students can get assignment details, discussion group updates and unit descriptions all through a single RSS feed.
