Blogs

Recently, I've had the chance to spend time on some of the more presentational aspects of Sidewinder and this work has led to the addition of the Sidewinder Application Gallery to the installer. The purpose of the Application Gallery is to act as a showcase for the many different kinds of application that can run in Sidewinder.

Something which was part of the early design concepts from the XHTML Role Attribute Module, which has got a little lost, is that elements from any language can provide a handy source of role values too.

May is going to be pretty busy with talks about XForms, RDF and RDFa coming up.

A new version of the RDFa Primer has been published. It's a useful introduction to the power of RDFa, with lots of examples.

I've had an interesting time lately, looking at SugarCRM for a potential customer. The project involves having an internal system for the sales team, and then a public system that needs to cope with tens or even hundreds of thousands of members.

This week I am making a start on bringing WebKit into LibRender, the rendering component of Sidewinder. When I'm finished, this will leave our reliance on Microsoft's XML parser as the last remaining hurdle before we can start porting Sidewinder to other platforms. The prospect of finally addressing these two tasks is something that I'm rather excited about.