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Compact HTML: A mark-up language for micro-blogging

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Submitted by Mark Birbeck on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 14:15.
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When sending small comments via services such as Twitter, it's pretty straightforward to add links to other documents. The general pattern is to abbreviate the link using an online service, and then paste the shortened link into your post. Software that displays your posts can then replace any string that begins with http: with a real link.

However, there are many occasions where a link is just not good enough. Sometimes you'd like to embed an image, or even a video. But if we start trying to add HTML mark-up, we'll pretty soon hit the character limit imposed by micro-blogging platforms.

Enter compact HTML, or CHTML...for short.

Openness and Innovation

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Mark Birbeck at Media Futures Conference 08 by jem

This presentation by Mark Birbeck was given at the Media Futures Conference 2008.

A brief history of RDFa

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In October 2003, Mark Birbeck wrote XHTML and Metadata, which looked at whether it was possible to use RDF/XML attributes in XHTML. It also expressed some of the ideas relating to enriching the user interface, made possible by embedded semantic information.

Ubiquity library

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The Ubiquity library provides a range of open source components--from Ajax libraries to browser extensions--that work together to deliver a fresh approach to web application building.

Google Tech Talk: All The Information In The World, The Way You Want It

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Mark Birbeck gave this talk at Google on May 24th, 2008. The talk covers RDFa in detail, looking at its implications for the future of search, and in particular how it can be used to enhance the user experience.


The future of mark-up languages

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Mark Birbeck @ Kings of Code 08 by jaf

This presentation by Mark Birbeck was given at the Kings of Code conference.

Interview on Cubic Garden

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Ian Forrester interviewed Mark Birbeck whilst they were both at XTech 2008. Subjects mentioned range from XForms, Ajax, Sidewinder, ODF, unobtrusive JavaScript, XUL, standards adoption, New Labour, Hegel's idealism, the Ajax Community, and the Ubiquity XForms processor.


XTech 2008: The 5 minute guide to RDFa...in only 6 minutes and 40 seconds

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Mark Birbeck on RDFa by ianalchemy

This presentation by Mark Birbeck was part of the 20:20 Lightning Talks session, held at XTech 2008.

W3C Working Draft: RDFa Primer

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The RDFa Primer is a W3C Working Draft, authored by Ben Adida of Creative Commons, and Mark Birbeck. It provides an introduction to RDFa, with lots of examples.

RDFa: What It Is and What It's For

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Mark Birbeck speaking on RDFa at OkCon 2008

This presentation by Mark Birbeck was part of OKCon 2008, organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation.

XML 2007: The 5 minute guide to RDFa...in only 6 minutes and 40 seconds

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This presentation by Mark Birbeck was part of the Lightning Rounds for XML Standards session, held at XML2007.

Ajax and progressive browser enhancement

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There is still plenty of scope for the browser to evolve, but the truth is that progressive browser enhancement makes browser evolution far less significant than it has been until now. That's probably not a bad thing, given the chaos that is currently surrounding the development of HTML at the W3C.

XML Europe 2004: RDF/XHTML: A new RDF syntax

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This presentation by Mark Birbeck was given at XML Europe 2004.

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