Archive for October, 2006

Thanks

The short post I want to get out is “Thanks”. I’ll definitely try to get around and do the long post, but that requires me to have a dictionary by my side, it seems. Thanks to the localizers, thanks to the developers, thanks to the drivers, thanks to the l10n team, thanks to the QA [...]

Thoughts on APIs

I guess it would be a good idea to share a few general baseline concepts I think I have learned while thinking about an RDF API. Query results should be queryable (does that word exist?). E4X does a great job here. .foo returns a XMLList, which you can query again with a .bar. The funny [...]

Why RDF?

As brendan has asked, here goes my reasoning why Firefox should have RDF, independent of what other browsers do. Or at least the part that I didn’t forget. The main difference is the extensions ecosystem that makes Firefox such a great browser. Extensions come and go, they change, and they interact with the user and [...]

make this semantic

Brendan’s recent post caused a few ripples. Not necessarily in the world, but at least in the pond of planetrdf.com. Out of context, a few statements from my POV. Decisions on RDF in Mozilla are made now. There are folks using RDF. Not necessarily from JS. I’m not creating the RDF implementation for Mozilla 2. [...]

L10n sign-off today

If you’re a localizer, please look at my post in .l10n on what to do to sign off on your localization. As we’ve been doing quite a few QA and testing cycles so far, there should be very little work left to do but actually closing the bug. Nevertheless, the use of litmus to structure [...]

Yay

One bug down, 38 to go.

sneak preview

Letting all the overall agenda aside, how does this sound? js> ds = new RDFSimpleTripleDataStore(); js> em = new RDF.Vocabulary(‘urn:x-moz:em#’); js> ds.assert(RDF.resources[document.location], em.title, RDF.getLiteral(“Some English string”, null, “en-US”)); js> c = ”; ds.forEach(function(t) {c += t;}); c <about:blank> <urn:x-moz:em#title> “Some English string”@en-US.

Back to life

As my old private blog doesn’t seem to come back up, I’ll start talking about stuff here. Not only about l10n, but even more so about the upcoming shoot-out in RDF-land.