html5 working draft published!

Since 1999, there is no new features in HTML language.

The language is really poor and have not evolved with the needs of user. To fix that, we can use javascript to manipulate the DOM but it is take a lot of lines of code to do small things. We have AJAX to have better performance by not refresh the whole page.

And we have Flash, Silverlight, Moonlight, XUL,… which are basically plug-in over your browser to add a lot of cool things to your browser.

And a lot of people talked about who will win … but we have forget the HTML standard which have not evolved during a long time. The working draft of HTML 5 seems very promising.

This is a working draft, so all can evolved but we can see what they want to do…

To sum up they add a lot of missing things witch is done with AJAX, javascript, …

So, I will try to sum up what we will have in this HTML5:

• Document structure: section, header, footer, article, aside will be useful to cut your document in area
• Multimedia flag: video, audio will replace the object flag and will be more easier to use and canvas will allow dynamic drawing (ever in Firefox 2)
• forms: the specification of WHATWG show what will be done here. But nothing is currently in the working draft. But we can hope new input attributs: calendar, timepicker, email, … and repeater to avoid to have a list same flags…
• new controls: Datagrid to make tabular or hierarchical set of rows of elements. progress and meter will be cool to show to user that he have to wait. it is better than a GIF or an Ajax progress bar. And we have some other things as command and menu
• area post: it will replace Ajax for a lot of things… here we have datatemplate, rule and nest flag to manage the template dynamically. I have not understand all here but sounds promising….
• storing data in database: but in local and this will be persistant during the session.
• catch drag&drop without javascirpt

This draft will evolved maybe in good maybe in bad way but hope standard will bring a lot of missing things. I do not think we will have all features of flash/silverlight in HTML5 but we will get a lot of cool new things. We will still be far from rich browser plugin but we get lot of cool new things in standard…

open ID

I have ever talked about open ID.

To sum up, Open ID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.

For non geek people, You have only one password to remember which will authenticate you everywhere on web.

Else you can see this beautiful video or the one of 2006

This is very powerful to solve the identity theft. The main issue is that it must be used everywhere to be sure that it will become a standard.

You can get an openId here.

Major actors of web do not use it because they wait the new framework OpenId 2.0. The specs of this new framework are near finished and will be released soon.

So, we will see after the specs released what will be done by all main web actors. But we ever seen some sign that show that will be a success.

AOL have ever go ahead and used it today for 63 million users.

I am really proud of Orange (France telecom) who have invest in this new technology. You will have 40 millions of orange consumers who will used it.

image resizing

Seam Carving is a new algorithm to resize an image by ading or removing some layer in the image. This algorithme is so powerfull that you can make someone disapear from a photo!!

Here is another image algorithme from microsoft (photosynch) which can take a photo and rebuild a 3d environment.

You have all algorithme which analyse an image to get strange behaviour or character recognition…

A lot of other algorithme use the artificial neural network to have result. This kind of algorithme is based on human system. This system will have 2 states:

• the first state who learned from reallife result.
• the second one witch take a decision from what it have learned. In this state it can be wrong. The more you make the system learned in first state, the more you will have good result.

This system can be good to analyse complexe system as meteo, optical character recognition, stock exchange, …

Compiz released!!

Compiz have a lot of activity during summer !!

A new release is just out. The 0.5.4 is very important because it is thefirst release with the merge of fork of compize (Beril, compize.Extra) and compize. Now we have a system more stable, more flexible and with a lot of new plugin. This merge will lead to a real integration in a lot of linux distrib.

The logo have change too!

Small video of a new features:

vista le nouveau MEuhh?

Et oui ME comme millenium qui a été un flop pour Microsoft.

Beaucoup critique vista en ne disant que ce n’est pas la révolution tant attendu et que c’est essentiellement l’évolution graphique (meme si ca reste très proche d’XP). Bref, grosse déception pour beaucoup meme si MS nie et dit que tout va bien.

Nombre d’entreprise (dont la mienne) refuse d’y passé car il apporte bon nombre de bug, d’incompatibilité pour un gain minime.

Personnelement, je trouve que vista est un pas en avant en terme de sécurité. Cependant, j’en attendais tellement plus.

Rappelez vous des belles promesses du début et de ce qu’on voit aujourd’hui:

• un vrais language de script avec monade
• pas de winfs (vous savez le nouveau système de fichier pour une recherche instantanée)
• les dossiers virtuels bugés souhaits
• un media center avec une ergonomie pourie
• une sécurité qui nuit a l’ergonomie car l’UAP se déclenche tout le temps
• …

La grosse deception c’est surtout winFS car Apple a déjà un système similaire alors c’est un peu la honte pour microsoft quand meme!

Esperont que les service pack vont rectifié le tire sinon j’attendrais la prochaine version prévu pour 2010 mais bon je table plutot sur 2012 connaissant les retards microsoftiens!

refresh silverlight

A small refresh of the previous release have been done and contains a lot of bugfix in the engine! It is just a refresh. So do not hope to have a real release but you will found a lot of bugfix.

You can read it on the blog of Tim.

Here you have link to download it!

• Silverlight 1.0 RC1 / Windows (direct link)
• Silverlight 1.0 RC1 / Mac (direct link)
• Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh / Windows (direct link)
• Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh / Mac (direct link)

SVG vs Moonlight

We have a lot of demo for silverlight which can be used for moonlight.

And Vladimir have done a demo to show that SVG can done the same thing and is fully open source.

Even if MS is behing SilverLight it is open source for main part and remake for other part.

So you can compare it here :

It is really slow but works and now silverlight:

To conclude, it is quite the same thing even if Silverlight/moonlight have more image and is a lot faster. So SVG need a real performance improove to become usable in web development.

can I-phone opponent come from open source world?

I have just read a beautiful news about a new mobile name neo1973.

This mobile is based on linux and use concept of open source by providing all source and help everybody to modify source.

As you can see, the design is really close to the i-phone and you cna use a stick or your finger to navigate.

Open moko is the core plateform for development of this mobile. And we have not only access to software but to hardware too.

The constructor provide a cute case with all tools to open and see all the hardware stuff.

Hope this project will be a real opponent to i phone to show the power of open source!

desktop 3D

I have ever talked about this funny desktop.

I am not sure that it is really great to work with file.

but It will be comercialize a day! And we have now a real compagny behind this project name bumptop. Is he the new bill gates?

peer 2 peer

Peer to peer is not only Emule and people who get free mp3/divix/Software… Peer to peer is a beautiful idea to avoid the download to a single source.

When you have a single source for download and lot of leecher you will have a real slow download and the file will be difficult to get/spread. With peer to peer more people you have less difficulty you have to download it because all leecher whihc have part of file or event the full file allow other client to download it on them. So peer to peer is just taking the power of community to spread file.

For moment it is used most of time by p2p client as emule but this can be used in a lot of other area. Spread video which is big file is really great and it is what JOOST done. It can even been done to spread music radioblog is finnaly a kind of peer to peer because all music is share between user more than from server. But what is lacking is sharing software and when I talk about that it is not to share software as done on emule but immagine if sourcesafe use a p2p to share software or if all linux package use p2p. It will be really great and quicker for people.

P2p is here to share content but why not use it to share power of calcul of every pc as SETI does.

A lot of pirates have ever take power of community by using network of pirates pc to attack big network.

We have in a other way the peer to peer bank which give possibilitity to give money to someone to sponsort a project and this persone must get back money when project suceed.

p2p is just a technologie. But we must better think to all other things which can be done in same spirit. Take power of community (“together we can do more than alone”).

We have ever all this concept in peer to peer:

• Software (shareware,linux package, open source,…)
• Cpu power (for mathematical issue)
• Space ( on hard drive ) Imagine a site which paid people to share space on hard drive for other people
• Network (to have a lot of connection)
• Social (all people can be source of information)
• Video (professionnal or not)
• Music
• photo
• Ingeneer knowledge
• graphical picture, effet, font, texture
• game
• news
• bank
• old goodies (ebay)

My adea is to have all in peer to peer and not share by a centralize server/website/compagnie.

We have ever seen a lot of success in this kind of spirit. So just use this concept to do whatever you want in p2p:

•  food ( you can cook fo other people)
• a big question net
• share object a bit as citizen bay
• share skills
• share news
• money
• …

With only 5 human link you can have all the plannet. You always know someone who know someone who know … who the target. So Imagine you know 150 peers… All this peer will cal other peer. But to have the best net we must avoid to have same peer of direct peer. So good algoritme must be done to get list of peers and remove other peers to make the search reall quick.

Imagine a rich client which will search from p2p data more than internet. Every people become a key! And this can be used in small area ( friends, office, people of same place…) .