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.

WEB MAP

une nouvelle map qui semble plutot bien pour représenté le web d’aujourd’hui!

mashup of desktop and browser

Pyro is a new desktop environment for linux which merge the web and desktop computing.

So, it is a kind of mashup of desktop and browser. It is a great idea.

A lot of people think to revolutionnize desktop whereas it is flat for along periode. I think we will have soon a great new desktop. It can come from many actor ( open source, novell, apple, MS). I do not bet on what I have seen for moment because it can not work in production area with a lot of file to organize.

Hope, someone will find the good concept for desktop and change our sad and flat desktop environment

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…) .

Blog comments

I see a post on Fred blog about comment on blog and I want to add something on that.

Blog comments is a bit like a forum with post just order by date.

First, why class it by time order and not revers time order. To have the most recent comment just behind the blog post.

Second, On big blog you have a lot of comment, and it take very long time to read all. A big part is spam or troll comment or even not interested comment. So best is make the great comment hightlight and less interesting comment lowlight …

For that, we have some options:

• put a rank like digglike system to rank all commen. Some blog have ever this system. And it is done like rank= number of plus vote – number of minus vote. The issue is that when you are not agree with a comment even if it is interesting you will vote agains the comment. It appear a lot on politics blog where democrate post rank will be increase by democrate and dicrease by republican and reverse….
• A rank with star, 5 stars good and 0 star bad and we do the middle of notes.
• Let only positive vote and add a button to warn administrator that it can be spam or do not respect nethic rules.
• Let only positive note and add a validation for comment. A bit to time eating for administrator and do not respect freedom of comment

There are a lot of others options but that show that it is not so simple to do… Best, for me is done a system like google : a google rank which can be calculated with time of comment and rank of community. I prefer to remove minus and only let the positive vote. The other issue is to select how show the result of this rank and here too we have a lot of option:

• Transparence system: made comment get more transparent when rank go down and more visible when rank go up.
• Background color system: made baground color comment more flashy when rank go up and more pastel when go down (white at end). So we will have a gradient of color amond comments.
• Reorder system: just sort the comments in order of rank.
• Partial coments view system : hide behind a little “+” at end bad comments and when user click on plus it make its appear. it can even be a sort of treeview were we can go deeper if we want…
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