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Some notes on the recent XML Encryption attack
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At last week's CCS'11 conference, Tibor Jager and Juraj Somorovsky from Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany published a paper "How to Break XML Encryption." This paper is good cryptography research: By generalizing the ideas behind previous padding-based attacks, they have found...
Publication of the "Ontology of Rhetorical Blocks" Interest Group Note
- hcls
- information-overload
- ontology
- rdf
- rdfa
Serving XHTML with math: a recipe for Apache
The future version 5 of HTML will allow math in a Web page, but the current version 4 does not. You can use XHTML instead, but not all Web clients understand it. Here is a recipe for the Apache Web server to make it return XHTML as HTML to such clients. That HTML will be invalid, of course, because it contains math, but the non-math parts are still handled. It's not as good a solution as having two versions of a page, but it's cheap.
- html
HTML Slidy on smart phones and tablets
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By: Dave Raggett
Slidy is a free web application for slide presentations, and makes use of a simple HTML microformat for slides. Until recently, Slidy was difficult or impossible to use on keyboard-less touch screen devices like the iPhone or Android phones. I...
- html
Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer
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By: Tim Berners-Lee
At a sad time at which the world has just lost Steve Jobs, it is well to reflect on some of the things which he, his passion, and his creations have given us, as now the technical community should take...
Web applications: discovering and binding to services
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By: Dave Raggett
The Device APIs (DAP) Working Group is currently working towards a draft specification for discovering and binding to services on nearby devices. This follows on from discussions in the Home Networking Task Force in the Web and TV Interest...
- binding
- discovery
- services