Geekzone:
“… Russian authorities requested providers to disable security
mechanisms in their mobile networks, to allow eavesdropping on all
calls. Mobile users were notified of the reduced level of security in
their calls by an icon on mobile phones, showing either an exclamation
mark, or an unlocked padlock…”
I got sidetracked today trying to get the .mov of my
presentation down to a manageable size (mostly spent time trimming the video
sequences down), so I haven’t written much on the talks at Applied XML. See this thread on GotDotNet for a list of who’s
blogging the show.
The OSCON Wiki has some great
advice on playing nicely on
their wireless network. Aside from the site-specific details about static addresses, this advice should apply to other public
wireless networks you may encounter in your travels (read it, learn it, live it).
Finished with my talk, finished with lunch, and I’m starting to return to
normal modes of operation. DonXML is giving a talk called Declarative UI
using SVG, which sounds pretty cool. He’s stated the problem as Creating UI Widgets
(menus, lists boxes, graphs, etc.) in a cross-platform way that are XML-based and
scriptable.
He looked at Internet Explorer’s element behaviors, Vector Markup Language, XUL, and
SVG. SVG# is an open source SVG package for
.NET. He’s showing a bunch of XML for a bargraph, embedded in an SVG document. Looks
pretty nice in the browser (he’s using the Adobe SVG viewer; works in IE, Netscape
4.7, sort-of-kind-of in Mozilla).
He mentions that the Longhorn UI is vector-based, and suggests that the Longhorn UI may be
similar to SVG. He also says that SVG maps very nicely to GDI+. A member of the
audience mentions that the GNOME UI supports SVG as well.
My presentation, in QuickTime format
My sample code (see the txt/ subdirectory for plaintext versions
My WML demo (view with a WAP browser such as a phone or Opera).