XML Expert Brings Blogging To Sun
News Extensible Markup Language guru Tim Bray has joined Sun Microsystems' software group to work on XML-based syndication technologies and advanced search. Bray said that in his position as technical director in the software group, he will look to...
[March 16, 2004, 7:55]
How Does XML Measure Up?
News Tim Bray and his colleagues in the World Wide Web Consortium had a very specific mission when they set out to define a new standard seven years ago. Bray has since gone on to address another big challenge -- the visual representation of data...
[September 24, 2003, 14:05]
Critics Clamour For Web Services Standards
News The hype merchants are out of control on this one," said Tim Bray, a member of the nine-member Technical Architectural Group for steering W3C strategy. Bray of the W3C's Technical Architectural Group brushed off suggestions that the group is moving...
[February 13, 2002, 6:31]
Critics Brand OOXML A Microsoft 'marketing Tool'
News Tim Bray, the writer of XML, wrote in his blog on Thursday that Microsoft pushed for its Office Open XML (OOXML) standard to be accredited by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) so that the software giant could use the...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
XML 2: The XML 1.0 Specification Is Here. Does It Cut The Mustard?
News But as Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification himself once said, most people never get round to reading the basics of how to operate a toaster safely, so ploughing through a technical spec is probably not for everyone.
[November 10, 1999, 11:01]
Royalty-free Options Reach OASIS
News The Web services stack, as a whole, has come under withering criticism by developers including standards expert Tim Bray, who has called it "bloated, opaque and insanely complex". We don't have an architecture board or a (W3C Director) Tim Berners...
[February 11, 2005, 9:55]
Sun Attacks Microsoft's 'open' Efforts
News Sun trotted out Phipps, XML guru Tim Bray and several other top executives the same day as Massachusetts held another hearing over its proposal to mandate the use of OpenDocument as the default format beginning in 2007.
[December 15, 2005, 8:20]
OOXML Debacle - Time To Take Away ECMA's Toys?
Blog ECMA is widely seen as pushing vendor-specific standards, and OOXML is just the lastest and most controversial: "If ISO doesnt figure out away to detach this toxic leech, this kind of abuse is going to happen again and again," says Tim Bray, one...
[March 4, 2008, 14:42]
ISO May Change Its Processes Following OOXML Debacle
Blog You can read more in the story I wrote about Tim Bray (XML author) and Dr. The normally august International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) has said that it may change its fast track processes following the controversy around Microsoft's...
[April 18, 2008, 17:44]
Microsoft Office 2007 Fails OOXML Conformance Test
News Commentators, including Tim Bray, the inventor of XML, have suggested that Microsoft is unlikely to bother to keep conformant with the OOXML standard as it develops within ISO, but Brown was more optimistic: "Given Microsoft's proven ability to...
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
W3C Members Don't Meet Their Own Standards
News I totally agree that it's pretty sad that relatively few of the W3C membership have seen the business benefits of going with standards-compliance," said Tim Bray, chief technology officer and founder of Antarctica Systems and a member of the W3C's...
[September 6, 2002, 15:11]
OpenDocument Could 'turn The World Inside Out'
News Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia, that the file format developed by standards body OASIS has the potential to transform the world as much as the World Wide Web did.
[September 30, 2005, 12:25]
Microsoft's OOXML Limps Through ISO Meeting
News Tim Bray, one of the original creators of the XML specification on which OOXML is founded, and a Canadian delegate for ISO, suggested ISO should never have been proposed for the fast-track route. The process was complete, utter, unadulterated...
[March 4, 2008, 15:21]
Splogs: Wreaking Havoc In The Blogosphere
News Uh, ladies and gentlemen of the blogosphere, I think we have an emergency on our hands," Tim Bray, Web technologies director at Sun, wrote in his blog in response to what he called the "splogsplosion".
[October 21, 2005, 16:00]
The Beautiful Code
Blog Beautiful Code is a collection of essays and articles by well-known software development and programming experts such as Brian Kernighan, creator of the C language, Jon Bentley, a renowned author of the book Programming Pearls, and Tim Bray, a...
[August 20, 2007, 10:54]
Office 12 To Support PDF Creation
News However, Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, told the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia last week that OpenDocument has the potential to transform the world as much as the HTML standards did for the world through the Web.
[October 3, 2005, 15:15]
