yc c's List: Web Standards

« Copyleft Attitude » a pour objectif de faire connaitre et promouvoir la notion de copyleft dans le domaine de l'art et au delà. Prendre modèle sur les pratiques liées aux logiciels libres pour s'en inspirer et les adapter à la création hors logiciel. C'est la raison pour laquelle nous avons mis au point la Licence Art Libre.

OExchange is an open protocol for sharing any URL with any service on the web.
Technically, how does this actually work?This is just a simple case of some of the things that are possible when tools and services support the protocol.
A JavaScript sharing tool keeps track of a set of services in local HTML5 storage. The services are defined by Target XRD URIsThe example blog embeds this sharing tool, which renders the sharing options onto the page; when you click, you're hitting its Offer endpointThe sample link-accepting service, LinkEater, includes the JavaScript badge and tells it the location of its own XRDWhen you 'save' the service, the tool performs discovery and figures out how to share to the service, then stores that for future useAs an extra bonus, you can also edit the list of services the tool knows about manually, adding any host that supports OExchangeNote that the tool has no knowledge at all of these services beforehand — all of this integration happens completely dynamically

DOI® names are assigned to any entity for use on digital networks. They are used to provide current information, including where they (or information about them) can be found on the Internet.
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) System is for identifying content objects in the digital environment.
Information about a digital object may change over time, including where to find it, but its DOI name will not change.
Type or paste a DOI name (e.g., 10.1000/182) into the text box below.

WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web. Dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.

A key factor in the web’s success is that its core technologies such as HTML, HTTP, and TCP/IP are open and freely implementable.

WebM was built for the web. By testing hundreds of thousands of videos with widely varying characteristics, we found that the VP8 video codec delivers high-quality video while efficiently adapting to varying processing and bandwidth conditions across a broad range of devices. VP8’s highly efficient bandwidth usage and lower storage requirements can help publishers recognize immediate cost savings. Also, the relative simplicity of VP8 makes it easy to integrate into existing environments and requires comparatively little manual tuning in the encoder to produce high-quality results.

There are free and commercial tools available for creating and publishing content in the WebM format.

Who is developing OStatus?
OStatus is an open standard and the process for updating the specification should take place on this list. Since StatusNet's technology needed a standard for communicating between different networks, most of the initial work has been contributed by StatusNet. However, the gitorious repository is available for hacking and this new community is the place to discuss OStatus.

The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open technology for real-time communication, which powers a wide range of applications including instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data. The technology pages provide more information about the various XMPP "building blocks". Several books about Jabber/XMPP technologies are available, as well.
The core technology behind XMPP was invented by Jeremie Miller in 1998, refined in the Jabber open-source community in 1999 and 2000, and formalized by the IETF in 2002 and 2003, resulting in publication of the XMPP RFCs in 2004 (see the history page for more details).
Although the core technology is stable, the XMPP community continues to define various XMPP extensions through an open standards process run by the XMPP Standards Foundation. There is also an active community of open-source and commercial developers, who produce a wide variety of XMPP-based software.

APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of ranked user interests. More »

RDF is a standard model for data interchange on the Web. RDF has features that facilitate data merging even if the underlying schemas differ, and it specifically supports the evolution of schemas over time without requiring all the data consumers to be changed.

SpecificationsThe list of current, stable Microformats open standard specifications.
hCalendar - hCalendar creatorhCard - hCard creatorrel-license - Essay writingrel-nofollowrel-tagVoteLinksXFN - XFN creatorXMDPXOXO

OPML 2.0 is a milestone, much like RSS 2.0 was in the summer of 2002. We now know how OPML is being used, and where the problems are, and I think are ready to produce a frozen and extensible format and spec.

OAuth is a simple way to publish and interact with protected data. It's also a safer and more secure way for people to give you access. We've kept it simple to save you time.

OpenID is rapidly gaining adoption on the web, with over one billion OpenID enabled user accounts and over 50,000 websites accepting OpenID for logins.  Several large organizations either issue or accept OpenIDs, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace, Sears, Universal Music Group, France Telecom, Novell, Sun, Telecom Italia, and many more.
Who Owns or Controls OpenID?
OpenID was created in the summer of 2005 by an open source community trying to solve a problem that was not easily solved by other existing identity technologies. As such, OpenID is decentralized and not owned by anyone, nor should it be. Today, anyone can choose to use an OpenID or become an OpenID Provider for free without having to register or be approved by any organization.
The OpenID Foundation was formed to assist the open source model by providing a legal entity to be the steward for the community by providing needed infrastructure and generally helping to promote and support expanded adoption of OpenID.

The Portable Contacts specification is designed to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web. Specifically, it seeks to create a common access pattern and contact schema that any site can provide, well-specified authentication and access rules, standard libraries that can work with any site, and absolutely minimal complexity, with the lightest possible toolchain requirements for developers.

XRDS-Simple was an early attempt to simplify the XRDS schema for OAuth Discovery. The XRDS-Simple profile removed many of the complex elements in XRDS and defined new parser behavior to make client development easier. However, after a few attempts it became clear that the underlying architecture was incorrect. Instead, the XRI TC which authored XRDS decided to produce a new specification called XRD 1.0.

XRD 1.0 replaces XRDS-Simple and delivers a truly simple resource descriptor format. It is closely aligned with web linking as used in HTML and ATOM, and includes support for only the most common features.