Mar 31, 2008 | Technical
Not to completely plug Adobe products, but we have been finding Illustrator to be a really useful tool in our prototyping phase. While it’s true the advantage of a paper prototype keeps the focus on interaction and not on minor design details (“I’m...
Mar 10, 2008 | Technical
The Anomalous Anomaly website has a list of browser scores for the latest version of the Acid test – Acid 3. Two surprising results are the Safari Webkit score of 90% and the fact that IE 5.5 beat out both IE 6 and IE 7 as well as loosing only 3 percentage...
Mar 6, 2008 | Technical
The Fedora-Commons project has just announced that their latest release of the GSearch query tool now contains a plugin that allows the use of a Solr backend to perform fulltext queries. With this latest open source tool integration a fast, robust, full featured...
Mar 5, 2008 | Technical
Our team has been considering some issues at present on some of the complications of social interaction in our application. Thankfully we’re in a position to be asking these questions compared to some of our commercial counterparts who, I would hazard a guess,...
Mar 5, 2008 | Technical
Dan Cohen wrote an interesting post about ORE , a standard developed to describe an aggregate of scholarship, where associated objects are linked semantically. When ORE reaches specification status, it will be valuable to see how it relates to Fedora Commons...
Mar 3, 2008 | Technical
The International Digital Publishing Forum seems to be Adobe’s choice of standards-based development for e-publication. I’m a little doubtful as to whether it will be used outside of Adobe’s domain. “Consumers will be able to exchange...
