XML for Preferences

Dave Winer’s posted his spec for storing user preferences to the XML-Dev list. Each group of preferences becomes a ‘panel’ and within each panel, each parameter is described. So a preferences for this Web Log might read. <wizard> <panel title=”Your Topics”> <item type=”string” title=”Your Favorite Topic” adr=”user.favorite”> <option value=”Web Logs” display=”Web Logs”/> <option value=”Servers” display=”Servers” [...]

Winer Responds to Newberg on Frontier

Dave Winer’s back from vacation, and has a response to Matt Newberg’s introduction to Frontier.

Frontier Demystified

Matt Neuberg works through Dave’s breathless buzz to explain the multipronged thing that Frontier 6.0 is. P.S. I’m budgeting for it.

More, ThinkTank and GrandView

A paean to More, ThinkTank and GrandView — outliner software from the 1980′s. There’s information on how to migrate documents from these old packages into modern word processors.

XML for Web Logs

In response to Dave Winer’s call for discussion, here are some notes on requirements for DTD’s to support Web Logs. Link

HP’s Instant Delivery

Instant Delivery is a new HP product which allows you to schedule fetching and printing resources such as Web pages and PDF files from the ‘net. If you’re developing your site using a content management system like Frontier, XML+XSL, or you’ll pulling it out of a database (like this page) then the application of this [...]

XSL to XML via XML-RPC [ via Scripting News ]

More ways to run your XML through XSL at render time. Link

Link Manager

A Frontier 5 suite for managing the display of lists of links. Link

fetchMessage

A Frontier 5 macro for managing lists of announcements. Link

Scripting News

Scripting News covers ‘scripting on all platforms.’ Dave Winer gave us the tools to do web logs, so he’s the father of us all. He continues to build on the Frontier scripting language and the new interface to Scripting News shows it. Link