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Browser technology sessions

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Robert Sayre (IconNicholson)
This presentation will discuss improvements in browser handling of syndication feeds (Atom/RSS), and cover strategies for better integration with helper applications and online services.
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Myk Melez (Mozilla Corporation)
Microsummaries are regularly-updated compilations of the most important and timely information on web pages. This talk demonstrates how Firefox will incorporate microsummaries into its UI, starting with bookmark labels
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Jonas Sicking (Mozilla Corporation)
As CSS allows stylistic attributes to be added to elements, so XBL allows behavior to be added. This talk describes the capabilities of XBL and explains what is new in XBL2.
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Benjamin Smedberg (Mozilla Corporation)
This presentation will demonstrate the convergence of rich-client and web application development and discuss application deployment using Mozilla XULRunner.
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Vladimir Vukićević (Mozilla Corporation)
This presentation will examine some of the strengths and weaknesses of the HTML 'canvas' and SVG for adding rich graphical capabilities to web applications. Future browser graphics capabilities, both 2D and 3D will also be discuss.
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David Baron (Mozilla Corporation)
A discussion of problems with existing standards and potential improvements in two areas: layout systems for user interfaces (rather than documents) and mechanisms for reordering content to allow the author to use good markup and appropriate layout.
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Ian McKellar (Flock Inc)
This session will present the user interface of the Flock web browser and describe how the project is attempting to update the browser experience to enable sharing, collaboration and publishing.
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Daniel GLAZMAN (Disruptive Innovations)
Presentation of the new wysiwyg XML editor based on Gecko, and its underlying implementation of RELAX NG.
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Mark Birbeck (x-port.net Ltd.)
From calendar controls to sliders to maps, the end-user experience is vastly improved if different types of data have different user interfaces. This session shows how XBL, SVG and XForms can be used to produce powerful widgets.
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Thomas Meinike (Merseburg University of Applied Sciences / Department Computer Science and Communication Systems)
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 came out including a native SVG implementation. In the context of other technologies like JavaScript, XML and XSLT it’s possible to create graphical content on the fly. Basic facts and practical know-how will be presented.
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Ryan King (Technorati, Inc.)
An overview of Microformats and how they can be enable able publishing data for the Semantic Web.
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Mark Birbeck (x-port.net Ltd.)
RDF/A is a new, and simpler, way of adding metadata to documents, in such a way that the document contains its own metadata--making it easy to turn a home page into a FoaF file or RSS feed.
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Dean Jackson (W3C)
The W3C Rich Web Client Activity will describe its objectives and current status, and request community feedback.
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Erik Bruchez (Orbeon, Inc.)
In this presentation, we show how today's hybrid, Ajax-based XForms implementations fit into the "Web 2.0" landscape by delivering exciting features beyond the initial promises of XForms and providing an alternative to low-level Ajax development.
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Michael Smith (Opera Software)
Mobile web browers have in the past lacked the support needed for enabling use of so-called "rich Internet applications" on mobile handsets. But the "next generatation" of mobile web browsers has changed that, dramatically.
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Håkon Lie (Opera Software)
The web is shifting from being document-centric to being application-centric. This presentation will describe the opportunities and challenges in running Web applications on mobile devices.
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Andrei Popescu (Nokia Research Center, Nokia Corporation), Roland Geisler (Nokia), Elina Vartiainen (Nokia Research Center, Nokia Corporation)
Mini Map is a new Web page visualization method for Web browsers running on mobile phones. It preserves the original look and feel of the page, while providing means for efficiently navigating to the interesting content.
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Peter Ferne (Mista)
Sharing Places is a Web 2.0 application which enables and encourages users to combine GPS tracks, text, photo, video and audio annotations to author digital mediascapes, tag them and publish them for others to find, remix and share.