Since Elliotte Rusty Harold recommended "complete rejection of this specification until such time as Sun's patent can be dealt with more reasonably," the XML-dev mailing list has been discussing the licensing terms for the patent.
Daniel Veillard, who chaired XPointer meetings on the subject, noted that "We can't chase them all and if we did we would make no progress every effort would be wasted doing those Patent lookups and fighting them :-(((," though he clearly had little sympathy for the patent itself.
Tim Bray described the situation as "a
PNG is an image format which has been supported since 1997 by browsers from Netscape and Microsoft. It is a standard supported by the World Wide Web Consortium. It is a lossless format like GIF, but compresses the picture better and supports full color imagery (up to 48 bits per pixel!). The picture below is an RP-133 conformant SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) video test pattern. If you click on it, you will be brought to a small gallery of great png images.
I decided to add this to my web page because my normal image
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This document is a work in progress representing the current consensus of the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group. This draft of the SVG Requirements document has been approved by the SVG working group to be posted for review by W3C members and other interested parties. It is the first public review draft of this document. Publication as a working draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C membership.
Review comments from the public should be sent to www-svg@w3.org, which is an automatically archived email list.
Online privacy isn't the issue it once was, if indeed people really ever cared about it.
Oh sure, everyone's in favor of privacy in the same way that they're in favor of Mom and apple pie, but exactly how software should preserve privacy is a more controversial issue. Were they aware of the trade-offs involved, I'm not so sure how committed people would be.
The main industry initiative facilitating user privacy is the W3C initiative, Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P). P3P provides a way for site authors to make their privacy policies
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