Linked List: June 18, 2006

Sunday, 18 June 2006

Open Data Formats, Longevity, and Microformats ★

Tantek Çelik:

There may be a few XML formats that survive and converge sufficiently to be dependable (maybe RSS, maybe Atom), but for now XHTML is IMHO the only longerm reliable XML format, and that has more to do with it being based on HTML than it being XML.

Interesting that someone with a “Ç” in his surname would endorse ASCII over UTF-8 for text files.

Apple: Get a Mac: Run Windows ★

Apple’s “Get a Mac” page promoting the Windows compatibility of Intel Macs promotes the use of Parallels Desktop over Boot Camp. Although “promotes” might be the wrong word. What they’re doing is emphasizing the way that with Parallels — and unlike Boot Camp — you can run Windows software at the same time as Mac software, but they only specifically mention that this requires Parallels in a footnote, and they don’t even link to the the Parallels web site.

Wait and see if the virtualization software in Mac OS X 10.5 doesn’t support this out of the box.