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Today’s Google-Starred Items: “33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org”

Slashdot: “We all knew it would come to this, and it has finally happened — 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days. After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Document Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way.”

“Silverlight versus HTML5? Really?”

Mike Taulty: “My tower of blocks above are meant to indicate that an HTML client gives you very little access to the underlying platform. There’s some things you can do but not so much. HTML5 does add a bit more into the mix which is only to be welcomed. …This means that an HTML client won’t always get you to where you need and if you need more access to the underlying platform then you might consider something like Silverlight.”

“XHTML in IE9”

ieblog: “One of the most notable differences between XHTML and HTML is how parsing errors are handled. Any parsing error in an XHTML document will cause parsing to stop; no fix-up rules are applied. IE9 displays content parsed up until the point at which the error occurred. This is useful during development to catch errors quickly. You can find parsing error details in the ‘Console’ tab of the developer toolbar (note you’ll need to refresh the page to see the error if you opened the developer toolbar after the page loaded).”

“Why I hate implementing Linq”

Ayende Rahien via Chris Alcock: “The other side is the one that is shown only to the few brave souls who dare contemplate the task of actually writing a Linq provider. The real problem is that the sort of data structure that a Linq query generates has very little to the actual code that was written. That means that there are multiple steps that needs to be taken in order to actually do something useful in a real world Linq provider.”

“HTML5 Audio and Video: What you Must Know”

Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp: “Copy protection is one area not dealt with by HTML5—unsurprisingly, given that it’s a standard based on openness. So people who need DRM are probably not going to want to use HTML5 video or audio…”

“Mono 2.8 is  out”

Miguel de Icaza: “We have just released Mono 2.8 a major upgrade to the Mono developer platform. This release contains ten months worth of new features, stability fixes, performance work and bug fixes.” Mono is C#4.0 compliant!

“The Future of Silverlight”

Silverlight Show: “There’s been a lot of discussion lately around web standards and HTML 5 in particular. People have been asking us how Silverlight fits into a future world where the <video> tag is available to developers. It’s a fair question—and I’ll provide a detailed answer—but I think it’s predicated upon an oversimplification of the role of standards that I’d like to clear up first. I’d also like to delineate why premium media experiences and ‘apps’ are better with Silverlight and reveal how Silverlight is going beyond the browser to the desktop and devices.”

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