Posts Tagged ‘New Zealand’

Practical iCalendar feeds

December 5th, 2007 by Matthew Ross | 10 Comments »

We demonstrate the potential for government web projects to deliver more usable and dynamic calendars using the iCalendar format.

Posted in Product Evaluations, Standards & Compliance

XML 1.0 to 1.1 and back? [updated 03/04/2008]

November 24th, 2007 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »

XML 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation in early 2004. However XML 1.1 was controversial and there are very few XML 1.1 documents in the wild. The W3C is now considering back-porting the naming philosophy from XML 1.1 as an update to XML 1.0 and if passed then expects to deprecate XML 1.1.

Posted in Standards & Compliance

Internationalised Domain Names (IDN) in .nz

November 19th, 2007 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »

We have contributed to a submission from the State Services Commission to the New Zealand Domain Name Commission, developing discussion points regarding the implementation of IDNs into the .nz domain name space - which would enable the registration of domain names using the five additional characters of the Māori alphabet, the macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū.

Posted in Standards & Compliance, Web Trends