Tag archive: URI

Mozilla has issued updates, all rated as “critical” for both the Firefox 2 and 3 browsers. Firefox 3 receives three patches, the first for Mac OSX, to stop a potential attack by a malformed .gif file. The second fixes a flaw in the uniform resource identifier (URI) that could let external apps access the computer. The final Firefox fix addresses the way the browser handles CSS code. Without the fix, it’s possible for… Read More

Can you imagine a phone book that would let you look up all the ways everyone can be contacted, online and off?   That’s the eventual goal of the UK Enum directory.   It will begin alittle less ambitiously, focusing on UK net telephone networks.   Run by Nominet, Enum, also known asTelephone Number Mapping, was set up to “define a Domain Name System (DNS)-based architecture and protocols for mapping a telephone number… Read More

From the W3C Press Release: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announces the release of the Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 Recommendation. CC/PP 1.0 is a system for expressing device capabilities and user preferences, using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). Used to guide the adaptation of content, a CC/PP profile describes device capabilities and user preferences. A W3C… Read More