“(…) XForms, a combination of two of the most successful experiments ever performed on the Web: XML and forms.” (Micah Dubinko)

“It takes the same amount of work and money to design for one browser as it does to design for all browsers and devices.” (Jeffrey Zeldman)

“The Web is all about helping humans communicate, but what hopefully becomes clear from this essay is that writing specs also is a form of human communication. There is one word that summarizes nearly all the fancy keywords of this essay, and that is:…” (W3C) – courtesy of dave winer

“XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. By splitting traditional XHTML forms into three partsóXForms model, instance data, and user interfaceóit separates presentation from content, allows reuse, gives strong typingóreducing the number of round-trips to the server, as well as offering device independence and a reduced need for scripting.” (W3C)

“Cascading Style Sheets can be one of the most important tools in a user-centered designerís toolkit when working on rapid prototyping. The combination of valid HTML/XHTML markup and external CSS can be used to rapidly create prototypes, speed up the development process, and easily incorporate more user-centered techniques into the design process.” (Jeff Lash – Digital Web Magazine)

“If you mention Scalable Vector Graphics language (SVG) in a crowd of web developers they will immediately gravitate to the question of whether it can ‘beat’ Flash. Recently SVG Print has focused attention on the question of whether SVG can compete with PDF and Postscript. These are exciting possibilities: it would be great to unify these domains under a standardized, XML-based syntax. Nevertheless, it is ultimately quite limiting to define SVG by its success in replacing these existing technologies. SVG is much more than a Flash and PDF-killer.” (Paul Prescod – SVG Open 2003)

“In the First Era of browser history Mosaic and the other early browsers ruled. The Second Era was that of Netscape dominance. Microsoft’s challenge to Netscape marked the beginning of the Third Era, the Heroic Age of the Browser Wars. Netscape’s bleeding to death marked the start of the Fourth Era of Explorer dominance. The recent news about Explorer shows that this Era has come to an end, too. We stand at the beginning of the Fifth Era of browser history. What will it bring?” (Peter Paul Koch – Evolt)

“Slides of the presentation held in Brussels, Belgium, on the 24 June, 2003 at the W3C Semantic Tour event, organized by the W3C Benelux Office (…)” (Ivan Herman – W3C)

“Squeak is a ‘media authoring tool’ — software that you can download to your computer and then use to create your own media or share and play with others.” (Alan Kay c.s.)

“The World Wide Web is a networked information system. Web Architecture consists of the requirements, constraints, principles, and choices that influence the design of the system and the behavior of agents within the system. When Web Architecture is followed, the large-scale effect is that of an efficient, scalable, shared information space.” (W3C) – courtesy of tim bray

“The World Wide Web is a networked information system. Web Architecture consists of the requirements, constraints, principles, and design choices that influence the design of the system and the behavior of agents within the system. When followed, the large-scale effect is that of a shared information space. This document organizes the technical discussion of the system in three parts: identification, representation, and interaction. This document also addresses some non-technical (social) issues that contribute to the shared information space.” (W3C) – courtesy of tim bray

“In this article, we’re going to start a project to design an XML format that could be generated from IDL, TLB, XDT or any other representation of a portable component and then be read by any language that supports XML and further manipulated to generate GUI tools, documentation, and more.” (Kyle Downey – O’Reilly XML.com)

“A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.” – (Dave Shea)

“What are Web Servies? Program integration across application and organizational boundaries. (…) What is Semantic Web? Data integration across application, organizational boundaries.” – (Tim Berners-Lee – The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference)

“Recently in this space I complained that XML is too hard for programmers. That article got Slashdotted and was subsequently read by over thirty thousand people; I got a lot of feedback, quite a bit of it intelligent and thought-provoking. This note will argue that XML doesn’t suck, and discuss some of the issues around the difficulties encountered by programmers.” (Tim Bray – Antartica Systems) – courtesy of mark bernstein

“When the mainstream trade press first started writing about XML, one of the key benefits invariably cited was precise search. You don’t hear much about that any more. It wasn’t, and still isn’t, the wrong idea, but XML-savvy search requires an investment in data preparation that virtually nobody was or is willing to make.” (Jon Udell – XML.com)

This article attempts to document a few whole-document design patterns that have proven themselves in the field.” (Kyle Downey – XML.com

“The goal of IML is to enable handheld computers, (that have limitations in the display size and input capabilities), to access and render content from the Internet.” (Simputer Project) – courtesy of dmitri ragano