By @edent · avatar IETF open standards standards · 24 comments · 400 words · read ~1,796 times.
Hot on the heels of a post I wrote 4 years ago, wouldn't it be useful to have a well-known URl for user avatar images? When I sign up to a web service, I don't want to faff around uploading an image to use as my avatar. I want that service to look at my […]
Continue reading →By @edent · maps open standards standards what3words · 158 comments · 1,400 words · read ~206,478 times.
I'll be wording this post carefully as What 3 Words (W3W) have a tenacious PR team and, probably, have a lot more lawyers than I do. W3W is a closed product. It is a for-profit company masquerading as an open standard. And that annoys me. A brief primer. The world is a sphere. We can […]
Continue reading →By @edent · meta nhs open standards standards work · 1 comment · 450 words · read ~1,268 times.
A mysterious woman, with a non-London accent and blonde hair, reached out her hand. She asked me a simple, yet terrifying, question - "Do you want to come on an adventure?" Sadly, Hadley Beeman does not have a TARDIS (Well, as far as any of us can tell...). What she does have is an interesting […]
Continue reading →By @edent · gov.uk government open standards · 3 comments · 600 words · read ~842 times.
Well, it's not often I get to completely influence the UK Government's approach to open standard. GOV.UK is adopting .ODF as their official document standard! All documentation will be also made available in HTML & PDF. Sweet! Yeah, yeah, so I only played a small part in the (no doubt) hideously complicated process - but […]
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