Don’t call me DOM

As a follow-up on my toying with DTDs, I added a new Python script to my toolbox this morning: dtd-compare.py allows to compare the vocabularies defined in several DTDs to see which elements and attributes are present or absent among them.

For instance, running python dtd-compare.py http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd has allowed me to build a comparison of the various mobile XHTML flavors with the content of XHTML 1.0 Strict.

I haven’t included XHTML MP 1.1 and XHTML MP 1.2 in that comparison chart since the officlal DTDs seems to have syntax errors, reported by the script as follows:

The WaSP (the Web Standards Project, the famous standard evangelism group), in the person of Aaron Gustafson, takes a look at the disruption the iPhone has created in the Web and the mobile Web.

In summary:

• the good, the quality of safari of a mobile web browser
• the bad, the lack of support for some standards
• the ugly, the ermergence of iPhone-only Web sites

If I had a magic wand…:

My Personal Information Management system on my mobile device is Web connected, and it makes all the difference.

My phone shows the picture of the person calling; that used to be of limited usefulness, but now that I can associate a picture from my social network directly to my phonebook, I can hardly live without it anymore!

Am I wondering what’s up with this friend I haven’t seen in a long time and with which I am scheduled to meet? His entries in my phonebook has already downloaded his latest posts on his blog, and I’m reading them as I’m going to meet him.