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April 06, 2004

Gary and AKMA resolve BLX spat

It appears that Gary and AKMA have settled their dispute over Gary's proposed BLX standard (pronounced "bollocks"). (Begin the thread here and then follow it in the main page of Gary's blog.)

Trouble ahead, though: Now that BLX has incontestably become an important part of the Web standards toolkit, Microsoft has announced that all future versions of Office will embed key summarization information in "islands of BLX" that will be accessible only via Microsoft's own parser.

Posted by D. Weinberger at April 6, 2004 08:03 AM

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That's BLX!

Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | April 7, 2004 10:21 PM

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