Web Technology

The new Web technology is about infrastructures, systems, standards, tools, and applications. It is not an easy task to understand all! But after you do so you would see a bright future of tomorrow's promise land.

1. For an overview of the my site. [HOME]
2. Because of the complexity and variety of these technologies, it is not surprise that one will get lost easily in browsing W3C's Web site. However, there is a way to look at the structure of these technologies. The W3C Team groups the related activities into four "domains". W3C Activities
3. Before starting the journey of XML and Web technology. The Shakespeare's in XML - MidSummer Night's Dream page illustrates the power and beauty of XML rendering - see the source of the page. I find both IE 6.0 or above and Netscape 6.0 or above render the page correctly.
   My site is constructed mainly by XHTML / XML. For example, the Traditional Photography - Photo Gallery page was designed to be able to process by XSLT. Read the page source for details.
4. To test your browser compatibility. This page also acts an index of technology of my site. Summary
5. 4. The Strategy & Management page was written by using some advanced CSS features. See if your browser can display them correctly.
6. Then go to the Professional XML page for the listing of XML topics. The XML map is good for someone to see the relationship of various XML technologies.
7. If you want to know more about the terms. Then you can go to the XML soup page. You would also find the related tools, APIs, systems, and standards in this page.
8. The power of XML also lays on its internationalization and localization capability. Therefore you may also read this page. It is more important if you are going to transmit or program in XML.
9. Semantic Web is W3C large ambition to transform the usage of Web. Read my Semantic Web page below for more details.
   Two main concepts are discussed: Schema and RDF. They are used to define the meta-data of the information putting on Web. The Internet could become ONE unified universal knowledge-base on the planet. This also forms the basis of other Web services.
10. An application of RDF - syndicate my site with RSS, an RDF vocabulary used for site summaries. You can subscribe to in your favorite news aggregator to receive the latest news instantly. For example, I am using NetNewsWire Lite on my Mac OSX.
11. Finally go to the Next Generation Internet page for a brief description of the coming Internet development.