Marriott Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3-5 December 2007

Mark Birbeck

webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert

Mark Birbeck (and company) are behind formsPlayer, an XForms processor, and Sidewinder, a semantic web browser, seamlessly combining XForms with XHTML, SVG, and MathML.

He is an Invited Expert on the W3C’s XForms, XHTML 2 and HTML Working Groups. His most recent work involved proposing and developing RDFa.

His blog focuses on building a new generation of rich internet applications for the semantic web, using Ajax, XHTML, XForms, RDFa, and declarative mark-up.

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Sessions

20:30 Monday, 2007-12-03

XForms, XHTML, and RDFa for Internet-Facing Applications

XForms evening Wellesley

Mark Birbeck (webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert)

Combine XForms, XHTML, and RDFa to build and test widgets, gadgets, and applications. Read more.

16:45 Tuesday, 2007-12-04

XForms, REST, XQuery...and skimming

XML and the Web Berkeley/Clarendon

Mark Birbeck (webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert)

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Applications built on 'skimming' principles are very loosely-coupled, and can run on just about any server-side architecture. Read more.

09:45 Wednesday, 2007-12-05

Sidewinder: Using internet languages to create desktop applications

XML in the Enterprise Suffolk

Mark Birbeck (webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert)

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Sidewinder turns every web-page into a full-featured desktop application, making programming as easy as coding XHTML, as well as supporting the writing of complete applications in JavaScript. Read more.

The 5 minute guide to RDFa...in only 6 minutes and 40 seconds

Mark Birbeck (webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert)

Get up to speed on this new W3C metadata standard...fast.