{"id":224,"date":"2008-01-07T20:15:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T03:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/yahoo-introduces-mobile-xforms\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T05:23:47","slug":"yahoo-introduces-mobile-xforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/01\/yahoo-introduces-mobile-xforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! introduces mobile XForms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly, their marketing folks wouldn&#8217;t describe it that way, but essentially that&#8217;s what was <a href=\"http:\/\/us.beta.mobile.yahoo.com\/developers\">announced<\/a> today. (<a href=\"http:\/\/us.beta.mobile.yahoo.com\/pdf\/BlueprintDevGuide.pdf\" title=\"Blueprint PDF guide\">documentation<\/a> in PDF format, closely related to what-used-to-be Konfabulator tech; here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.yahoo.com\/developers\/roadmap\" title=\"Developer Roadmap\">interesting part<\/a> in HTML) The <a href=\"http:\/\/yhoo.client.shareholder.com\/press\/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=284835\">press release<\/a> talks about reaching &#8220;billions&#8221; of mobile consumers; even if you don&#8217;t put too much emphasis on press releases (you shouldn&#8217;t) it&#8217;s still talking about serious use of and commitment to XForms technology.<\/p>\n<p>Shameless plug: Isn&#8217;t it time to refresh your memory, or even find out for the first time about XForms? There is this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596003692\/dubinkoinfo-20\" title=\"XForms Essentials by Micah Dubinko\">excellent book<\/a> available in printed format from <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1200720226_0\">Amazon<\/span>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/xformsinstitute.com\" title=\"XForms Institute\">online for free<\/a> under an open content license. If you guys express enough interest, good things might even happen, like a refresh to the content. Let&#8217;s make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>From a consumer standpoint, this feels like a welcome play against <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/\">Android<\/a>, too. <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1200720226_1\">Yahoo<\/span>! looks like it&#8217;s placing a bet on working with more devices while making development easier at the same time. I&#8217;ll bet an Android port will be available, at least in beta, before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: I have been out of Yahoo! mobile for several months now, and can&#8217;t claim any credit for or inside knowledge of these developments. -m<\/p>\n<p>P. S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596003692\/dubinkoinfo-20\" title=\"XForms Essentials\">Don&#8217;t forget the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly, their marketing folks wouldn&#8217;t describe it that way, but essentially that&#8217;s what was announced today. (documentation in PDF format, closely related to what-used-to-be Konfabulator tech; here&#8217;s the interesting part in HTML) The press release talks about reaching &#8220;billions&#8221; of mobile consumers; even if you don&#8217;t put too much emphasis on press releases (you shouldn&#8217;t)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,7,2,22,9,19,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-browsers","category-mobile","category-software","category-standards","category-web20","category-xforms","category-yahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-3C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}