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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16:00 Wednesday, 7 May 2008

XForms, REST, XQuery...and skimming

Data and databases Goldsmiths 3

Mark Birbeck (webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert)

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