CDF has "no implementations"?

Hello Ryan,

In this article
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071113-op
endocument-foundation-closes-up-shop-after-slamming-opendocu
ment-format.html

you stated "Unfortunately, CDF is largely theoretical
as no implementations currently exist". I wonder what
led you to that erroneous conclusion?

We are still gathering implementation experience, but today
the implementation matrix lists five implementations which
have been tested against the test suite. Other
implementations are known, but have not yet been tested; in
particular few mobile implementations have been tested so
far.

http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/TestSuite/WICD_CDR_
WP1/wicdmatrix.xhtml
ht
tp://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/TestSuite/WICD_CDR_WP1/


Perhaps you could make a small correction to your article?
Whether there are implementations or not does not seem to
detract from your main point, and I would prefer that people
who are interested in CDF and WICD are not misled by what
seems to be an off-the-cuff remark.

-- 
 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chrisw3.org
 Interaction Domain Leader
 Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG

On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 8:33:29 PM, Ryan wrote:

RP> Hi Chris,

RP> Sorry about that. I have changed the article and
removed the erroneous
RP> statement.

Many thanks, for your swift reply and prompt action!

RP> The W3C's CDF site has an "Implementation
Report"[1] that is mostly a
RP> list of articles about companies saying that they are
interested in
RP> supporting the format, but it makes no mention of any
working
RP> implementations, so I assumed it was still largely
unimplemented.

RP> [1] h
ttp://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/CDR-implementations.html

Aha! Yes that rather old article should be updated with the
latest information. Thanks for the explanation. We will
update it to cover the latest test results.

RP> -- Ryan Paul
RP> Ars Technica News Desk

RP> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 20:02 +0100, Chris Lilley
wrote:
>> Hello Ryan,

>> In this article
>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071113-op
endocument-foundation-closes-up-shop-after-slamming-opendocu
ment-format.html

>> you stated "Unfortunately, CDF is largely
theoretical as no implementations currently exist". I
wonder what led you to that erroneous conclusion?

>> We are still gathering implementation experience,
but today the implementation matrix lists five
implementations which have been tested against the test
suite. Other implementations are known, but have not yet
been tested; in particular few mobile implementations have
been tested so far.

>> http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/TestSuite/WICD_CDR_
WP1/wicdmatrix.xhtml
>> ht
tp://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/TestSuite/WICD_CDR_WP1/


>> Perhaps you could make a small correction to your
article? Whether there are implementations or not does not
seem to detract from your main point, and I would prefer
that people who are interested in CDF and WICD are not
misled by what seems to be an off-the-cuff remark.





-- 
 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chrisw3.org
 Interaction Domain Leader
 Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG