2006-08-22: W3C announces the Workshop on Gathering Requirements for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0 to be held 18 October in Heidelberg, Germany, hosted by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The Workshop will be held in conjunction with a symposium on Web printing at the same location. Participants will discuss the requirements, features and design of a future version of the formatting part of the Extensible Stylesheet Language also called XSL-FO. Read about W3C Workshops and the XML Activity. (Permalink)
2006-08-21: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Forms 2.0. Extending HTML 4, XHTML 1.1 and the DOM, Web Forms 2.0 features include new strongly-typed input fields, attributes, declarative repeating of form sections, DOM interfaces, DOM events, and XML submission and initialization of forms. Web Forms 2.0 leverages the knowledge authors have gained with their experience with HTML. Read about Rich Web Clients. (Permalink)
2006-08-21: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Applications Packaging Format Requirements. The document specifies design goals and requirements for packaging small client-side Web applications known as "widgets", "gadgets" or "modules," used to display and update remote data. Applications such as clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters are packaged to allow a single download and installation on a client machine. Read about Rich Web Clients. (Permalink)
2006-08-21: W3C plans a Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries on 4-5 December in New Delhi, India, hosted by C-DAC, the site of the W3C India Office. Participants will discuss mobile Web access within developing countries, in terms of needs, blocking factors and potential uses. A Call for Participation for this Workshop is expected in September. Scholarships to cover travel costs will be available. Read about W3C Workshops and the Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)
2006-08-16: The World Wide Web Consortium today published new editions of four core XML standards: the fourth edition of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 and second editions of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1, Namespaces in XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML 1.1. These new editions incorporate corrections to all known errata. Read the press release and visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-08-11: Addressing Last Call comments, the Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four updated Working Drafts: Compound Document by Reference Framework, WICD Core 1.0, WICD Full 1.0, and WICD Mobile 1.0. The Web Integration Compound Document (WICD, pronounced "wicked") is a device independent Compound Document profile based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe behavior when single documents contain multiple formats. Read more about Rich Web Clients. (Permalink)
2006-08-10: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 to Candidate Recommendation. With native support shipping in Opera and Firefox browsers on desktops, the SVG language describes interactive vector graphics, text, images, animation and graphical applications in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is designed for Web access by devices of all sizes from handhelds to desktops, automobile media centers and entertainment consoles. Two implementations of SVG Tiny 1.2 are already available, with more on the way. The Requirements document is also updated. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the SVG home page. (Permalink)
2006-08-03: Participants in the second Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech
Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) have published their minutes and report.
Speech and linguistics experts met on 30-31 May in Heraklion, Crete to
study improvements to SSML for
Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European languages such as Arabic,
Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin
Chinese, Polish, Russian and Slovenian. W3C thanks FORTH for
hosting. Read the press
release, join W3C and visit the
voice home page. (Photo credit:
Kazuyuki Ashimura. Permalink)
2006-08-01: The Web Services Policy Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of the Web Services Policy 1.5. The Policy Framework defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction. Attachment defines how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. Read about Web services. (Permalink)
2006-07-28: On System Administrator Appreciation Day, W3C expresses its gratitude to the Systems Team. Under their care W3C's main Web servers have served over 70 million hits per day. Our mail hubs reject over 1 million virus and spam delivery attempts per day with zero reported false positives. Our server infrastructure typically sees server uptimes measured in hundreds of days; some of our servers have been in continuous operation for over a year. Join us in celebration of these key contributors to W3C, and thank your own sysadmins for their tireless work. We extend our appreciation to: (Permalink)
2006-07-26: W3C has named Ted
Guild to Head of W3C Systems. Previously led by Alan Kotok, the
Systems Team is responsible
for the operation of W3C servers worldwide, development and deployment
of software tools, and support for standards development, content
development, collaboration, communication and archiving. Ted came to
W3C in 2000 from corporate IT positions in financial, Internet, public
utilities and marketing organizations. Read more About W3C. (Photo credit: Ralph R.
Swick. Permalink)
2006-07-26: The HTML Working Group has released the eighth public Working Draft of XHTML™ 2.0. A general purpose markup language without presentation elements, XHTML 2 is designed for representing documents for a wide range of purposes across the Web. See the introduction for the differences between XHTML versions 1 and 2. Much of XHTML 2 works in existing browsers. The draft includes an implementation in RELAX NG with DTD and XML Schema implementations to follow. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-25: The HTML Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of the XHTML Role Attribute Module to
provide the ability to integrate the role attribute into
any markup language based on XHTML
Modularization 1.1. Developed in conjunction with the accessibility
community and other groups, the document is the first of a series of
XHTML modules designed to help extend the scope of XHTML-family markup
languages into new environments. Visit the HTML home
page. (Permalink)
2006-07-24:
Participants in the International Workshop on the
Implementation of a Device Description Repository have published
their report.
Mobile operators, manufacturers, service providers, and accessibility,
content adaptation and device information providers met 12-13 July in
Madrid, Spain, to discuss the creation of a repository of device
information. W3C thanks Telefónica for hosting.
Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a
joint effort to make the Web interoperable and usable for users of
mobile devices. (Photo credit: Cédric Kiss. Permalink)
2006-07-21: W3C will hold a Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven Enforcement on 17-18 October 2006 at the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy. Vendors and researchers will meet to discuss privacy for personal data, automated policy negotiation in Web services, Web applications and identity management, and the use of Semantic Web technologies for privacy enforcement. Participation is open to Members and the public. Read about Workshops and the Privacy Activity. (Permalink)
2006-07-21: The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content. Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an aid to specifying the language of content for an international audience. Visit the Internationalization home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-21: In response to Last Call comments, the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has published a Working Draft of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification. The SVG language delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a complete language specification and is implementable on devices large and small, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers. Visit the SVG home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-20: W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has been appointed to the Advisory Committee for the revision of U.S. Section 255 guidelines and Section 508 standards, which include Web accessibility. WAI looks forward to continuing to coordinate with organizations around the world to develop harmonized standards for Web accessibility. Additional information is available in the U.S. Access Board article: Board Names Advisory Committee for 508 Standards Update. Visit the WAI home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-19: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Emotion Incubator Group to investigate a language to represent the emotional states of users and the emotional states simulated by user interfaces. The group is sponsored by W3C Members DFKI, Deutsche Telekom T-Com, University of Edinburgh, Chinese Academy of Sciences, EPFL, USC ISI, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. W3C Members may use this form to join the group. Read about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. (Permalink)
2006-07-18: The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the Efficient XML Interchange Measurements Note. An analysis of the expected performance characteristics of a potential Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) encoding format, the draft covers the "compactness" and "processing efficiency" properties and outlines plans for future updates. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-18: The XForms Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XForms 1.1. Designed to refine and strengthen the XML processing platform introduced by XForms 1.0, version 1.1 adds several submission capabilities, a more powerful action processing facility, the ability to manipulate data arbitrarily and to access event context information, and adds numerous helpful data types, utility functions, user interface improvements, and action event handlers. Visit the XForms home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-17: W3C has named Yves Lafon to the position of Web
Services Activity Lead. The Web
Services Activity includes Working Groups for semantic annotations,
addressing, choreography, description and policy as well as XML
protocol and databinding. Yves joined W3C in 1995 to work on the
experimental browser Arena. He led development of Jigsaw, W3C's Java
based server, and served as Activity Lead for the Protocols Activity
and the XML Protocol Activity. and as Team Contact for the XML Protocol
Working Group, the XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group
and the Web Services Choreography Working Group. W3C wishes to thank
Hugo Haas who previously led the Activity. Read more about W3C. (Permalink)
2006-07-14: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Semantic Web Activity. "W3C continues to support the advancement of universal sharing and automatic processing of data in the World Wide Web," said Ivan Herman (W3C). Semantic Web technologies allow data to be shared and reused across applications, enterprises, and communities. The W3C Advisory Committee approved the continuing work in RDF data access, rules interchange, and health care and life sciences. Three new groups are chartered for work on Semantic Web deployment, extracting RDF from XML (e.g., to process microformats), and education and outreach. Join W3C and visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-12: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0. mobileOK labels indicate that content and its delivery pass tests based on the Mobile Web Best Practices and are designed to create an effective user experience. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (Permalink)
2006-07-11: W3C plans a Workshop on Gathering Requirements for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0 on 18 October in Heidelberg, Germany, hosted by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The Workshop will be held in conjunction with a symposium on Web Printing at the same location. Participants will discuss the requirements, features and design of a future version of the formatting part of the Extensible Stylesheet Language also called XSL-FO. A Call for Participation for this Workshop is expected in August. Read about W3C Workshops and the XML Activity. (Permalink)
2006-07-11: The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released an updated Candidate Recommendation of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM). Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath expressions and operate on XDM instances such as documents and databases. The group also released an updated Working Draft of the XQuery Update Facility which provides expressions to create, modify and delete nodes. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-10: The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of RIF Use Cases and Requirements. Synthesized from nearly fifty use cases, the document specifies use cases and requirements for a format that allows rules to be translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule systems. The group invites comments through 8 September. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-05: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Geospatial Incubator Group, whose mission is to begin addressing issues of location and geographical properties of resources for the Web of today and tomorrow. The group is sponsored by W3C Members the Open Geospatial Consortium, Oracle Corporation, SRI International, Stanford University, and the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC ISI). W3C Members may use this form to join the group. Read about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. (Permalink)
2006-07-05: The HTML Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XHTML™ Modularization 1.1. This modularization allows the subsets and extensions to XHTML needed for emerging platforms. This document is based on Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema and the Modularization of XHTML W3C Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 4 August. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-05: The HTML Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XHTML™ Basic 1.1. The draft adds four new features for small devices which are the language's primary users. Version 1.1 is intended to be the convergence of the XHTML Basic 1.0 W3C Recommendation for mobile devices, released in coordination with the WAP Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XHTML Mobile profile. Comments are welcome through 4 August. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
2006-07-03: The Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Semantic Annotations for WSDL. The attributes defined in this draft are references from elements within Web Services Description Language (WSDL) or XML Schema documents to concepts in ontologies outside the documents. Read more about Web services. (Permalink)
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2006-06-28: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group. Bert Bos (W3C) is Chair. The group is chartered through 1 July 2008 to develop and maintain CSS specifications, profiles and test suites. CSS is the most common style sheet language for HTML documents and can be used with textual XML documents. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-28: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of a new Math Working Group to replace the Math Interest Group. Patrick Ion (Invited Expert, representing the American Mathematical Society) and Robert Miner (Design Science) will co-Chair. The group is chartered through 29 February 2008 to produce a new MathML 3.0 Recommendation, to improve and expand MathML in the areas of internationalization, accessibility, and mathematical richness. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Visit the Math home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-27: Jérôme Chailloux has joined the W3C staff and management team as
the new Site Manager for W3C/ERCIM. Based in France, Jérôme brings a
wealth of experience to W3C in both technology development and
management. Jérôme was the main inventor and developer of the
programming language Le-Lisp. He served on an information technology
committee for the French National Ministry for Education, Research and
Technology. Jérôme also held the position of Chief Information Officer
of the genomics company GENSET. Please join us in welcoming Jérôme to
W3C. (Permalink)
2006-06-27: W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation.
Written for designers of Web sites and content management systems,
these guidelines describe how to author Web content that works well on
mobile devices. Thirty organizations participating in the Mobile Web Initiative achieved consensus
and encourage adoption and implementation of these guidelines to
improve user experience and to achieve the goal of "One Web." Read the
press release and
testimonials.
(Permalink)
2006-06-26: The WebCGM Working Group has released a First Public and Last Call Working Draft of WebCGM 2.0. WebCGM is a vector and composite vector/raster picture definition used in technical illustration, documentation, and data visualization. Version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM objects and an XML Companion File (XCF) for external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. The draft incorporates discussion and feedback on the OASIS Committee Specification submitted to W3C. Comments are welcome through 30 July. Read more about WebCGM. (Permalink)
2006-06-22: Attendees from countries including Austria, China, Finland, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden and the USA presented thirty two position papers on 9-10 March in Tokyo at the W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web. They proposed ways to standardize distributed applications that adapt to context: user preferences, device capabilities and environmental conditions. The Workshop report has been published. W3C thanks Keio University for hosting. Read the press release and about W3C Workshops. (Permalink)
2006-06-21: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0, a technology for extending the appearance and behavior of elements in Web formats such as HTML. This draft was produced from the XBL 2.0 specification developed by the Mozilla Foundation and has now moved to the W3C Recommendation Track. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)
XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX2006-06-19: The Web API Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest
Object. The draft documents features of the
XMLHttpRequest object, the core component of AJAX. The
interface allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as
submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about
the Rich Web Clients Activity.
(Permalink)
2006-06-19: The WordNet Task Force of the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet. The draft proposes a conversion to RDF and OWL of WordNet, the machine-readable lexical reference system developed at Princeton University for the English language. The group describes how the conversion was made and how it may be queried for use in Semantic Web applications. Read about the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
2006-06-19: The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Services Choreography Description Language: Primer. The primer is intended as an easy to understand tutorial on the uses and the features of the WS-CDL specification. WS-CDL describes peer-to-peer collaborations between Web service participants by defining their behavior from a global viewpoint. Ordered message exchanges thus accomplish a common business goal. Visit the Web services home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-14: On 25 May, the Web APIs Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Selectors API. The draft defines methods for identifying elements in a document for the purpose of performing script or Document Object Model (DOM) operations on them. Selectors defined in the CSS3 Selectors specification are used to identify the elements. Visit the Web APIs Working Group home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-14: The XML Core Working Group has released four Proposed Edited Recommendations for core XML specifications: the fourth edition of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 and second editions of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1, Namespaces in XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML 1.1. Proposed for the convenience of readers, the publications correct all errors reported to date and are not new versions. The test suites have been updated. For XML, markup for RFC 2119 key words has been improved. Comments are welcome through 12 July. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-12: The CSS Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of CSS3 module: Generated Content for Paged Media. The draft describes features used in printed publications: named strings, leaders, cross-references, footnotes, endnotes, running headers and footers, named flows, ad hoc counter styles, paged-based floats, hyphenation, change bars, and named page and generated lists. It is a companion to the CSS3 modules for multicolumn layout and paged media. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-12: The Internationalization Core Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web. The draft includes mechanisms for identifying or selecting the language of content or locale preferences used to process information using Web technologies. It describes how document formats, specifications, and implementations should handle language tags, as well as data structures for describing international preferences. Visit the Internationalization home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-12: The XML Query and XSL Working
Groups have released updated Candidate Recommendations of XML Query
1.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. The XQuery use cases are
also updated. Today's drafts incorporate comments received at Candidate
Recommendation and move the xdt:* types to the XML Schema
xs namespace, a change made in conjunction with the XML
Schema Working Group. XSLT transforms documents into different markup
or formats. Important for databases, search engines and object
repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over
collections of documents. Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath expressions
and operate on XPath Data Model instances. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-09: The HTML Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XHTML™ Basic 1.1. The draft adds four new features for small devices which are the language's primary users. Version 1.1 is intended to be the convergence of the XHTML Basic 1.0 W3C Recommendation for mobile devices, released in coordination with the WAP Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XHTML Mobile profile. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-09: The W3C Spanish Office is pleased to present Vinton Cerf and noted Web Standards experts at the second edition of Fundamentos Web 2006 (Web Foundations 2006) on 3-5 October in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. Daniel Appelquist, Andy Clarke, Enrique Dans, Ben Hammersley, Bernardo Hernández, Molly Holzschlag, Richard Ishida, Dean Jackson, Gumerinsdo Lafuente, Bob Regan, Dave Shea, Juan Varela, Luis Villa, Chris Wilson and Kevin Yank will present. Registration for the conference, which sold out last year, is open and offers discounts for W3C Members. (Permalink)
2006-06-01: Alan Kotok, W3C Associate Chair,
MIT site manager and head of the W3C Systems Team, passed away last
week in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was 64. Before his many
contributions to W3C, Alan held senior engineering positions at
DEC. A member of the
MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, he helped to build the legendary computer
game Spacewar. He appears in the Origins of Computer Chess and in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. We are
grateful to have worked with him and will miss his great kindness,
humor, intellect and dedication. Remembrances may be sent to the
public-memoria@w3.org public mailing list. (Permalink)
2006-06-01: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Web Services Policy Working Group. Paul Cotton (Microsoft) and Chris Ferris (IBM) will co-Chair. The group is chartered through 31 December 2007 to standardize a general policy framework for expressing Web service capabilities and requirements. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Visit the Web services home page. (Permalink)
2006-06-01: W3C has named Ivan Herman to the position of Semantic Web Activity Lead
effective 1 June. Previously led by Eric Miller, the Semantic Web Activity includes development
of the standards for RDF, OWL, SPARQL and rules languages. W3C wishes
to thank Eric for his contributions as he moves to Semantic Web
deployment. Based at CWI,
site of the W3C Benelux Office, Ivan served as W3C Head of Offices and
on the Semantic Web Coordination Group. Read more About W3C. (Permalink)
2006-06-01: W3C has named Daniel Dardailler to the position
of Head of W3C Offices effective 1 June. Daniel will continue his roles
as W3C Associate Chair for Europe, liaison for international standards
bodies, and in efforts such as UN
organizations, ISOC,
ISO, and
ICANN.
W3C Offices assist with
promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base,
and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
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2006-05-30: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 7 July. The document defines how the properties in Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core are described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms and is designed to work with both WSDL versions 1.1 and 2.0. Read about Web services at W3C. (Permalink)
2006-05-29: Following a successful Workshop in Beijing, China, W3C holds a second Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 30-31 May, hosted by the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, site of the W3C Office in Greece. Attendees will identify and prioritize extensions and additions to SSML to improve its use for rendering non-English languages. Read about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)
2006-05-20: W3C
holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 21-22 May in
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. W3C Member organizations participate in two days of
discussions and strategic planning about W3C Activities and future
work. Learn How to Become a W3C
Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 29-30
November in Tokyo, Japan. (Permalink)
2006-05-23: We invite you to attend the W3C Track of the Fifteenth International World Wide
Web Conference (WWW2006) for discussion on Web standards in media,
health sciences, and international commerce, as well as opportunities
in the next wave of Internet and Web technical development. Come learn
about the latest developments in accessibility, browser security,
Semantic Web applications, SVG graphics, compound document formats and
styling, Web services, XML tools, and the Mobile Web Initiative. The
W3C Track runs from 24-26 May in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Read the
press release.
(Permalink)
2006-05-18: In a 17 May 2006 press release, United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi Annan established "an Advisory Group to assist him in convening
the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a new forum for
a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance." Daniel
Dardailler, W3C's Associate Chair for Europe, will represent W3C on the
new Advisory Board. W3C looks forward to sharing its experience in
distributed consensus-building within this new international
environment for standardization. (Permalink)
2006-05-18: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Web CGM Working Group. Lofton Henderson will Chair this Working Group, which is chartered through 31 May 2007 to produce a W3C Recommendation for version 2.0 of the WebCGM 1.0 Recommendation. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Visit the WebCGM Working Group home page. (Permalink)
2006-05-18: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 that incorporates comments from their 18 April 2006 Last Call Working Draft. This document aims to improve user experience by describing how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Visit the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group home page. (Permalink)
2006-05-18: W3C holds the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository on 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain. Application and database developers and others are invited to discuss the design, implementation and use of a repository of device information for content and service providers. Position papers are due 31 May. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)
2006-05-18: The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0, a First Public Working Draft of Best Practices for XML Internationalization, and updated requirements. Organized by data categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Last Call comments are welcome through 30 June. Visit the Internationalization home page. (Permalink)
2006-05-18: The Web Services Description Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: RDF Mapping. Comments are welcome through 17 July. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. The draft describes WSDL in RDF and OWL, and a mapping procedure for transforming WSDL descriptions into RDF form. Read about Web services. (Permalink)
2006-05-18: The Voice Browser, Web API and Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Groups jointly released a Working Draft of Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0. The draft describes a mechanism in use by voice browser vendors that allows content providers to specify the access policy of that content. Implementors should perform their own security analysis. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)
2006-05-17: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated Working Draft of the RDFa Primer 1.0. RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
2006-05-16: The W3C Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL). DIAL describes data, styling, layout, and interaction independently, making Web content adaptable for a wide variety of platforms including the thousands of mobile devices in use and devices to come. Read the press release and more about device independence. (Permalink)
2006-05-09: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Addressing - Core and its SOAP Binding as W3C Recommendations. The core properties allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines their association to SOAP messages. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the Web services home page. (Permalink)
2006-05-08: The XML Query Working Group has published updated Working Drafts of the XQuery Update Facility and its Use Cases. XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of XDM instances such as documents and databases. The specifications provide expressions to create, modify and delete nodes within those instances. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-05-03: The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released an updated Working Draft of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text. The draft defines a language that extends XQuery and XPath to allow full-text searching of XML text and documents. The companion Use Cases Working Draft has also been updated and provides examples for full-text search over data model collections. Read about the XML Activity. (Permalink)
2006-04-28: Position papers are due 31 May for the W3C International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository to be held 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain, hosted by Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo. Participants will discuss the design, implementation and use of a Device Description Repository (DDR) being proposed by the MWI Device Description Working Group. The proposed DDR will provide device information to content and service providers for adapting content to suit client devices. Read about W3C Workshops and the Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)
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2006-04-27: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0 and Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and About Baselines for WCAG 2.0. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technologies. Comments are welcome through 31 May. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (Permalink)
2006-04-27:
The W3C China Office is open in Beijing, China, hosted at the
School of Computer Science & Engineering of Beihang
University. For more information on the opening ceremonies on 27-28
April, please refer to the press release. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local
languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international
participation in W3C Activities. W3C invites organizations in China who
wish to become W3C Members to contact the W3C China
Office and Join W3C.
(Permalink)
2006-04-27: The Timed Text (TT) Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP). The format enables authors and authoring systems to interchange style, layout and timing associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles and captions to legacy systems. Comments are welcome through 18 May. Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Use Cases and Requirements were published as a Working Group Note. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia home page. (Permalink)
2006-04-25: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group, chartered to show how metadata interoperability can be achieved by using the Semantic Web technologies to integrate existing multimedia metadata standards. The group is sponsored by W3C Members IVML-NTUA, CWI, University of Aberdeen, University of Maryland and DFKI. Read about the Incubator Activity, a new initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. (Permalink)
2006-04-25:
Google, HP, IBM, KDE, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, Sun
Microsystems, VeriSign, Yahoo! and many other W3C Members and research
organizations gathered with leaders of the online finance community in
New York City, USA, to address pressing Web security issues at the
March 2006 W3C Workshop on "Usability and Transparency of Web
Authentication." The Workshop report, including suggested next steps, is
now available. W3C thanks Citigroup for hosting and Cisco for network
services. More information is available in the press release. Read
about W3C Workshops.
(Permalink)
2006-04-21: The Internationalization Core Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web. The draft includes mechanisms for identifying or selecting the language of content or locale preferences used to process information using Web technologies. It describes how document formats, specifications, and implementations should handle language tags, as well as data structures for describing international preferences. Visit the Internationalization home page. (Permalink)
2006-04-17: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released Multimodal Application Developer Feedback as a Working Group Note. The Note documents feedback for the W3C Multimodal Interaction and Voice Browser Working Groups to consider when specifying future multimodal and voice authoring capabilities. It includes features developers liked about their development environments as well as features they thought were lacking. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (Permalink)
2006-04-14: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces. The draft is a framework and platform for the creation and development of user interfaces that allow multiple ways to interact with the Web. With multimodal interaction users choose the way or "mode" of access that suits their current needs. Developers can provide user interfaces and output for each mode, including displays, tactile mechanisms, speech and audio. (Permalink)
2006-04-14: The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS). Organized by data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home page. (Permalink)
2006-04-13: W3C plans an International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository on 12-13 July in Madrid, Spain, hosted by Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo. Participants will discuss the design, implementation and use of a Device Description Repository (DDR) being proposed by the Device Description Working Group. The proposed DDR will provide device information to content and service providers for adapting content to suit client devices. A Call for Participation for this Workshop is expected in April. Read about W3C Workshops and the Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)
2006-04-13: The Web API Working Group has released a Working Draft of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events. Language and platform neutral, the system allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides context for each event. The previous version of this document was a Working Group Note from the Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)
2006-04-13: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has published Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web as a Working Group Note. In Semantic Web languages like RDF and OWL, a property links two individuals or an individual and a value. The Note presents patterns and considerations for representing relations between more than two individuals or values. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-04-12: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Written for all participants in the mobile value chain, the document is designed to improve user experience. Comments are welcome through 3 May. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (Permalink)
2006-04-11: The XML Processing Model Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Processing Model Requirements and Use Cases. The draft describes the conceptual model of XML process interactions, the XML Pipeline Language to describe these interactions, and the inputs and outputs of the overall process. The group is chartered to standardize the order, parameters, and expected results for transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and XML Canonicalization that operate on and produce XML documents. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-04-11: Addressing many of the comments received during Last Call, the CSS Working Group has published a Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1). CSS 2.1 is derived from and is intended to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS language usage, the specification adds a few highly requested features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
2006-04-10: The Device Description Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0. This draft contains requirements for storing and giving access to device descriptions. Topics include extensibility and capacity; query, access and management mechanisms, availability and resilience; extensibility; format and storage; and validation and accuracy. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (Permalink)
Window Object2006-04-10: The Web API Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of Window Object 1.0. This
draft defines the Window object, a long-standing de facto
standard. Window provides the global namespace for Web
scripting languages, access to other documents in a compound document
by reference, timers and navigation to other locations. Read about the
Rich Web Clients Activity.
(Permalink)
2006-04-06: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the SPARQL specifications to Candidate Recommendations. With SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle"), developers and end users can write and consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL Query Language for RDF specifies syntax for authoring, matching and testing. SPARQL Protocol for RDF describes remote data access and transmission of queries from clients to processors. The SPARQL Query Results XML Format is provided for search results. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX2006-04-05: The Web API Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest
Object. The draft documents features of the
XMLHttpRequest object, the core component of AJAX. The
interface allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as
submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about
the Rich Web Clients Activity.
(Permalink)
2006-04-04:
W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C China
Office. The Office is hosted at the School of
Computer Science & Engineering of Beihang University in
Beijing, China. Jinpeng Huai is Office Manager. Kazuyuki Ashimura, Steve
Bratt, Marie-Claire Forgue, Ivan Herman, Richard Ishida, and Dean
Jackson are among those attending the opening ceremonies on 27-28
April. Read the press release and about W3C Offices. (Permalink)
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2006-03-30: The XML Schema Working Group
has released an updated Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part
1: Structures. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the
structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide
hooks to associate semantics with them. This draft has changes for XML
1.1, union types, context, canonical forms of values, the
Simple Type Definition, and white space handling. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-03-29: The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released the First Public Working Draft of The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace. This finding on a TAG issue addresses the question of whether or not adding new names to a (published) namespace is a sound practice. The TAG's mission is stewardship of the Web architecture. Read Architecture of the World Wide Web and the TAG findings, and visit the TAG home page. (Permalink)
2006-03-28: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 1 July. The XLink 1.1 language allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-03-27: The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of RIF Use Cases and Requirements. Synthesized from nearly fifty use cases, the document specifies use cases and requirements for a format that allows rules to be translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule systems. The group invites comments through 21 April. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-03-27: The Web Services Description Working Group has updated three Candidate Recommendations for the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Adjuncts. Comments are welcome through 1 July. WSDL RDF Mapping and SOAP 1.1 Binding are updated Working Drafts. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. Read about Web services. (Permalink)
2006-03-22: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Image Annotation on the Semantic Web. Produced by the group's Multimedia Annotation in the Semantic Web Task Force, the draft describes creation, storage, manipulation, interchange and processing of image metadata. Guidelines and an overview of tools and RDF and OWL vocabularies are provided. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-03-21: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web Services Addressing - Core and its SOAP Binding to Proposed Recommendations. The core specification defines properties that allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines the core properties' association to SOAP messages. Comments are welcome through 18 April. SOAP 1.1 Request Optional Response HTTP Binding was published as a Working Group Note. Visit the Web services home page. (Permalink)
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2006-03-21: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Web Services Activity through February 2008. The Activity has an Interest Group, a Coordination Group, and four Working Groups including the new Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group. Participation is open to W3C Members. "W3C is bringing communities together... to work on a standard solution for Web automation," said Jacek Kopecky (DERI Innsbruck), Chair of the SAWSDL Working Group. Read the press release and about W3C Activities. (Permalink)
2006-03-20: The Device Independence Working Group has updated the Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence Working Group Note. The term delivery context is used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. Part of a series, the Note describes information that may be included in the delivery context, and how that information may be used and conveyed. Read more about device independence. (Permalink)
2006-03-16: Following a successful Workshop in Beijing, China, W3C holds a second Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 30-31 May, hosted by the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, site of the W3C Office in Greece. Attendees will identify and prioritize extensions and additions to SSML to improve its use for rendering non-English languages. Position papers are due 14 April. Read about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)
2006-03-15:
W3C is pleased to announce new management of Activities related to the
Web's user interface. Philipp
Hoschka leads the newly created Ubiquitous Web Domain which includes the Device
Independence, Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), Multimodal Interaction and
Voice Browser Activities, and continues his role as W3C Deputy Director
for Europe. Chris Lilley
leads the Interaction Domain
which includes the Graphics, HTML, Math, Rich Web Clients, Style,
Synchronized Multimedia and XForms Activities. Read about W3C's
Management
Team and Activities. (Permalink)
2006-03-15: The
W3C Workshop on
Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication is underway 15-16
March hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY USA. Attendees will identify
and report publicly on steps W3C can take to improve the Web's
trustworthiness and security for users. Read the program, over
forty accepted position papers and about Technology and Society. (Permalink)
2006-03-14: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL as a Working Group Note. Providing questions and answers about XML Schema datatypes in the Semantic Web, the Note addresses user defined datatypes, comparison of values, duration, and the use of numeric types. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-03-14: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. Produced by the group's Vocabulary Management Task Force, this cookbook offers step-by-step instructions for choosing and publishing an RDF Schema or OWL vocabulary or ontology on the Web, giving example configurations for the Apache HTTP server. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-03-14: The World Wide Web Consortium today released XForms 1.0 Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata. Second edition publications include the following documents. (Permalink)
2006-03-14: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF/A Primer 1.0. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation modules. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
2006-03-10: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers as a Working Group Note. Produced by the group's Software Engineering Task Force, the Note shows how development processes can use the Semantic Web as a platform for domain model creation, sharing and reuse. RDF Schema and OWL are shown used in tandem with mainstream object-oriented languages. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-02-28:
W3C holds its Technical Plenary Week from 27 February - 3 March in
Cannes-Mandelieu, France where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest
Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests
attend plenary day for talks and discussions on data ownership,
microformats, query languages, the Grid, a backplane for compound
documents, and formal methods. Join W3C and attend the next Technical Plenary planned for
November 2007 in the Boston, Massachusetts area, USA. (Permalink)
2006-02-22: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-02-22: The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS). Organized by data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home page. (Permalink)
2006-02-21: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Version 1.1 updates and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are welcome through 31 May. Read about the XML Activity. (Permalink)
2006-02-21: W3C invites the public to the free seminar
Using Web Services -
From Infrastructure to Semantics in Paris, France on 6 March. W3C
Members Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, Nokia and W3C technical staff
will demonstrate Web services in real world scenarios, show how
business challenges are resolved, and offer a preview of semantic
enhancements. Registration is required. Read the press release and about
Web services. The WS2 project is a European IST Programme.
(Permalink)
2006-02-17: The XML Schema Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes. Comments are welcome through 31 March. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. With XML Schema Part 2, datatypes may be defined for use in XML schemas as well as other contexts. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-02-16: The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding. Comments are welcome through 31 March. The document defines how the properties in Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core are described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms and is designed to work with both WSDL versions 1.1 and 2.0. Read about Web services at W3C. (Permalink)
2006-02-13: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XHTML™ Modularization 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation. This modularization allows the subsets and extensions to XHTML needed for emerging platforms. This document is based on Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema and the Modularization of XHTML W3C Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 6 March. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
2006-02-13: The P3P Specification Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C workshops and the privacy community. The draft completes the transition to XML Schema for P3P data schemas. Comments are welcome through 31 March. Read about privacy and P3P. (Permalink)
2006-02-13: Please join W3C at the 3GSM World Congress in Hall 2 stand G78 on 13-16 February in Barcelona, Spain. Marie-Claire Forgue, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Philipp Hoschka and Cédric Kiss present. "At 3GSM 2006, W3C will show recent work on best practices for mobile content authors. With authors' help, mobile telephones and computers can offer usable and interoperable Web browsing worldwide," said Philipp Hoschka. Read about W3C at 3GSM and the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)
2006-02-10: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals as a Working Group Note. The Note records existing proposals for integrating data represented in W3C's RDF/OWL family of languages with data represented in ISO's Topic Maps. It is a starting point for establishing guidelines for combined usage of these standards, assuring interoperability. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-02-10: The Device Description Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Device Description Landscape, a companion to Device Description Ecosystem. This draft describes the current state of the various options that exist for providing Device Descriptions to enable device-aware applications. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (Permalink)
2006-02-08: A joint effort of the SVG and Web API Working Groups, the REX Task Force has released the First Public Working Draft of Remote Events for XML (REX) 1.0 and their Requirements. Using the REX grammar, endpoints can interact with DOM Events remotely as if they were at the same location. Read more about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Web APIs. (Permalink)
2006-02-08: W3C announces the launch of its Incubator Activity, a new initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. "With the Incubator Activity, W3C Members and Invited Experts can now combine Web technology discovery with the outstanding technical resources of W3C and see what develops," said Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Executive Officer. The first Incubator Group (XG) to be launched addresses the issue of content labels. Read the press release and the new XG charter. (Permalink)
2006-02-02: The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to help people understand and use international aspects of W3C technologies. Recently the group published Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8, xml:lang in XML document schemas and Localization vs. Internationalization, as well as numerous updates and translations. For details and I18n news and RSS feeds, visit the Internationalization home page. (Permalink)
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2006-01-31: The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0. Comments are welcome through 15 March. Designed for ease of use by developers and internationally, PLS allows pronunciation information to be specified for speech recognition and speech synthesis engines in voice browsing applications. Pronunciations grouped together in a PLS document may be referenced from other markup languages such as SRGS and SSML. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-31: The Math Interest Group has released Arabic mathematical notation as an Interest Group Note. The Note analyzes the handling of mathematical presentation in Arabic and related languages using the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0. Its goals are to clarify implementation details and to uncover genuine specification limitations that may require extensions. Read about the W3C Math Activity. (Permalink)
2006-01-31: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XHTML-Print to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 28 February. XHTML-Print is designed for printing from mobile devices, low-cost printers and in environments without a printer-specific driver. The work is based on XHTML-Print written by the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of the IEEE-ISTO. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-31: Mobile industry leaders have reached a preliminary agreement on best practices for mobile Web content. Written to improve user experience, the Last Call Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Please send review comments before 17 February 2006. Read the press release and about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. Visit the W3C booth at 3GSM 13-16 February in Barcelona, Spain. (Permalink)
2006-01-27: The XML Query Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of the XQuery Update Facility and its Use Cases. XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of XDM instances such as documents and databases. Today's drafts provide expressions to create, modify and delete nodes within those instances. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-26: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query languages as well. Comments are welcome through 10 February. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-26: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Results XML Format. The SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Comments are welcome through 10 February. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-24: The Voice Browser Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction 1.0. SCXML is an execution environment based on UML Harel State Tables and CCXML. SCXML is a candidate for the control language within VoiceXML 3.0, CCXML 2.0, and the authoring language under development by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-24: W3C holds the Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web on 9-10 March in Tokyo, Japan. The Ubiquitous Web "takes advantage of the diversity of networked devices," said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon). Attendees will examine technologies and help W3C make choices for standardization to realize the vision of distributed applications that adapt to users' needs, device capabilities and environmental conditions. Position papers are due 10 February. Read the press release and about W3C Workshops. (Permalink)
2006-01-23:
W3C has named Dr. Steven R.
Bratt to the newly-created position of W3C Chief Executive Officer
(CEO), effective 20 January. In this capacity, Steve will continue to
oversee worldwide operations and outreach, including overall management
of Member relations, the W3C Process, the staff, strategic planning,
budget, legal matters, external liaisons and major events. Since
joining W3C in 2002, Steve served as W3C's Chief Operating Officer and
subsequently also as Acting Chair. Read about the W3C management team
and more About W3C.
(Permalink)
2006-01-19: As part of the European IST Programme's WS2 project, the seminar Using Web Services - From Infrastructure to Semantics will be held in Paris, France on 6 March. W3C Members Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, Nokia and W3C technical staff will demonstrate the use of Web services technologies in real world scenarios. Please register. The seminar is free and open to the public. Visit the Web Services home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-17: The XML Schema Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. With XML Schema Part 2, datatypes may be defined for use in XML schemas as well as other contexts. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-17: Position papers are due 25 January for the W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication to be held 15-16 March 2006, hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY, USA. Attendees will identify steps W3C can take to improve the Web's trustworthiness and security for users. Topics include site authentication, safe Web client behavior, communication with users, infrastructures for content providers, and user agent testing. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and more about Technology and Society. (Permalink)
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2006-01-17: W3C is pleased to announce that the XML Key Management (XKMS) Working Group has successfully completed its work: the W3C Recommendation XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) and its companion Bindings and Requirements as well as the Working Group Notes Using XKMS with PGP and A WSDL 1.1 description for XKMS. With XKMS, users can share public key identity across applications, systems and trust boundaries. Please join us in thanking all participants and Chairs Stephen Farrell (Invited Expert) and Shivaram Mysore (Microsoft) for their contributions. Read about Technology and Society at W3C. (Permalink)
2006-01-13: The Semantic Web Conference 2006 will be held at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan on 27 January 2006, organized by INTAP. Keio University holds an exhibition booth, Nobuo Saito gives a welcome message, and Tatsuya Hagino presents "Past and Future of the Semantic Web" and moderates a panel discussion on "Semantic Web, the Past, Today and Tomorrow." (Permalink)
2006-01-13: W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on
10-11 January in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. "Office representatives
from five continents and members of the W3C Communication Team have
gathered at CWI, the
hosting institution of the W3C Benelux Office in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. Issues related to W3C Membership, Office events, outreach,
and plans for the future of the W3C Office program for 2006 and beyond
were discussed," said Ivan Herman, Head of Offices. W3C Offices work
with their regional Web communities to promote W3C technologies in
local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage
international participation in W3C Activities. Visit the Offices home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-13: The W3C Advisory Committee has elected T.V. Raman (Google) and Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), David Orchard (BEA), Ed Rice (HP), Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems) and co-Chairs Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) and Vincent Quint (INRIA). In 2004, the TAG published the W3C Recommendation Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One. Visit the TAG home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-13: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Written for all participants in the mobile value chain, the document is designed to improve user experience. Comments are welcome through 17 February. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (Permalink)
2006-01-13: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 language to Candidate Recommendation. The specification describes ECMAScript-based annotations to grammar rules for extracting meaning from speech recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Comments are welcome through 20 February. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)
2006-01-06: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 specifications to Candidate Recommendations: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Adjuncts. Comments are welcome through 15 March. SOAP 1.1 Binding is an updated Working Draft. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. Read about Web services. (Permalink)
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