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2007-01-30: The World Wide Web Consortium and OASIS today jointly released WebCGM 2.0 as a Recommendation and Standard. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard used to interchange two dimensional vector and mixed vector-raster graphics for technical illustration, documentation and data visualization. WebCGM is a profile of CGM that adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications used in defense, aviation, architecture, and transportation industries. Already widely implemented, version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM objects and an XML Companion File (XCF) for external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. Read the press release and about WebCGM. (Permalink)
2007-02-06: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. SISR tags are used to extract 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 5 March. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)
2007-02-06: W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on
5-6 February in Sophia Antipolis, France. Representatives of W3C's
sixteen world Offices met at INRIA
to discuss W3C Membership issues, Office events and new staff,
outreach, and plans for the future. 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)
2007-02-06: The CSS Working Group has released two updated Working Drafts for Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Generated Content for Paged Media describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers and footers often used in printed publications. Behavioral Extensions to CSS allow bindings like XBL to be linked from CSS style sheets, so bindings can be used with user and alternate style sheets and media selection. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
2007-02-02: Based on feedback received during Candidate Recommendation, the Web Services Addressing Working Group has released Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 23 February. The proposed WSDL extension element and WSDL SOAP module have been removed, and Web Services Policy assertions have been introduced into the specification. The document was formerly titled "Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding." Read about Web services. (Permalink)
2007-01-31: The Web Services Policy Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of WSDL 1.1 Element Identifiers and plans to publish the document as a Working Group Note. These fragment identifiers and IRI-references, designed to be easy for authors to understand and compare, are for use in Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 documents. Read about Web services. (Permalink)
2007-01-30: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. Comments are welcome through 6 March. These tests provide the basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices. Read about the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. (Permalink)
2007-01-30: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
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