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2007-02-20: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Internationalization (I18n) Activity and the launch of a new Internationalization Architecture Working Group chaired by François Yergeau (Invited Expert). The group is chartered to work on the Character Model Resource Identifiers and Normalization and on Language Tags and Locale Identifiers. The Internationalization Core Working Group is chaired by Addison Phillips (Yahoo!) and is rechartered to propose and coordinate technology to enable universal and worldwide access to the Web. The charter of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group chaired by Yves Savourel (Enlaso) and the Internationalization Interest Group chaired by Martin Dürst (Invited Expert) have been extended. The Internationalization Guidelines, Education & Outreach (GEO) Working Group has closed and its work moved to the Core group. Participation in I18n is open to W3C Members. Visit the Internationalization home page. (Permalink)
2007-02-21: The Voice Browser Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. 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)
2007-02-20: The W3C Content Label Incubator Group (WCL XG) published its final report, W3C Content Labels. The Incubator Report defines a data model for Content Labels through which identified parties can make assertions about the properties of a resource, or groups of resources. This publication is part of the W3C experimental Incubator Activity (see February 2006 press release) and is the first Incubator Group Report published by W3C. ( Permalink )
2007-02-16: The HTML Working Group released the second edition of XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML as a Working Draft in preparation for Proposed Edited Recommendation. XHTML 1.1 is a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict based on XHTML modules. Not a new version, the second edition incorporates all known corrections and adds a new description in XML schemas. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
2007-02-16: The HTML Working Group released a Working Draft of XML Events 2: An Events Syntax for XML. To associate behaviors with markup, language designers can incorporate the module in this specification to integrate event listeners and handlers with DOM Level 2 event interfaces. Version 2.0 adds new functionality for conditional handling of events, and adds explicit elements for handlers. It also has an updated XML schema and DTD and incorporates all known errors in the XML Events Recommendation of 2003. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
2007-02-16: W3C plans a Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications on 5-6 June 2007, hosted by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Attendees will discuss application modeling, security and usability for distributed applications running on network devices. A Call for Participation and more information is expected in March. Read about W3C Workshops. (Permalink)
2007-02-15: The Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Enabling Read Access for Web Resources. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or both can indicate read access is allowed. The document was formerly titled Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)
2007-02-12: Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of
the Web, opened the 3GSM World Congress on Monday 12 February in
Barcelona, Spain with a keynote address at the
Mobile
Innovation Forum. Berners-Lee spoke on the role of innovation and
openness in the Web's success, and how the W3C
Mobile Web Initiative brings mobile telephony into convergence with
the Web and aids in bridging the digital divide. (Photo: Le Fevre Communications. Permalink)
2007-02-09: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Widgets 1.0 Requirements. These design goals are the requirements for device-independent standards for scripting, digitally signing, securing, packaging and deploying client-side Web applications (widgets). Also known as gadgets or modules, widgets are small programs like clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters that display and update remote data and run on the Web browser environment. Read about Rich Web Clients. (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. (Photo credit: Karl Dubost. Permalink)
Founded in 1876, Ericsson is the largest supplier of mobile communications systems in the world. Supporting all major standards for wireless communication, Ericsson is committed to the use and development of W3C Recommendations to continue mobilizing the World Wide Web. (Member testimonials)
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