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2007-03-07: W3C is pleased to invite participation in the new HTML Working Group, chartered to create the next HTML standard with the active participation of browser vendors, software developers, and content designers. "It's time to revisit the standard and see what we can do to meet the current community needs, and to do so effectively with commitments from browser manufacturers in a visible and open way," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. At the same time, W3C is chartering the Forms Working Group, the XHTML2 Working Group, and rechartering the Hypertext Coordination Group. Read the press release and visit the HTML Working Group home page, the Forms Working Group home page, and the XHTML2 Working Group home page. (Permalink)
2007-03-07: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0. Written for markup language designers, the draft specifies the syntax and usage of CURIEs which are abbreviated or "compact URIs." Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
2007-03-06: The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft of CSS Text Level 3. Formerly titled the CSS3 Text Effects Module, the draft is part of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3 and addresses white space, line breaks, word boundaries, text wrapping, alignment, justification and spacing. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
2007-03-05: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the SWS Testbed Incubator Group sponsored by W3C Members Wright State University, Stanford University, DERI University of Innsbruck, and the National University of Galway, Ireland. The mission of this XG is to develop a standard methodology for evaluating Semantic Web Services based upon a standard set of problems and develop a public repository of such problems. 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)
2007-03-05: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group to better define the challenge of working with incomplete knowledge. The group expects to identify the elements of uncertainty, produce use cases, and create the fundamentals of a way to represent and reason when truth or falsehood is inapplicable or unknown. The group is sponsored by W3C Members Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab, McDonald Bradley, MITRE, National ICT Australia (NICTA), the University of Amsterdam and the University of Bristol. W3C Members may use this form to join the group. Read about the Incubator Activity. (Permalink)
2007-03-02: The GRDDL Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of GRDDL. Comments are welcome through 30 March. With important applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using programs such as XSLT transformations. GRDDL allows powerful mash-ups at very low cost. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2007-03-02: The Web Security Context Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and Use Cases. The draft describes what technologies may be used and how proposals will be evaluated to produce the group's technical work to enable a secure and usable interface so Web users can make safe trust decisions on the Web. Read about the Security Activity. (Permalink)
2007-03-02: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
2007-03-01: Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, testified on
the future of the World Wide Web before the Subcommittee
on Telecommunications and the Internet, Committee on Energy &
Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives on 1 March. Chairman Edward
Markey invited Berners-Lee as the sole witness for the first in a
series on the Digital Future of the United States. The
testimony
and details of the
hearing and archived Webcast (WMP) are available. (Permalink)
SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science) promotes the uptake of Web standards through advanced IT research and development in collaboration with national and international industry, as well as with public sector organizations. SICS is also hosting the Swedish W3C Office. (Member testimonials)
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