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2007-05-08: We invite you to attend the W3C Track of the Sixteen International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9-11 May. Chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue, the W3C track will cover recent achievements and future work plans of W3C Activities. Read the press release. (Permalink)
2007-05-07: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory
Committee Meeting on 6-8 May in Banff/Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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 to be
held with Technical Plenary Week on 4-10 November in Cambridge, MA,
USA. (Photo credit: Kazuyuki Ashimura. Permalink)
2007-05-04: W3C
has named Ralph Swick Technology and
Society Domain Leader and Daniel J.
Weitzner to the new position Technology and Society Policy
Director. Ralph, who was Technology and
Society Technical Director since 1997, will oversee the
T&S Activities,
currently Privacy, Security, and Semantic Web. Danny will lead W3C
public policy strategy efforts, continue to co-chair the Patents and
Standards Interest Group, and direct and perform outside research,
funded through grants to MIT's DIG and the WSRI. Read about T&S, W3C's
work at the intersection of Web technology and public policy, and
about W3C. (Permalink)
2007-05-04: The CSS Working Group has released an updated Working Draft 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. CSS is the Web's most widely-implemented language for style, used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
2007-05-04: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group released an updated Working Draft of the W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0. mobileOK marks are machine-readable labels that indicate Web content and delivery pass the Mobile Web Best Practices test suite. Designed to create an effective user experience, mobileOK is written for content authors, tools developers and content providers. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (Permalink)
2007-05-03: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of GRDDL to Candidate Recommendation and the publication of GRDDL Test Cases as a Last Call Working Draft. Implementation feedback and comments are welcome through 31 May. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is used to extract RDF statements from XHTML and XML content using programs such as XSLT. Read about the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
2007-05-02: The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group released Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 2.0 as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 15 June. A CC/PP profile describes a device's capabilities and user preferences and is used to guide content adaptation. Version 2.0 is an update to the CC/PP 1.0 Recommendation for alignment with RDF and OMA UAProf 2.0. This Recommendation is one of the areas of convergence between W3C and OMA. Read about ubiquitous Web applications. (Permalink)
2007-05-02: The SVG Working Group published five Working Drafts for version 1.2 of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), three extending the language to add raster effects like drop shadows. First Public Working Drafts include SVG Filter Requirements, Primer and Language. Previously part of SVG 1.1 but published here as an independent module, SVG Filters are used to process images before they are displayed. These filter effects are defined in XML for SVG and can be used in other environments such as HTML styled with CSS, or XSL:FO. Updated Working Drafts, SVG Print 1.2 Primer and Language extend the language for multiple page and color management support. SVG provides interactive vector graphics, text, images, animation and graphical applications in XML. Visit the SVG home page. (Permalink)
2007-05-02: The SVG Working Group will hold a test fest on the first day of its face to face meeting in Zurich, Switzerland on 5 June. The beta SVG Tiny 1.2 test suite will be run against available SVG Tiny 1.2 implementations to create an initial implementation report. Implementors are invited to attend or to send their implementations in for testing. For further details please mail the SVG Working Group. Visit the SVG home page. (Permalink)
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