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has published Last Call Working Drafts of
and . The former defines features of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Language that are specifically for p the latter provides guidelines on how to use the print specification with SVG 1.2 Tiny and SVG 1.2 Full modules. Comments on both specifications are welcome through 08 February. Learn more about the .
has published the Candidate Recommendation of . This document defines platform and language neutral programming interfaces that provide Web applications access to a hierarchy of dynamic properties representing device capabilities, configurations, user preferences and environmental conditions. In addition, the Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of , which provides a formal model for the delivery context which other specifications can reference normatively. Learn more about the .
has published the Last Call Working Draft of . Selectors, which are widely used in , are patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. The Selectors API specification defines methods for retrieving Element nodes from the Document Object Model (DOM) by matching against a group of selectors. Comments are welcome through 06 January 2008. The Working Group has also published a Working Draft of , a generic platform- and language-neutral event system which allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides basic contextual information for each event. Learn more about the .
has published the First Public Working Draft of . This document describes the Device Description Repository Core Vocabulary for Content Adaptation, that is, the properties that are considered essential for adaptation of content in the mobile Web. Its intended use is to define a baseline vocabulary for implementations of the Device Description Repository (DDR). Learn more about the .
On 23 January 2008, the
will hold a
where W3C staff will discuss the latest news in Web topics such as e-Government, Video on the Web, and Mobile Web in
for the full list of topics and speakers. The public is invited to participate over the Internet in the seminar, which will take place in English from 15:00 to 18:00 (CET); see the . The seminar, hosted by UPM, will also be broadcast online. Learn more about the .
has published three documents: First Public Working Drafts of
and , as well as a Working Draft of . EXI is a very compact representation for the
that is intended to simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of computational resources. Using a relatively simple algorithm, which is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a small set of data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of XML event streams. The primer and best practices documents complement the format specification. The best practices document also presents information suitable for the general reader interested in EXI's intended role in the expanding Web. Learn more about the .
The Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group has released a first Working Draft of a document explaining the effective use of URIs to enable the growth of the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) — more simply called "Web addresses" — are at the heart of the Web and also of the Semantic Web.
discusses two strategies for choosing URIs for the Semantic Web, gives pointers to several Web sites that use these solutions, and briefly discusses why several other alternatives are less effective. Comments on this draft are requested by 21 January, to be integrated into a final document at the end of the Group's charter. Learn more about the .
has published the Group Note of . This document describes the use cases for a Device Description Repository (DDR). Each use case is analyzed in order to determine the behavior expected of a DDR in order to realize it. These expected behaviors are captured as high-level requirements, which when normalized across all use cases, lead to a discrete set of DDR requirements. Learn more about the .
has published three Working Drafts: , ,
the First Public Working Draft of .
The first defines the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content, for publication on the Web. The second describes a profile of MathML 3.0 that admits formatting with
(CSS). The third
defines several sets of names which are assigned to Unicode characters.
Learn more about the .
Video on the Web is hot! That is why Adobe, Apple, Canon, CBS Interactive, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, Hitachi, Motorola, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, RealNetworks, Samsung, Sony, Sun, Turner Broadcasting, Web3D Consortium, YouTube, and other
have chosen to meet in San Jose (California) at the
on 12-13 December 2007 to discuss the video landscape. More and more people are publishing high-quality video, social networks are sprouting up around Web-delivered media, and IPTV (Internet-based delivery of television programming) is maturing rapidly. These and other changes pose challenges to the underlying technologies and standards to support the platform-independent creation, authoring, encoding/decoding, and description of video. To ensure the success of video as a "first class citizen" of the Web, W3C has invited the community to explore how to build a solid architectural foundation that enables people to create, navigate, search, and distribute video, and to m see the . W3C thanks Cisco for hosting the Workshop and to all the participants who sent .
has published the Candidate Recommendation of . Implementation feedback is welcome through 11 April 2008; please see the
for more information. PLS provides the basis for describing pronunciation information for use in
and , for use in tuning applications, e.g. for proper names that have irregular pronunciations. The Working Group has also updated . Changes from the previous draft include addition of new "type" attribute with value of "ruby", change of references to "pronunciation alphabet" to be "pronunciation scheme", and modified attribute's names of audio element. Visit the .
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the , sponsored by W3C Members NICTA, Google, SICS, and IBM. The mission of this Incubator Group is to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path forward via an emergency management systems information interoperability framework. Read about the , an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.
has published the Candidate Recommendation of . Implementation feedback is welcome through 14 April 2008. EMMA is a data exchange format for the interface between input processors and interaction management systems within the , and defines the means to annotate application specific data with information such as confidence scores, time stamps, input mode, alternative recognition hypotheses, and partial recognition results. Visit the .
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of , and Working Drafts of
and . 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.
are requested by 1 February 2008. Read the , , and about the .
also available as an .
Encarnación Quesada Ruiz
gives an invited talk entitled
at the "" on Monday, 3 December 2007, in Madrid, Spain.Philippe Le Hégaret
participates at a panel entitled "Video Search Engines"
at the "" on Tuesday, 11 December 2007, in New York, USA.Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled
(New Web accessibility international guidelines)"
at the " (Evolution of accessibility)" on Friday, 14 December 2007, in Venezia, Italy.
On 28 November, W3C Chief Executive Officer
delivered two talks — a keynote entitled "" and an overview of
— at the
in Beijing, China. Today he gave an invited lecture on "" at Beihang University in Beijing, China, where he was appointed Guest Professor by University President Li Wei and Professor and Executive Vice President Huai Jinpeng. Read also about the .
has published a Working Draft of . This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc, a language for describing XML pipelines. Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform atomic operations on XML documents and constructs similar to conditionals, loops and exception handlers which control which steps are executed. Learn more about the .
has published the Candidate Recommendation of . XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. An XForms-based Web form gathers and processes XML data using an architecture that separates presentation, purpose and content. XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as XHTML, ODF, or SVG. The Working Group invites implementation experience of this technolog see also the group's . Learn more about the .
W3C is pleased to announce the reopening of the . The mission of this new instance of the XG is to propose a specification draft for an Emotion Markup Language, to document it in a way accessible to non-experts, and to illustrate its use in conjunction with a number of existing markups. Note that this document would not be a standards-track document until W3C charters a Working Group to develop it as a W3C Recommendation.
The XG is sponsored by W3C Members DFKI; Deutsche Telekom T-C Image, Video and Multimedia Systems L Loquendo, S.p.A.; Chinese Academy of S and SRI International.
may use this . Read the
and the , an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.
W3C has published a
of the , organized by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group in Fujisawa, Japan on 16-17 November. Participants from 17 organizations generated
on the current MMI Architecture. The Working Group will review the list as a basis for improvements to the . Visit the .
has published a Working Draft of . This document introduces an "opt-in policy" mechanism whereby people managing a resource can declare whether other sites can retrieve it. The document also defines a mechanism based on the same policy to allow a resource to opt-in to requests using an HTTP method other than GET. Learn more about the .
has published a Working Draft of . The aim of this document is to outline an abbreviated syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). The proposed technology does not target the XHTML Family Markup Languages exclusively. The target audience for this document is designers of technology (e.g., markup languages), not the users of that technology. Learn more about the .
has published the First Public Working Draft of . This document describes the set of guiding principles used by the HTML Working Group for the development of HTML5, expected to define the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web. These design principles are an attempt to capture consensus on design approach in the areas of compatibility, utility, interoperability, and universal access. Learn more about the .
Today, W3C provides new means for
people to create and find mobile friendly content. W3C invites Web authors
to run the alpha release of the
and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices. The checker
runs the tests defined in the
Candidate Recommendation. Read the
in Boston, Massachusetts (USA).
has published the Candidate Recommendation of . This document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim of W3C mobileOK Basic conformance and are based on W3C . You are invited to use the alpha version of the
to test your content. Read the
and learn more about the .
has published two Group Notes:
and . The former introduces the Web Services Policy language with examples. The latter explains how to use the relevant specifications to maximize interoperability. Learn more about the .
has published three SPARQL Proposed Recommendations: , , and . The first specification defines the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language for RDF. SPARQL can be used to express queries across diverse data sources, whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. The results of SPARQL queries can be results sets or RDF the second specification defines an XML format for the variable binding and boolean results formats. The third specification uses
to describe an HTTP protocol for conveying SPARQL queries to an SPARQL query processing service and returning the query results to the party that made the request. Comments are welcome through 10 December. Learn more about the .
Authors of the next version of HTML mix it up
with Semantic Web developers, security experts, Web accessibility advocates,
and the media on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts
(USA). Over 400 experts from around the world will participate in a
compelling
where they will address issues shaping the future of the Web. The
program includes a panel on the growing relationships between W3C and the
at-large developer community, the challenges HTML5 and XHTML2 propose to
solve, and W3C's emerging vision of what's needed for video on the Web. The
day culminates with a talk by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee: "Cracks and
Mortar", a review of the Web to date and a close look at the gaps for signs
of both wear and opportunity. Press are
and contact
w3t-pr@w3.org.
has published a Working Draft of . This
document provides an introduction to, and the benefits of, DIAL (the Device
Independent Authoring Language). It summarizes the concept of device
independence, the scenarios in which it could be used, and the considerations
in order to achieve that goal. It then describes the role of DIAL in ensuring
the delivery of content suitable for the user, device and inherent
circumstances in which it was requested. Learn more about the .
has published two documents: the First
Public Working Draft of , which defines guidelines and
requirements for the presentation and communication of Web security context
information to end- ceremonies f and good
practices for Web Site authors. The second is a Last Call Working Draft of , which helps explain what the group aims
to achieve, what technologies may be used and how technical proposals will be
evaluated. Last Call comments are welcome through 30 November. See also the
companion to the Last Call draft, , a W3C Group Note. Learn more about the .
has published two Group
and . The first describes the business models
surrounding the creation, maintenance and use of device descriptions. It
identifies the main actors in the current model, explores their motivations
for participating, identifies the costs associated with participation and the
benefits that accrue to participants. The second describes what efforts the
W3C and other organizations are doing in order to provide accurate device
descriptions, part of making it easier to author for the Mobile Web. Learn
more about the .
has published the Working Draft of . This document provides a set of guidelines for
developing XML documents and schemas that are internationalized properly.
Following the best practices describes here allow both the developer of XML
applications, as well as the author of XML content to create material in
different languages. Learn more about the .
published updated Working Drafts of
and . The patterns can describe XML 1.0
representations of commonly used data structures independent of any
particular programming language, database or modelling environment.
Contribute to the ,
and read the
and about .
also available as an .
Tim Berners-Lee presents at
on 14 November in Boston, MA, USA.Steven Pemberton presents at the Service Oriented Computing Platform
Seminar on 15 November in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at
November in Paris, France.On behalf of the W3C China Office, Ivan Herman presents at
(The First
China Semantic Web Symposium) on 19 November in Beijing, China, and at
on 22 November in
Hangzhou, China.On behalf of the W3C China Office, Steve Bratt presents at the
on 28 November in Beijing,
The Geospatial Incubator Group
published theirs reports on
The first document define a basic ontology and
vocabulary for representation of geospatial properties for Web resources. The
second gives an overview and description of geospatial foundation ontologies
to represent geospatial concepts and properties on the Web.
for this work are
described in the .
Both publications are part of the , a forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment.
has published the
Group Note of . This document sets out the use cases and
requirements that have motivated the development of the . The
use cases address social and commercial needs to provide information about
groups of Web resources, such as those available from a Web site, to aid the
annotation and/or personalization of content for end users in varying
delivery contexts. Learn more about the .
has published the
First Public Working Draft of . The Protocol for Web
Description Resources (POWDER) facilitates the publication of descriptions of
multiple resources such as all those available from a Web site. This document
describes how sets of resources may be defined, either for use in Description
Resources or in other contexts. Learn more about the .
published three documents: , , the first two are First Public Working Drafts.
Basic Logic Dialect specifies a basic format that allows logic rules to be
exchanged between rule-based systems. Rules interchanged using the Rule
Interchange Format RIF may depend on or be used in combination with RDF data
and/or RDF Schema or OWL data models. RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility specifies
compatibility of RIF with the Semantic Web languages RDF and RDFS; in the
future the document will address OWL as well. Finally, the Placeholder
document resets expectations about the core RIF design. The Working Group has
decided that that the design previously published as
is better considered as
the basis for Logic Rules, rather than all kinds of rules. In the future, a
new Core may be published, but for now, interested parties should refer to
the Basic Logic Dialect. Learn more about the .
The User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines (UAAG) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft
of , which defines planned new work
on the second generation of UAAG. UAAG provides guidance on designing Web
browsers, media players, assistive technologies, and other 'user agents' to
be accessible and to increase accessibility of Web content for people with
disabilities. UAAG is part of a series of accessibility guidelines described
in . Read the
and about .
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the , hosted by
(Brazilian Network Information
Center) institute, in São Paulo, Brazil. Vagner Diniz is Office Manager. W3C
looks forward to increasing interaction with the Portuguese-speaking
community through this Office, its first in South America. The IT landscape
in Brazil aligns with exciting current trends at W3C such as mobile Web, Web
applications and video on the Web. Read the
and visit the .
The World Wide Web Consortium today
as a Recommendation. The document responds to implementor feedback, brings
the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with
and reflects clarifications already . XForms separates presentation and content, minimizes the need
for scripting and round-trips to the server, and offers device independence.
Visit the .
The Web API Working Group released
an updated Working Draft of .
The core component of , the
XMLHttpRequest object is an interface that allows scripts to
perform HTTP client
functions, such as submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web
site. Read about the .
W3C has named
to the position of
Activity Lead. The Activity's groups are responsible for education
and outreach, coordination with research, general discussion on Web
accessibility, coordination with the , and WAI liaisons with other organizations including standards
organizations. Shadi joined W3C in 2003. He coordinates WAI outreach in
Europe, accessibility evaluation techniques, and worked on the WAI-TIES
Project, and currently with the WAI-AGE
Project. Shadi will continue to lead development of the Evaluation and Report
Language (EARL) and chair the Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT
WG). W3C wishes to thank
the Activity, and continues her roles as Director of the Web Accessibility
Initiative, and WAI Technical Activity Lead. Read more about .
jointly published an updated Working Draft of the . The
primer is an introduction to , a method
for embedding structured data in XHTML. Among changes in this draft are the
term "chaining," previously called striping, and a new
instanceof attribute. Visit the
home pages.
released the First Public Working Draft of . This document identifies some issues surrounding the use of
transforming proxies in the delivery of Web content. Discussion of these
issues is expected to influence the (future) requirements document for
Content Transformation Guidelines. Read about the .
(W3C) presents "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the
Mobile Web with Open Standards" at , 13-15 November in Boston, MA, USA. W3C's
holds a pre-conference
on 13 November with
initiative sponsors including Google, MobileAware, mTLD, Nokia, Opera
Software, France Telecom Group and Vodafone to discuss the "One Web" vision
and mobile standards. W3C hosts a media and analyst luncheon with the
speakers on 14 November. Read the
and about the .
is available. The report shows strong interest in additional
work on XML security at W3C. A basic signature profile, the referencing and
transform models, updating the set of supported cryptographic algorithms, and
revisiting XML canonicalization were seen as highest priority among the
several topics identified by the participants. The Workshop was held in
September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by VeriSign and chaired by
Frederick Hirsch (Nokia) and Thomas Roessler (W3C). Read about
and about the .
released an updated Working Draft of . These
five events and their interfaces are used for data transfer in Ajax Web
applications as described in
and for . When additional data
is downloaded on demand, scripts can monitor progress, construct loading
bars, and take action once data has been transferred. Read about the .
released an updated Working Draft of . Widely used in
, selectors are patterns that match against
elements in a tree structure. These methods are defined to retrieve element
nodes from the DOM by
matching against a group of selectors, and simplify the process of acquiring
specific elements, especially compared with more verbose techniques used in
the past. Visit the .
released an updated Working Draft of .
Behavioral extensions provide a way to link to binding technologies such as
XBL from CSS style sheets. Bindings thus can be selected using the CSS
cascade and can transparently benefit from the user style sheet mechanism,
media selection, and alternate style sheets. Visit the .
released the First Public Working Draft of . All stable specifications that have been implemented for
the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language at all Levels are given in this
single document as a guide for authors. The snapshot is not a guide to what
features are implemented. The group expects it to be a future Working Group
Note. Visit the .
released a Working Draft of . Comments
are welcome through 15 November. This subset of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
2.1 is a baseline for implementations of CSS on constrained devices like
mobile phones, written with
ensure interoperability and for alignment with OMA's Wireless CSS
Specification 1.1. Visit the .
jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of . RDFa attributes can be used with languages such as HTML and
XHTML to express structured data. RDFa allows terms from multiple
independently-developed vocabularies to be freely intermixed. This document
has parsing rules for those creating an RDFa parser as well as guidelines for
users in organizations who wish to use RDFa. For those who would like start
using RDFa, the
introduction to its use and shows real-world examples. Visit the
published updated Working Drafts of the , , and .
The WAI-ARIA
Suite of documents addresses the accessibility to people with disabilities of
dynamic Web content built with Ajax and DHTML. WAI-ARIA includes technologies
to map controls, Ajax live regions, and events to accessibility APIs,
including custom controls used for rich Internet applications. It also
describes new navigation techniques to mark common Web structures as menus,
primary content, secondary content, banner information and other types of Web
structures. Implementation of WAI-ARIA in languages such as HTML 4, HTML 5
and XHTML is in active development. Read the
and about the
We thank the thousands of people who
participated in the QA Activity which has completed its work and closed as of
18 October 2007. However, we anticipate further developing the dialog with
we welcome your comments on the . W3C will continue to maintain and develop tools, the most popular
resources on w3.org. We congratulate and thank Daniel Dardailler, Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux and Karl Dubost of W3C who led the Activity, Lofton
Henderson (OASIS), Lynne Rosenthal (NIST), Patrick Curran (Sun Microsystems),
and Karl Dubost and Olivier Théreaux (W3C) who served as Chairs. Read the
and visit the .
released the First Public Working Draft of . The draft specifies the IDL language for use by W3C
specifications that define DOM interfaces and specifies conformance
requirements for their ECMAScript and Java bindings. This guide for
implementors of DOM specifications is also a reference for new ones, written
to ensure conforming implementations of DOM interfaces are interoperable.
Read about .
Position papers are due 21 November
12-13 December 2007 in San Jose, California, USA, hosted by Cisco Systems.
The Workshop goal is to help make video a first class Web citizen. Attendees
will discuss topics such as the impact of video on the Web, user experience,
search, accessibility, parental control, video production, description,
digital rights, adaptation, mobile access, Web architecture, scalability,
formats and delivery. Read about .
on 5-10 November in
Cambridge, MA, USA. A record 39 W3C Working Groups plus the Advisory
Committee and Advisory Board hold face-to-face meetings and network about the
future of the Web. For the first time, members of the media are invited to
join Plenary Day on Wednesday, 7 November, when program includes the
developer community, discussion of HTML5 and XHTML2, and video on the Web.
Read the . W3C thanks
BEA, Cisco, IBM and
Nokia for their generous support of this meeting.
and attend the next
Technical Plenary planned for October 2008 in France (tentative).
released an updated Working Draft of . Written for users to
run in their Web browser environment, widgets are small applications that
display and update remote data, for example, clocks, stock tickers, news
casters, weather forecasters and games. The group is specifying widgets'
packaging format, their configuration and processing model, launching by the
user agent, version control, DOM APIs and events including communication
between widgets, digital signing, accessibility, and discovery within HTML
documents. Read about .
co-sponsored by W3C
available. Among areas the Workshop identified as needing attention are
JavaScript access to device APIs, offline/disconnected
operation, widgets, mashups and security. The Workshop was held in Mountain
View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Read about
and about the .
released a Last Call Working Draft of . With
the role attribute, authors can annotate XML languages with
machine-readable semantic information about the purpose of elements. Use
cases include accessibility, device adaptation, server-side processing and
complex data description. The attribute can be integrated into any markup
language based on . Visit the .
published an updated Working Draft of . MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical
notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide
Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Version 3 adds
features such as support for bidirectional text and elementary math. Learn
more about the .
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the . Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone) and Jo Rabin (mTLD) chair the group
to produce
guidelines, checklists and best practice statements to enable the reach of
the Web to be easily extended onto mobile devices.
may use this
to join the Working Group. Read
about the .
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the
(PLING), chaired by Marco Casassa-Mont (HP Labs) and Renato Iannella (NICTA).
The group is
to discuss
interoperability, requirements and related needs for integrating and
computing the results when different policy languages used together, for
example, OASIS XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language), IETF Common
Policy, and P3P (W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences). Participation is open
and the public. Read
about the .
is pleased to present
at the third edition of
(Web Foundations 2007) on 3-5
October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Presenters include Arthur Barstow
(Nokia), Dan Brickley (Joost), Tantek Çelik (), Fernando Claver
(PC ACTUAL), Hannah Donovan (Last.fm), Jeremy Keith (Clearleft), Eduardo
Manchón Aguilar (Panoramio), Matt May (Adobe), Charles McCathieNevile
(Opera), Ismael Nafría (Prisacom), George Oates (Yahoo!), Allan Sandfeld
(Change Networks), Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla), Doug Stamper (Microsoft),
Jeffrey Veen (Google) and Tim Berners-Lee (by video link), Bert Bos and Rigo
Wenning (W3C).
released an updated Working Draft of . Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be
relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing
instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the
also available as an .
Daniel Dardailler presents at
on 2-4 October in Moscow, Russia.Bert Bos participates in a panel at
October in Gijón, Spain.Steve Bratt presents at
on 3 October in New York, New
York, USA.Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at
on 5 October in
San Sebastian, Spain.Philipp Hoschka presents at
on 8 October in London, United Kingdom.José Manuel Alonso presents at
on 10 October in Paris,
France.Jim Melton and Michael Sperberg-McQueen present at XML @ Boeing on 15
October in Seattle, Washington, USA.Richard Ishida presents on 15 and 17 October and Felix Sasaki presents
on 17 October at the
in San Jose, California, USA.Ivan Herman and José Manuel Alonso present at
on 17 October in Madrid, Spain.On behalf of the W3C Germany and Austria Office, Klaus Birkenbihl
presents at
on 18 October in Darmstadt, Germany.Shawn Henry presents at the
on 19 October in Orlando, Florida, USA.
released updated Working Drafts of
and its . SML is used to model complex
services and systems including their structure, constraints, policies and
best practices. Based on XML Schema and Schematron, SML allows inter-document
references and user-defined constraints. Read more about .
The POWDER
Working Group published First Public Working Drafts of
and . POWDER is
a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of
Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered
in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content
labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the .
The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of . Comments are welcome through 19 October. These tests provide the
basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based
upon W3C's . Read about
released two Last Call Working Drafts.
Comments are welcome through 19 October. The
introduces the policy language and policy attachment mechanisms.
provide best practices for
creating policy assertions. Both are companions to the Web Services Policy
specifications.
Read about .
co-sponsored by W3C
will be held
28 September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Attendees will
explore use cases for mobile
shape its use in mobile Web browsers. Topics may include user experience,
application development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether
needs exist for standardization and best practices. Results will be linked
from the Workshop page in October. Read the
and about the
The POWDER
Working Group published First Public Working Drafts of
and . POWDER is
a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of
Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered
in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content
labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the .
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of
to Candidate Recommendation. The
developers and end users a way to write and consume search results across a
wide range of information and provides a means of integration over disparate
sources. With this format, SPARQL variable binding and boolean results can be
expressed in XML. Read about the
and visit the .
has published an updated Working Draft of .
This subset of MathML 3.0 can be used to capture the structure of
mathematical formulas in a way particularly suitable for further CSS
formatting. Coordinated with ongoing work on CSS Level 3, the profile is
expected to facilitate adoption of MathML in Web browsers and CSS formatters.
Visit the .
published a Last Call Working Draft of .
Comments are welcome through 24 October. Used to control and organize the
flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions, inputs and
outputs for transformations for the large group of specifications such as
XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML
documents. Learn more about the .
released a First Public and Last Call Working
Draft of . Comments are welcome through 15
October. Indicating endpoint support for the serialization of SOAP messages,
this domain-specific policy assertion can be specified within a policy
alternative and can be attached to a WSDL description. MTOM
optimizes hop-by-hop exchanges between SOAP nodes. Read about .
The CSS Working Group released the
First Public Working Draft of the
of the Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) language. It applies the traditional grid systems used in books and
newspapers to online content and complements the different approach defined
in the . Grids may be
explicitly authored or implied and combined with . Visit the .
has published
as a Working Group Note. The note recommends that the
Working Group stop formal work on this deliverable and includes some
potential options if W3C Members choose to do related work. Learn more about
The World Wide Web Consortium today
Recommendations. GRDDL enables authors to extract data from their documents
automatically, enabling them to reuse their data and enrich it by connecting
to the Semantic Web. Give the
a try! Read the , the
and , and about the .
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the . Ian Horrocks
(Oxford University) and Alan Ruttenberg (ScienceCommons) chair the group
to produce a W3C
Recommendation for an extended , adding a small set of extensions and defining profiles
identified by users and tool implementers.
may use this
to join the Working Group. Read
The Voice Browser Working Group
released an updated Working Draft of . Changes from the previous draft include the
usage of XML 1.1 and IRIs, and the
specification of voice selection and language speaking control. Version 1.1
improves on W3C's
by adding support for more conventions and practices of the world's
languages. Visit the .
W3C is pleased to announce that the
successfully completed its work: the Web Services Addressing 1.0 ,
Recommendations
and a Working Group Note, . The core properties allow uniform
addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying
transport. Read about .
The World Wide Web Consortium today
as a Recommendation. The specification is used
to indicate support for
and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in . Read about the
The World Wide Web Consortium today
as Recommendations. The 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 the , the
and about the
W3C is pleased to announce that the
has successfully completed its work: the W3C Recommendation
(SAWSDL) and its companion . With SAWSDL,
semantic annotations can be added to Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
components for use in classifying, discovering, matching, composing and
invoking Web services. Read about .
The POWDER Working Group
has released
as a Working Group Note. The document will guide
the development of a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to
large collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved,
personalized and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both
social needs for content labels and commercial requirements for content
adaptation. Visit the .
The XML Schema Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of . Comments are welcome through 8 November. XML schemas define
shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those
vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them.
Simplifications and changes in this draft are to sections on rules for
checking validity, "all" groups, the PSVI, conformance, fallback for
lax validation, particles and wildcards, among other revisions. Visit the .
also available as an .
Karl Dubost presents at , HTML 5,
l'édition des draveurs and la voie
des normes Web on 17 September in Montréal, Canada.Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at the
on 19 September in London, United
Kingdom.Klaus Birkenbihl presents at
September in Potsdam, Germany.Karl Dubost presents at
and , Quebec
Government, on 20 September in Québec, Canada.José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at the
on 21 September in Lisbon, Portugal.Stephen M. Watt and Birendra Keshari present at the
(ICDAR) on 24 September in Curitiba,
Brazil.On behalf of the W3C Germany and Austria Office, Philipp Hoschka
presents at
on 26 September in Berlin, Germany.On behalf of the W3C Australia Office, Bert Bos gives a lecture on 26
September and presents on 27 September at
in Sydney, Australia.
, the 5th International
Conference on , will be
held 4-7 September at Keio University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo.
Over 40 presentations will be delivered, from SVG experts all over the world,
tackling topics such as mobile SVG, Web mapping, geo-location based services
and much more. The conference
and confirmed
available. The conference language is E translation facilities will be
available to encourage English-Japanese communication. On-site registration
will be also available at the registration desk during the conference. Please
also note that
will be a joint event of SVG Open
2007 Conference.
The XML Query Working Group
published a Last Call Working Draft of the .
Comments are welcome through 31 October. XML Query can perform searches,
queries and joins over collections of XDM instances such as
documents or databases. The update facility provides expressions to create,
modify and delete nodes within those instances. The specification's
were also published as updated Working Drafts. Visit the .
The World Wide Web Consortium today
(SAWSDL) as a Recommendation. With these attributes,
semantic annotations can be added to Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
components for use in classifying, discovering, matching, composing and
invoking Web services. The companion
is a Working
Group Note that shows through examples how to associate semantic annotations
with a Web service. Read about the
and about .
Position papers are due 5 October
on 16-17 November 2007 in Fujisawa, Japan,
hosted by W3C/Keio. Attendees will discuss the support and integration of
user interface components such as speech, GUI and handwriting recognition
from multiple vendors, to help the Multimodal Interaction Working Group make
specification more useful in current and emerging markets. Read about
and about .
W3C plans a
on 16-17 November 2007 in Fujisawa, Japan, hosted by
W3C/Keio. Attendees will discuss the support and integration of user
interface components such as speech, GUI and handwriting recognition
from multiple vendors, to help the Multimodal Interaction Working Group make
specification more useful in current and emerging markets. A Call for
Participation is expected shortly. Read about
and about .
published their report on . The report describes the use of RDF and OWL to create,
store, exchange and process information about images. The previously
discusses a number of individual
vocabularies that are relevant for image annotation. Both publications are
part of the , a forum where
W3C Members can innovate and experiment.
released two updated Working Drafts. The
introduces the
policy language and policy attachment mechanisms. The
provide best practices for creating policy assertions.
Both are companions to the Web Services Policy 1.5
specifications.
Read about .
The CSS Working Group released two
updated Working Drafts for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language .
the basic layout of textual documents in visual media. The
defines visual order independent of document order, position and alignment of
user interface widgets, and page and window grids. Visit the .
W3C's most popular service just
got better, prettier, faster, and smarter. The
has a new user
interface and a validation engine with improved accuracy and performance.
Among new features are an automatic cleanup option using HTML Tidy, and
checking of HTML fragments. Driven by W3C as an
project, the markup validator is made by Web professionals for
Web professionals, and aims to be a major step in any Web development quality
process. Read the
for a list of all changes and new features.
released the First Public Working
Drafts of the
and its . SML is used to
model complex services and systems including their structure, constraints,
policies and best practices. Based on XML Schema and Schematron, SML allows
inter-document references and user-defined constraints. Read more about .
is available. The report recommends that W3C create
requirements for declarative modeling of Web applications, and a gap analysis
that identifies where existing standards are insufficient. The Workshop was
hosted in Dublin by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State
Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Read about
and about the .
A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for
Working Groups has published
its , which suggests
that W3C stop work on .
when France Telecom
excluded patent claims from the . W3C continues work on a future,
differently scoped version of REX in the . W3C appreciates the cooperation from the
patent holder, France Telecom, in helping the PAG reach their conclusion.
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of
to Proposed Recommendation. The specification
is used to indicate support for the
and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in . Comments are
welcome through 30 August. Read about the
and about .
also available as an .
Eighteen W3C Working Group participants and staff members present at
August in Montréal, Canada.Ivan Herman presents a tutorial at the
on 31 August in Singapore.
is launching
an Open Mobile Web Test Suite built by the community for the community to
describe support for technologies in mobile Web browsers available today.
Mobile Web developers can
(as described in the ) illustrating authoring practices. Submissions will contribute
to a better understanding of the current limitations of user agents, which
helps pave the way to better mobile Web browsers tomorrow. Read the
and about the .
The Ubiquitous Web Applications
Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of . 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
more about the Working Group and the .
released the First Public Working Draft of . The ElementTraversal interface defines four properties
that scripts can use to navigate DOM Elements and also provides
the property childElementCount for preprocessing. The
specification was originally part of . Read about .
The Efficient XML Interchange
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of . An analysis of the expected performance
characteristics of a potential Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) encoding
format, the draft covers the "compactness," "processing efficiency" and
"roundtrip support" properties and outlines plans for future updates. Visit
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of
to Candidate Recommendations. Implementation feedback is
welcome. DISelect supports the creation of Web sites that can be used from
diverse devices. Based on the evaluation and conditional processing of XML
information sets, DISelect is used for Web content selection and filtering.
The XPath functions are used to access the & Delivery Context associated
with a request for content. Read about .
published a Proposed Edited Recommendation for . The
document responds to implementor feedback, brings the XForms 1.0
Recommendation up to date with
and reflects clarifications already . Comments are welcome through 31 August. XForms separates
presentation and content, minimizes the need for scripting and round-trips to
the server, and offers device independence. Visit the .
which includes thirty seven representatives from organizations in Europe and
North America, published its . The report
describes multimedia metadata formats and relevant vocabularies for
developers of Semantic Web applications. This publication is part of the W3C
experimental
that develops
new, potentially foundational technologies and Web-based applications in a
rapid time frame.
The Compound Document Formats
Working Group has released four Candidate Recommendations: , , , and . Implementor
feedback is welcome through 1 December. A preliminary
available, and a test suite is under development. The Web Integration
Compound Document (WICD, pronounced "wicked") is a device independent
Compound Document profile based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe
presentation, linking and navigation behavior when multiple documents are
combined. Read more about .
Position papers are due 10 September
to be held 25-26 October in Cambridge, MA, USA,
hosted by Novartis. Workshop attendees from the Semantic Web and relational
database communities will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps
for expressing relational data in RDF. Read about
and about the .
The XML Schema Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of . XML Schema 1.1 introduces new
features that make it easier to define XML languages which are flexible
enough to tolerate later revision in a forward-compatible way. Written for
application and schema developers, the guide shows the new mechanisms and
illustrates several techniques. Visit the .
The Web Services Policy Working
Group has published
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
has published the First Public Working
Draft of . This practical guide to using the XML
Binding Language introduces both basic and advanced concepts and describes
best practices. XBL extends the appearance and behavior of elements in Web
formats such as HTML. Learn more about the .
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of
to Candidate Recommendation. Implementation feedback is welcome
through 20 December. CSS is one of the Web's most widely implemented
languages. By separating the presentation of style from the content of
documents, CSS simplifies Web authoring and site maintenance. CSS 2.1 is
derived from and is intended to replace CSS Level 2. A snapshot of usage, the
specification brings the language in line with implementations, fixes errata
and adds a few highly requested features including the
inline-block value for the display property, the
color orange and the values pre-wrap and
pre-line for the white-space property. Visit the .
has published the First Public Working Draft of
. EXI is a very compact representation for the eXtensible Markup
Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to simultaneously optimize
performance and the utilization of computational resources. Using a
relatively simple algorithm and a small set of data types, it reliably
produces efficient encodings of XML event streams. Learn more about .
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of
to Proposed
Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 24 August. Linking microformats
to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is used to extract
statements from XHTML and XML content using programs
such as XSLT. Read about the
has published the Last Call Working Draft of . This the third version of the Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile"), an XML-based
language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations.
This version will extend the functionality of , facilitate the reuse of
SMIL syntax and semantics in other XML-based languages, and define new SMIL
profiles. Comments are welcome through 14 September. Learn more about the .
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of
to Candidate Recommendation. The specification 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
Recommendation for mobile devices, released in coordination with the WAP
Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance () XHTML Mobile profile. Implementation feedback
is welcome through 31 August. Visit the .
W3C has named
to the position of Mobile
Web Initiative Activity Lead. The
is a joint effort by vendors, providers, manufacturers and
mobile operators to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and
convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Dominique first joined W3C as
Webmaster, did early work on GRDDL,
contributed to QA at W3C, served as
Team Contact for the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, serves as
co-Chair of the MWI Test Suites
Working Group, and works on mobileOK. W3C wishes to thank
Philipp Hoschka who previously led the Activity and continues his roles as
W3C Deputy Director for Europe and Ubiquitous Web Domain Leader. Read more .
The , which
includes representatives from sixteen institutions in eleven countries on
three continents, published its . The
report contains scope, requirements and use cases for a general-purpose
Emotion Markup Language. This publication is part of the W3C experimental
that develops new, potentially
foundational technologies and Web-based applications in a rapid time frame.
W3C is pleased to participate in
(The Days of Web Standards 2007), one
of the largest Web-related events in Japan. Web developers and designers will
gather on 15 July in Tokyo to discuss the usefulness and pleasure in using
Web standards and how they are popular. Members of the W3C staff, Karl
Dubost, Tatsuya Hagino, Olivier Thereaux present and Yasuyuki Hirakawa runs a
booth. Browse
available as an .
The POWDER
Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of . POWDER is a way to attach
small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of Web content. Web
resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered in a variety of
delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content labels and commercial
requirements for content adaptation. Visit the .
has published a Last Call Working Draft of
. DCCI (formerly DCI) provides access to device properties
including capabilities, configuration, user preferences and environmental
conditions such as remaining battery life, signal strength, ambient
brightness, location, and display orientation. Comments are welcome through
27 July. This draft has one normative change to show DCCI inheriting from the
DOM Element interface. Learn more about the .
W3C is pleased to participate as a
cosponsor at
to be held 7-10 August in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Among the
participants representing W3C are Chris Lilley, Liam Quin, Felix Sasaki and
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. A
is available. Read more about .
has published a Working Draft of
to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language
standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for the
large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and
Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents. Learn more about the
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Web Services Policy 1.5 to Proposed Recommendation. The Policy
model expresses the
nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction.
defines how
to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with
subjects to which they apply. Comments are welcome through 17 August. Read
The Web Application Formats Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of . 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 .
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of
(SAWSDL) to Proposed Recommendation. With these
attributes, semantic annotations can be added to Web Services Description
Language (WSDL) components for use in classifying, discovering, matching,
composing, and invoking Web services. Comments are welcome through 17 August.
Read about the
also available as an .
Addison Phillips presents at the
July in New York City, USA.Karl Dubost, Tatsuya Hagino, Olivier Thereaux present and Yasuyuki
Hirakawa runs a booth at
(The Days of
Web Standards 2007) on 15 July in Tokyo, Japan.Philipp Hoschka presents at the
(Webcast, in German) on 17 July.On behalf of the , Felix Sasaki presents a lecture organized by
Zentrums für Medien und Interaktivität,
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, on 20 July in Gießen, Germany.Dan Connolly presents at
on 25 July in Oxford, United Kingdom.
has published
as a Working Group Note.
provides a request-response Message Exchange Pattern
(MEP) and a response-only MEP. SOAP Version 1.2 Part 3
provides a one-way MEP. Learn more about the .
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of . This community
service created by the
brings together a variety of blog posts that discuss
internationalization topics. You can subscribe to the . If you
own a blog with a focus on internationalization and want to be added, please
(W3C). Read more on the
Join us for a
German, where you will learn how to make your Web content
mobile-friendly. Philipp Hoschka will show how you can benefit from the
expertise collected through the documents and tools provided by the . The
Webinar will be held Tuesday, 17 July at 11:00am Berlin time. Attendance is
is required. Visit the
The Internationalization Tag Set
Working Group published an updated Working Draft of . These guidelines explain how XML application
developers and XML content authors can create formats and content that enable
use by speakers of a variety of languages and that facilitate the translation
and localization process. The best practices are a complement to the
Recommendation. Visit the .
The GRDDL Working Group published
as a Working
Group Note. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is
used to extract
statements from XHTML and XML content
using programs such as XSLT.
The primer contains detailed illustrations of GRDDL techniques. Visit the .
The World Wide Web Consortium today
released ,
as Recommendations. "In
addition to the rigorous interoperability testing, we're pleased to have
given developers the HTTP binding, which provides simple Web-friendly access
to a service," said Jonathan Marsh (WSO2), Working Group co-Chair. WSDL
models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed
systems and to automate communication between applications. WSDL ,
have been published
as Working Group Notes. Read the
and about .
is pleased to present Tantek Çelik, Jeffrey Veen, Tim
Berners-Lee (by video link), and other
at the third edition of
(Web Foundations 2007) on 3-5
October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Well-known representatives from
Microsoft, Opera, Mozilla, Nokia, Konqueror, Flickr, Last FM, and W3C will
present at the event.
the conference, which sold out for the second time last year, is open and
offers discounts for unemployed people as well as for .
The Web Services Addressing Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of
to prepare the specification for consideration as a Proposed
Recommendation. The specification is used to indicate support for the
and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in the . Comments are
welcome through 11 July. Read about .
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of
to Candidate Recommendation. The canonical XML method is used to
determine whether an application has changed a document and whether two XML
documents are identical, allowing for low-level changes in syntax permitted
by XML 1.0. When the canonical forms are identical the originals are
logically equivalent within the application's context. Version 1.1 addresses
inheritance of attributes when canonicalizing document subsets, to not
inherit xml:id, and to treat xml:base URI path
processing properly. Implementation feedback and comments are welcome through
30 September. Visit the .
Position papers are due 14 August
to be held 25-26 September in Mountain View,
California, USA, hosted by VeriSign. Attendees will discuss next steps for
specifications and share their experiences implementing and developing these
standards. Topics may include interoperability and robustness, performance,
legal requirements for digital signature formats, and the impact of the
evolving XML environment. The Workshop is expected to give its
recommendations to the . The Workshop is free free and open to all,
however, submission of position papers is required of all participants. Visit
and read about .
The World Wide Web Consortium today
as a W3C Recommendation, confirming the standard
for voice-driven Web applications. Used daily in millions of telephone calls,
VoiceXML enables rapid development of audio dialogs. Version 2.1 extends the
language with eight commonly implemented features including dynamic access to
grammars and scripts. Completely interoperable, VoiceXML 2.0 applications
will work under VoiceXML 2.1 without modification. VoiceXML and the
Recommendation for
approved in April are critical
pieces of . Read
and visit the .
W3C has named
to the new position of Director
of International Relations and Offices. Daniel oversees
for international bodies such as
UN organizations, the Internet Governance
Forum, ISOC, ISO, and
Daniel will continue his role as Associate Chair for Europe. W3C named
to the new position of Offices
Coordinator. Visit the
and read about
The Web Application Formats (WAF)
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of . Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be
relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing
instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the
Documenting changes since Last Call,
the Web API Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of .
The core component of , the
XMLHttpRequest object is an interface that allows scripts to
perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data or loading data
from a remote Web site. Read about the .
The RDF Data Access Working Group
has updated the
Working Group Note for the simplified , removing two attributes. JavaScript Object Notation (), a lightweight data-interchange format, is
used as an alternative to XML vocabulary to serialize the results of SPARQL
query forms. SPARQL offers developers and end users a way to write and
consume search results across a wide range of information and provides a
means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the .
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of
to Candidate Recommendation. With SPARQL (pronounced
"sparkle"), developers and end users can consume search results across a wide
range of information such as personal, technical, business or scientific
data, social networks, or data about digital artifacts like music and images.
SPARQL supports extensible value testing and constrained queries, both when
data is stored as RDF natively or viewed as RDF via middleware. Results can
be displayed in results sets or as RDF graphs. Implementation feedback is
invited through 12 August.
is a Last Call Working Draft with comments welcome through 5 July.
Visit the .
Head of State of the United Kingdom, appointed , W3C Director and
inventor of the World Wide Web, to be a member of the .
Founded in 1902, the Order of Merit is an honor conferred by the sovereign of
the United Kingdom to individuals for "exceptionally meritorious service,"
usually in the arts, learning, literature and sciences. Twenty four
individuals plus foreign recipients may hold the honor at one time. "Awards
such as this are for public service, a service which in this case has been
largely carried out by the W3C. All those involved in Consortium activity
should feel recognized by this acknowledgment of the importance of W3C's
work," said Berners-Lee. Read the ,
The W3C Advisory Committee has
filled four open seats on the .
Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues
of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution.
Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François
Abramatic (ILOG), Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don
Deutsch (Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM),
Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia) and Arun Ranganathan (AOL). Steve
Zilles continues as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the .
The Voice Browser Working Group
released updated Working Drafts of
and its . Version 1.1
improves on W3C's
by adding support for more conventions and practices of
the world's languages including Asian, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern
languages. Both documents follow discussions from the three W3C Workshops on
extending SSML. See the
and visit the .
is now available,
recommending next steps for the ways Web services and Web standards can meet
enterprise software requirements. In February, Web services and SOA experts met to improve
enterprise support. Read the results of the
hosted by MITRE, about
and about .
The Internationalization Core
Working Group published an updated Working Draft of . This
advice is for authors who use XHTML or HTML markup and CSS to create and/or
localize Web content in languages that use right-to-left scripts such as
Arabic and Hebrew. The document was previously titled Authoring
Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Handling Bidirectional
Text 1.0. Visit the .
The CSS Working Group released an
updated Working Draft of , a module
of Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Style sheet authors can allow
content to flow from one column to another, specify column width, and allow
the number of columns to vary, all depending on available space. More
flexible than table markup, columns styled in CSS can more easily be
presented on a variety of output devices including speech synthesizers and
small mobile devices. Visit the .
The CSS Working Group released an
updated Candidate Recommendation for editorial changes to , a module of
Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Built on the mechanism outlined in
HTML, a registry of media type