23 December 2005
On this fifteenth birthday of the World
Wide Web, W3C wishes a happy and successful 2006 to our visitors.
Following through on its mission to lead the Web to its full potential,
in 2005, W3C published six sets of new Web
standards, opened the Indian
Office, reduced Membership fees in developing countries, founded
the Mobile Web Initiative, and launched eleven
new groups including Rich Web Clients,
Efficient XML Interchange, Rule Interchange Format and Health Care and Life Sciences. W3C thanks our
Members, participants and
contributors for their part in these achievements. Publications resume
in January. Read About W3C.
20 December 2005
The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.
The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended
for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Scope of Mobile Web Best
Practices was published as a Working Group Note. Read about the
W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by
authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers,
browser vendors and mobile operators.
20 December 2005
Position papers are due 10
February for the W3C
Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web to be held 9-10 March 2006, hosted
by Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. The "Ubiquitous Web" seeks to
fulfill the potential of the Web for distributed applications that
adapt to the user's needs, device capabilities and environmental
conditions. Attendees will examine enabling technologies and consider
what remains to be done to fulfill this vision. Read possible topics and
about W3C Workshops.
19 December 2005
The XML Key Management Service
(XKMS) Working Group has published Using XKMS with PGP as a Working
Group Note. This informative note provides usage scenarios for XKMS
when used with PGP, together with corresponding sample message
exchanges. The note also points out open issues with PGP support in
both the XKMS and XML-SIG specifications and proposes some potential
solutions to these issues. Visit the XKMS home
page.
16 December 2005
The CSS Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of Selectors. Designed to be
usable in performance-critical code, selectors are patterns in the
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language that match to elements in HTML
and XML. This specification describes the selectors in CSS1 and CSS2 and new
selectors for CSS3. Comments are
welcome through 16 January. Visit the CSS home
page.
13 December 2005
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) as a W3C Recommendation.
With SMIL (pronounced "smile"), authors create multimedia presentations
and animations integrating streaming audio and video with graphics and
text. Version 2.1 features include a new Mobile Profile and an Extended
Mobile Profile with enhanced timing, layout and animation capabilities.
"Today, W3C makes good on the promise of first class multimedia
presentations for the mobile Web," said Chris Lilley (W3C). Read the
press release and visit the
Synchronized Multimedia home page.
13 December 2005
The XForms Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of XForms 1.1. XForms is the new
generation of Web forms. Designed to refine and strengthen the XML
processing platform introduced by XForms 1.0, version 1.1 embraces
SOAP, facilitates XForms use in other host languages, and makes
authoring easier. Visit the XForms home
page.
08 December 2005
The W3C Web Services
Addressing Working Group will hold an Interoperability Event on 17-18
January in Vancouver, BC Canada. Participants will test the Web
Services Addressing family of W3C specifications. The group invites
interested parties who have implemented Web Services Addressing 1.0:
Core, SOAP Binding and/or
WSDL Binding. For details and to register, please see the
announcement. Visit the Web services home
page.
07 December 2005
Standards
for Multimodal Dialogue Context will be held 12 December at the
Human Communication Research Centre, School of Informatics, University
of Edinburgh. Organized by the TALK and AMI IST research projects
with support from W3C, the workshop will study interoperability needs
for dialog context formats and dialog annotations. Dave Raggett and
Henry Thompson of W3C present. Visit the Voice
Browser Activity home page.
07 December 2005
The Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) Working Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of the
Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification. The draft allows reviewers to verify
that their comments have been included. Comments will be accepted
through 28 December. The SVG language delivers vector graphics, text,
and images to the Web in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a complete language
specification and is implementable on devices large and small, from
cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers. Visit the SVG home page.
29 November 2005
W3C
holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 29 November - 1
December in Montréal, Québec, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate in
two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on
W3C Activities. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the
next Advisory Committee Meeting during May 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland,
UK.
28 November 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for
RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users
a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of
information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about
digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means
of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
28 November 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the
QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C)
and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group
(QA IG) is to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web
community to share their experiences and involvement with QA.
Participation is open to W3C
Members and the public. Visit the QA home
page.
23 November 2005
The Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released a Working Draft of
Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0 incorporating Last Call comments. The guidelines are
written to help developers create accessible authoring interfaces that
produce accessible Web content. Resulting content can be read by a
broader range of readers including those with disabilities. Read about
the Web Accessibility Initiative.
22 November 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the Semantic Web Health Care and
Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG). Chaired by Tonya
Hongsermeier (Partners HealthCare) and Eric Neumann (Unaffiliated), the
group is chartered to improve
collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the
health care and life science industries. Aiding decision-making in
clinical research, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many forms of
biological and medical information across institutions. Read the
press release and visit the
Semantic Web home page.
22 November 2005
The Internationalization Tag
Set Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of the
Internationalization Tag Set
(ITS) and an updated Working Draft of its requirements. Organized by data
categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the
internationalization and localization of schemas and documents.
Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for
existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the
Internationalization home page.
22 November 2005
W3C is
pleased to announce the nomination of
Daniel Dardailler, W3C Associate Chair based in Europe, as W3C liaison
to the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Board of Directors. Thomas Roessler will serve on the 2006 ICANN
Nominating Committee (NomCom). W3C's involvement in ICANN and in the
post-WSIS forum, soon to be
launched, should help preserve the operational stability of the
Internet and the Web in a transparent and open way while ensuring its
unfragmented growth based on contributions from the international
community. Read About W3C.
21 November 2005
W3C is pleased to launch the
W3C Feed Validation
Service, a free online tool open to creators of syndication feeds
in formats such as RSS and Atom. Based on 'feedvalidator', and adding a
SOAP Web service interface for interactive programming, the tool is
useful for automatic or batch syntax checking. This service joins the
existing pool of free, open source tools offered by W3C to the Web
development community to help build a better World Wide Web. Learn more
in the announcement.
21 November 2005
The Compound Document Formats
Working Group has released four Working Drafts: the Compound Document by Reference Framework
1.0, WICD Core 1.0,
WICD Full 1.0, and
WICD Mobile 1.0. The
drafts describe behavior for audio, video, images, fonts, layout,
events, scripting, links and encoding when single documents contain
multiple XML formats. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
21 November 2005
The Mobile Web Initiative
Device Description Working Group released a First Public Working Draft
of Device Description
Ecosystem, a future Working Group Note. Serving as input for the
group's requirements document, this draft outlines business models and
participants in the field of device descriptions, and postulates a
common repository. Read about the Mobile Web
Initiative.
18 November 2005
The XML Key Management Service
(XKMS) Working Group has published A WSDL 1.1 description for XKMS
as a Working Group Note. The group has defined a Web service to handle
conventional PKI (public-key infrastructure) functions. Written for
XKMS developers, this note provides a sample Web Services Description
Language (WSDL) description for an XKMS
service. Visit the XKMS home page.
18 November 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
XPointer Registry, opening
XPointer scheme registration up to the public. XPointer is an extensible system for
identifying regions in XML documents. XPointer provides for multiple
addressing schemes but the
XPointer specification reserved unprefixed scheme names to W3C. The
registry adds public access and enables open and well-regulated use
through the XPointer Scheme Name
Registry Policy. Visit the XML home page.
15 November 2005
SFC Open Research Forum (ORF) is an annual
open house event of the Keio Research Institute of Shonan Fujisawa
Campus, Keio University, Japan. At W3C Forum in ORF 2005 on 22 November, Tatsuya Hagino chairs,
Yoshio Fukushige presents the Semantic Web, Kazuyuki Ashimura presents
voice browsing, and Felix Sasaki presents internationalization. An
exhibition booth and open tutorials on 22-23 November introduce the
Mobile Web Initiative, XHTML 2.0, XForms, Compound Document Formats,
internationalization of Web services, and Semantic Web services. The
event is open to interested companies and the general public.
15 November 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the Rich Web Client Activity for client-side Web Application
development. The Web APIs Working Group
chaired by Robin Berjon (Expway) will document and build standard
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) such as XMLHttpRequest, an
AJAX component. The Web Application Formats
Working Group chaired by Art Barstow (Nokia) will develop
declarative languages for Web Applications, building on existing
technologies in the marketplace where possible. The Compound Document Formats Working Group chaired by
Kevin Kelly (IBM) moves to this Activity, and continues to develop a
framework for combined documents as well as profiles that use existing
W3C formats. Participation in these groups is open to W3C Members.
14 November 2005
The Device Independence
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Delivery Context: Interfaces (DCI)
Accessing Static and Dynamic Properties. 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. The previous version of this document was named "Dynamic
Properties Framework (DPF)." Comments are welcome through 4 December.
Read about the Device Independence
Activity.
10 November 2005
The
W3C Indian Office is open in
Noida, India. The Office is hosted by the Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing (C-DAC
Noida). R. K. Verma is the Office Manager and the Deputy Office
Manager is Vijay Gugnani. Stéphane Boyera, Steve Bratt, Max Froumentin,
Ivan Herman and Richard Ishida are among those attending the opening
ceremonies on 10-11 November in New Delhi. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in
local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage
international participation in W3C Activities.
10 November 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
Policy for Authorized W3C
Translations. For the first time, W3C will allow recognition of
translations as "authorized" when they are developed through the
process defined in this policy, which is based on transparency,
community accountability, and commitment to W3C oversight. At the same
time, W3C will continue its existing
translation process which has produced 700 unofficial translations
in 44 languages. W3C warmly thanks all the translators who have
contributed their work. Translations of W3C documents are an important
resource that helps Web standards reach more people worldwide. Read
About W3C.
09 November 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the Web
Services Choreography Description Language Version 1.0 (WS-CDL) to
Candidate Recommendation. This XML-based language describes
peer-to-peer collaborations between Web service participants by
defining their behavior from a global viewpoint. Ordered message
exchanges thus accomplish a common business goal. Comments are welcome
through 31 March. Visit the Web services home
page.
07 November 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF)
Working Group. "After years of industry and research work in rules
languages, I'm pleased to see W3C Members working to develop a
Web-based rules standard," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. Chaired
by Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG) and Sandro Hawke (temporary
co-Chair, W3C), the group is chartered through November 2007 to produce
a language for the exchange of rules and their transfer between rule
systems. Rules are executable pieces of declarative knowledge,
important in managing complex and dynamic operations. Read the press release, about the Rule Interchange Format and visit the Semantic Web home page.
04 November 2005
The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Scope of Mobile Web Best
Practices. This document outlines deliverables such as guidelines
for content delivery and display on mobile and small-screen devices,
and identifies the goal of one Web. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring
tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors
and mobile operators.
04 November 2005
The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group released updated Working Drafts
of the SKOS Core
Guide and SKOS
Core Vocabulary Specification. The drafts explain how to express
classification schemes, thesauruses, subject heading lists, taxonomies,
terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary in
RDF. Previous SKOS work was supported by the
European project SWAD-Europe. Visit the
Semantic Web home page.
03 November 2005
W3C is pleased to announce
eight Candidate Recommendations for XSLT, XML Query and XPath. Comments
are welcome through 28 February. XSLT transforms documents into
different markup or formats. Important for databases, search engines
and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and
joins over collections of documents. Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath
expressions and operate on XPath Data Model instances. Read the
press release
and visit the XML home page.
03 November 2005
We are pleased to launch the
W3C Supporters Program. W3C welcomes
payments and goods such as hardware and software to support W3C's
operations. Premier, Major, and Contributing Supporters are
acknowledged on the W3C Web site, and may use logos on their own sites
as emblems of their support for W3C. Read About
W3C and about the W3C Supporters
Program. W3C wishes to thank all current W3C Supporters.
28 October 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the XML Schema Patterns for
Databinding Working Group. Chartered through September
2007 and chaired by Paul Downey (BT), the group will specify a set of
XML Schema patterns and their usage, allowing developers to access the
data structure in Web services and other toolkits efficiently. The
group is also chartered to build a test suite and to address versioning
in coordination with the W3C TAG, Web Services Description
Working Group, and XML Schema Working Group. Participation is open to
W3C Members. Visit the Web services home page.
27 October 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
opening of the W3C Indian Office
in Noida, India. The Office is hosted by the Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing (C-DAC
Noida). R. K. Verma is the Office Manager and the Deputy Office
Manager is Vijay Gugnani. Stéphane Boyera, Steve Bratt, Max Froumentin,
Ivan Herman and Richard Ishida are among those attending the opening
ceremonies on 10-11 November in New Delhi. Read the press release and about W3C Offices.
17 October 2005
The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.
The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended
for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Writing for a wide
audience, the group invites feedback from developers and network
operators as well as Web professionals who are not technology
specialists. Read about the W3C Mobile Web
Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile
operators.
13 October 2005
Based on discussions with the
XQuery and XSL Working Groups, the Internationalization Core Working
Group has released Working
with Time Zones as a Working Group Note. The document discusses
problems encountered when working with the date
,
time
, and dateTime
values from XML Schema when time zone offsets are included
or omitted. It offers guidelines for working with field-based dates and
times, for working with date and time values that require a time zone,
and for comparing times. Visit the Internationalization home page.
12 October 2005
The HTML Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of XFrames. Replacing HTML frames,
XFrames is an XML application for composing documents together in a
view. Solving usability, search and security problems associated with
HTML frames, XFrames are designed for content negotiation and to allow
bookmarking. Comments are welcome. Read more on the HTML home page.
06 October 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
CSIRO
ICT
Centre in Canberra hosts the W3C
Australian Office effective 10 October. Ross Ackland is Office
Manager. "W3C considers Australia a key to global adoption of Web
technologies, and we welcome CSIRO as an Office host," said Ivan
Herman, W3C Head of Offices. W3C wishes to thank DSTC in Brisbane and
staff members Liz Armstrong and Hoylen Sue for hosting the previous
Australian Office. Read about W3C
Offices.
06 October 2005
The XForms Working Group has
released XForms 1.0 (Second
Edition) as a Proposed Edited Recommendation. The document brings
the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with first edition errata, and
aligns the specification with implementations. Comments are welcome
through 3 November. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. XForms
separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server,
offer device independence and reduce the need for scripting. Visit the
XForms home page.
05 October 2005
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- Klaus Birkenbihl gives a tutorial for the Semantic Web
School on 6 October in Vienna, Austria.
- Ivan Herman presents at Semantic Web Days on 7 October
in Munich, Germany.
- Steve Bratt presents at the Standards Symposium on 11 October in
Schaumburg, IL, USA.
- Steven Pemberton presents XHTML 2 and XForms on behalf of the W3C German and Austrian
Office on 21 October in Munich, Germany.
- Steven Pemberton presents tutorials at User Experience 2005 on 27-28
October in Boston, MA, USA.
- Steve Bratt presents at the MIT
2005 Research and Development Conference on 3 November in
Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Daniel J. Weitzner presents at the 4th International Semantic
Web Conference on 9 November in Galway, Ireland.
- Philipp Hoschka participates at a panel at
Mobile Application Platforms and OSS on 9 November in Vienna,
Austria.
- Stéphane Boyera, Steve Bratt, Max Froumentin, Ivan Herman and
Richard Ishida present at the International
Conference/Workshop on Web Technologies on 10-11 November in New
Delhi, India.
- Michael Sperberg-McQueen presents at XML 2005 on 14 and 16 November in
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Steven Pemberton presents tutorials at User Experience 2005 on 17-18
November in London, UK.
- José Manuel Alonso and Steven Pemberton present at Fundamentos Web 2005
on 22-24 November in Gijón and Oviedo, Spain.
- Klaus Birkenbihl gives a keynote at Semantics 2005 on 25 November in Vienna,
Austria.
27 September 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) to Proposed
Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 28 October. SMIL
(pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition
of multiple animations, and describes animation elements for any
XML-based host language. Version 2.1 extends SMIL 2.0 and supports enhanced
interactive multimedia presentations, reuse of SMIL syntax and
semantics, and new mobile profiles. Visit the synchronized multimedia home page.
16 September 2005
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal
Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction
management systems. Part of the W3C
Multimodal Interaction Framework, the specification describes
markup for describing user input together with annotations such as
confidence scores, timestamps and input medium. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page.
16 September 2005
The XML Query and XSL Working
Groups have released the following Working Drafts of XML Query 1.0, XSL
2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. The goal of this release is to
permit public review of changes made in response to Last Call comments.
Visit the XML home page.
15 September 2005
The Compound Document Formats
Working Group released the second Working Draft of Compound Document Framework 1.0 and WICD
Profiles. The draft describes behavior for audio, video, images,
fonts, layout, events, scripting, links and encoding when single
documents contain multiple XML formats. WICD Core is a foundation
for profiles based on XHTML, CSS and SVG, the WICD Mobile profile is
designed for handsets, and WICD Desktop for the
desktop and high-capability handhelds. Visit the Compound Document home page.
14 September 2005
The Internationalization Core
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization
(WS-I18N). The draft enhances SOAP messaging for locale and
international preference negotiation and defines a locale policy.
Without using Accept-Language and user identity, implementations can
handle the requester's locale, locale policy and language preference.
Visit the Internationalization home
page.
14 September 2005
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has published Test Metadata as a Working
Group Note. Developed on the W3C QA wiki, this set of
metadata elements can be used to track and filter tests, to identify
what is tested, to construct a test harness and to format test results.
Dublin Core is reused where appropriate. Visit the QA
home page.
14 September 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for
RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF
queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the
SPARQL query language (pronounced
"sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query
languages as well. Comments are welcome through 14 October. Visit the
Semantic Web home page.
12 September 2005
The Evaluation and Repair
Tools Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Evaluation and Report Language
(EARL) 1.0 Schema. EARL is a flexible format used to exchange,
combine and compare test results including bug reports, test suite
evaluations and conformance claims. The test subjects might be Web
sites, authoring tools, user agents or other entities. The group
welcomes feedback from Web developers and researchers. Read about the
Web Accessibility Initiative.
09 September 2005
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released xml:id Version
1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. The specification defines an attribute
name, xml:id
, that can always be treated as an identifier
and hence can always be recognized, without fetching external
resources, and without relying on an internal subset. The
Recommendation is the latest deliverable of the XML Core Working Group, part of the W3C
XML Activity.
06 September 2005
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has published an update to The QA Handbook Working Group
Note. Written for W3C Working Group Chairs and Team Contacts, the
document records group experiences and provides techniques, tools, and
templates. Focused on testability and test topics, it is designed to
facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups. Visit the
QA home page.
02 September 2005
The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Scope of Mobile Web Best
Practices. This document outlines deliverables such as guidelines
for content delivery and display on mobile and small-screen devices,
sets out requirements for the "mobileOK" trustmark, and identifies the
goal of one Web. Read about the W3C Mobile
Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile
operators.
31 August 2005
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has published Variability in
Specifications as a Working Group Note. A companion to the QA Specification Guidelines W3C Recommendation,
the note contains advanced specification design considerations and
conformance-related techniques. It describes how design of a
specification's conformance model affects implementability and
interoperability. Visit the QA home page.
23 August 2005
The Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has
published "Developing a Web Accessibility
Business Case for Your Organization." The 5-page resource suite
describes social, technical, financial, legal and policy aspects of Web
accessibility. It is designed to help organizations develop their own
customized business case for Web accessibility. It provides text that
can be used as is, as well as guidance on identifying the most relevant
factors for a specific organization. Visit the WAI home
page for more information on making the Web accessible to people
with disabilities.
22 August 2005
W3C has written to the US
Copyright Office regarding a notice of
proposed rulemaking. The notice asks if persons filing
electronic-only preregistration forms will experience difficulties if
the Office requires them to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web
browser. W3C comments to the Copyright Office suggest that requiring a
single browser is inappropriate for government services and encourages
the Office to pursue standards-based access in accordance with US
Federal policy. Read W3C's letter and
About W3C.
17 August 2005
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released Specification Guidelines as a
W3C Recommendation. Written for editors of W3C technical reports, the
guidelines explain how to define and specify conformance. The Quality
Assurance (QA) Working Group has completed its work and will close. The
QA Interest Group will continue W3C's four-year QA effort through
mailing lists and online tools. "QA's products will be integral
resources that ensure the work of W3C's Working Groups is of high
quality," said Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Operating Officer. Read the
press release and visit the
QA home page.
17 August 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Web
Services Addressing - Core and its SOAP Binding to Candidate
Recommendation. The core specification defines properties that allow
uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the
underlying transport. The binding defines the core properties'
association to SOAP messages. Visit the
Web services home page.
15 August 2005
The Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL). The
sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behavior of
elements outside the SVG namespace. The group welcomes comments and
seeks feedback on the includes
attribute. Visit the
SVG home page.
11 August 2005
The XML Query Working Group
and the XSL Working Group are pleased to release the XML Query Test Suite (XQTS). The groups
invite W3C Members and the public to run this suite of approximately
7,000 test cases with any or all of the over 20 implementations of the
XML Query draft specification. Your feedback
will help the Working Groups judge the implementability of the XML
Query language, help to improve interoperability, and help XML Query
advance on the W3C Recommendation Track. Contributions of additional
test cases are invited. Visit the XML home
page.
09 August 2005
The Compound Document Formats
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Compound Document Framework 1.0 and WICD
Profiles. The draft describes behavior for audio, video, images,
fonts, layout, events, scripting, links and encoding when single
documents contain multiple XML formats. WICD Core is a foundation
for profiles based on XHTML, CSS and SVG, the WICD Mobile profile is
designed for handsets, and WICD Desktop for the
desktop and high-capability handhelds. Visit the Compound Document home page.
05 August 2005
The Internationalization Tag
Set (ITS) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of
Internationalization and
Localization Markup Requirements. Addressing the main challenges
and issues of internationalizing and localizing XML documents, the
draft outlines requirements for vocabulary, guidelines and mechanisms
to meet the needs of content authors, developers and the localization
community. Visit the Internationalization home
page.
03 August 2005
The Web Services Description
Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of the Web
Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: the Primer, Part 1: Core Language, Part 2: Adjuncts and the
SOAP 1.1
Binding. An XML language, WSDL describes network services and is
used to document distributed systems and automate communication between
applications. Comments are welcome through 19 September. Read about
Web services.
02 August 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Results XML
Format. The SPARQL query
language (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a
way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of
information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about
digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means
of integration over disparate sources. Comments are welcome through 1
September. Visit the Semantic Web home
page.
28 July 2005
The XSL Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Version 1.1. Version 1.1 updates and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change
marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for
graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are invited
through 16 September. Read about the XML
Activity.
28 July 2005
The CSS Working Group has released an
updated Working Draft of CSS3 Values and Units. The
draft explains specified, computed, and actual values and defines
common values and units in one specification which can be referred to
by other CSS3 modules. Visit the CSS home
page.
21 July 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for
RDF. Comments are welcome through 1 September. SPARQL (pronounced
"sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to
consume search results across a wide range of information such as
personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts
like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over
disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home
page.
14 July 2005
The W3C Spanish Office is pleased to present Shawn
Henry, Jakob Nielsen, Steven Pemberton, Inmaculada Placencia, John
Slatin, and Jeffrey Zeldman at Web Foundations 2005 on 22-23
November in Gijón, Spain. These noted accessibility, usability and Web
standards experts will discuss Design for All as an essential
requirement for equitable Internet access. Steven Pemberton also gives
an XForms and XHTML tutorial on 24 November in Oviedo. The deadline for
discount
registration fees is 1 November. The event is open to the
public.
12 July 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of xml:id Version
1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. The specification introduces a
predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence
can always be recognized. Comments are invited through 26 August. Visit
the XML home page.
07 July 2005
The XML Core Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Linking Language (XLink) Version
1.1. Comments are welcome through 26 August. The XLink 1.1 language
allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create
and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create
structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional
hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links. Visit
the XML home page.
05 July 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the
W3C Indian Office in Noida,
India, hosted by the Centre for
Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). R.K. Verma is Office
Manager and Vijay Gugnani is Deputy Manager. The opening ceremony is
planned for 10-11 November. W3C
Offices assist with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden
W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in
W3C Activities.
05 July 2005
The P3P Specification Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1
(P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site
privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version
1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from
W3C workshops and the privacy community. The draft also includes all
errata for P3P 1.0. Read about privacy and P3P.
01 July 2005
W3C is pleased to welcome the
Founding Sponsors of the Mobile Web Initiative: Afilias, Bango.net,
Drutt Corporation, Ericsson, France Telecom, HP, Jataayu Software,
MobileAware, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Opera Software, TIM Italia, Segala M
Test, Sevenval, RuleSpace, Vodafone and Volantis. W3C MWI is a
concerted effort to make the Web interoperable and usable for users of
mobile devices. Read about MWI and how to sponsor MWI.
30 June 2005
The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released four updated Working
Drafts of techniques for WCAG 2.0: Client-side Scripting,
CSS, General and HTML. The drafts give
guidance on using ECMAScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML and
XHTML to create accessible Web content. The Working Group invites
comments, especially on the general techniques. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
30 June 2005
The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released First Public Working
Drafts of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
Checklist in both table and linear formats.
Serving as an appendix to and quick reference for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, the
checklists give all success criteria and their levels, linked to WCAG
2.0 for more information. Read about the Web
Accessibility Initiative.
30 June 2005
The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft
of the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0. The Working Group invites comments on the number of
conformance levels, how to address validity, and the resolution of
previously raised issues. 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 technology. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
29 June 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of QA
Framework: Specification Guidelines to Proposed Recommendation.
Designed to help make technical reports easy to interpret without
ambiguity, the guidelines explain how to define and specify conformance
and how a specification might allow variation. Published as an updated
Working Draft, Variability in
Specifications contains advanced design considerations and
conformance-related techniques. Visit the QA home
page.
29 June 2005
Addressing comments and
implementation issues, the Voice Browser Working Group has published a
third Last Call Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version
1.0. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides
telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems.
Comments are welcome through 29 July. Visit the voice
browser home page.
27 June 2005
The CSS Working Group has
released a Working Draft of the CSS3 Text Effects Module. The
draft addresses white space, line breaks, word boundaries, text
wrapping, alignment, justification and spacing. With the upcoming
module "Text Layout," it replaces and obsoletes the May 2003 Text Module. Visit the
CSS home page.
20 June 2005
W3C holds the Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User
Experiences on 21-22 June at the Oracle Conference Center in
Redwood Shores, CA, USA. Diverse communities, from XML Schema end users
to vendors and the W3C XML Schema Working Group, will share
implementation stories and expertise. The Workshop goal is to create a
plan of action addressing XML Schema 1.0
interoperability, errata and clarifications. Read the program and about W3C Workshops.
14 June 2005
The CSS Working Group has
published a Last Call Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision
1 (CSS 2.1). CSS 2.1 is derived from and is intended to replace
CSS2. A snapshot of CSS language usage, the specification adds a few
highly requested features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with
implementations. Comments are welcome through 15 July. Visit the
CSS home page.
09 June 2005
The W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics
in Web Services is 9-10 June in Innsbruck, Austria, hosted by DERI
and supported by EC's IST programme WS2 project. Over sixty
organizations are presenting papers identifying areas of shared
interest between Web services and Semantic Web communities. Topics
include background technologies, registries, taxonomies, search
mechanisms, ontologies for Web services, Web services choreography, and
business process. Read the press
release, the program and
about W3C Workshops.
07 June 2005
The report on the W3C Rule
Languages Workshop is now available. Over eighty representatives from
various vendors, user communities, and research groups attended and
reported on their views, experience, and ideas on options for
establishing a standard web-based language for expressing rules. More
information is available from the Workshop Web site and the press release.
06 June 2005
W3C
holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 5-7 June in
Mandelieu, France. W3C Member
organizations participate in two days of discussions, special
sessions and lightning talks on W3C
Activities. Learn How to Become a W3C
Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 29
November - 1 December in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
05 June 2005
Addressing comments from the
previous Last Call, the XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working
Group released three updated requirements documents and a Last Call
Working Draft for the XQuery and XPath languages. Important for
databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can
perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents.
XPath is used to select parts of XML documents. Visit the XML home page.
01 June 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released a second Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Results XML
Format. The SPARQL query
language (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a
way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of
information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about
digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means
of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
01 June 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released a second Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for
RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF
queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the
SPARQL query language (pronounced
"sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query
languages as well. Visit the Semantic Web home
page.
01 June 2005
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at W3C10
Europe on 3 June in Sophia Antipolis, France.
- Steven Pemberton presents at the 40th Annual General Meeting of the International
Press Telecommunications Council on 7 June in London, UK.
- Oreste Signore, W3C Italian
Office, presents at CMG Italia -
XIX Convegno Annuale on 9 June in Florence, Italy.
- Steven Pemberton presents at the First Euro Conference on
Mobile Government on 10 June in Brighton, UK.
- Klaus Birkenbihl, W3C German and
Austrian Office, gives a keynote at the Infopark Internet
Congress on 13 June in Berlin, Germany.
- Oreste Signore presents at Etica di
Internet on 17 June in Rome, Italy.
- Ivan Herman, Klaus Birkenbihl and Thomas Baker present at W3C and the Semantic
Web on 20 June in Vienna, Austria.
- Steve Bratt presents at Global
Data Interoperability - Challenges and Technologies on 23 June in
Sardinia, Italy.
- Robin Berjon presents at XML
Prague 2005 on 25 June in Prague, Czech Republic.
31 May 2005
The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten
year anniversary of its European presence with a celebration on 3 June
at CERAM
in the Sophia Antipolis Science Park, France. The program includes "How
it All Started at CERN," "The Web as Unifying Force in Europe,"
"Policies Shaping the Web in Europe," discussion, a press briefing and
reception. Read the media advisory and more
about W3C10 Europe.
27 May 2005
The HTML Working Group has
released the seventh public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. A modularized language
without presentation elements, XHTML 2 takes HTML back to its roots in
document structuring. See the introduction for the differences
between XHTML versions 1 and 2. Much of XHTML 2 works in existing
browsers. The draft includes an implementation in RELAX NG with DTD and XML Schema
implementations to follow. Visit the HTML home
page.
16 May 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) to Candidate
Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 15 June. SMIL (pronounced
"smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple
animations, and describes animation elements for any XML-based host
language. Version 2.1 extends SMIL 2.0 and supports enhanced
interactive multimedia presentations, reuse of SMIL syntax and
semantics, and new mobile profiles. Visit the synchronized multimedia home page.
11 May 2005
The World Wide Web Consortium
today launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) to make Web access from
a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a
desktop device. "MWI recognizes the mobile device as a first class
participant of the Web," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. W3C thanks
MWI Founding Sponsors France Telecom, HP, MobileAware, Segala M Test,
Vodafone and Volantis. Read about MWI,
how to sponsor MWI and the
testimonials and press release.
11 May 2005
The Web Services Description
Working Group has published Working Drafts of the Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: the first complete draft of
the Primer, updates
to Part 1: Core Language and
Part 2: Adjuncts
and a First Public Working Draft of the SOAP 1.1 Binding. An
XML language, WSDL describes network services and is used to document
distributed systems and automate communication between applications.
Read about Web services.
04 May 2005
The XML Protocol Working Group
and the Web Services Description Working Group have completed Describing Media Content of
Binary Data in XML and published the document as a Working Group
Note. The note specifies how to indicate the content-type associated
with binary element content in an XML document and to specify, in XML
Schema, the expected content-type(s) associated with binary element
content. Use of these attributes is expected to improve the handling
and description of binary data in Web services messages. Visit the
Web services home page.
02 May 2005
The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group released a First Public Working
Draft of XML Schema
Datatypes in RDF and OWL. Posing questions and answers about XML
Schema datatypes in the Semantic Web, the document discusses user
defined datatypes, comparison of values, duration, and the use of
numeric types. The group invites public discussion and feedback on
implementations. Visit the Semantic Web home
page.
02 May 2005
The XML Core Working Group has
released a First Public Working Draft of XML Linking Language (XLink) Version
1.1. The XLink 1.1 language allows elements to be inserted into XML
documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It
uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to
the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more
sophisticated links. Visit the XML home page.
02 May 2005
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group updated two Working Drafts written for W3C editors.
QA Framework:
Specification Guidelines is designed to help make technical reports
easy to interpret without ambiguity. The guidelines explain how to
define and specify conformance and how a specification might allow
variation. Variability
in Specifications contains advanced design considerations and
conformance-related techniques. Visit the QA home
page.
02 May 2005
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- Dave Beckett, Martin Dürst, Steve Harris, Richard Ishida, Kazuhiro
Kitagawa, Akio Kokubu, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Nobuo Saito, and Andy
Seaborne present on 10 May, and Yasuyuki Hirakawa and Hanako Onozuka
run a booth on 10-11 May at the 14th
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) in Chiba,
Japan.
- Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote on 11 May at WWW2005 in Chiba, Japan.
- Mark Birbeck, Bert Bos, Hugo Haas, Richard Ishida, Dean Jackson,
Steven Pemberton and TV Raman present on 11-13 May at the W3C Track at WWW2005 in Chiba,
Japan.
- Kangchan Lee, W3C Korean
Office, presents at Yangsan University on 19 May in Busan,
Korea.
- Ivan Herman and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux present on 24 and 26 May
at XTech 2005 in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Ivan Herman presents and Steven Pemberton gives a keynote on 24 May
at the News Standards Summit
2005 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
27 April 2005
W3C has brought together over
sixty industry and research organizations in a Washington, D.C.
Workshop to discuss development of a uniform Rule language - the next
layer in the Semantic Web development stack.
Hosted by ILOG, SA and supported by DARPA, the W3C Rule Languages Workshop is bringing
together the leaders in Business Rules development, customers, and
Semantic Web developers in an effort to identify requirements for a
common rule language. Read the Press release and the Call for Participation.
25 April 2005
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the
Multimodal Architecture and
Interfaces. This document describes a loosely coupled architecture
for multimodal user interfaces, which allows for co-resident and
distributed implementations, and focuses on the role of markup and
scripting, and the use of well defined interfaces between its
constituents. Visit the Multimodal Interaction
Working Group home page.
20 April 2005
The World Wide Web Consortium
is pleased to announce reduced Membership fees in developing countries.
"W3C is all about building Web technologies that can be of service to
the world," said Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Operating Officer. W3C is
actively soliciting participation from organizations in the developing
world, with help from its Members, government and NGOs, philanthropic
organizations, and the W3C global Offices network. Read the press release, About W3C and How to
Become a W3C Member.
19 April 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released the third Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for
RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users
a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of
information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about
digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means
of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
15 April 2005
The Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the
Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification. The SVG language delivers vector
graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The draft is a complete
language specification and is implementable on devices large and small,
from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers. Comments are
welcome through 20 May. SVG Full
1.2, published as a placeholder today, will become a superset of
SVG 1.2 Tiny. Visit the SVG home page.
06 April 2005
The Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) Working Group has released a third Working Draft of SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL). The
sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behavior of
elements outside the SVG namespace. The group welcomes comments and
seeks feedback on three issues outlined in the status section. Visit
the SVG home page.
04 April 2005
The XML Query Working Group
and the XSL Working Group released twelve Working Drafts for the
XQuery, XPath and XSLT languages. Seven are in last call through 13
May. Important for databases, search engines and object repositories,
XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of
documents. XSLT transforms documents into different markup or formats.
Both XQuery and XSLT 2 use XPath expressions and operate on XPath Data
Model instances. Visit the XML home page.
31 March 2005
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- David Booth presents at the University of Waterloo, the University
of Toronto, and Agfa-Gevaert in Waterloo and Toronto, Canada on 5
April.
- Henry Thompson presents at the Second Middle East Conference
on Healthcare Informatics in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 10
April.
- Vincent Shen, W3C Hong Kong Office, and Ivan Herman present at
the Semantic Web
Symposium in Hong Kong on 12 April.
- Kangchan Lee, W3C
Korean Office, presents at ICAT 2005 in Seoul, Korea on 12
April.
- Steve Bratt speaks at the Pennsylvania State University School of
Information Sciences and Technology in University Park, PA, USA on
13 April.
- Ivan Herman and Vincent Shen present at the W3C Technology Forum in
Guangzhou, China on 14 April.
- Steven Pemberton presents on behalf of the W3C German
and Austrian Office in Sankt Augustin, Germany on 19 April.
- Jim Hendler presents a half-day course at the W3C Israel Office in
Jerusalem, Israel on 20 April.
- Steve Bratt gives a keynote at the Gartner
Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Los Angeles,
California, USA on 20 April.
- Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk at IT Forum Korea 2005 in Seoul,
Korea on 27 April.
- Ivan Herman presents at the First W3C
Spanish Office Prize Award Ceremony in Oviedo, Spain on 28
April.
31 March 2005
The Web Services Addressing
Working Group has released two Last Call Working Drafts. Web Services Addressing - Core
enables messaging systems to support transmission through networks that
include processing nodes such as endpoint managers, firewalls, and
gateways. SOAP Binding
defines the core properties' association to SOAP messages. Visit the Web services home page.
29 March 2005
The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group has released the First Public
Working Draft of A Survey
of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals. The document is a
starting point for establishing standard guidelines for combined usage
of the W3C RDF/OWL family and the ISO family of Topic Maps standards.
The group expects to publish Survey and
Guidelines Working Group Notes based on this draft. Visit
the Semantic Web home page.
29 March 2005
The XML Schema Working Group
has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Schema: Component
Designators. Comments are welcome through 26 April. The document
defines a scheme for identifying the XML Schema components specified by
the XML Schema Recommendation Part 1 and Part 2. Visit the XML home page.
25 March 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Data Access Use Cases and
Requirements. The draft suggests how an RDF
query language and data access protocol could be used in the
construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like
Web publishing, personal information management, transportation and
tourism. The group invites feedback on which features are required for
a first version of SPARQL and which should be postponed in order to
expedite deployment of others. Visit the Semantic
Web home page.
23 March 2005
Position papers are due 20 May
for the W3C Workshop on XML
Schema 1.0 User Experiences to be held 21-22 June in Redwood
Shores, California, USA. Schema authors and users, developers and
vendors of schema-aware code generators, middleware, validators, and
the W3C XML Schema Working Group will gather to discuss user experience
with XML Schema 1.0. The workshop goal
is to arrive at plan of action for XML Schema 1.0 interoperability,
errata and clarification. Read about W3C
workshops and visit the XML home page.
14 March 2005
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- Philipp Hoschka presented at the
AMI Technology Transfer Event on 8 March in Brussels, Belgium.
- Eric Miller gave a keynote at the Semantic Technology Conference
2005 on 8 March in San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Daniel J. Weitzner participated in the Perspectives on Digital
Transparency panel at the IAPP National
Privacy Summit on 11 March in Washington, DC, USA.
- Judy Brewer presented at the American Foundation for the Blind's
Josephine
L. Taylor Leadership Institute (JLTLI) on 12 March in Boston, MA,
USA.
- Matthew May and Wendy Chisholm participated in the How to Use
Accessibility Guidelines, Standards, and Testing Tools panel at
South by Southwest Interactive on 13
March in Austin, TX, USA.
- Shadi Abou-Zahra presented at the 1st Int'l Workshop on
Automated Specification and Verification of Web Sites (WWV'05) on
14 March in Valencia, Spain.
- José Manuel Alonso, W3C Spanish
Office, presented at V Jornadas de Software Libre en Asturias on 14 March in
Oviedo, Spain.
- Shadi Abou-Zahra, Judy Brewer, Shawn Lawton Henry and Matthew May
present at the CSUN
2005 Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference held 14-19
March in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
28 February 2005
W3C holds its Technical
Plenary Week from 28 February - 4 March in Boston, Massachusetts,
USA where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face
meetings. Participants and invited guests attend plenary day for talks
and demos on extensibility and versioning, XML, test suites, Web
applications, Web site usability and design, multimodal interaction and
voice. Read the minutes,
learn how to join W3C and
read about W3C.
24 February 2005
The Internationalization GEO
(Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group has published an
updated Working Draft of Specifying the Language of
Content. Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an
aid to specifying the language of content for an international
audience. Comments are welcome. Visit the Internationalization home page.
24 February 2005
The XML Schema Working Group
has released updated Working Drafts of XML Schema 1.1: Part 1: Structures and
Part 2: Datatypes.
Please see the status section of each document for changes since the
First Public Working Drafts and from the XML Schema 1.0 language. XML
schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML
documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate
semantics with them. Visit the XML home page.
17 February 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released the second Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for
RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users
a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of
information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about
digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means
of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
16 February 2005
The CSS Working Group has
released a Working Draft of CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders
Module. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to render
structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in
speech. Replacing two separate CSS3 modules, the draft proposes CSS
Level 3 functionality including borders consisting of images and
backgrounds with multiple images. Visit the CSS
home page.
15 February 2005
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released Character Model
for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals as a W3C Recommendation.
The document allows Web applications to transmit and process the
characters of the world's languages. Building on the Universal
Character Set defined by Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646, it gives authors of
specifications, software developers, and content developers a common
reference for text manipulation. Read the press release and visit the
Internationalization home page.
15 February 2005
The Web Services Addressing
Working Group has released three updated Working Drafts. Web Services Addressing - Core
enables message transmission through networks that include processing
nodes such as endpoint managers, firewalls, and gateways in a
transport-neutral manner. WSDL Binding defines how the
core specification's properties are described in the Web Services
Description Language (WSDL). SOAP Binding defines their
association to SOAP messages. Read
about Web services.
14 February 2005
The Voice Browser Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Pronunciation Lexicon
Specification (PLS) Version 1.0. Designed for ease of use by
developers and internationally, PLS allows pronunciation information to
be specified for speech recognition and speech synthesis engines in
voice browsing applications. Pronunciations grouped together in a PLS
document may be referenced from other markup languages such as
SRGS and SSML. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
11 February 2005
The XML Query Working Group
and the XSL Working Group have released ten Working Drafts for the
XQuery, XPath and XSLT languages. Please see the status section of each
document for authorship and change history information. XML Query is an
XML-aware programming language that can be optimized to run
database-style searches, queries and joins over collections of
documents, databases and XML or object repositories. Applications
implementing XPath can address the nodes in an XML tree. XSLT 2 allows
transformation of XML documents and non-XML data into other documents.
Visit the XML home page.
08 February 2005
Bert Bos, Stéphane Boyera,
Marie-Claire Forgue, Max Froumentin and Philipp Hoschka present at Hall
1, stand A24 at the 3GSM
World Congress held 14 to 17 February in Cannes, France. "Our goal
is to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and
convenient as it is from a desktop device," said Philipp Hoschka. Over
28,000 visitors will have a chance to see W3C efforts for the mobile
Web in markup, style, graphics, multimodal interaction, device
independence, voice browsing and multimedia messaging. Read about
W3C at 3GSM and read the press release.
08 February 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of xml:id Version
1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. The specification introduces a
predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence
can always be recognized. Comments are invited through 10 March. Visit
the XML home page.
01 February 2005
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- Steve Ross-Talbot, Chair of the W3C Web
Services Choreography Working Group, presents at Web Services on Wall
Street in New York, NY, USA on 1-2 February.
- José Manuel Alonso, W3C Spanish
Office, speaks at Primer
Congreso Nacional de BPMS 2005 in Madrid, Spain on 2
February.
- Masayasu Ishikawa participates in a panel at PAGE2005 in Tokyo, Japan on
4 February.
- Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel at the Internet Caucus State of the Net
Conference in Washington, DC, USA on 9 February.
- Tatsuya Hagino and Hiroyuki Sato present at the INTAP
Semantic Web Conference 2005 in Tokyo, Japan on 10 February.
- Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on behalf of the W3C Benelux Office at Semantic Web Seminarie in Antwerp, Belgium on
16 February.
- Deborah Dahl, Chair of the W3C Multimodal
Interaction Working Group and Jim Larson, Chair of the W3C Voice Browser Working Group present at the Service Automation Expo and Conference on
21 February and at SpeechTEK
West on 22-23 February, both in San Francisco, CA, USA.
01 February 2005
The SYMM Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language (SMIL 2.1) as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are
welcome through 25 February. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts animation
on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and
describes animation elements for any XML-based host language. Version
2.1 extends SMIL 2.0 and
supports enhanced interactive multimedia presentations, reuse of SMIL
syntax and semantics, and new mobile profiles. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia home page.
27 January 2005
The XML Core Working Group has
released Extending XLink
1.0 as a Working Group Note. The document describes changes that
could be incorporated into an XLink Version
1.1 specification to address usability, dependence on annotations
provided by external grammars, and interoperability. The Working Group
plans no updates to this Note. Visit the XML home
page.
26 January 2005
W3C is pleased to announce its
support for two publications that are important for Web addressing and
increase the international reach of the Web. The documents are
coordinated efforts of the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) and W3C. Read the press release.
25 January 2005
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released three W3C Recommendations to improve Web services
performance by standardizing the transmission of large binary data.
"Web services have just become faster and more usable," said Yves Lafon
(W3C). Read the press release
and testimonials and visit the
Web services home page.
25 January 2005
The W3C Advisory Committee has
elected David Orchard (BEA), Ed Rice (HP), Henry Thompson (University
of Edinburgh) and Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems) to the W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG). The Director also appointed Vincent Quint
(INRIA) to the TAG; he will serve as co-Chair along with Tim
Berners-Lee. Continuing TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah
Mendelsohn (IBM), and Roy Fielding (Day Software). Created in 2001, the
TAG documents principles of Web architecture and works with other
groups to resolve architectural issues. Read the Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One and
visit the TAG home page.
18 January 2005
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for
RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF
queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the
SPARQL query language (pronounced
"sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query
languages as well. Visit the Semantic Web home
page.
18 January 2005
The Device Independence
Working Group has published Delivery Context Overview for Device
Independence as a Working Group Note. The term delivery context is
used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web
access mechanisms. This document explains the role of delivery context
in achieving a device independent Web. The group plans no further
changes. Visit the device independence home
page.
18 January 2005
The Device Independence
Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Glossary of Terms used in the
group's publications. The
glossary definitions are maintained with unique identifiers, and can be
linked to from documents new and old. Read about W3C work on device independence and single-authored content for all
Web access devices.
18 January 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Multimodal Interaction
Activity. The Multimodal Interaction Working Group is chaired by
Deborah Dahl and is chartered through 31 January 2007. The Activity
extends user interaction with the Web to multiple modes such as GUI,
speech, vision, pen, haptic interfaces, and gestures. Their work
enables rich capabilities for mobile phones and other devices with
limited resources, and for future generations of multimodal devices.
Participation is open to W3C
Members. Visit the multimodal interaction home
page.
18 January 2005
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Voice Browser Activity. The Voice
Browser Working Group, co-chaired by Jim Larson (Intel) and Scott
McGlashan (HP), is chartered through 31 January 2007. Voice browsing
includes Web interaction with key pads, spoken commands, listening to
prerecorded speech, synthetic speech and music. The Activity is
defining a suite of markup languages for dialog, speech synthesis,
speech recognition, call control and other aspects of interactive voice
response applications. Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
13 January 2005
Addressing comments received
during the first Last Call, the Voice Browser Working Group has
published a second Last Call Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version
1.0. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides
telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems.
Comments are welcome through 31 January. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
11 January 2005
W3C's Offices hold their
annual meeting on 10-11 January in Sophia Antipolis, France. "Office
representatives from five continents have gathered at W3C's host in
France to discuss local issues, recruiting and Membership issues,
Office events and outreach as they plan for 2005 and beyond," said Ivan
Herman, Head of Offices. 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.
Week Ending 7 January
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Internationalization
Activity. The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group,
chaired by Yves Savourel (Enlaso), is chartered with new work to
develop elements and attributes to support document
internationalization and localization. Formerly task forces, the
Internationalization Core Working Group is chaired by Addison Phillips
(webMethods) and the Internationalization Guidelines, Education &
Outreach (GEO) Working Group is chaired by Richard Ishida (W3C). All
three Working Groups and the Internationalization Interest Group,
chaired by Martin Dürst (W3C), are chartered through October 2006.
Visit the Internationalization home
page.
The P3P Specification Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1
(P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site
privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version
1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from
W3C workshops and the privacy community. Read about privacy and P3P.
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