21 December 2007
The SVG Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of SVG Print 1.2, Part 2: Language and SVG Print 1.2, Part 1: Primer. The former defines features of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Language that are specifically for printing environments; 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 Graphics Activity.
21 December 2007
The Web API Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of Selectors API. Selectors, which are widely used in CSS, 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 DOM Level 3 Events, 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 Rich Web Client Activity.
20 December 2007
On 23 January 2008, the W3C Spain Office will hold a virtual seminar where W3C staff will discuss the latest news in Web topics such as e-Government, Video on the Web, and Mobile Web in developing countries; see the program 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 participation instructions. The seminar, hosted by UPM, will also be broadcast online. Learn more about the W3C Spain Office.
17 December 2007
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. Cool URIs for 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 Semantic Web Activity.
12 December 2007
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 industry leaders have chosen to meet in San Jose (California) at the W3C Video on the Web Workshop 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 manage digital rights; see the full agenda. W3C thanks Cisco for hosting the Workshop and to all the participants who sent position papers.
11 December 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, 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 Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.
29 November 2007
The Forms Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of XForms 1.1. 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 technology from the community; see also the group's wiki for tracking XForms 1.1 implementations. Learn more about the XForms Activity.
29 November 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the reopening of the Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group (XG). 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-Com; Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab; Loquendo, S.p.A.; Chinese Academy of Sciences; and SRI International. W3C Members may use this form to join the group. Read the final report of the original Emotion XG and the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.
26 November 2007
The XHTML2 Working Group has published a Working Draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0. 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 HTML Activity.
26 November 2007
The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML Design Principles. 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 HTML Activity.
13 November 2007
The RDF Data Access Working Group has published three SPARQL Proposed Recommendations: SPARQL Query Language for RDF, SPARQL Query Results XML Format, and SPARQL Protocol for RDF. 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 graphs; the second specification defines an XML format for the variable binding and boolean results formats. The third specification uses WSDL 2.0 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 Semantic Web Activity.
07 November 2007
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 Plenary Day Program
(TPAC) 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 invited to the event; see the press release and contact
w3t-pr@w3.org.
02 November 2007
The Ubiquitous
Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of DIAL Part 0: Primer. 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 Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
31 October 2007
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- Tim Berners-Lee presents at Mobile
Internet World 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 ParisWeb on 16
November in Paris, France.
- On behalf of the W3C China Office, Ivan Herman presents at 首届中国语义万维网研讨会 (The First
China Semantic Web Symposium) on 19 November in Beijing, China, and at Zheijiang University on 22 November in
Hangzhou, China.
- On behalf of the W3C China Office, Steve Bratt presents at the Open
Standards International Conference on 28 November in Beijing,
China.
31 October 2007
The Geospatial Incubator Group
published theirs reports on Geospatial Vocabulary and Geospatial Ontologies.
The first document define a basic ontology and OWL
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. Use cases for this work are
described in the charter of the XG.
Both publications are part of the Incubator
Activity, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment.
31 October 2007
The Rule Interchange Format Working Group has
published three documents: RIF Basic
Logic Dialect , RIF RDF and
OWL Compatibility, and RIF Core
Design - Placeholder; 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 RIF Core 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 Semantic
Web Activity.
31 October 2007
The User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines (UAAG) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft
of User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Requirements, 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 Essential Components of Web
Accessibility. Read the UAAG Overview
and about WAI.
30 October 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the W3C Brazil Office, hosted by
the NIC.br (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 press release and visit the Offices home page.
26 October 2007
The Web API Working Group released
an updated Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object.
The core component of Ajax, 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 Rich Web Clients Activity.
26 October 2007
W3C has named Shadi
Abou-Zahra to the position of WAI International Program
Office Activity Lead. The Activity's groups are responsible for education
and outreach, coordination with research, general discussion on Web
accessibility, coordination with the WAI Technical
Activity, 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 Judy Brewer who led
the Activity, and continues her roles as Director of the Web Accessibility
Initiative, and WAI Technical Activity Lead. Read more about WAI.
23 October 2007
Tim
Berners-Lee (W3C) presents "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the
Mobile Web with Open Standards" at Mobile Internet
World, 13-15 November in Boston, MA, USA. W3C's Mobile
Web Initiative holds a pre-conference Developers Summit 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 media
advisory and about the Mobile Web Initiative.
23 October 2007
The report of the Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML
Encryption 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 W3C Workshops and about the Security Activity.
19 October 2007
The Web API
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Selectors API. Widely used in
CSS, 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 Web API home page.
19 October 2007
The CSS
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Behavioral Extensions to CSS.
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 CSS home page.
19 October 2007
The CSS
Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Snapshot 2007. 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 CSS home page.
19 October 2007
The CSS
Working Group released a Working Draft of CSS Mobile Profile 2.0. 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 WICD Mobile 1.0 to
ensure interoperability and for alignment with OMA's Wireless CSS
Specification 1.1. Visit the CSS home page.
19 October 2007
The Semantic
Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML2 Working
Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and
Processing. 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 RDFa Primer is an
introduction to its use and shows real-world examples. Visit the Semantic Web and XHTML2 home
pages.
19 October 2007
The Protocols and
Formats Working Group published updated Working Drafts of the WAI-ARIA Roadmap, WAI-ARIA Roles, and WAI-ARIA States and Properties.
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 WAI-ARIA Overview and about the
Web Accessibility Initiative.
19 October 2007
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
the community; we welcome your comments on the Q&A
Weblog. 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 QA Activity Statement and visit the Q&A Weblog.
17 October 2007
The Web API
Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Language Bindings for DOM
Specifications. 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 rich Web clients.
17 October 2007
Position papers are due 21 November
for the Workshop on Video on the Web on
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 W3C
Workshops.
16 October 2007
W3C
holds Technical Plenary Week 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 media advisory. W3C thanks platinum sponsors BEA, Cisco, IBM and
Nokia for their generous support of this meeting. Registration is
required. Join W3C and attend the next
Technical Plenary planned for October 2008 in France (tentative).
16 October 2007
The Web
Application Formats Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Widgets 1.0. 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 Rich Web Clients.
05 October 2007
The XHTML2
Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of XHTML Role Attribute Module. 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 XHTML
Modularization. Visit the XHTML2 home page.
05 October 2007
The Math Working
Group published an updated Working Draft of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
Version 3.0. 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 Math Activity.
03 October 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the Policy Languages Interest Group
(PLING), chaired by Marco Casassa-Mont (HP Labs) and Renato Iannella (NICTA).
The group is chartered 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
to W3C Members and the public. Read
about the Privacy Activity.
03 October 2007
The W3C Spain
Office is pleased to present noted Web standards
experts at the third edition of Fundamentos Web 2007 (Web Foundations 2007) on 3-5
October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Presenters include Arthur Barstow
(Nokia), Dan Brickley (Joost), Tantek Çelik (Tantek.com), 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).
01 October 2007
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- Daniel Dardailler presents at SITOP on 2-4 October in Moscow, Russia.
- Bert Bos participates in a panel at Fundamentos Web on 3
October in Gijón, Spain.
- Steve Bratt presents at IT/Networking
Trends & Technology and Solutions on 3 October in New York, New
York, USA.
- Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at AAATE 2007 on 5 October in
San Sebastian, Spain.
- Philipp Hoschka presents at Mobile
Monday London on 8 October in London, United Kingdom.
- José Manuel Alonso presents at eGovInterop 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 Internationalization &
Unicode Conference 31 in San Jose, California, USA.
- Ivan Herman and José Manuel Alonso present at Webelopers
Day at the Internet NG Conference on 17 October in Madrid, Spain.
- On behalf of the W3C Germany and Austria Office, Klaus Birkenbihl
presents at 4. Kongress Semantic Web und
Wissenstechnologien on 18 October in Darmstadt, Germany.
- Shawn Henry presents at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing on 19 October in Orlando, Florida, USA.
25 September 2007
The Workshop on Mobile Ajax co-sponsored by W3C
and the OpenAjax Alliance will be held
28 September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Attendees will
explore use cases for mobile Ajax to help
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 media advisory and about the Mobile Web Initiative and W3C Workshops.
24 September 2007
The Math Working
Group has published an updated Working Draft of A MathML for CSS profile.
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 Math home page.
18 September 2007
The XML
Protocol Working Group released a First Public and Last Call Working
Draft of MTOM
Serialization Policy Assertion 1.1. 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 Web services.
06 September 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the OWL Working Group. Ian Horrocks
(Oxford University) and Alan Ruttenberg (ScienceCommons) chair the group
which is chartered to produce a W3C
Recommendation for an extended Web Ontology
Language (OWL), adding a small set of extensions and defining profiles
identified by users and tool implementers. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read
about Semantic Web.
04 September 2007
The POWDER Working Group
has released POWDER: Use
Cases and Requirements 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 Semantic Web home page.
04 September 2007
The XML Schema Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 1:
Structures. 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 XML home page.
01 September 2007
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- Karl Dubost presents at W3Québec, 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 Informa
Mobile Web 2.0 Conference on 19 September in London, United
Kingdom.
- Klaus Birkenbihl presents at Deutschland und China -
Innovationspartner in der Informationstechnologie on 19
September in Potsdam, Germany.
- Karl Dubost presents at Rencontre autour de HTML
5 and WebMaestro, Quebec
Government, on 20 September in Québec, Canada.
- José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at the 4th EU Ministerial eGovernment
Conference on 21 September in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Stephen M. Watt and Birendra Keshari present at the International Conference on Document
Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) on 24 September in Curitiba,
Brazil.
- On behalf of the W3C Germany and Austria Office, Philipp Hoschka
presents at W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet
Applications 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 Web Directions South / W3C SIG
Day in Sydney, Australia.
31 August 2007
SVG Open 2007, the 5th International
Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, 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 schedule and confirmed keynote speakers are now
available. The conference language is English; 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 g-Contents WORLD 2007 will be a joint event of SVG Open
2007 Conference.
29 August 2007
The XML Query Working Group
published a Last Call Working Draft of the XQuery Update Facility 1.0.
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 Requirements
and Use Cases
were also published as updated Working Drafts. Visit the XML
home page.
28 August 2007
The World Wide Web Consortium today
released Semantic Annotations for
WSDL and XML Schema (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 Usage Guide is a Working
Group Note that shows through examples how to associate semantic annotations
with a Web service. Read about the SAWSDL Working
Group and about Web services.
09 August 2007
The CSS Working Group released two
updated Working Drafts for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3. The CSS basic box model describes
the basic layout of textual documents in visual media. The CSS3 Advanced Layout Module
defines visual order independent of document order, position and alignment of
user interface widgets, and page and window grids. Visit the CSS home page.
08 August 2007
W3C's most popular service just
got better, prettier, faster, and smarter. The W3C Markup Validator 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 open-source
software 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 change
log for a list of all changes and new features.
27 July 2007
The Ubiquitous Web Applications
Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Device Independent Authoring Language
(DIAL). 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 Ubiquitous Web.
25 July 2007
The Efficient XML Interchange
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Efficient XML Interchange
Measurements Note. 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
the XML home page.
25 July 2007
The W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group,
which includes thirty seven representatives from organizations in Europe and
North America, published its final report. The report
describes multimedia metadata formats and relevant vocabularies for
developers of Semantic Web applications. This publication is part of the W3C
experimental Incubator Activity that develops
new, potentially foundational technologies and Web-based applications in a
rapid time frame.
20 July 2007
Position papers are due 10 September
for the Workshop on RDF Access to
Relational Databases 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 W3C Workshops and about the Semantic Web.
20 July 2007
The XML Schema Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of Guide to Versioning
XML Languages using XML Schema 1.1. 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 XML home page.
20 July 2007
The Web Services Policy Working
Group has published WSDL 1.1 Element
Identifiers 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
about Web services.
19 July 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) 2.1 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 CSS home page.
16 July 2007
The Efficient XML
Interchange Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format
1.0. 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 XML.
16 July 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of GRDDL and GRDDL Test Cases to Proposed
Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 24 August. Linking microformats
to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is used to extract RDF statements from XHTML and XML content using programs
such as XSLT. Read about the
Semantic Web.
13 July 2007
The SYMM
Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language (SMIL 3.0). 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 SMIL 2.1, 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 Synchronized Multimedia Activity.
13 July 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of XHTML™ Basic
1.1 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 XHTML Basic 1.0 W3C
Recommendation for mobile devices, released in coordination with the WAP
Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XHTML Mobile profile. Implementation feedback
is welcome through 31 August. Visit the HTML
home page.
12 July 2007
W3C has named Dominique Hazaël-Massieux to the position of Mobile
Web Initiative Activity Lead. The W3C Mobile Web
Initiative 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 about W3C.
10 July 2007
The W3C Emotion Incubator Group, which
includes representatives from sixteen institutions in eleven countries on
three continents, published its final report. The
report contains scope, requirements and use cases for a general-purpose
Emotion Markup Language. This publication is part of the W3C experimental Incubator Activity that develops new, potentially
foundational technologies and Web-based applications in a rapid time frame.
10 July 2007
W3C is pleased to participate in Web標準の日々 (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 W3C presentations and events also
available as an RSS channel.
09 July 2007
The POWDER
Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Protocol for Web Description
Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources. 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 Semantic
Web home page.
07 July 2007
W3C is pleased to participate as a
cosponsor at Extreme Markup
Languages 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 W3C
Members-only discount is available. Read more about XML.
07 July 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Web Services Policy 1.5 to Proposed Recommendation. The Policy
Framework model expresses 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. Comments are welcome through 17 August. Read
about the Web Services Policy Working Group
and Web services.
05 July 2007
The Web Application Formats Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of Widgets 1.0 Requirements. These
design goals are the requirements for device-independent standards for
scripting, digitally signing, securing, packaging and deploying client-side
Web applications (widgets). Also known as gadgets or modules, widgets are
small programs like clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather
forecasters that display and update remote data and run on the Web browser
environment. Read about Rich Web Clients.
05 July 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Semantic Annotations
for WSDL and XML Schema (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 SAWSDL Working Group and about
Web services.
03 July 2007
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- Addison Phillips presents at the 10th Open Metadata Forum on 11
July in New York City, USA.
- Karl Dubost, Tatsuya Hagino, Olivier Thereaux present and Yasuyuki
Hirakawa runs a booth at Web標準の日々 (The Days of
Web Standards 2007) on 15 July in Tokyo, Japan.
- Philipp Hoschka presents at the W3C Webinar
(Webcast, in German) on 17 July.
- On behalf of the W3C Germany
and Austria Office, 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 XML Summer School
on 25 July in Oxford, United Kingdom.
28 June 2007
The Internationalization Tag Set
Working Group published an updated Working Draft of Best Practices for XML
Internationalization. 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 International Tag Set Recommendation. Visit the Internationalization home page.
28 June 2007
The GRDDL Working Group published GRDDL Primer as a Working
Group Note. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is
used to extract RDF statements from XHTML and XML content
using programs such as XSLT.
The primer contains detailed illustrations of GRDDL techniques. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
27 June 2007
The W3C
Spain Office is pleased to present Tantek Çelik, Jeffrey Veen, Tim
Berners-Lee (by video link), and other noted Web standards
experts at the third edition of Fundamentos Web 2007 (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. Registration for
the conference, which sold out for the second time last year, is open and
offers discounts for unemployed people as well as for W3C Members.
21 June 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Canonical XML
1.1 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 XML Core home page.
18 June 2007
The Web Application Formats (WAF)
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Enabling Read Access for Web
Resources. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be
relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing
instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the
Rich Web Clients Activity.
18 June 2007
Documenting changes since Last Call,
the Web API Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object.
The core component of Ajax, 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 Rich Web Clients
Activity.
18 June 2007
The RDF Data Access Working Group
has updated the Serializing SPARQL Query
Results in JSON Working Group Note for the simplified SPARQL Query Results XML
Format, removing two attributes. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), 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 Semantic Web home page.
14 June 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of SPARQL Query
Language for RDF 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. SPARQL Query Results XML
Format is a Last Call Working Draft with comments welcome through 5 July.
Visit the Semantic Web home page.
13 June 2007
Queen Elizabeth II,
Head of State of the United Kingdom, appointed Sir Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and
inventor of the World Wide Web, to be a member of the Order of Merit.
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 announcement,
about Tim Berners-Lee and about W3C.
12 June 2007
The W3C Advisory Committee has
filled four open seats on the W3C Advisory Board.
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 Advisory Board.
06 June 2007
The CSS Working Group released an
updated Working Draft of Multi-Column Layout, 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 CSS home page.
06 June 2007
The CSS Working Group released an
updated Candidate Recommendation for editorial changes to Media Queries, a module of
Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Built on the mechanism outlined in
HTML, a registry of media types is proposed to describe to what type of
devices a style sheet applies, and expressions to limit a style sheet's
scope. Presentations can then be tailored to a specific range of output
devices without changing the content. Visit the CSS
home page.
05 June 2007
The W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of
Distributed Web Applications is underway 5-6 June in Dublin, Ireland.
"Attendees will discuss how developers can focus on applications and end-user
experience, leaving the details for how they are to be realized to tools that
deal with the capabilities and shortcomings of each device," said Dave
Raggett, W3C Fellow.
Declarative techniques promise to reduce the cost of building Web
applications for home, office and mobile environments. The Workshop is
looking at the role of XML and Semantic Web technologies in achieving that
goal, along with the challenges for dealing with security and privacy. The
Workshop is hosted by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State
Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the Ubiquitous Web.
05 June 2007
The Web Services Policy Working
Group published updated Candidate Recommendations for Web Services Policy 1.5
documenting their progress. The Policy Framework model expresses 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. The Primer is an updated
Working Draft. Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome through 30 June.
Read about Web services.
05 June 2007
The SWEO Interest Group is
pleased to announce the first set of Case Studies and Use Cases giving
some examples of how the Semantic Web of machine readable data is used today.
Applications are presented in areas ranging from automotive to health care,
and from B2B systems to geographical information systems. The SWEO Interest
Group will continue to publish new Case Studies and Use Cases in the future;
an RSS feed for new
submissions is available. A short overview is also available in Open Document
Format, PDF, and HTML
formats. Read about the Semantic Web.
05 June 2007
SVG Open 2007, the 5th International
Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, will be held 4-7 September at Keio
University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo. The submission deadline for
paper abstracts has been extended to 10 June. Proposals for courses or
exhibitions may be submitted online. SVG Open is your chance to discuss SVG
development experience, products, workflows and strategies. The conference
language is English; translation facilities will be available to encourage
English-Japanese communication. Read about SVG.
01 June 2007
The Protocols and Formats Working
Group published updated Working Drafts of WAI-ARIA
Roles and WAI-ARIA States and
Properties. WAI-ARIA attributes provide information about objects that
extends what is available from markup. This allows people with disabilities
using assistive technologies such as screen readers to access rich Web
content built with Ajax and DHTML. This release provides better alignment to
accessibility APIs and provides more explanatory material. Read the WAI-ARIA Overview and about the
Web Accessibility Initiative.
30 May 2007
The Efficient XML Interchange (EXI)
Working Group testing framework for
evaluating properties of alternate XML formats is now available for download.
It can be used to measure processing efficiency and compactness, and includes
support for in-memory and network testing. The download includes over 100
documents ranging from a few bytes to several megabytes and covering over 20
different schemas, taken from the over ten thousand samples used by the
Working Group for their own measurements. Results and analysis from this
framework for eight candidate binary XML formats are to be published by the
EXI Working Group in July. Visit the XML home page.
25 May 2007
The POWDER Working Group
has released the first publication of POWDER: Use Cases and
Requirements 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
Semantic Web home page.
23 May 2007
Position papers are due 15 August
for the Workshop on Mobile Ajax
co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax
Alliance to be held 28 September in the San Francisco Bay area, USA.
Attendees will explore use cases for mobile Ajax to help
shape its use in mobile Web browsers. Topics might include user experience,
application development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether
needs exist for standardization and best practices. The Workshop is free and
open to all but position papers are required. Read about the Mobile Web Initiative and about W3C Workshops.
16 May 2007
The Semantic
Web Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft
of SKOS Use Cases and
Requirements. Knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies,
thesauri or subject heading lists, play a fundamental role in information
structuring and access. These use cases and fundamental or secondary
requirements will be used to guide the design of SKOS (Simple Knowledge
Organisation System), a model for representing such vocabularies. Learn more
about the Semantic Web Activity.
14 May 2007
W3C plans a Workshop on RDF Access to Relational
Databases on 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. A Call for Participation is expected in late May or
June. Read about W3C Workshops.
08 May 2007
We invite you to attend the W3C Track of the Sixteen International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), to be
held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9-11 May. Chaired by Marie-Claire
Forgue, the W3C track will cover recent achievements and future work plans of
W3C Activities. Read
the press release.
07 May 2007
W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee
Meeting on 6-8 May in Banff/Calgary, Alberta, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate in
two days of discussions and strategic planning about W3C Activities and future work. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the
next Advisory Committee Meeting to be held with Technical Plenary Week on
4-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA.
04 May 2007
The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of the W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0. mobileOK
marks are machine-readable labels that indicate Web content and delivery pass
the Mobile Web Best Practices test suite.
Designed to create an effective user experience, mobileOK is written for
content authors, tools developers and content providers. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring
tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and
mobile operators.
04 May 2007
The CSS Working Group has released an
updated Working Draft for Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Generated Content for Paged Media
describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers and footers
often used in printed publications. CSS is the Web's most widely-implemented
language for style, used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on
screen, on paper and in speech. Visit the CSS home
page.
04 May 2007
W3C has named Ralph Swick Technology and Society Domain Leader
and Daniel J. Weitzner to the new
position Technology and Society Policy Director. Ralph, who was Technology and
Society Technical Director since 1997, will oversee the T&S Activities, currently Privacy,
Security, and Semantic Web. Danny will lead W3C public policy strategy
efforts, continue to co-chair the Patents and Standards Interest Group, and
direct and perform outside research, funded through grants to MIT's DIG and the WSRI. Read about T&S, W3C's
work at the intersection of Web technology and public policy, and about W3C.
03 May 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of GRDDL to Candidate
Recommendation and the publication of GRDDL Test Cases as a Last Call
Working Draft. Implementation feedback and comments are welcome through 31
May. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is used to
extract RDF statements from XHTML and XML content using
programs such as XSLT. Read
about the Semantic Web.
02 May 2007
The SVG Working Group published five
Working Drafts for version 1.2 of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), three
extending the language to add raster effects like drop shadows. First Public
Working Drafts include SVG Filter Requirements, Primer and Language. Previously part of SVG
1.1 but published here as an independent module, SVG Filters are used to
process images before they are displayed. These filter effects are defined in
XML for SVG and can be used in other environments such as HTML styled with
CSS, or XSL:FO.
Updated Working Drafts, SVG Print 1.2 Primer and Language extend the language for
multiple page and color management support. SVG provides interactive vector
graphics, text, images, animation and graphical applications in XML. Visit
the SVG home page.
02 May 2007
The SVG Working Group will hold a
test fest on the first day of its face to face meeting in Zurich,
Switzerland on 5 June. The beta SVG Tiny 1.2 test suite will be run against
available SVG Tiny 1.2 implementations to create an initial implementation
report. Implementors are invited to attend or to send their implementations
in for testing. For further details please mail the SVG Working Group. Visit the SVG home page.
27 April 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the Service Modeling Language (SML) Working
Group. John Arwe (IBM) and Pratul Dublish (Microsoft) chair the group
which is chartered to produce W3C
Recommendations for SML,
adding extensions to the W3C XML Schema language for inter-document
references and user-defined constraints. The first face-to-face meeting will
be 11-13 June in Redmond, Washington, USA, hosted by Microsoft. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read
about XML.
27 April 2007
The Math
Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
Version 3.0. 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. Learn more about
the Math Activity.
27 April 2007
The Math
Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of A MathML for CSS profile.
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 Math home page.
27 April 2007
Browse W3C
presentations and events also available as an RSS
channel.
- José Manuel Alonso presents at SOA
for eGovernment on 1 May in McLean, Virginia, USA.
- Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at ApacheCon on 2 May in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
- Richard Ishida gives a keynote and presents at SOFTEC on 5-6 May
in Lahore, Pakistan.
- Michael Cooper gives a keynote at the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference
on Web Accessibility (W4A) on 8 May in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
- Olle Olsson presents at TelekomDagarna on 9 May
in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at the 16th International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2007) on 9-11 May in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
- Over 35 people present at the W3C
Track @ WWW2007 on 9-11 May in Banff, Canada on topics including,
"Making Mobile Browsing Better," "Rich Web Applications," "The Future of
the Web Page," "Advances in Semantic Web," "Security and Usability on the
Web," "Web of Services for Enterprise Computing," "A Multimodal Web to
Expand Universal Access," "Architectural Integration," and "Query,
Interchange and Access with XML!"
- Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial at XTech 2007: The ubiquitous
Web on 14 May in Paris, France.
- Richard Ishida presents at @media07 on 24 May
in San Francisco, California, USA.
- José Manuel Alonso presents at the 13th
GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum on 28 May in Dubai, United Arab
Emirates.
20 April 2007
The Web API Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of Progress Events 1.0. Five
events and their interfaces are defined for use in XHR (AJAX) Web applications. 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 Rich Web Clients Activity.
17 April 2007
The Consortium welcomes the public
to meet the W3C Staff and Members, who will present recent achievements and
future work plans through the W3C Track
at the WWW2007 conference, to be held in
Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9 to 11 May 2007. Chaired by Marie-Claire
Forgue, the nine sessions cover recent achievements and future work plans of
W3C Activities. Read the press release.
10 April 2007
The SAWSDL
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML
Schema. 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 on
changes since Candidate Recommendation are welcome through 1 May. Read about
Web services.
10 April 2007
Position papers are due 2 May for Toward More Transparent Government:
Workshop on eGovernment and the Web co-sponsored by the Web Science
Research Initiative (WSRI) to be held 18-19 June 2007 in Washington, D.C.,
USA, hosted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Attendees will help to
find ways of facilitating the deployment of Web standards across eGovernment
sites. The goal of the Workshop is to help shape ongoing research in the
development of Web technology and public policy, in order to realize the
potential of the Web for access to, and use of, government information. Read
about W3C Workshops.
09 April 2007
The Multimodal Interaction Working
Group has published 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. Comments are welcome through 30 April. Learn more about the
Multimodal Interaction Activity.
06 April 2007
A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for
the Voice Browser Working Group has concluded in a public report that the Working Group
should continue to advance the CCXML specification
along the W3C Recommendation Track. The conclusion follows an assertion from
Nortel that the company does not believe that US patent number 6,701,366
includes any essential
claims, as defined of the W3C Patent Policy. Nortel
excluded the claims of that patent from its Royalty-Free
licensing commitment when it joined the Voice Browser Working Group in
June 2005. W3C appreciates communications from Nortel that helped the PAG
reach their conclusion. Learn more about the Voice Browser
Activity.
05 April 2007
The World Wide Web Consortium today
released Semantic
Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 as a W3C
Recommendation. Part of a powerful trend towards Web access via interactive
voice response, SISR tags are used to extract meaning from speech
recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in the
Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as serialized XML
or ECMAScript variables. Visit the Voice Browser home
page.
03 April 2007
The World Wide Web Consortium today
released Internationalization Tag Set
(ITS) Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Creators of XML content can use the ITS set of elements and attributes
to prepare schemas and documents for localization and to internationalize
them for a global audience. "Working with document formats internationally
becomes much easier, whether you are creating a new schema or working with an
established one," said Richard Ishida (W3C). Implementations provided for
DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, can be used with new or existing vocabularies
like XHTML, DocBook, and OpenDocument. Read the press release and visit Internationalization home page.
30 March 2007
The Web Services Policy Working
Group has published updated Candidate Recommendations for Web Services Policy
1.5 documenting their progress. The Policy Framework model expresses 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. The group published updated Working Drafts of
the Primer, Guidelines and Element Identifiers as well.
Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome through 30 June. Read about Web services.
30 March 2007
The XHTML2 Working Group and the
Semantic Web Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public
Working Draft of RDFa
Use Cases: Scenarios for Embedding RDF in HTML. RDFa expresses metadata
in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of user
functionality. Written for readers somewhat familiar with HTML, RDF and N3
notation, these scenarios consider publishers, tool builders and users. Read
about HTML and the Semantic Web.
30 March 2007
The Rule Interchange Format (RIF)
Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of RIF Core Design. The document
specifies the core design for a format that allows rules to be translated
between rule languages and thus transferred between rule systems. The group
invites comments through 27 April. Visit the Semantic Web
home page.
30 March 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Voice Browser Working Group to enable users to speak and
listen to Web applications. Jim Larson (Invited Expert) and Scott McGlashan
(HP) chair the group which is chartered to standardize languages for
capturing and producing speech and for managing the dialog between users and
computers. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read
the about the Voice Browser Activity.
30 March 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Multimodal Interaction Working Group to enable users to use
their preferred modes of interaction with the Web. Deborah Dahl (Invited
Expert) chairs the group which is chartered to develop open standards to
adapt to device, user and environmental conditions, and to allow multiple
modes of Web interaction including GUI, speech, vision, pen, gestures
and haptic interfaces. W3C Members may
use this form to join the Working
Group. Read the about the Multimodal Interaction
Activity.
30 March 2007
Position papers are due 21 April for
the W3C HTML Mail Workshop to be held 24
May in Paris, France, hosted by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications de Paris. Attendees will discuss authoring, rendering,
interoperability and security aspects of HTML in email as well as
non-technical topics. Read about W3C
Workshops and about HTML.
30 March 2007
W3C plans a Workshop Toward
More Transparent Government co-sponsored by the Web Science Research
Initiative (WSRI) on 18-19 June 2007 in Washington, D.C., USA, hosted by the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Attendees will help to find ways of
facilitating the deployment of Web standards across eGovernment sites, to
help shape ongoing research in the development of Web technology and public
policy, in order to realize the potential of the Web for access to, and use
of, government information. A Call for Participation is expected in a few
weeks. See the European W3C
Symposium on eGovernment Report for information about the previous W3C
eGovernment event. Read about W3C
Workshops.
28 March 2007
The GRDDL Working Group has released
the First Public Working Draft of GRDDL Test Cases. The test cases
demonstrate the expected behavior of a GRDDL-aware agent. With important
applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL is a
mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using
programs such as XSLT transformations. GRDDL allows powerful mashups at very
low cost. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
27 March 2007
The RDF Data Access Working Group
has released a third Last Call 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. Comments are due by 18 April. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
27 March 2007
The Web Services Description Working
Group released three Last Call Working Drafts for the Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Adjuncts. Comments
are welcome through 15 April on this brief Last Call for changes since
Candidate Recommendation review. WSDL RDF Mapping and SOAP 1.1 Binding are
updated Working Drafts. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services
and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication
between applications. Read about Web
services.
23 March 2007
The XML Query Working Group
published two Working Group Notes, XML Query (XQuery)
Requirements and XML
Query Use Cases. The documents are a record of the development of XQuery
and its associated specifications. Part of the XML family, the
Recommendations are used for data mining, document transformation, and
enterprise computing. Visit the XML home page.
23 March 2007
The WAI ERT Working Group has released
an updated Working Draft of HTTP
Vocabulary in RDF. With these terms, HTTP headers exchanged between
clients and servers can be recorded in RDF
format. Terms include vocabulary for the HTTPS scheme as well as other
extensions to the core specification. Visit the WAI ERT
home page.
16 March 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of XML Binding Language (XBL)
2.0 to Candidate Recommendation. XBL extends the appearance and behavior
of elements in Web formats such as HTML. Elements may be mapped to script,
event handlers, CSS, and more complex content models. Content can be
re-ordered and wrapped so that for instance, complex CSS styles can be
applied to simple HTML or XHTML markup. XBL can be used to implement new DOM
interfaces and, with other specifications, to implement arbitrary tag sets as
widgets. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
13 March 2007
The XHTML2 Working Group and the
Semantic Web Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated
Working Draft of the RDFa
Primer 1.0. RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and
extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. Changes include new
syntax for striping and use of the class
attribute to declare
rdf:type
. Read about HTML and the Semantic Web.
07 March 2007
W3C is pleased to invite
participation in the new HTML Working Group, chartered to create the next HTML standard with the active
participation of browser vendors, software developers, and content designers.
"It's time to revisit the standard and see what we can do to meet the current
community needs, and to do so effectively with commitments from browser
manufacturers in a visible and open way," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director.
At the same time, W3C is chartering the Forms Working Group, the XHTML2
Working Group, and rechartering the Hypertext Coordination Group. Read the press release and visit the HTML Working Group home page, the Forms Working Group home page, and the XHTML2 Working Group home page.
07 March 2007
The XHTML2 Working Group published
the First Public Working Draft of CURIE
Syntax 1.0. Written for markup language designers, the draft specifies
the syntax and usage of CURIEs which are abbreviated or "compact URIs." Read
about the HTML Activity.
06 March 2007
The CSS Working Group has released a
Working Draft of CSS Text Level
3. Formerly titled the CSS3 Text Effects Module, the draft
is part of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3 and addresses
white space, line breaks, word boundaries, text wrapping, alignment,
justification and spacing. Visit the CSS home page.
05 March 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
creation of the Uncertainty Reasoning for the
World Wide Web Incubator Group to better define the challenge of working
with incomplete knowledge. The group expects to identify the elements of
uncertainty, produce use cases, and create the fundamentals of a way to
represent and reason when truth or falsehood is inapplicable or unknown. The
group is sponsored by W3C Members Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab,
McDonald Bradley, MITRE, National ICT Australia (NICTA), the University of
Amsterdam and the University of Bristol. W3C Members may use this form to join the group. Read about the
Incubator Activity.
05 March 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
creation of the SWS Testbed Incubator Group
sponsored by W3C Members Wright State University, Stanford University, DERI
University of Innsbruck, and the National University of Galway, Ireland. The
mission of this XG is to develop a
standard methodology for evaluating Semantic Web Services based upon a
standard set of problems and develop a public repository of such problems. W3C Members may use this form to join the group. Read about the
Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster
development of emerging Web-related technologies.
02 March 2007
The GRDDL Working Group has released
a Last Call Working Draft of GRDDL.
Comments are welcome through 30 March. With important applications such as
connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL is a mechanism to extract
RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using programs such as
XSLT transformations. GRDDL allows powerful mash-ups at very low cost. Visit
the Semantic Web home page.
02 March 2007
Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel.
- Martín Álvarez gave a lecture at Creación de sitios Web mediante Hojas de Estilo. Usabilidad y
Accesibilidad on 1 March in Mieres, Spain.
- Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman present at ZKI
Frühjahrstreffen on 6 March in Dortmund, Germany.
- Shawn Henry participates in a panel at SXSW Interactive on 10 March
in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Ivan Herman presents at Infotech for Pharma &
Biotech Europe on 14 March in London, UK.
- Olle Olsson presents at Software Innovation on 18 March in Lisboa,
Portugal.
- Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at the Technology & Persons with
Disabilities Conference on 21 March in Los Angeles, California,
USA.
- Olle Olsson presents at GIT 2007 Forum för Geografisk IT on 22 March
in Jönköping, Sweden.
- Máté Pataki and Éva Megyaszai present at Magyarországi Web Konferencia on 31 March in
Budapest, Hungary.
01 March 2007
Position papers are due 17 April for
the W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of
Distributed Web Applications to be held 5-6 June in Dublin, Ireland,
hosted by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State Development Agency,
Enterprise Ireland. Attendees will discuss the potential for declarative
techniques as a basis for reducing the costs of building Web applications for
the home, office and mobile environments to meet the demand for greater
interactivity and access to device capabilities. Read about W3C Workshops and about the Ubiquitous Web.
28 February 2007
The Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise
Computing is being held in Bedford, MA, USA, hosted by MITRE.
Participants are discussing how to facilitate the processing of business
transactions and interactions with systems that pre-date the Web, and how to
address the need to interconnect intranet and/or extranet services using Web
technologies. Read about Workshops and W3C Activities.
28 February 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Web Services Policy 1.5 to Candidate Recommendation. The
Policy 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. Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome
through 30 June. Read about Web services.
27 February 2007
The Web API Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object.
Comments are welcome through 2 April. The core component of AJAX, 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 Rich Web Clients
Activity.
26 February 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Internationalization Tag
Set (ITS) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome
through 26 March. Organized by data categories, the ITS 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 can be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and
OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home
page.
22 February 2007
The XForms Working Group released a
Last Call Working Draft of XForms
1.1, a foundation for the next generation of forms for the Web. Comments
are welcome through 5 April. XForms 1.1 adds to version 1.0: several new
submission capabilities, action handlers, utility functions, user interface
improvements, and helpful datatypes as well as a more powerful action
processing facility, including conditional, iterated and background
execution, the ability to manipulate data arbitrarily and access to event
context information. Visit the XForms home page.
16 February 2007
W3C plans a Workshop on Declarative
Models of Distributed Web Applications on 5-6 June 2007, hosted by
MobileAware with the support of the Irish State Development Agency,
Enterprise Ireland. Attendees will discuss application modeling, security and
usability for distributed applications running on network devices. A Call for
Participation and more information is expected in March. Read about W3C Workshops.
16 February 2007
The HTML Working Group released a
Working Draft of XML Events 2: An
Events Syntax for XML. To associate behaviors with markup, language
designers can incorporate the module in this specification to integrate event
listeners and handlers with DOM Level 2 event interfaces. Version
2.0 adds new functionality for conditional handling of events, and adds
explicit elements for handlers. It also has an updated XML schema and DTD and
incorporates all known errors in the XML Events Recommendation of 2003. Visit
the HTML home page.
16 February 2007
The HTML Working Group released the
second edition of XHTML™ 1.1 -
Module-based XHTML as a Working Draft in preparation for Proposed Edited
Recommendation. XHTML 1.1 is a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict based on
XHTML modules. Not a new version, the second edition incorporates all known
corrections and adds a new description in XML schemas. Visit the HTML home page.
15 February 2007
The Web Application Formats (WAF)
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Enabling Read Access for Web
Resources. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be
relaxed with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or
both can indicate that read access is allowed. The document was formerly
titled Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the
<?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
12 February 2007
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of
the Web, opened the 3GSM World Congress on Monday 12 February in Barcelona,
Spain with a keynote
address at the Mobile
Innovation Forum. Berners-Lee spoke on the role of innovation and
openness in the Web's success, and how the W3C Mobile Web
Initiative brings mobile telephony into convergence with the Web and aids
in bridging the digital divide.
09 February 2007
The Web Application Formats Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of Widgets 1.0 Requirements. These
design goals are the requirements for device-independent standards for
scripting, digitally signing, securing, packaging and deploying client-side
Web applications (widgets). Also known as gadgets or modules, widgets are
small programs like clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather
forecasters that display and update remote data and run on the Web browser
environment. Read about Rich Web Clients.
06 February 2007
The CSS Working Group has released two
updated Working Drafts for Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Generated Content for Paged Media
describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers and footers
often used in printed publications. Behavioral Extensions to CSS allow
bindings like XBL to be linked from
CSS style sheets, so bindings can be used with user and alternate style
sheets and media selection. Visit the CSS home
page.
06 February 2007
W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on
5-6 February in Sophia Antipolis, France. Representatives of W3C's sixteen
world Offices met at INRIA to discuss W3C
Membership issues, Office events and new staff, outreach, and plans for the
future. W3C Offices work with their regional Web communities to promote W3C
technologies in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and
encourage international participation in W3C Activities. Visit the Offices home page.
02 February 2007
Based on feedback received during
Candidate Recommendation, the Web Services Addressing Working Group has
released Web Services
Addressing 1.0 - Metadata as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are
welcome through 23 February. The proposed WSDL extension element and WSDL
SOAP module have been removed, and Web Services Policy assertions have been
introduced into the specification. The document was formerly titled "Web
Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding." Read about Web
services.
31 January 2007
The Web Services Policy Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of WSDL 1.1 Element
Identifiers and plans to publish the document 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 about Web
services.
30 January 2007
The World Wide Web Consortium and
OASIS today jointly released WebCGM
2.0 as a Recommendation and Standard. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is
an ISO standard used to interchange two dimensional vector and mixed
vector-raster graphics for technical illustration, documentation and data
visualization. WebCGM is a profile of CGM that adds Web linking and is
optimized for Web applications used in defense, aviation, architecture, and
transportation industries. Already widely implemented,
version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM objects and an XML Companion File (XCF)
for external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. Read the press release and about WebCGM.
26 January 2007
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Semantic Annotations
for WSDL and XML Schema to Candidate 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. Feedback is welcome through 1 March.
The group also released an updated Working Draft of the companion Usage Guide. Read about Web services.
22 January 2007
The World Wide Web Consortium has
published eight new standards in the XML family for data mining, document
transformation, and enterprise computing from Web services to databases.
"Over 1,000 comments from developers helped ensure a resilient and
implementable set of database technologies," said Jim Melton (Oracle). XSLT
transforms documents into different markup or formats. XML Query can perform
searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. Using XPath
expressions, XSLT 2 and XQuery can operate on XML documents, XML databases,
relational databases, search engines and object repositories. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the XML home page.
19 January 2007
The Voice Browser Working Group has
published a Working Draft of Voice
Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. Comments are welcome through 7
February. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides
telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. CCXML
can provide a complete telephony service application with Web server
application logic and documents to declare and perform call control actions,
and can control one or more dialog applications that perform user media
interactions. Visit the voice browser home page.
19 January 2007
The Web Application Formats Working
Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0, a
technology for extending the appearance and behavior of elements in Web
formats such as HTML. Comments are welcome through 9 February. With XBL,
elements may be mapped to script, event handlers, CSS, and more complex
content models. Content can be re-ordered and wrapped so that, for instance,
complex CSS styles can be applied to simple HTML or XHTML markup. XBL can be
used to implement new DOM interfaces, and, with other specifications, to
implement arbitrary tag sets as widgets. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
17 January 2007
The W3C Advisory Committee has
elected Rhys Lewis (Volantis Systems), David Orchard (BEA), and Norm Walsh
(Sun Microsystems) to the W3C Technical Architecture
Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah
Mendelsohn (IBM), T. V. Raman (Google), Henry Thompson (University of
Edinburgh), appointed co-Chair Stuart Williams (HP), and co-Chair Tim
Berners-Lee. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles
of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when
necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to
the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments
inside and outside W3C.
16 January 2007
The European W3C Symposium on
eGovernment is 1-2 February 2007, in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Attendees
will meet to discuss eGovernment services, identify aspects that put Web
interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver better and more
efficient services through computer technologies. "We hope that participants
at the symposium provide us with critical information to help us develop new
technologies that meet citizens' needs and goals," said Ralph Swick (W3C). Registration is
free and open to the public. Read the press release.
06 January 2007
W3C has published a report from the Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing
Countries, held in Bangalore, India in December 2006. Workshop
participants discussed the needs and challenges facing people in developing
economies who use a mobile phone as the primary and often sole platform for
accessing the Web. Participants included mobile handset manufacturers,
browser developers, software companies, local Indian companies and
universities, and organizations working on information technology projects in
rural communities in India and Africa. The report presents their findings and
proposed next steps. You are invited to join the public forum for discussions
about the future: public-mwi-ec@w3.org (archive). Learn
more about W3C's Mobile Web Initiative.