30 April 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG to
Candidate Recommendations. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into
reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles
optimized for cellphones and pocket computers. SVG delivers accessible,
dynamic, reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web, in XML.
Read the press
release and testimonials, and
visit the SVG home page.
(News
archive)
Regionalization of W3C Offices
6 May 2002: As W3C increases its presence
worldwide through its Office program, some of the Offices have been
transformed into regional Offices. This means that they are not
bound to national borders any more and that they act as regional outreach
centers for countries that share common culture, history, or language. As
a first step, the former W3C German Office is now the W3C Office in
Germany and Austria, the former W3C UK Office is now the W3C Office in the
UK and Ireland, and the former W3C Dutch Office is now the W3C Office in
the Benelux (i.e., Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg). Read more
about the W3C Offices
Program. (News
archive)
First Working
Draft of "An XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile" Working Draft published
30 April 2002: The HTML Working Group and the SVG Working Group
have worked together to publish the first Working Draft of "An
XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile." An XHTML+MathML+SVG profile is a
profile that combines XHTML 1.1, MathML 2.0, and SVG 1.1 together. This
profile enables mixing XHTML, MathML and SVG in the same document using
XML namespaces mechanism, while allowing validation of such a
mixed-namespace document. Read about the HTML Activity and the Graphics Activity. (News
archive)
XQuery, XSLT,
and XML Path Working Drafts published
30 April 2002: The XML Query Working Group, XML Schema Working Group, and XSL Working Group have released a
number of documents through joint efforts (see the status section of each
document for authorship information):
XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, XQuery is
an query language for XML, and XSLT is a language for describing XML
transformations. Read about how they work together as part of the XML Activity. (News
archive)
Amaya 6.1
Released
29 April 2002: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and
authoring tool. Version 6.1 is a bug fix release adding support for more
international documents and encodings and new MIME types; enhanced SVG,
MathML, annotation, and CSS support; and other new features. Download Amaya binaries
for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is
available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page. (News
archive)
Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Requirements Published
29 April 2002: The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group
has released a Working Draft of Requirements for
WCAG 2.0. Written for page authors, site developers, and developers of
authoring tools, WCAG checkpoints explain how to make Web content
accessible to people with disabilities and to all users. Feedback is
welcomed. Read about the Web
Accessibility Initiative. (News
archive)
Web Services
Requirements Published
29 April 2002: The Web Services Architecture
Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Web Services
Architecture Requirements, the reference architecture and the
constraints used to determine implementation conformance. The Web Services
Description Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Web Service
Description Requirements, the definitions and requirements for
application to application communication. Comments are welcome. Read about
the Web Services
Activity. (News
archive)
RDF Primer,
Test Cases, and Model Theory Working Drafts Published
29 April 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has
released updated Working Drafts of the RDF Primer,
RDF Test
Cases, and RDF
Model Theory. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for
representing information in the Web. The primer provides the fundamentals
required to use RDF in applications. The test cases described correspond
to technical issues the Working Group is addressing. The model theory
Working Draft specifies model-theoretic semantics for RDF and RDFS, and
some basic results on entailment. Read about the Semantic Web Activity. (News
archive)
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