http://www.w3.org/ Page Of All Knowledge en http://www.w3.org/ 2007-03-26T05:55+00:00 http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item51 2007-03-23T05:00:00+10:00 2007-03-23: The WAI ERT Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of EARL 1.0 Schema. Comments are welcome through 20 April. The Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) is a format to exchange, combine, and analyze results from different evaluation tools and checkers. EARL is introduced in the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Overview. Visit the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) home page. (Permalink) http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item50 2007-03-23T05:00:00+10:00 2007-03-23: 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. (Permalink) http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item49 2007-03-23T05:00:00+10:00 2007-03-23: Responding to requests from Working Group participants and the wider community, the XML Query Working Group released two First Public Working Drafts. XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 Requirements describes goals and requirements for making XQuery 1.0 functional as a scripting language. XML Query (XQuery) 1.1 Requirements describes compatibility and functionality requirements for extending XML Query 1.0. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink) http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item48 2007-03-23T05:00:00+10:00 2007-03-23: 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. (Permalink) http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item47 2007-03-20T05:00:00+10:00 2007-03-20: The European W3C Symposium on eGovernment Report has been published. Participants discussed specific government and citizens' needs related to eGovernment services, to identify aspects that put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies. Held 1-2 February (press release), in Gijón, Asturias, Spain, the symposium was organized by the W3C Spanish Office and Fundación CTIC, and supported by the Principality of Asturias Government. (Permalink) http://svg.org/story/2007/3/19/192740/677 2007-03-20T00:27:40+10:00 <p><a href="http://www.amd.com/">AMD</a> has announced two new mobile graphics chips, the <a href="http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/03/09/gdc2007_amd_ati_g12">G12 and G40</a>, which they claim can accelerate vector graphics (including SVG) up to 30 times. They demonstrated smooth animation and zooming, and clean anti-aliasing. The chips are slated for release in devices around Christmas 2008.</p> <p><img alt="photo of AMD breadboard" src="http://images.tomshardware.com/2007/03/09/gdc2007_amd_g12.jpg" /></p> http://svg.org/story/2007/3/7/1500/93012 2007-03-20T00:11:34+10:00 <p> The Java heads amongst you may wish to check out this article on using SVG and JSP together: <a href="http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Java/Using-Sun-Java-Studio-Creator-with-SVG/">Using Sun Java Studio Creator with SVG</a>. </p> http://svg.org/story/2007/3/14/44527/7934 2007-03-17T03:25:41+10:00 <p>Kiyut just released Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor 4.2, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.</p><p><a href="http://svg.org/story/2007/3/14/44527/7934">Read on for the full story...</a></p> http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item46 2007-03-16T05:00:00+10:00 2007-03-16: 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. (Permalink) http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-navigation-select.pl.php 2007-03-15T05:00:00+10:00 Natalia Fabisz, Andrew Osobka published a Polish translation of the W3C document “FAQ: Using &lt;select&gt; to Link to Localized Content” under the title Zastosowanie elementu &lt;select&gt; do treści lokalnych. http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/Overview.pl.php 2007-03-15T05:00:00+10:00 Natalia Fabisz, Andrew Osobka published a Polish translation of the W3C document “Serving XHTML 1.0” under the title Wysyłanie XHTML 1.0. http://svg.org/story/2007/3/13/9153/08493 2007-03-13T14:15:03+10:00 <img src="http://www.amanithvg.com/images/Tiger_01_tiny.png" alt="" /> <div> <p> <a href="http://www.amanithvg.com">AmanithVG</a> engine is a cross-platform OpenVG 1.0 implementation for accelerated vector graphics. AmanithVG is entirely built on top of OpenGL (from 1.1 to 2.0, using extensions where available) and OpenGL ES (1.1 and 2.0) APIs. The new v1.0 build is available on Win32 (x86), MacOS X (universal binary), Linux (x86), and FreeBSD (x86). AmanithVG builds for embedded platforms (Linux embedded, Symbian S60 3rd) are available on request, they have been fully tested on Texas Instrument OMAP2420 and Freescale i.MX31. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.mazatech.com/">Mazatech</a> is now working on an SVG Tiny 1.2 player based on the AmanithVG engine. </p> </div> http://svg.org/story/2007/3/9/91635/39571 2007-03-13T05:46:10+10:00 <p> Four Japanese companies have founded the SVGMap Consortium in order to develop browsing software, and server and service infrastructure for the dissemination of Web maps in the SVG Tiny format (with geo extensions). An SVG mobile browser is being developed which supports high performance rendering of large map data, hyper layering functionality, scrolling, zooming, and handling of geo-metadata. The additional functionality is built on top of SVG Tiny 1.2. SVG is a government mandated standard for mobile geodata in Japan (g-contents initiative). The consortium is supported by other companies and research institutions. </p> <p> More information can be found at <a href="http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/03/about_establish.html">http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/03/about_establish.html</a> </p> http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item45 2007-03-13T05:00:00+10:00 2007-03-13: 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. (Permalink) http://www.w3.org/QA/2007/03/meet_the_html_working_group_ch.html 2007-03-09T13:03:11+10:00 <p>I enjoyed living in Austin and I like to visit when I can. My <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/159">last trip was more for MIT research stuff</a>; this time it's W3C business.</p> <p>I took SxSWi 2007 off my <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/#travl">travel schedule</a> when the TAG scheduled a meeting at MIT the week before, but I put it back on when I saw this panel:<br /> </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/?action=show&amp;id=IAP060128">Browser Wars Retrospective: Past, Present and Future Battlefields</a><br /> Tuesday, March 13th<br /> 10:00 am - 11:00 am<br /> Arun Ranganathan AOL<br /> Brendan Eich CTO, Mozilla<br /> Charles McCathieNevile CSO, Opera Software<br /> Chris Wilson IE Platform Architect, Microsoft</li> </ul> <p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2006/12/reinventing_html_update.html">reinventing HTML saga</a> culminated in a big announcement this week: <a href="http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item43">W3C Launches New HTML Working Group</a>. Chris Wilson and I are the co-chairs. Karl Dubost and I are working on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">HTML WG page</a> this week.<br /> </p> <p>I fly into Austin Monday, just in time to see the <cite><a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/events/2006-03-13-the-growth-and-evolution-of-microformats">Growth and Evolution of Microformats</a></cite> panel; then I fly home Tuesday. The <a href="http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/">panel schedule</a> has so much cool stuff from content developers that I would have loved to go for the whole thing... not to mention the music festival.<br /> </p> <p>If you can catch me while I'm there, I'll have some <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/">Mobile Web Best Practices</a> flip cards to hand out.</p> <p>Shawn Henry is presenting <cite>Accessiblity: A Report From the Trenches</cite> this Sunday. See <a href="http://www.w3.org/Talks/">W3C Talks</a> for some more details.<br /> </p> I have lots of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dckc/tags/austin/">fond memories of Austin</a>; maybe we can make a few more next week?<br /> http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item43 2007-03-07T05:00:00+10:00 2007-03-07: 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. (Permalink) http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Overview.html 2007-03-07T05:00:00+10:00 Julian Graham is developing <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/scss/">SCSS</a> and <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/libruin/">libRUIN.</a> SCSS is a Scheme module for parsing, querying, and emitting style information. libRUIN is a C library that uses SCSS (through GNU Guile) for rendering documents on text terminals (Scheme & C, Open Source) http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-2or3.pl.php 2007-03-06T05:00:00+10:00 Andrew Osobka, Agata Bogacka, Tomasz Namysłowski, Natalia Fabisz, Евгений Рабчевский (Evgeny Rabchevsky), Jan Długosz published a Polish translation of the W3C document “FAQ: Two-letter or three-letter language codes” under the title Dwuliterowe czy trzyliterowe kody języka. http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-ruby.pl.php 2007-03-06T05:00:00+10:00 Andrew Osobka, Agata Bogacka, Tomasz Namysłowski, Natalia Fabisz, Евгений Рабчевский (Evgeny Rabchevsky), Jan Długosz published a Polish translation of the W3C document “FAQ: Ruby” under the title Ruby. http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-why.pl.php 2007-03-06T05:00:00+10:00 Andrew Osobka, Agata Bogacka, Tomasz Namysłowski, Natalia Fabisz, Евгений Рабчевский (Evgeny Rabchevsky), Jan Długosz published a Polish translation of the W3C document “FAQ: Why use the language attribute?” under the title Dlaczego stosujemy atrybuty języka?.