http://www.w3.org/ Page Of All Knowledge en http://www.w3.org/ 2005-12-01T22:17+00:00 http://svg.org/story/2005/12/1/23041/5707 2005-12-01T07:30:41+10:00 <p> With SVG now being natively supported by both <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox</a> and <a href="http://www.opera.com/download/">Opera</a>, a new <a href="http://svg.codebot.org/">SVG Pad</a> tool is under development which promotes SVG by allow SVG authors to experiment and share their work. Planned future functionality includes a quickstart SVG tutorial page, and a SVG references page. If you like the SVG Pad tool and have idea on how to extend it, <a href="http://www.codebot.org/about">send your suggestions in</a>. </p> http://svg.org/story/2005/11/30/44555/315 2005-11-30T09:45:55+10:00 <p>Firefox 1.5 RC3 has become the official release of <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox 1.5</a>. This heralds the second major browser (after Opera 8) to natively support some form of SVG (Opera 8 supported SVG Tiny 1.1 back in April 2005).</p> <p>Firefox's implementation of SVG is not exactly SVG 1.1 Full, nor does it fully cover SVG 1.1 Tiny nor SVG 1.1 Basic. Details of the Firefox 1.5 SVG implementation are located <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SVG_in_Firefox_1.5">here</a>, while details of the SVG implementation in the development version of Firefox (aka "the trunk") are located <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html">here</a> (though this will not be released until some time in 2007 as Firefox 3).</p> http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item177 2005-11-29T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-29: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on on 29 November - 1 December in Montréal, Québec, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C Activities. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting during May 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. (Photo credit: Karl Dubost. News archive) http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item176 2005-11-28T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-28: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web community to share their experiences and involvement with QA. Participation is open to W3C Members and the public. Visit the QA home page. (News archive) http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item175 2005-11-28T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-28: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive) http://www.w3.org/QA/2005/01/News2005#x20051128b 2005-11-28T05:00:00+10:00 W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web community to share their experiences and involvement with QA. Participation is open to W3C Members and the public. http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item172 2005-11-23T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-23: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released Working Drafts of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and a First Public Working Draft of Understanding WCAG 2.0. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technology. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive) http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item173 2005-11-23T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-23: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released a Working Draft of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 incorporating Last Call comments. The guidelines are written to help developers create accessible authoring interfaces that produce accessible Web content. Resulting content can be read by a broader range of readers including those with disabilities. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive) http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item174 2005-11-23T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-23: The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web as a Working Group Note. Requests for visual verification of a bitmapped image pose problems for those who are blind, have low vision or have a learning disability such as dyslexia. The note examines ways for systems to test for human users while preserving access for users with disabilities. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive) http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item171 2005-11-22T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-22: W3C is pleased to announce the nomination of Daniel Dardailler, W3C Associate Chair based in Europe, as W3C liaison to the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors. Thomas Roessler will serve on the 2006 ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom). W3C's involvement in ICANN and in the post-WSIS forum, soon to be launched, should help preserve the operational stability of the Internet and the Web in a transparent and open way while ensuring its unfragmented growth based on contributions from the international community. Read About W3C. (News archive) http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item169 2005-11-22T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-22: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG). Chaired by Tonya Hongsermeier (Partners HealthCare) and Eric Neumann (Unaffiliated), the group is chartered to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the health care and life science industries. Aiding decision-making in clinical research, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical information across institutions. Read the press release and visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive) http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item170 2005-11-22T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-22: The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) and an updated Working Draft of its requirements. Organized by data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive) http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/news#x20051122a 2005-11-22T05:00:00+10:00 W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG). Chaired by Tonya Hongsermeier (Partners Healthcare) and Eric Neumann (Unaffiliated), the group is chartered to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the health care and life science industries. Aiding decision-making in clinical research, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical information across institutions. Additional information is availiable on the press release. http://svg.org/story/2005/11/21/191448/29 2005-11-22T00:14:48+10:00 <p>The <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/svgdomcsharp/">SharpVectorGraphics</a> project, a.k.a. SVG#, the C# SVG implementation, has released a <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46621&amp;package_id=51362&amp;release_id=372738">new 0.4 alpha version</a>. Some of the new features and enhancements from v0.3.1 include: </p> <p> <ul> <li>Interactivity</li> <li>Events</li> <li>Rendering Updates</li> <li>Rendering to HDC</li> <li>Scripting</li> <li>Source Code Reorganization</li> <li>Improved <code>&lt;use&gt;</code> support</li> <li>Improved Coordinate Handling</li> </ul> </p> <p> *Warning: <em>This project now contains unsafe code blocks to support image transparency and hit testing, additionally, security models for scripting support is still under development. </em> </p> <p><a href="http://svg.org/story/2005/11/21/191448/29">Read on for the full story...</a></p> http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item166 2005-11-21T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-21: W3C is pleased to launch the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free online tool open to creators of syndication feeds in formats such as RSS and Atom. Based on 'feedvalidator', and adding a SOAP Web service interface for interactive programming, the tool is useful for automatic or batch syntax checking. This service joins the existing pool of free, open source tools offered by W3C to the Web development community to help build a better World Wide Web. Learn more in the announcement. (News archive) http://svg.org/story/2005/11/17/73543/290 2005-11-17T12:35:43+10:00 <p> The <a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a> has just <a href="http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item162">announced</a> the creation of the new <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/">Web APIs Working Group</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/">Web Application Formats Working Group</a> as part of the Rich Web Client Activity. </p> <blockquote> <p> W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Rich Web Client Activity for client-side Web Application development. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/">Web APIs Working Group</a> chaired by Robin Berjon (Expway) will document and build standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) such as XMLHttpRequest, an AJAX component. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/">Web Application Formats Working Group</a> chaired by Art Barstow (Nokia) will develop declarative languages for Web Applications, building on existing technologies in the marketplace where possible. </p> </blockquote> http://svg.org/story/2005/11/11/15053/458 2005-11-12T01:33:51+10:00 <p> At the <a href="http://www.trixml.org/nextmeeting.shtml">next Tri-XML meeting</a>, Doug Schepers from <a href="http://www.vectoreal.com">Vectoreal</a>, someone pretty much at the forefront of developing anything SVG, holds a presentation named "SVG implementations, Animation, and AJAX". </p><p><a href="http://svg.org/story/2005/11/11/15053/458">Read on for the full story...</a></p> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2005#Nov-1 2005-11-10T05:00:00+10:00 2005-11-10: The W3C Indian Office is open in Noida, India. The Office is hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC Noida). R. K. Verma is the Office Manager and the Deputy Office Manager is Vijay Gugnani. Stéphane Boyera, Steve Bratt, Max Froumentin, Ivan Herman and Richard Ishida are among those attending the opening ceremonies on 10-11 November in New Delhi. The opening ceremony on the 10th of November was attended by more than 250 delegates representing the academia and industry; this was followed by a day of tutorials on the 11th also attended by around 200 experts. The presentations are also linked from the event page. http://svg.org/story/2005/11/8/134757/028 2005-11-10T01:49:47+10:00 <p> MapViewSVG, the well-known tool for internet mapping with ESRI ArcGIS and ArcView GIS, now supports native SVG in Firefox 1.5. All functionalities and interactivities offered by MapViewSVG are supported. </p><p><a href="http://svg.org/story/2005/11/8/134757/028">Read on for the full story...</a></p> http://svg.org/story/2005/11/8/105256/947 2005-11-10T01:49:25+10:00 <p> As found on the <a href="http://www.idealliance.org/xmlusa/2005/schedule.html">XML 2005 conference schedule</a>: Kurt Cagle (Netscape 9 chief architect, technical writer and chairman of SVG Open 2006) will talk about "Binding the Graphical Web (Component and Data Bindings with XBL, XHTML and SVG)": </p><p><a href="http://svg.org/story/2005/11/8/105256/947">Read on for the full story...</a></p>