23 December 2001
During two weeks in
December, W3C Working Groups released a record 27 publications: 19
Working Drafts, 7 Notes, and a Recommendation. Find them all linked to
the index of technical reports. W3C thanks our
Webmaster Dominique Hazaël-Massieux for his
superlative execution of this busy publication schedule. Publications
will resume on 7 January 2002. As 2002 begins on the Gregorian
calendar, please accept W3C's wishes to all of our visitors for a happy
and successful new year.
20 December 2001
The W3C
Internationalization Working Group has released an interim Working
Draft of the Character Model
for the World Wide Web 1.0 recording their progress. This document
provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content
developers a common reference for interoperable text manipulation.
Please hold comments until the second Last Call. Read about W3C work on
internationalization.
20 December 2001
As part of the W3C
Style Activity, the XSL Working Group has
released the first Working Draft of XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version
2.0. XSLT is a stylesheet language for transforming XML documents
into other XML documents. It is often used to produce HTML and XHTML
and application-specific message formats. Visit the XSL home page.
20 December 2001
The W3C XML Query
Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released several Working
Drafts. XQuery is a computer language designed to return information to
users or their agents, and is applicable to many types of XML data
sources from documents to databases, search engines, and object
repositories. Derived from XPath 1.0 and XQuery, XPath is a language
used to address parts of an XML document. Read about the W3C XML and Style Activities. Today's
publications include:
18 December 2001
On Friday, 21 December,
power at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) will be turned
off at approximately 9:00 p.m. EST (2:00Z 22 December) to complete
retooling of the building's power configuration. All services will be
suspended and the site will be accessible in a read-only state. Mail
sent to W3C archives will be queued, and posted when the power is
restored. Power is expected to return by 7:00 a.m. EST Sunday, 23
December (12:00Z 23 December). We apologize for the inconvenience.
18 December 2001
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version
5.3 supports annotations on annotations and discussion threads, handles
multiple profiles, and includes new English documentation by WinWriters
and other new features. Download Amaya binaries for Linux and
Windows. Source code is available.
If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
18 December 2001
The World Wide Web
Consortium today published WebCGM 1.0 Second Release as a W3C
Recommendation. The second release is not a new version; it brings
WebCGM up to date with the first release errata. A joint effort of W3C
and the CGM Open Consortium,
WebCGM is an interoperable way to exchange dynamic Computer Graphics
Metafile (CGM) files over the Web. The WebCGM Profile adds hyperlinking
to graphics-rich applications such as interactive electronic manuals
for engineering and manufacturing. Read more about WebCGM.
11 December 2001
Component Extension (CX) API requirements
Version 1.0 has been published as a W3C Note. Produced by the
HyperText Coordination Group, the Note describes requirements for
browser plug-ins and an active component architecture for the Web for
server and client software. Comments are welcome.
11 December 2001
W3C is pleased to
announce the creation of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG).
The TAG will document cross-technology Web architecture principles, and
resolve architectural issues. The TAG will conduct its work on a
public mailing
list. Chair Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Cotton, Roy Fielding, David
Orchard, Norman Walsh, and Stuart Williams join appointees Tim Bray,
Dan Connolly, and Chris Lilley as the first TAG participants. Read the
press release and visit the
TAG home page.
10 December 2001
The XForms Working Group has released a new Working
Draft of XForms 1.0. More
flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new
generation of Web forms called XForms separates purpose, presentation,
and data. Comments are
welcome. Read about XForms.
10 December 2001
W3C Team members will
speak at XML 2001
USA being held 9-14 December in Orlando, Florida.
- Tuesday, 11 December, Daniel
Weitzner, Patents and Web Standards
- Wednesday, 12 December, Karl Dubost,
W3C Quality Assurance Activity Initiated
- Thursday, 13 December, Chris Lilley,
Not Just SVG - Integrated XML Graphics
- Thursday, 13 December, Dean Jackson,
SVG Mobile - SVG on resource-limited devices
- Thursday, 13 December, Henry S.
Thompson, Schema Languages Comparison
- Friday, 14 December, Henry S.
Thompson, Normal Form Conventions for XML Representations of
Structured Data
- Friday, 14 December, Philippe Le
Hégaret, Update from the W3C DOM Activity
- Friday, 14 December, Hugo Haas,
Update on the Work of the W3C XML Protocol Activity
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is a member of
the XML 2001 USA Planning Committee. Browse past
W3C Team talks and presentations and upcoming W3C appearances and events.
30 November 2001
On 3 December, Tim Berners-Lee speaks at the Harvard Information
Infrastructure Project at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
On 19 December, Wendy Chisholm will be the
keynote speaker at the State of Washington
Accessibility Symposium, USA. Several Team members present at
XML 2001 USA in
Orlando, Florida: on 11 December, Daniel
Weitzner speaks on Patents and Web
Standards; on 13 December, Chris
Lilley gives a talk on Not Just SVG -
Integrated XML Graphics, Dean
Jackson gives a talk titled SVG Mobile - SVG on
resource-limited devices, and Henry
S. Thompson speaks on Schema
Language Comparison; on 14 December, Henry Thompson presents Normal Form
Conventions for XML Representations of Structured Data,
Philippe Le Hégaret presents an
Update from
the W3C DOM Activity, and Hugo
Haas presents an Update on the
Work of the W3C XML Protocol Activity.
15 November 2001
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of Selectors to Candidate
Recommendation. Selectors are patterns in the Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) language that match to elements in HTML and XML. This
specification describes the CSS1 and
CSS2 selectors and new selectors for
CSS3. A test
suite is available. Please send your comments by May
2002 and read more on the CSS home page.
14 November 2001
The SVG Open / Carto.net Developers
Conference will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on 15-17 July 2002.
Co-sponsored by W3C, SVG Open is a platform for Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) developers to
share ideas, examples and implementations. Presenters are asked to send
a 400-800 word abstract prior to 15 January 2002. For more information,
please read the call for papers,
contact Ivan Herman or Chris Lilley of the W3C Team, and consult the
conference Web site.
31 October 2001
W3C is pleased to
announce W3C Day at
Keio (in Japanese) to be held on 29 November at Keio University
Mita Campus in Tokyo, Japan. Team members from all three W3C host
sites, INRIA, Keio, and MIT, will participate in the event. Marie-Claire Forgue, Tatsuya Hagino, José
Kahan, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Chris Lilley, and Nobuo
Saito will give talks.
30 October 2001
The SVG Working Group has
released two first public Working Drafts. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version
1.1 is a modularization of the SVG language used to build profiles.
Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny
and SVG Basic defines SVG Tiny for highly restricted mobile
devices, and SVG Basic for higher level mobile devices. SVG delivers
two-dimensional graphics in XML to the Web, providing accessible,
dynamic, reusable, and extensible vector graphics, text, and images.
Comments are welcome on both drafts. Read more on the SVG home page.
29 October 2001
On 1 November, Martin J. Dürst presents The World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C): An Overview and Web Architecture:
From URI to the Semantic Web at the
2001 Web-based Technology Standard Conference in Seoul, Korea. On
15 November, Tim Berners-Lee gives a
talk titled Technology in the 21st Century at the Cambridge Forum
in Cambridge, MA, USA. Also on 15 November, Bert
Bos gives the closing keynote at the
annual congress of the Dutch SGML/XML Users Group in Rotterdam, The
Netherlands. On 15 and 16 November, Wendy
Chisholm and Charles McCathieNevile
speak at OZeWAI 2001 in
Melbourne, Australia. On 20 November, Philipp Hoschka will give a keynote titled
The Future of Streaming Media on the Web at Streaming Media
Japan 2001 in Tokyo, Japan. On 21 November, Kazuhiro Kitagawa presents Device Independence
and the Semantic Web (in Japanese) at Internet World Japan
2001 in Chiba, Japan. On 22 November, Ivan
Herman presents W3C Architectural
Recommendations at the XML Belux conference in Mechelen,
Belgium.
29 October 2001
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version
5.2 supports generic-xml documents in browser mode, the
embed
element for SVG and MathML, "Export CR/LF" from
Windows, a DOS file format, the HTTP Content-Location header, and other
new features. Download Amaya binaries for Linux and
Windows. Source code is available.
If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
26 October 2001
The HTML Working Group
has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Events. The specification
defines a module used to associate behaviors with document-level markup
for XML languages, and supports the DOM Level 2 event model. Comments are
welcome through 30 November. Visit the HTML home
page.
24 October 2001
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released the XML Information Set (Infoset)
as a W3C Recommendation. Produced by the XML Core Working Group as part
of the XML Activity, the specification has been reviewed by the W3C
Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. The Infoset defines a
set of eleven types of information items in XML documents. Read the
press release and visit the
XML home page.
17 October 2001
The HTML Working Group
has released the fourth public Working Draft of XML Events. The specification
was renamed from XHTML Events, with significant changes. It defines a
module used to associate behaviors with document-level markup through
DOM Level 2 event model support. Comments are
welcome. Read more on the HTML home page.
16 October 2001
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. The specification has been reviewed by
the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. Designers use
an XSL stylesheet to express how source content should be styled, laid
out, and paginated onto a presentation medium such as a browser window,
a pamphlet or a book. Read the press release and testimonials.
13 October 2001
W3C has opened its patent
policy process for continuing public dialog. Free software and open
source authorities Eben Moglen and Bruce Perens are joining the Patent
Policy Working Group (PPWG) as invited
experts. The PPWG has launched a public home
page. A second public Last Call for the W3C Patent Policy Framework
is planned. W3C thanks all participants on the comments mailing
list. Please refer to the
next steps announcement from Danny Weitzner, PPWG Chair.
02 October 2001
W3C has published a
response to public comments
received on the W3C
Patent Policy Framework. Prepared by the Patent Policy Working
Group, the draft proposes a patent policy for W3C Working Groups and
Members. Thanks to requests from the Web community, the W3C Team has
extended a public and Member review period through 11 October. Your
comments
are welcome.
01 October 2001
On 1 October, Henry Thompson gives a keynote at XML Days in
Budapest, Hungary. On 4-5 October, Rigo
Wenning participates in the JRC-Workshop on Privacy and Security in
Brussels, Belgium. On 13 October, Ivan
Herman presents Overview of W3C
Technologies at Day of the Greek W3C Office in
Thessaloniki, Greece. On 15-19, Philipp
Hoschka presents Future Web Interface Technologies at
SBMIDIA 2001
in Florianopolis, Brazil. On 16 October, Charles McCathieNevile speaks on the Semantic
Web and use cases for the British Computer Society's Specialist Group.
On 26 October, Charles presents Formación
para las autores del Web at V Jornadas del
SID@R in Mar del Plata, Argentina. On 29 October, Nobuo Saito presents Standardization
Activities by W3C and Tatsuya
Hagino gives a talk on the Current Situation and Perspective
of Semantic Web and XML at the INTAP Semantic
Web Conference in Tokyo, Japan.
30 September 2001
The W3C
Internationalization Working Group has released a Working Draft of the
Character Model for the World
Wide Web 1.0 recording changes made since the first Last Call. This
document provides authors of specifications, software developers, and
content developers a common reference for interoperable text
manipulation. Read about W3C's work on internationalization.
25 September 2001
The XML Schema Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Schema: Formal
Description. Based on the syntax in XML
Schema Part 1: Structures, the formalization is a declarative
system for describing and naming XML Schema information, specifying XML
instance type information, and validating instances against schemas.
Read about the W3C XML Activity.
24 September 2001
The CSS Working Group
has released the first Working Draft of CSS3 module: Backgrounds.
Part of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3, this module describes backgrounds such
as background colors and background images that are used to render HTML
and XML documents. Comments are
welcome. Visit the CSS home page.
24 September 2001
The W3C/IETF URI
Planning Interest Group has published URIs, URLs, and URNs:
Clarifications and Recommendations 1.0 as a W3C Note. The Note
outlines the difference between classical and contemporary URI
partitioning, explains the relationship between URIs, URLs, and URNs,
describes how URI schemes and URN namespace ids are registered, and
sets forth recommendations. Read about the W3C URI Activity.
18 September 2001
The home page of the
W3C Morocco Office is now
available as Unicode encoded Arabic. The Office is hosted by the
Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, in
Rabat, Morocco. W3C Offices assist
with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical
base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
18 September 2001
W3C is pleased to
announce an upgrade to the W3C HTML
Validation Service created and maintained by Gerald Oskoboiny of the W3C Systems Team. New
features include XHTML 1.1 and XHTML Basic 1.0 support, experimental
MathML 2.0 support, new functions on the results page, and an option to
override character encoding. Feedback on the service is
welcome (archive).
Refer to What's New for
the change history.
11 September 2001
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of the XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version
1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. XPointer can be used in URI
references to address parts of an XML document such as elements,
attributes, character content, and relative position. Comments
are welcome through 4 March 2002. Read about the W3C XML Activity.
05 September 2001
The World Wide Web
Consortium has issued SMIL Animation as a W3C
Recommendation. This subset of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language 2.0 (SMIL, pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line,
allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation
elements for any XML-based host language. Read about the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Activity.
05 September 2001
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0
Specification as a W3C Recommendation. The specification has been
reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. SVG
delivers two-dimensional graphics in XML to the Web, providing
accessible, dynamic, reusable, and extensible vector graphics, text,
and images. Read about SVG implementations, and learn more
in the press release and
testimonials.
03 September 2001
On 3 September, Charles McCathieNevile speaks on the Semantic
Web and Web accessibility at Monash University, Clayton Campus. On 6
September, Ivan Herman presents
2D Web
Graphics, State of the Art Presentation at the Eurographics 2001 conference in
Manchester, UK, and Eric Miller gives a
keynote, Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web, at the
5th European Conference on Research
and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries in Darmstadt,
Germany. On 12 September, Chris Lilley
presents SVG: Vector Graphics Meets Unicode at the
19th
International Unicode Conference in San Jose, USA, and Henry Thompson gives a keynote, XML,
Objects and the Web: How XML Schema and XML Infoset facilitate OO Data
Binding, at Net.ObjectDays 2001 in Erfurt, Germany.
30 August 2001
Professor Michael L.
Dertouzos, director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS)
since 1974, died on 27 August 2001, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Born
in Athens, Greece, author of eight books, and widely admired for
bringing his humanity to computing, Dertouzos was 64. Tim Berners-Lee,
W3C Director, credits Prof. Dertouzos with the W3C's existence, and has
written a personal tribute.
In his last interview on 22 August 2001, Dertouzos said, "Don't forget
the impact that love has on education." His impact is difficult to
overestimate. He is already sorely missed.
28 August 2001
The XForms Working Group has released a new Working
Draft of XForms 1.0. More
flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new
generation of Web forms called XForms separates purpose, presentation,
and data. Comments are
welcome. Read more about XForms and the
W3C HTML Activity.
24 August 2001
The XSL Working Group has
published a final Working Draft of XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version
1.1. Except for its status, it is unchanged from the previous
draft. Requirements for version 1.1 will be considered for XSLT 2.0. An
XSLT style sheet describes rules for transforming a source tree into a
result tree. The source tree can be filtered and reordered, and
arbitrary structure can be added. Learn more about XSL and the W3C Style
Activity.
20 August 2001
The Patent Policy Working
Group has released the W3C Patent Policy Framework
as a Last Call Working Draft. The draft proposes changes to the W3C
process and Member Agreements, including licensing modes for W3C
Working Groups, disclosure obligations, licensing commitments, and a
procedure for variances. Comments are welcome through 30 September.
Learn more in the backgrounder and
Patent Policy FAQ.
16 August 2001
W3C is pleased to announce
the creation of the Quality Assurance (QA) Activity.
Launched with a Working Group and Interest Group, the primary mission of the QA
Activity is to improve the quality of W3C specification implementation
in the field. QA will work on the quality of W3C specifications,
promote the development of good validators, test tools, and harnesses
for implementers, and think ahead to additional steps. Learn more in
the QA Activity statement.
14 August 2001
As part of the Semantic Web Activity, W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the W3C RDF Validation Service.
Created and maintained by Art Barstow,
visiting W3C Fellow from Hewlett-Packard, the validator is based on the
Another RDF Parser (ARP) by Jeremy Carroll. Enter a URI or RDF/XML
document, and the RDF Validator will display a 3-tuple (triple)
representation and a graphical visualization of the data model.
Feedback on the new service is welcome at www-rdf-validator@w3.org.
09 August 2001
As part of the Synchronized Multimedia Activity, the SYMM Working
Group has published a Working Draft of XHTML+SMIL Profile. The draft
integrates a subset of the SMIL 2.0 specification with XHTML. It
includes modules for animation, content control, media objects, timing
and synchronization, and transition effects. Comments are
welcome.
09 August 2001
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released the Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language (SMIL) 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. The specification has
been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by
industry. SMIL (pronounced "smile") defines an XML-based language that
authors can use to write interactive multimedia presentations. Version
2.0 includes approximately one hundred predefined transition effects,
and support for hierarchical layout and animation. See how SMIL is
already
implemented, and read the press release and testimonials.
08 August 2001
Due to a power outage in
the MIT LCS W3C building on Tuesday and Wednesday, 7-8 August, parts of
the W3C site were down. W3C apologizes for the inconvenience. Services
were restored at 22:00Z on 8 August.
03 August 2001
The SVG (Scalable Vector
Graphics) Working Group has released two Working Drafts of design
principles and requirements: SVG 1.1/2.0 Requirements applies to
future versions of the SVG language, and
SVG Mobile
Requirements applies to an SVG mobile profile to be developed for
small devices. Read more about W3C work on SVG.
31 July 2001
The CSS Working Group has
released the first Working Draft of CSS3 module: Fonts. This module
contains the font sections of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 2, as
well as the font decoration properties that are new in CSS Level 3. Comments are welcome on the public
mailing list www-style@w3.org.
19 July 2001
W3C has published the
Technical Architecture Group charter and
revised the Process
Document. The TAG will document cross-technology Web architecture
principles, and resolve architectural issues. Chaired by the W3C
Director, the TAG will consist of five elected and three appointed
participants. Like other W3C Working Groups, the TAG will use the
Recommendation track to build consensus around its documents. The TAG
will conduct most of its work on a public mailing list. The nomination
period is expected to begin in a few weeks. Visit the TAG home page.
19 July 2001
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of SMIL
Animation to Proposed
Recommendation. This subset of the Synchronized Multimedia
Integration Language 2.0 (SMIL, pronounced "smile") puts animation on a
time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and describes
animation elements for any XML-based host language. Comments are
welcome through 16 August. Learn about W3C work on synchronized multimedia.
13 July 2001
The CSS Working Group has
published a first Working Draft of CSS3 module: Cascading and
inheritance. Part of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 2 rewritten
as a module for CSS Level 3, the draft
describes how values are assigned to properties using the cascade
mechanism, inheritance, and initial values. Comments are
welcome. Visit the CSS home page.
11 July 2001
Amaya
is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 5.1 is a bug fix
release, adding flat style to the button bar, a Portuguese translation
of Amaya dialogues, and an online documentation index developed by
WinWriters. Download Amaya binaries for Linux, Solaris,
Windows 2000/NT, and Windows 95/98. Source code is available. If you are
interested in annotations, visit the Annotea
home page.
09 July 2001
On 10 July, Hugo Haas and Eric
Prud'hommeaux attend the
Software Services Grid Workshop, sponsored by the Object Management Group, Inc, in Danvers,
Massachusetts, USA. On 11 July, Philipp
Hoschka presents Activities of the W3C at the ICANN PSO
General Assembly, sponsored by ETSI, in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Charles McCathieNevile speaks on Web
accessibility at the TechFest 2001
Assistive Technology Expo to be held on 17 and 19 July in
Launceston and Hobart, Tasmania. Charles also speaks at the Central
Queensland University in Rockhampton, at Changing Landscape II on 20
July.
06 July 2001
In the W3C sense, "domains" are groups of related W3C
Activities. To better balance and focus W3C work, the Document Formats
Domain and the Interaction Domain replace W3C's User Interface Domain
as of today. The Document Formats Domain, led by
Vincent Quint, hosts the Amaya, Graphics, HTML, Internationalization,
Math, and Style Activities. The Interaction
Domain, led by Philipp Hoschka, hosts the Device Independence,
Synchronized Multimedia, and Voice Browser Activities. Michael
Sperberg-McQueen becomes Architecture Domain Leader.
04 July 2001
Amaya
is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 5.0 adds accessibility
features, enhanced SVG and PNG support, CSS parser feedback, and XHTML
1.1 support including simple and complex ruby annotation. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris 8, Linux,
and Windows 2000, NT, 95, and 98. Source code is available. If you are
interested in annotations, please visit the Annotea home page.
27 June 2001
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released XML
Base and XML Linking
Language (XLink) as W3C Recommendations. The specifications are
stable, and have been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor their
adoption by industry. XLink provides a way to allow elements to be
inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links
between resources; XML Base provides a way to indicate the URI base for
linking in XML. Read the press release.
27 June 2001
The User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group has published a Working Draft of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
1.0 in response to Last Call comments. This document provides
guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web
accessibility for people with visual, hearing, physical, and cognitive
disabilities. Comments are invited. Read about the W3C
Web Accessibility Initiative.
27 June 2001
The User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group has released a new Working Draft of Techniques for User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. This document is a companion to UAAG
1.0, and covers the accessibility of user interfaces, content
rendering, application programming interfaces (APIs), and languages
such as HTML, CSS, and SMIL. Comments are
welcome.
08 June 2001
The HTML Working Group has
released a new Working Draft of XHTML Events comprised of two
modules used to associate behaviors with document-level markup. The
XHTML Events Module provides DOM Level 2 event model support. A subset,
the Basic XHTML Events Module, provides this support to simple
applications and devices. Comments are
welcome. Read more about the W3C HTML Activity.
05 June 2001
XML Linking and Style has
been published as a W3C Note. The product of an XML Linking/XSL joint
task force, the Note provides a conceptual model for the interaction of
XLink linking elements and styling, and gives suggestions for
application of that model using current W3C technical reports. Read
more about XML Linking and XSL.
31 May 2001
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released XHTML 1.1 -
Module-based XHTML and Ruby
Annotation as W3C
Recommendations. The specifications are stable, and have been
reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor their adoption by industry.
XHTML 1.1 is a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict based on XHTML
modules, including the ruby module. Ruby is a short run of text
alongside base text typically used in East Asian documents to indicate
pronunciation or annotation. Read the press release and testimonials.
31 May 2001
Implementing the Ruby
Module has been published as a W3C Note. Written by Masayasu Ishikawa of the W3C Team, the Note
describes sample module implementations of Ruby Annotation's abstract definition
of ruby markup in several schemas: DTD, RELAX, TREX, and XML Schema.
Comments may be sent to the author.
23 May 2001
The CSS Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of Introduction to CSS3. This
document lists all the modules in the future Cascading Style Sheets
Level 3 (CSS3) specification. Comments are welcome on the www-style@w3.org mailing list (archive) or may be
sent to the editors. Learn more on the CSS home
page.
18 May 2001
Registration is open through
19 June for the W3C Workshop on XML Key
Management to be held in Redwood City, California, USA, on 19 July
2001. Participants will consider the requirements for simple key
resolution and trust services for XML security applications, the XKMS
specification, and discuss the potential for a related W3C Activity.
Position papers should be submitted by 19 June.
17 May 2001
The CSS Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of Media queries. The draft
proposes a registry of media types to describe what type of devices a
style sheet applies to, and provides for expressions to limit a style
sheet's scope. Comments are invited. Read about the W3C Style Activity.
02 May 2001
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released XML Schema as a W3C Recommendation in three parts:
Part 0: Primer,
Part 1: Structures,
Part 2: Datatypes. The
specification is stable and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership,
who favors its adoption by academic, industry, and research
communities. XML Schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the
structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide
hooks to associate semantics with them. XML Schema was produced by the
XML Schema Working Group. Read the press release and testimonials.
19 April 2001
As part of the W3C DOM Activity, the DOM Working Group has updated
the Document Object
Model (DOM) Requirements Working Draft. The DOM is a platform- and
language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to
dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of
documents.
17 April 2001
The World Wide Web
Consortium today announced that it has grown to over 500 member
organizations, representing industry, research, government, and
citizens groups, from 34 countries. W3C supports universal access, the
Semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization,
and cooler multimedia through its consensus-based process. Please read the roster of
current Members and the press release. If your
organization would like to join W3C, refer to the W3C Membership page.
13 April 2001
The Semantic
Web, written by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler,
and Ora Lassila, is the cover story in the May 2001 issue of
Scientific American magazine. Read more about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
10 April 2001
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released Modularization of
XHTML as a W3C
Recommendation. The specification is stable, and has been reviewed
by the W3C Membership, who favors its adoption by academic, industry,
and research communities. The Recommendation extends XHTML's reach onto emerging Web
platforms like mobile devices, television, and appliances. Read the
press release and
testimonials, and visit
the HTML home page.
09 April 2001
The User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of
User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0. This document provides guidelines for designing
user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with
visual, hearing, physical, and cognitive disabilities. Comments are
invited through 4 May. Read about the W3C Web
Accessibility Initiative.
09 April 2001
The User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group has released a Working Draft of Techniques for User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. This document is a companion to UAAG
1.0, and covers the accessibility of user interfaces, content
rendering, application programming interfaces (APIs), and languages
such as HTML, CSS, and SMIL. Comments are
welcome.
06 April 2001
The CSS Working Group has
released a first Working Draft of Media queries. The draft
proposes a registry of media types to describe what type of devices a
style sheet applies to, and provides for expressions to limit a style
sheet's scope. Please send your comments to the www-style@w3.org mailing list (archive). Read
about the W3C Style Activity.
06 April 2001
The CSS Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of Introduction to CSS3. This
document lists all the modules in the future Cascading Style Sheets
Level 3 (CSS3) specification. Comments are welcome on the www-style@w3.org mailing list (archive) or may be
sent to the editors. Learn more on the CSS home
page.
31 March 2001
The power outage that was
scheduled for Saturday, 7 April 2001, at MIT's Laboratory for Computer
Science (LCS) has been canceled. A design modification has been made in
construction plans, eliminating the need for a power shutdown.
30 March 2001
The XML Schema Working
Group has updated the XML Schema Proposed Recommendation, restoring the
name 'decimal' to one datatype. XML schemas provide a superset of the
capabilities found in XML document type definitions (DTDs). The
specification is in three parts: Part 0, Part 1, and Part 2. Review comments are
invited through 16 April. Read about the W3C
XML Activity.
28 March 2001
On Saturday, 7 April 2001,
from 6:00 a.m. EDT, MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) will
have a scheduled power outage for about 8 hours due to construction
around the LCS building. Normal W3C services will be interrupted but
most public pages will be accessible. All mail archives will be
offline. We apologize for the inconvenience.
27 March 2001
The W3C Track for the
Tenth International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW10) in Hong Kong was announced today. W3C will
present over thirteen and a half hours of content on 2-4 May: XML and
Semantic Web Overviews, Foundations of Web Services, Best Practices,
Essential UI Features, XHTML and Modularization, Delivering Device
Independence, Presentation and Transformation, and a W3C Town Meeting.
Please visit the W3C Track page for
details. Early registration ends 31
March.
23 March 2001
Amaya
is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 4.3.2 is a bug fix
release for MathML, forms, XHTML and HTML, and the user interface.
Download Amaya binaries for Unix and
Windows NT/95/98. Source code is
available. If you are interested in annotations, please visit the
Annotea home page.
16 March 2001
The W3C XML Core Working Group has published a
Working Draft of the XML
Information Set (Infoset) so that Last Call reviewers can evaluate
how their feedback was incorporated. The Infoset defines a set of
eleven types of information items in XML documents. Read about the
W3C XML Activity.
15 March 2001
Amaya
is W3C's free Web browser and authoring tool. Version 4.3.1 features
changes to handling of character
entities, XHTML, printing, SVG paths, and annotations as well as many
bug fixes. Download Amaya binaries
for Unix and Windows NT/95/98. Source
code is available. If you are interested in annotations, please
visit the Annotea home page.
14 March 2001
W3C is delivering a series
of tutorials on Privacy, Graphics, Multimedia and Accessibility at
CeBIT 2001 in Hannover, Germany, from 22-28 March 2001. Atttendees have
the opportunity to meet members of the W3C Team
and the staff of the W3C Office
in Germany. Read the Press
Release for more details.
14 March 2001
Jigsaw
version 2.2.0 is available for download. New features include
WebDAV support and a parser for dates in ISO 8601 format. The release notes list all bug fixes.
Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform implemented in Java.
Learn more about the W3C Jigsaw
Activity.
09 March 2001
Winie version 1.0.8 is available for
download. Winie is a free network utility to put, get, and delete files
on the Web using HTTP/1.1. Version 1.0.8 features basic support for the
Content-Language entity-header field and a digest authentication bug
fix. Winie discussion takes place on the public mailing list www-winie@w3.org (archive).
09 March 2001
The product of collaboration
at W3C, the Annotea project now has a home
page. Annotations are external remarks attached to any Web
document. When the user gets the document he can load the annotations
and see what his peer group thinks. The first client implementation of
Annotea is W3C's Amaya browser and authoring
tool. See a quick
tutorial for annotations to get you started. This project is part
of the W3C Semantic Web Activity
Advanced Development work to develop and deploy RDF infrastructure.
05 March 2001
Amaya
is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 4.3 features MathML
2.0 attribute support, improved math editing, more SVG support, and
access keys and window shortcuts. Download Amaya binaries for Unix and Windows
NT/95/98. Source code is
available. Amaya includes collaborative annotation based on Resource
Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer. Visit the Annotea home page.
05 March 2001
The CSS Working Group has
released a Working Draft of CSS3 module: Color. The draft
merges parts of HTML 4, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) levels 2 and 3,
and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0. It describes CSS properties
authors can use to specify foreground color and opacity, ICC color
profiles, and rendering intent of image content. Read about CSS level 3 and visit the CSS home page.
05 March 2001
W3C held its first ever
Technical Plenary and Working Group Meeting Event on 26 February - 2
March in Cambridge, MA, USA. Over 300 W3C Working and Interest Group
participants attended face to face and birds of a feather meetings.
Mid-week, an all-group plenary included panel discussions on Web
architecture, XML Schema usage, and the Candidate Recommendation
experience. If your organization would like to join W3C and lead the
Web to its full potential, please refer to the W3C Membership page.
25 February 2001
Among upcoming W3C Team presentations, Ian Jacobs presents Authoring
Accessible Help for the Web at the WinWriters Online Help
Conference on 5 March, in Santa Clara, California, USA. Henry Thompson attends XML
World Euro Edition, held 26-28 March, in Amsterdam, giving a keynote,
XML -
Knitting the Web Together, and a tutorial, Overview of the XML
family of W3C Recommendations.
16 February 2001
The Internationalization
Working Group has released a Working Draft of Ruby Annotation, defining an XHTML
module for ruby markup. Ruby is a short piece of text alongside base
text, typically found in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation
or to provide an annotation. Read about the W3C Internationalization Activity.
15 February 2001
The XSL and XML Query
Working Groups have released a Working Draft of XPath Requirements Version 2.0.
Building on the XPath 1.0 W3C Recommendation,
plans for XPath 2.0 include simplified manipulation of schema-typed and
string content, support for XML standards, and improved ease of use,
interoperability, and internationalization support. Visit the XSL home page.
15 February 2001
The W3C XML Query Working Group has released the
first public Working Draft of XQuery: A Query Language for XML.
The XQuery language is designed to be broadly applicable across all
types of XML data sources from documents to databases and object
repositories. Today's related publications are:
12 February 2001
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of XML Fragment Interchange to
Candidate
Recommendation. The specification allows exchange of XML fragments
from volumes or chapters down to paragraphs, tables or footnotes,
without having to manage each as a separate entity, or risking
incorrect parsing due to loss of context. Comments
are invited through the end of April 2001. Read about the XML Activity.
09 February 2001
W3C is pleased to
announce the launch of the Semantic Web
Activity. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of data on the Web
defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines for
automation, integration and reuse. The Web can reach its full potential
only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by
automated tools as well as by people. Learn more in the Semantic Web Activity statement.
07 February 2001
W3C has launched a new
public news service, W3C Weekly News, published on
Mondays. This text-based email includes all home page news items for
the previous week. Please visit the archives for back issues and
subscription
instructions.
07 February 2001
The home page of the
W3C Morocco Office is now open
to the public. The Office is hosted by the Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, in Rabat,
Morocco. W3C Offices assist with
promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base,
and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
06 February 2001
Karl Dubost, Hugo Haas,
and Ian Jacobs of the W3C Team have
published a W3C Note, Common User
Agent Problems. This Note explains common mistakes that user agents
make due to incorrect or incomplete implementation of specifications,
and offers suggestions for good user agent behavior.
05 February 2001
Registration is open
through 28 March for the Workshop on Quality
Assurance at W3C to be hosted by NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, near
Washington, D.C. USA, on 3-4 April 2001. Participants can share their
understanding of Web QA tools, conformance activities at W3C, and
discuss a potential new W3C QA Activity. Position papers should be
submitted to the Workshop Chairs by 16 March.
02 February 2001
W3C has organized a
workshop on Web services to bring together
the community interested in XML-based Web service solutions, and the
standardization of Web service components. The workshop will be held in
San Jose, California (USA) on 11-12 April 2001. Workshop registration
is open until 1 April 2001; participation limitations and requirements
are indicated on the workshop description
page. The deadline for W3C Member position papers that are to be
included in the workshop program is 12 March 2001.
30 January 2001
W3C is pleased to
announce the launch of the Device
Independence Activity. Made up of three Working Groups, this
Activity will promote single authoring for the Web for all access
devices from desktop PCs to in-car computers, TV, digital cameras, and
cellular phones. Visit the Device Independence home
page.
26 January 2001
The W3C
Internationalization Working Group has released Character Model for the World Wide Web
1.0 as a Last Call Working Draft. This document provides authors of
specifications, software developers, and content developers a common
reference for interoperable text manipulation. Please send your
comments
by 23 February and read more about W3C's work on internationalization.
26 January 2001
The W3C CSS Working Group
has released a Last Call Working Draft of CSS3 module: W3C selectors.
Selectors are patterns in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language
that match to elements in HTML and XML. This specification describes
the CSS1 and CSS2 selectors and new selectors for CSS3. Please send your comments by 1
March and read more on the CSS home page.
25 January 2001
W3C is pleased to
announce the launch of the XML
Encryption Activity. This Activity will specify the necessary data
model, syntax, and processing to encrypt XML content. Applications for
XML encryption include exchange of payments and purchase orders and
other sensitive information. Learn more:
23 January 2001
Among upcoming W3C Team presentations, on 1
February, Daniel Weitzner participates
in a panel on The Social and Political Impact of Information
Technology at the Information Technology in
the Middle East conference in Washington, DC. Four Team members
will present at PAGE2001 (Japanese) in
Tokyo, Japan: on 8 February, Kazuhiro Kitagawa chairs
XML and its Standardization; on 9 February, Martin Dürst chairs a W3C session on
XML-based publishing, Chris Lilley speaks
on SVG, and Norio
Touyama presents Perspectives of XML-based Publishing.
On 27 February, Alan
Kotok presents The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and
You at
SHARE in Long Beach, CA, USA.
19 January 2001
The CSS Working Group has
released a Working Draft of Introduction to CSS3. This
document lists all the modules in the future Cascading Style Sheets
Level 3 (CSS3) specification. Please send comments to the www-style@w3.org mailing list (archive) or to the
editor. Learn more on the CSS home page.
18 January 2001
The CSS Working Group has
released a Working Draft of CSS3 module: Multi-column
layout. 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. Please send your
comments to the www-style@w3.org
mailing list (archive) or to the
editor. Learn more about Cascading Style Sheets on the CSS home page.