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7 May 2007

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W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

photo of AC meeting 2007-05-07: 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. (Photo credit: Kazuyuki Ashimura. Permalink)

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W3C Names Technology and Society Domain Leader, Policy Director

Ralph Swick and Daniel Weitzner2007-05-04: 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. (Permalink)

Generated Content for Paged Media: CSS3 Working Draft

2007-05-04: 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. (Permalink)

mobileOK Scheme: Working Draft

2007-05-04: 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. (Permalink)

GRDDL Advances to W3C Candidate Recommendation

2007-05-03: 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. (Permalink)

SVG Tiny 1.2 Test Fest

2007-05-02: 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. (Permalink)

SVG 1.2 Primers, Language and Filters: Working Drafts

2007-05-02: 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. (Permalink)

Last Call: CC/PP 2.0 to Guide Content Adapation

2007-05-02: The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group released Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 2.0 as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 15 June. A CC/PP profile describes a device's capabilities and user preferences and is used to guide content adaptation. Version 2.0 is an update to the CC/PP 1.0 Recommendation for alignment with RDF and OMA UAProf 2.0. This Recommendation is one of the areas of convergence between W3C and OMA. Read about ubiquitous Web applications. (Permalink)

Upcoming Meetings

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Multiple presenters will be at W3C Track, The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) in Banff, Canada:

9 May
  • Next steps for HTML Forms, by Dave Raggett
  • Describing, Exchanging, and Aggregating Test Results, by Shadi Abou-Zahra
  • Device Description: Important New Work in Progress, Why We Need your Participation, by Rhys Lewis
  • Mobile Web Applications, by Kevin Kelly
  • CSS, 10 Years After, by Bert Bos
  • Enriching the Web Application Model?, by Arun Ranganathan
  • Widgets and Web Applications, by Art Barstow
  • Mobile Web Initiative Success Stories, by Michael Smith
  • Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide, by Charles McCathieNevile
  • Content Accessibility with WCAG 2.0, by Michael Cooper
  • Mobile Web Initiative: The Road Ahead, by Michael Smith, Daniel Appelquist
  • HTML Reloaded, by Chris Lilley
  • The Future of the Web Page, by Chris Lilley, Dave Raggett
  • Towards a mobileOK Web, by Daniel Appelquist
  • Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), by Dave Raggett
10 May
  • Semantic Annotations for WSDL, by Jacek Kopecky
  • Harnessing the Semantic Web to Answer Scientific Questions; A HCLS IG Demo, by Susie Stephens, Alan Ruttenberg
  • Web Services Policy Language, by Charlton Barreto
  • Design by Crowds: User Experience Design and Testing with Open Source Projects, by Mike Beltzner
  • Rule Interchange Format Work Report, by Sandro Hawke
  • Why Should We Care About the Web Services Description Language 2.0?, by Philippe Le Hégaret
  • Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with GRDDL, Microformats, and RDFa, by Harry Halpin, Fabien Gandon
  • Report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop, by Philippe Le Hégaret
  • Moving User-Centered Security from Grand Challenge to Standards Work, by Mary Ellen Zurko
  • Usability Design and Testing for Security, by Rachna Dhamija
11 May
  • The W3C Rich Web Application Backplane, by John Boyer
  • XML Application Components and Controllers, by Rafah Hosn
  • XSL-FO, the XSL Formatting Language, by Sharon Adler, Liam Quin
  • Schema Support inXQuery to Help Developers, by Mary Holstege
  • How to Author Multimodal Web Applications, by Kazuyuki Ashimura
  • xH: A Standards-based Web Application Programming Language, by Mark Birbeck
  • Voice on the Web: Input/Output Modality Challenges, by Jerry Carter
  • Efficient XML Interchange, by Mike Cokus
  • State Chart XML: the Core Component for Multimodal Web Applications, by Rafah Hosn

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