W3C Public Newsletter 29 May 2007

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Is a Proposed Recommendation

2007-05-23: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 to Proposed Recommendation in three parts: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Adjuncts. Comments are welcome through 20 June. WSDL models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. WSDL Additional MEPs, RDF Mapping and SOAP 1.1 Binding are updated Working Drafts. Read about Web services. (Permalink)

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Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0

2007-05-25: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. Comments are welcome through 22 June. These tests provide the basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices. Read about the Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)

Secure Browsing: Working Draft

2007-05-25: The Web Security Context Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and Use Cases. The group's work is to enable a secure and usable interface so Web users can make safe trust decisions on the Web. This draft evaluates the use of today's security features and elaborates on the scope of the group's technical work. Read about the Security Activity. (Permalink)

Note: POWDER Use Cases and Requirements

2007-05-25: The POWDER Working Group has released the first publication of POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements as a Working Group Note. The document will guide the development of a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)

Workshop on Mobile Ajax: Call for Participation

2007-05-23: Position papers are due 15 August for the Workshop on Mobile Ajax co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance to be held 28 September in the San Francisco Bay area, USA. Attendees will explore use cases for mobile Ajax to help shape its use in mobile Web browsers. Topics might include user experience, application development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether needs exist for standardization and best practices. The Workshop is free and open to all but position papers are required. Read about the Mobile Web Initiative and about W3C Workshops. (Permalink)

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31 May, Roma, Italy: Il W3C e la cultura dell' accessibilità.Oreste Signore presents at Web senza barriere. Il passato, il presente e il futuro dell'accessibilità.
5 June, London, United Kingdom: What's New, WCAG 2.0, and Current Issues.Shawn Henry presents at Web Accessibility Update.
7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
12 June, Austin, Texas, USA: New Guidelines and Standards for Web Accessibility" and "Including Accessibility throughout the Design Process.Shawn Henry participates in a panel at UPA 2007 Conference (Patterns: Blueprints for Usability).
12 June, Bristol, United Kingdom: W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity - reaching out into the physical world of sensors and effectors.Dave Raggett presents at HP Laboratories.
13 June, Austin, Texas, USA: SIG: What's New in Standards for Usability and Accessibility?.Shawn Henry participates in a panel at UPA 2007 Conference (Patterns: Blueprints for Usability).
21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility.Shawn Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
31 August, Singapore, Singapore: Introduction to the Semantic Web.Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications.
24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for Pen-Based Computing.Stephen M. Watt presents at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML Conversion.Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSS.Bert Bos gives a lecture at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day.
27 September, Sydney, Australia: Web Directions breakfast.Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
27 September, Sydney, Australia: A new life for old standards.Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
3 October, Gijón, Spain: Browser panel.Bert Bos participates in a panel at Fundamentos Web 2007.
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