W3C Public Newsletter 17 September 2007

Grid Positioning: CSS3 Working Draft

2007-09-12: The CSS Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of the CSS Grid Positioning Module for Level 3 of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. It applies the traditional grid systems used in books and newspapers to online content and complements the different approach defined in the CSS Advanced Layout Module. Grids may be explicitly authored or implied and combined with Media Queries. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)

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Note: Web Applications and User Interfaces

2007-09-12: The Web Application Formats Working Group has published Declarative Formats for Applications and User Interfaces as a Working Group Note. The note recommends that the Working Group stop formal work on this deliverable and includes some potential options if W3C Members choose to do related work. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)

GRDDL Standard Provides Bridge from Web Documents to the Semantic Web

2007-09-11: The World Wide Web Consortium today released GRDDL and GRDDL Test Cases as Recommendations. GRDDL enables authors to extract data from their documents automatically, enabling them to reuse their data and enrich it by connecting to the Semantic Web. Give the W3C GRDDL Service a try! Read the GRDDL Primer, the press release and testimonials, and about the Semantic Web. (Permalink)

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Upcoming Talks

19 September, London, United Kingdom: Will W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Help End Fragmentation of Standards and Enable a Coherent Web Experience?.Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Informa Mobile Web 2.0 Conference.
19 September, Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany: W3C und W3C World Offices.Klaus Birkenbihl presents at Deutschland und China - Innovationspartner in der Informationstechnologie.
20 September, Québec, Canada: HTML 5 - l'édition des draveurs.Karl Dubost presents at Rencontre autour de HTML 5.
21 September, Lisbon, Portugal: The Future of the World Wide Web.José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at 4th EU Ministerial eGovernment Conference.
24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML Conversion.Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
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, Linz, Austria: Neues vom W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2007.
25 September, Linz, Austria: Barrierefreies Webdesign.Shadi Abou-Zahra, Gerhard Nussbaum give a tutorial at IKT Forum 2007.
25 September, Linz, Austria: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2007.
26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSS.Bert Bos gives a lecture at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day.
26 September, Berlin, Germany: Barrierefreiheit in Rich Internet Applications.Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at W3C-Tag 2007.
26 September, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0.Philipp Hoschka presents at W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet Applications.
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, New York, New York, USA: Web Demand: How Financial Services Can Leverage Emerging Web Technologies.Steve Bratt presents at IT/Networking Trends & Technology and Solutions.
3 October, Gijón, Spain: Browser panel.Bert Bos participates in a panel at Fundamentos Web 2007.
5 October, San Sebastian, Spain: How Web Accesibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population.Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at AAATE Conference.
10 October, Paris, France: The increasing importance of Open Web Standards to improve eGovernment.José Manuel Alonso presents at eGovInterop '07.
17 October, Madrid, Spain: Semantic Web: a Short Introduction.Ivan Herman presents at “Webelopers Day” of the Internet NG Conference.
17 October, Madrid, Spain: How to make the most out of eGovernment.José Manuel Alonso presents at “Webelopers Day” of the Internet NG Conference.
18 October, Darmstadt, Germany: Wege zum Semantischen Web.Klaus Birkenbihl presents at 4. Kongress Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien.
19 October, Orlando, FL, USA: Making the Future Web Accessible to People with Disabilities.Shawn Henry presents at "I Invent the Future" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007.
22 November, Hangzhou, China: What is the Semantic Web?.Ivan Herman presents at Zheijiang University.
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