W3C Public Newsletter 8 October 2007

Web Experts Gather for Fundamentos Web 2007

2007-10-03: The W3C Spain Office is pleased to present noted Web standards experts at the third edition of Fundamentos Web 2007 (Web Foundations 2007) on 3-5 October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Presenters include Arthur Barstow (Nokia), Dan Brickley (Joost), Tantek Çelik (Tantek.com), Fernando Claver (PC ACTUAL), Hannah Donovan (Last.fm), Jeremy Keith (Clearleft), Eduardo Manchón Aguilar (Panoramio), Matt May (Adobe), Charles McCathieNevile (Opera), Ismael Nafría (Prisacom), George Oates (Yahoo!), Allan Sandfeld (Change Networks), Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla), Doug Stamper (Microsoft), Jeffrey Veen (Google) and Tim Berners-Lee (by video link), Bert Bos and Rigo Wenning (W3C). (Photo credit: Dan Brickley. Permalink)

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Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 3.0: Working Draft

2007-10-05: The Math Working Group published an updated Working Draft of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Version 3 adds features such as support for bidirectional text and elementary math. Learn more about the Math Activity. (Permalink)

Last Call: XHTML Role Attribute Module

2007-10-05: The XHTML2 Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of XHTML Role Attribute Module. With the role attribute, authors can annotate XML languages with machine-readable semantic information about the purpose of elements. Use cases include accessibility, device adaptation, server-side processing and complex data description. The attribute can be integrated into any markup language based on XHTML Modularization. Visit the XHTML2 home page. (Permalink)

Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group Renewed

2007-10-04: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone) and Jo Rabin (mTLD) chair the group which is chartered to produce guidelines, checklists and best practice statements to enable the reach of the Web to be easily extended onto mobile devices. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)

Policy Languages Interest Group Launched

2007-10-03: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Policy Languages Interest Group (PLING), chaired by Marco Casassa-Mont (HP Labs) and Renato Iannella (NICTA). The group is chartered to discuss interoperability, requirements and related needs for integrating and computing the results when different policy languages used together, for example, OASIS XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language), IETF Common Policy, and P3P (W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences). Participation is open to W3C Members and the public. Read about the Privacy Activity. (Permalink)

Enabling Read Access: Working Draft

2007-10-01: The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Enabling Read Access for Web Resources. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)

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Upcoming Talks

5 October, San Sebastian, Spain: How Web Accesibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population.Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at AAATE Conference.
8 October, London, United Kingdom: W3C Mobile Web Initiative.Philipp Hoschka presents at Mobile Monday London.
10 October, Paris, France: The increasing importance of Open Web Standards to improve eGovernment.José Manuel Alonso presents at eGovInterop '07.
13 October, Paris, France: L'initiative pour le Web Mobile.Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at MobileWeb BarCamp Paris.
15 October, Seattle, Washington, USA: Semi-structured data and XML Query .Jim Melton presents at XML @ Boeing 2007.
15 October, Seattle, Washington, USA: XML Schema 1.1 and the versioning of XML vocabularies.Michael Sperberg-McQueen presents at XML @ Boeing 2007.
15 October, San Jose, USA: An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode.Richard Ishida gives a tutorial at Internationalization & Unicode Conference.
17 October, San Jose, USA: Hints for Designing International Web Pages.Richard Ishida presents at Internationalization & Unicode Conference.
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.
17 October, San Jose, CA, USA: Internationalization Tag Set 1.0 – A New Standard for Internationalization and Localization of XML.Felix Sasaki presents at Internationalization & Unicode Conference 31.
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.
16 November, Paris, France: Bonnes pratiques du Web mobile.Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at ParisWeb 2007.
19 November, Beijing, China: Semantic Web Adoption.Ivan Herman presents at 首届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2007).
22 November, Hangzhou, China: What is the Semantic Web?.Ivan Herman presents at Zheijiang University.
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