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22 October 2007

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Video on the Web: Call for Participation

2007-10-17: Position papers are due 21 November for the Workshop on Video on the Web on 12-13 December 2007 in San Jose, California, USA, hosted by Cisco Systems. The Workshop goal is to help make video a first class Web citizen. Attendees will discuss topics such as the impact of video on the Web, user experience, search, accessibility, parental control, video production, description, digital rights, adaptation, mobile access, Web architecture, scalability, formats and delivery. Read about W3C Workshops. (Permalink)

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Quality Assurance Activity Completes Its Work, QA Becomes the Q&A Weblog

2007-10-19: We thank the thousands of people who participated in the QA Activity which has completed its work and closed as of 18 October 2007. However, we anticipate further developing the dialog with the community; we welcome your comments on the Q&A Weblog. W3C will continue to maintain and develop tools, the most popular resources on w3.org. We congratulate and thank Daniel Dardailler, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux and Karl Dubost of W3C who led the Activity, Lofton Henderson (OASIS), Lynne Rosenthal (NIST), Patrick Curran (Sun Microsystems), and Karl Dubost and Olivier Théreaux (W3C) who served as Chairs. Read the QA Activity Statement and visit the Q&A Weblog. (Permalink)

Last Call: CSS Mobile Profile

2007-10-19: The CSS Working Group released a Working Draft of CSS Mobile Profile 2.0. Comments are welcome through 15 November. This subset of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 is a baseline for implementations of CSS on constrained devices like mobile phones, written with WICD Mobile 1.0 to ensure interoperability and for alignment with OMA's Wireless CSS Specification 1.1. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)

CSS Snapshot 2007: Working Draft

2007-10-19: The CSS Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007. All stable specifications that have been implemented for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language at all Levels are given in this single document as a guide for authors. The snapshot is not a guide to what features are implemented. The group expects it to be a future Working Group Note. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)

Behavioral Extensions to CSS: Working Draft

2007-10-19: The CSS Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Behavioral Extensions to CSS. Behavioral extensions provide a way to link to binding technologies such as XBL from CSS style sheets. Bindings thus can be selected using the CSS cascade and can transparently benefit from the user style sheet mechanism, media selection, and alternate style sheets. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)

Selectors API: Working Draft

2007-10-19: The Web API Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Selectors API. Widely used in CSS, selectors are patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. These methods are defined to retrieve element nodes from the DOM by matching against a group of selectors, and simplify the process of acquiring specific elements, especially compared with more verbose techniques used in the past. Visit the Web API home page. (Permalink)

Language Bindings for DOM Specifications: Working Draft

2007-10-17: The Web API Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Language Bindings for DOM Specifications. The draft specifies the IDL language for use by W3C specifications that define DOM interfaces and specifies conformance requirements for their ECMAScript and Java bindings. This guide for implementors of DOM specifications is also a reference for new ones, written to ensure conforming implementations of DOM interfaces are interoperable. Read about rich Web clients. (Permalink)

Widgets 1.0: Working Draft

2007-10-16: The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Widgets 1.0. Written for users to run in their Web browser environment, widgets are small applications that display and update remote data, for example, clocks, stock tickers, news casters, weather forecasters and games. The group is specifying widgets' packaging format, their configuration and processing model, launching by the user agent, version control, DOM APIs and events including communication between widgets, digital signing, accessibility, and discovery within HTML documents. Read about Rich Web Clients. (Permalink)

W3C Technical Plenary Week Upcoming in Cambridge, USA

photo of Boston2007-10-16: W3C holds Technical Plenary Week on 5-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA. A record 39 W3C Working Groups plus the Advisory Committee and Advisory Board hold face-to-face meetings and network about the future of the Web. For the first time, members of the media are invited to join Plenary Day on Wednesday, 7 November, when program includes the developer community, discussion of HTML5 and XHTML2, and video on the Web. Read the media advisory. W3C thanks platinum sponsors BEA, Cisco, IBM and Nokia for their generous support of this meeting. Registration is required. Join W3C and attend the next Technical Plenary planned for October 2008 in France (tentative). (Photo credit: Coralie Mercier. Permalink)

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