Steve Bratt Delivers Three Talks and Receives Honor in Beijing
2007-11-30: On 28 November, W3C Chief Executive Officer Steve Bratt delivered two talks — a keynote entitled "The World Wide Web Needs World Wide Standards" and an overview of W3C's standards work — at the 2007 Open Standards International Conference in Beijing, China. Today he gave an invited lecture on "Now and Future Web Technologies" at Beihang University in Beijing, China, where he was appointed Guest Professor by University President Li Wei and Professor and Executive Vice President Huai Jinpeng. Read also about the W3C Office in Beijing. (Permalink)
Minor Update to W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Candidate Recommendation
2007-11-30: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a minor update to the Candidate Recommendation of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. The update corrects the mobileOK User-Agent String. The document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim of W3C mobileOK Basic conformance and are based on W3C Mobile Web Best Practices. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity. (Permalink)
W3C Opens Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group
2007-11-29: W3C is pleased to announce the reopening of the Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group (XG). The mission of this new instance of the XG is to propose a specification draft for an Emotion Markup Language, to document it in a way accessible to non-experts, and to illustrate its use in conjunction with a number of existing markups. Note that this document would not be a standards-track document until W3C charters a Working Group to develop it as a W3C Recommendation. The XG is sponsored by W3C Members DFKI; Deutsche Telekom T-Com; Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab; Loquendo, S.p.A.; Chinese Academy of Sciences; and SRI International. W3C Members may use this form to join the group. Read the final report of the original Emotion XG and the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. (Permalink)
W3C Invites Implementations of XForms 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation)
2007-11-29: The Forms Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of XForms 1.1. XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. An XForms-based Web form gathers and processes XML data using an architecture that separates presentation, purpose and content. XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as XHTML, ODF, or SVG. The Working Group invites implementation experience of this technology from the community; see also the group's wiki for tracking XForms 1.1 implementations. Learn more about the XForms Activity. (Permalink)
XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
2007-11-29: The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc, a language for describing XML pipelines. Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform atomic operations on XML documents and constructs similar to conditionals, loops and exception handlers which control which steps are executed. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
Summary of Workshop on Advanced Requirements for the Multimodal Framework
2007-11-28: W3C has published a summary and full minutes of the Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces , organized by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group in Fujisawa, Japan on 16-17 November. Participants from 17 organizations generated a list of requirements on the current MMI Architecture. The Working Group will review the list as a basis for improvements to the Multimodal Framework. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (Photo credit: Kazuyuki Ashimura. Permalink)
W3C Seeks Community Support for HTML Design Principles (First Public Working Draft)
2007-11-26: The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML Design Principles. This document describes the set of guiding principles used by the HTML Working Group for the development of HTML5, expected to define the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web. These design principles are an attempt to capture consensus on design approach in the areas of compatibility, utility, interoperability, and universal access. Learn more about the HTML Activity. (Permalink)
CURIE Syntax 1.0
2007-11-26: The XHTML2 Working Group has published a Working Draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0. The aim of this document is to outline an abbreviated syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). The proposed technology does not target the XHTML Family Markup Languages exclusively. The target audience for this document is designers of technology (e.g., markup languages), not the users of that technology. Learn more about the HTML Activity. (Permalink)
Access Control for Cross-site Requests
2007-11-26: The Web Application Formats Working Group has published a Working Draft of Access Control for Cross-site Requests. This document introduces an "opt-in policy" mechanism whereby people managing a resource can declare whether other sites can retrieve it. The document also defines a mechanism based on the same policy to allow a resource to opt-in to requests using an HTTP method other than GET. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)
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- 11 December, New York, USA: Video Search EnginesPhilippe Le Hégaret participates in a panel at WebVideo Summit 2007.
- 14 December, Venezia, Italy: Le nuove linee guida internazionali per l'accessibilità del WebOreste Signore presents at L’evoluzione dell’accessibilità informatica.
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