Public Newsletter

W3C to Participate in SVG Open 2009

2009-05-13: W3C will again this year sponsor SVG Open 2009, the 7th international conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, hosted by Google in Mountain View, California on 2-4 October 2009. SVG Open provides an opportunity for designers, developers and implementers to share ideas, experiences, products and strategies. Members of the W3C SVG Working Group will be attending and presenting at the conference, which will include a Working Group panel session on future SVG developments. A day of workshops will also be scheduled adjacent to the main conference. The conference organizers have indicated that proposals for presentation abstracts and course outlines are welcome through 15 May. Learn more about the W3C Graphics Activity. (Permalink)

Draft Published of Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)

2009-05-12: The Timed Text Working Group has published a Working Draft of Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP). Timed text is textual information that is intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing information. The timed text authoring format is a content type that represents timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring systems. The Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP) provides a standardized representation of a particular subset of textual information with which stylistic, layout, and timing semantics are associated by an author or an authoring system for the purpose of interchange and potential presentation. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity. (Permalink)

Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web Note Published

2009-05-12: The eGovernment Interest Group has published a Group Note of Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web. This document is an attempt to describe, but not yet solve, the variety of issues and challenges faced by governments in their efforts to apply 21st century capabilities to eGovernment initiatives. It provides examples of existing, applicable open Web standards. Where government needs in the development of eGovernment services are not currently met by existing standards, those gaps are noted. Learn more about the eGovernment Activity. (Permalink)

Guidelines for Writing Device Independent Tests Note Published

2009-05-12: The Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group has published a Group Note of Guidelines for writing device independent tests. As support for Web technologies grows, it is important that tests writers develop test suites that will work as well as possible across devices. This document offers guidance in the form of simple guidelines to follow to create device-independent tests. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity. (Permalink)

Four XHTML Documents Published as Proposed Edited Recommendations

2009-05-07: The XHTML2 Working Group has published four Proposed Edited Recommendations:

• XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML - Second Edition, which serve as the basis for future extended XHTML 'family' document types
• XHTML™ Basic 1.1 - Second Edition, includes the minimal set of modules required to be an XHTML host language document type, and in addition it includes images, forms, basic tables, and object support.
• XHTML-Print - Second Edition, designed for mobile printers and in environments where it is not feasible or desirable to install a printer-specific driver and where some variability in the formatting of the output is acceptable.
• XHTML™ 1.0

These updates incorporate known errata; each document links to a list of changes. The review period is open until 4 June. Learn more about the HTML Activity. (Permalink)

State Chart XML (SCXML) Working Draft Published

2009-05-07: The Voice Browser Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. SCXML is a general-purpose event-based state machine language that may be used in a number of ways, including as a high-level dialog language controlling VoiceXML 3.0's encapsulated speech modules, or as a multimodal control language in the MultiModal Interaction framework. The main differences from the previous draft are (1) a revision of the send and invoke elements and (2) the introduction of Event I/O processors to support them. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity. (Permalink)

Mobile Web Application Best Practices Draft Published

2009-05-07: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Working Draft of Mobile Web Application Best Practices. This document specifies Best Practices for the development and delivery of Web applications on mobile devices. The recommendations expand upon statements made in the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (BP1), especially those that relate to the exploitation of device capabilities and awareness of the delivery context. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity. (Permalink)

Notes Published: Basic, Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0

2009-05-05: The XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group has published two Group Notes: Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0 and Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0. Schema patterns describe the ways people use XML for common data structures in programming languages. The data structures described are intended to be independent of any particular programming language, database or modelling environment. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. (Permalink)

W3C Invites Implementations of W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1

2009-05-04: The XML Schema Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1. The specification consists of Part 1: Structures and Part 2: Datatypes. XSD provides tools for describing the structure of XML content and constraining the contents of XML documents. Part 2 provides tools for defining datatypes (dates, times, numbers, strings, etc.) to be used in XML Schemas as well as other XML specifications. Information about changes to structures and changes to datatypes since XML Schema 1.0 is available. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)