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23 June 2009

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W3C Launches Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group

2009-06-17: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group, whose mission is to help enhance and standardize the architecture of the World Wide Web by facilitating the highest quality standards and best practice based education for future generations of Web professionals. The goal of this Incubator Group is to bring together interested individuals, companies, and organizations with a strong interest in the field of educating Web professionals, to explore the needs and issues around the topic of Web development education. The group will be chaired by John Allsopp. The following W3C Members have sponsored the charter for this group: Adobe Systems Inc.; Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd; and Opera Software. Read more about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. Incubator Activity work is not on the W3C standards track. (Permalink)

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First Drafts of Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy; URI Scheme

2009-06-18: The Web Applications Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts: Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy and Widgets 1.0: URI Scheme. The former defines the security model controlling network access from within a widget, as well as a method for widget authors to request that the user agent grant access to certain network resources. The latter defines a "widget:" URI scheme to help identify resources within a widget package. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)

First Draft Published for Ontology for Media Resource 1.0

2009-06-18: The Media Annotations Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Ontology for Media Resource 1.0. This specification defines an ontology for cross-community data integration of information related to media resources, with a particular focus on media resources on the Web. The ontology is supposed to foster interoperability and counter the current proliferation of video metadata formats by providing full or partial translation and mapping towards existing formats. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity. (Permalink)

CSS Fonts Module Level 3 Draft Published

2009-06-18: The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the Working Draft of CSS Fonts Module Level 3. This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. This draft consolidates material previously divided between the CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules. Learn more about the Style Activity. (Permalink)

Last Call: Delivery Context Ontology

2009-06-16: The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Delivery Context Ontology. A "Delivery Context" is a source of information that can help create context-aware applications, thus providing a compelling user experience. The Delivery Context Ontology specification provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices interact with the Web or other services. The Delivery Context includes the characteristics of the Device, the software used to access the service and the Network providing the connection among others. Comments are welcome through 07 July. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. (Permalink)

Updated Drafts of SVG Parameters 1.0

2009-06-16: The SVG Working Group has published two Working Drafts: SVG Parameters 1.0, Part 1: Primer and SVG Parameters 1.0, Part 2: Language. The SVG Parameters specification is an SVG 2.0 Module to provide a declarative way to incorporate parameter values into SVG content. Often, users may wish to create a single resource, and reuse it several times with specified variations, and this specification provides a means to do so without the use of scripts. The Primer suggests how to use the SVG Parameters specification with SVG 1.2. Learn more about the Graphics Activity. (Permalink)

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