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27 July 2009

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W3C Invites Implementations of Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration

2009-07-24: The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration. This specification standardizes a packaging format for software known as widgets. Widgets are client-side applications that are authored using Web standards, but whose content can also be embedded into Web documents. The specification relies on PKWare's Zip specification as the archive format, XML as a configuration document format, and a series of steps that runtimes follow when processing and verifying various aspects of a package. The packaging format acts as a container for files used by a widget. The Working Group plans to develop a test suite during the Candidate Recommendation phase. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)

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User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0: Updated Working Draft

2009-07-23: The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0. UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other "user agents" should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies. Read the invitation to review the UAAG 2.0 Working Draft and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (Permalink)

Flexible Box Layout Module First Draft Published

2009-07-23: The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Flexible Box Layout Module. The draft describes a CSS box model optimized for interface design. It provides an additional layout system alongside the ones already in CSS. This model is based on the box model in the XUL user-interface language. Learn more about the Style Activity. (Permalink)

CSS Image Values Module Level 3 First Draft Published

2009-07-23: The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of CSS Image Values Module Level 3. This CSS Image Values module defines the syntax for image values in CSS. Image values can be a single URI to an image, a list of URIs denoting a series of fallbacks, sprites (image slices), or gradients. Learn more about the Style Activity. (Permalink)

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  • 27 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Ex-XHTML HTML.Doug Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
  • 28 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Open Graphics and the Sustainable Web: Scalable Vector Graphics and Canvas.Doug Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
  • 10 August, Montréal, Canada: Memory management in streaming: buffering, lookahead, or none. Which to choose?.Mohamed ZERGAOUI presents at Balisage.
  • 11 August, Montreal, Canada: Automatic XML Namespaces.Liam Quin presents at Balisage.
  • 11 August, Montréal, Canada: Visual Designers: Those XML tools with no angle bracket at all!.Mohamed ZERGAOUI presents at Balisage.
  • 26 August, Hanoi, Viet Nam: Web 2.0 and Beyond.Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at WITFOR 2009.
  • 26 August, New York, USA: Improving Dialogs with EMMA.Deborah Dahl presents at SpeechTEK.
  • 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
  • 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web.Ivan Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
  • 2 September, Florence, Italy: Web Accessibility and Older People.Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at AAATE conference.
  • 4 September, Bristol, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility Benefits Older Users.Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at British Society of Gerontology 38th Conference.
  • 17 September, London, United Kingdom: Improving the web experience for older people.Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at Techshare 2009.
  • 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible.Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
  • 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and Guidelines Update 2009.Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
  • 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010.Mohamed ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
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