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W3C Integrates Math on the Web with MathML 3 Standard
21 October 2010 | Archive
W3C announces today an important standard for making mathematics on the Web more accessible and international, especially for early mathematics education. MathML 3 is the third version of a standard supported in a wide variety of applications including Web pages, e-books, equation editors, publishing systems, screen readers (that read aloud the information on a page) and braille displays, ink input devices, e-learning and computational software. MathML 3 is part of W3C's Open Web Platform, which includes HTML5, CSS, and SVG. "We expect wider deployment of MathML 3.0 will facilitate communication of mathematics and science over the Web," said Don McClure, Executive Director, American Mathematical Society. Read the full press release and testimonials. Learn more about Math at W3C.
Eight HTML5 Drafts Updated
25 October 2010 | Archive
The HTML Working Group published eight documents:
- Working Drafts of the HTML5 specification, the accompanying explanatory document HTML5 differences from HTML4, and the related non-normative reference HTML: The Markup Language.
- Working Drafts of the specifications HTML+RDFa 1.1 and HTML Microdata, which define mechanisms for embedding machine-readable data in HTML documents, and the specification HTML Canvas 2D Context, which defines a 2D immediate-mode graphics API for use with the HTML5 <canvas> element.
- HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives, which is intended to help authors provide useful text alternatives for images in HTML documents.
- Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents, which is intended to help authors produce XHTML documents that are also compatible with non-XML HTML syntax and parsing rules.
Learn more about HTML5.
Call for Review: Mobile Web Application Best Practices Proposed Recommendation
21 October 2010 | Archive
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Mobile Web Application Best Practices. The goal of this document is to aid the development of rich and dynamic mobile Web applications. It collects the most relevant engineering practices, promoting those that enable a better user experience and warning against those that are considered harmful. Comments are welcome through 19 November. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity.
XML Processor Profiles Draft Published
21 October 2010 | Archive
The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft of XML processor profiles. This specification defines several XML processor profiles, each of which fully determines a data model for any given XML document. It is intended as a resource for other specifications, which can by a single normative reference establish precisely what input processing they require. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
Web IDL Draft Published
21 October 2010 | Archive
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of Web IDL. This document defines an interface definition language, Web IDL, that can be used to describe interfaces that are intended to be implemented in Web browsers. Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of features that allow the behavior of common script objects in the web platform to be specified more readily. How interfaces described with Web IDL correspond to constructs within ECMAScript and Java execution environments is also detailed. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
Progress Events Draft Updated
19 October 2010 | Archive
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of Progress Events. The Progress Events specification defines an abstract event interface that can be used for measuring progress, e.g., in the sense of how much of a document has loaded. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
