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W3C Launches Agile Track to Speed Web Innovation

15 August 2011 | Archive

Community and Business Groups To support the rapid evolution of Web technology, W3C today announced Community Groups, an agile track for developers and businesses to create Web technology within W3C's international community of experts. Community Groups are open to all, anyone may propose a group, and there is no fee to participate. "Innovation and standardization build on each other," said Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. "As the pace of innovation accelerates and more industries embrace W3C's Open Web Platform, Community Groups will accelerate incorporation of innovative technologies into the Web." W3C also launched Business Groups today, which provide W3C Members and non-Members a vendor-neutral forum for the development of market-specific technologies and the means to have a powerful impact on the direction of Web standards. Read more in the press release and testimonials. Learn more about Community and Business Groups then start your own Community Group or your own Business Group.

Last Call: CSS Speech Module

18 August 2011 | Archive

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Speech Module. The CSS Speech module defines aural CSS properties that enable authors to declaratively control the rendering of documents via speech synthesis, and using optional audio cues. The feature set exposed by this specification is designed to match the model described by the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1. Comments are welcome through 30 September. Learn more about the Style Activity.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) is a W3C Recommendation

16 August 2011 | Archive

The SVG Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition). This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1, a modularized language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. The Second Edition incorporates a number of corrections that were published as errata against the First Edition, as well as numerous other changes that help make the specification more readable and unambiguous. The Changes appendix lists all of the changes that were made since the first Proposed Recommendation publication of the Second Edition. Learn more about the Graphics Activity.

XMLHttpRequest Level 2 Draft Published

16 August 2011 | Archive

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of XMLHttpRequest Level 2. The XMLHttpRequest Level 2 specification enhances the XMLHttpRequest object with new features, such as cross-origin requests, progress events, and the handling of byte streams for both sending and receiving. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

First Draft of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile Published

16 August 2011 | Archive

The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile. Many device classes and use-cases desire to use EXI as its exchange format. Due to various restrictions some of those application areas are not capable or allowed to require arbitrary memory growth at runtime. Certain evaluations of EXI in the context of such areas exposed some challenges to the attempt to restrict memory usage predictably within their limited respective threshold. This document describes a profile of the EXI 1.0 specification that allows bounding the memory consumption of EXI internal structures such as grammars and string partitions. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

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