W3C will be present at CeBIT 2013 and is looking forward to meeting you on 5-6 March, at the DFKI presence in hall 09, booth F50.

• On 5 March Bernard Gidon, EMEA Business Development leader, will be happy to discuss new areas of the open Web platform, including the recently launched Automotive Business Group.
• On 5 and 6 March, Felix Sasaki, Head of the German-Austrian Office and staff contact for the MultilingualWeb-LT working group, will be happy to discuss W3C's engagement in the German speaking region and new technologies and business opportunities around the global, multilingual Web market. This will encompass demos of the upcoming Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0, including some by Cocomore, a W3C Member.

You may already schedule meeting time with Bernard Gidon or Felix Sasaki.

The Web Applications Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Selectors API Level 1. Selectors, which are widely used in CSS, are patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. The Selectors API specification defines methods for retrieving Element nodes from the DOM by matching against a group of selectors. It is often desirable to perform DOM operations on a specific set of elements in a document. These methods simplify the process of acquiring specific elements, especially compared with the more verbose techniques defined and used in the past. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Counter Styles Level 3. This module introduces the ‘@counter-style’ rule, which allows authors to define their own custom counter styles for use with CSS list-marker and generated-content counters. It also predefines a set of common counter styles, including the ones present in CSS2 and CSS2.1. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Learn more about the Style Activity.

The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) today published Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training, which provides materials for speakers, lecturers, educators, and other presenters to help their participants understand more about web accessibility. It includes a range of information from introductory slides for those new to accessibility, to updated statistics and demos for experienced trainers. To share your tips, guidance, and suggestions, see the WAI IG e-mail for links to the WAI-Engage wiki. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

Today, stakeholders in the automotive industry launched the Automotive and Web Platform Business Group to accelerate the adoption of Web technologies in the automotive industry. The group convenes developers, automotive manufacturers and suppliers, browser vendors, operators and others to discuss how to enhance driving, safety, and passenger entertainment with the Open Web Platform. The group will first focus on defining a Vehicle Data API that will create new opportunities for automotive services via the Web.

W3C first explored the impact of the Open Web Platform on the automotive industry at the November 2012 Web and Automotive Workshop (summary). Participants discussed how location-based services, enhanced safety, entertainment, and integration of social networking will benefit drivers and passengers. In addition, they looked at business drivers for Web technology adoption such as the ability to attract customers with convenient and innovative services, maintain ongoing customer relations, address regulatory requirements, manage mobile payments, and lower development costs.

W3C invites organizations and individuals to join the Automotive and Web Platform Business Group to help ensure that the Open Web Platform meets the unique needs of the automotive industry. Read the press release and testimonials.

The Web Performance Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Page Visibility. This specification defines a means for site developers to programmatically determine the current visibility state of the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web applications. Comments are welcome through 19 March. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The RDF Working Group has published a Candidate Recommendation of Turtle - A Terse RDF Triple Language. This document defines a textual syntax for RDF called Turtle that allows an RDF graph to be completely written in a compact and natural text form, with abbreviations for common usage patterns and datatypes. Turtle provides levels of compatibility with the existing N-Triples format as well as the triple pattern syntax of the SPARQL W3C Recommendation. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity

The Pointer Events Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Pointer Events. This document defines events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic pointer input from devices like a mouse, pen, or touchscreen. For compatibility with existing mouse-based content, this specification also describes a mapping to fire Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Mouse Events for pointer device types other than mouse. Comments are welcome through 19 March. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Animations. This CSS module describes a way for authors to animate the values of CSS properties over time, using keyframes. The behavior of these keyframe animations can be controlled by specifying their duration, number of repeats, and repeating behavior. Learn more about the Style Activity.