W3C today published the report from the W3C Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond held at UC Berkeley in November 2012. We welcomed experts from academia, industry, civil society and regulators to discuss the status of the current work of the Tracking Protection Working Group on Do Not Track, as well as related and future standards initiatives.

The Workshop reaffirmed the foundational assumption of a co-operative approach between the different stakeholders and identified a number of widely-shared views. We encourage those interested in ongoing work in this area to refer to the Tracking Protection Working Group, the Privacy Interest Group and the Customer Experience Digital Data Community Group.

W3C thanks the participants and appreciates the support of the UC Berkeley TRUST Science and Technology Center for hosting and of Yahoo! for sponsoring the event. Learn more about the W3C Privacy Activity.

W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context.

A deliverable of the webinos project, this edition of the document highlights changes since November 2012, including the advancement of HTML5 to Candidate Recommendation. This edition integrates and highlights technologies identified in the Core Mobile Web Platform 2012, a report published by the Core Mobile Web Community Group. In addition, key topics now link to related materials on WebPlatform Docs or in a W3DevCampus on-line training course. The report covers key standards track events as well as upcoming work.

Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices.

The HTML Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts today:

• Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML. This document adds an additional public identifier that should be recognized by XHTML user agents and cause the HTML character entity definitions to be loaded. Unlike the identifiers already listed by the HTML5 specification, the identifier added by this extension references the set of definitions that is used by HTML.
• The srcset attribute. When authors adapt their sites for high-resolution displays, they often need to be able to use different assets representing the same image. We address this need for adaptive, bitmapped content images by adding a srcset attribute to the img element.

Learn more about the HTML Activity.

An updated Working Draft of Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 1.0 was published today by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) and Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG), through the joint WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force ( Eval TF ). WCAG-EM describes an approach for evaluating how websites, including web applications and websites for mobile devices, conform to WCAG 2.0. Learn more from the WCAG-EM Overview and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The HTML Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts today. Both documents were developed in collaboration with the Responsive Images Community Group.

• The picture element. The picture element is an image container whose source content is determined by one or more CSS media queries.
• Use Cases and Requirements for Standardizing Responsive Images. This document captures the use cases and requirements for standardizing a solution for responsive images. The use cases and requirements were gathered with consultation with HTML Working Group and WHATWG participants, RICG group members, and the general public.

Learn more about the HTML Activity and about W3C Community Groups.

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 give a presentation as part of the CeBIT lab talk. He 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.