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W3C Workshop Report: Richer Internationalization for eBooks
10 July 2013 | Archive
W3C published today a report summarizing the Workshop on Richer Internationalization for eBooks, which took place 4 June in Tokyo. Participants discussed topics such as how CSS Paged Media spec can already go a long way to support ebooks, various aspects of ruby annotation that are not yet addressed, how to handle ideographic characters that are not in the character encoding, how JavaScript can be relevant to ebooks (especially since internationalization features are currently being added to the core language), and the need to increase the availability and usability of Far Eastern fonts for ebooks.The report also includes the results of a survey sent to Workshop participants immediately following the workshop to rank the issues that were discussed.
The Workshop was Hosted by Keio University, and sponsored by Intel as well as W3C organization sponsor Google.
Learn more about W3C's new Digital Publishing Activity, how to get involved in the Digital Publishing Interest Group, and the agenda of the Workshop on Publishing and the Open Web Platform, which takes place in September in Paris; we welcome position papers through 15 July.
Last Call: CSS Fonts Module Level 3
11 July 2013 | Archive
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Fonts Module Level 3. This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules. The description of font load events was moved into the CSS3 Font Load Events module. Comments are welcome through 22 August. Learn more about the Style Activity.
Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web ICT: Final Draft Published
11 July 2013 | Archive
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) today published a completed Working Draft of Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT). After the comments from this review period are addressed, WAI expects to publish this as an informative (that is, non-normative) W3C Working Group Note. Please see important information in the Call for Review: Final Draft of WCAG2ICT e-mail. Comments are welcome through 15 August 2013. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
For Review: Updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
11 July 2013 | Archive
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group today requests review of draft updates to Notes that accompany WCAG 2.0: Techniques for WCAG 2.0 (Editors' Draft) and Understanding WCAG 2.0 (Editors' Draft). Comments are welcome through 15 August 2013. (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a stable document.) To learn more about the updates, see the Call for Review: WCAG 2.0 Techniques Draft Updates e-mail. See also important information in the WCAG Techniques and Understanding WCAG Updates blog post. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
Call for Review: Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0 (Second Edition) Proposed Edited Recommendation Published
09 July 2013 | Archive
The Timed Text Working Group has published a Proposed Edited Recommendation of Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0 (Second Edition). TTML 1.0 provides a standardized representation of a particular subset of textual information with which stylistic, layout, and timing semantics are associated by an author or an authoring system for the purpose of interchange and potential presentation. In addition to being used for interchange among legacy distribution content formats, TTML Content may be used directly as a distribution format, for example, providing a standard content format to reference from a <track> element in an HTML5 document, or a <text> or <textstream> media element in a SMIL 2.1 document. Comments are welcome through 06 August. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
Mediastream Image Capture Draft Published
09 July 2013 | Archive
The Web Real-Time Communication Working Group and Device APIs Working Group have published the First Public Working Draft of Mediastream Image Capture. This document specifies the takePhoto() and getFrame() methods, and corresponding camera settings for use with MediaStreams as defined in Media Capture and Streams. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
