2011-09-19
CSS Device Adaptation First Public Working Draft
On 15 September 2011, the CSSWG officially published a new module: CSS Device Adaptation. This specification provides a way for an author to specify, in CSS, the size, zoom factor, and orientation of the viewport that is used as the base for the initial containing block. It is a CSS replacement for the proprietary HTML meta viewport tag.
As always, please send feedback to www-style with the spec code [css3-values] and your comment topic in the subject line.
2011-09-15
10:23:31, by Richard Ishida 
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Categories: Highlight, New resource, Update, Articles, w3cWebDesign
Just published: 1 new and 3 updated articles about language declarations in HTML
One tutorial and two articles have been updated, and a new article has been created from material that was moved out of the tutorial. The updates all involve major rewrites of the former text. These changes incorporate up-to-date information about how language declarations are handled in HTML5, and generally refresh and improve the previous material.
The new articles are:
Working with language in HTML (tutorial)
Why use the language attribute?
HTTP headers, meta elements and language information
All articles use a new HTML5-based template with additional change to the boilerplate code. [search keys: tutorial-language-decl qa-lang-why qa-html-language-declarations qa-http-and-lang ]
2011-09-08
Updated draft of Values and Units
On 6 September 2011, the CSSWG published an updated Working Draft of the CSS Values and Units Module Level 3. This module defines various new units as well as the calc(), attr(), and cycle() functional notations. With respect to the previous (2006!) draft, the cycle() notation is new. Other than that, not much has changed substantially. However the draft received a very major editorial overhaul, and has now be sync'ed to CSS2.1.
As always, send feedback to www-style with the spec code [css3-values] and your comment topic in the subject line. We're especially asking for review on the functional notations, as their definitions are more complex than the other types.
CSS3 Text and CSS3 Writing Modes updated
On 1 September 2011, the CSSWG updated the official Working Drafts of CSS Writing Modes Level 3 and CSS Text Level 3, two modules dedicated to improving typesetting capabilities on the Web, particularly for non-European languages.
The main changes in Writing Modes were syntactic (renaming several properties and values) and fixing errors in the per-character vertical typesetting rules. A bidi box model error was fixed (corresponding errata will be issued for CSS2.1), and a text-combine-mode property was added to control tate-chu-yoko horizontal scaling. Feedback is encouraged on all aspects of the draft, but particularly on the vertical typesetting rules which probably still contain many errors.
The most significant change in the Text module was reworking the into a new text-spacing property. (Other changes are listed in the draft.) Feedback is especially requested on this aspect, and also on the newly-revised text-justify section (does it make sense yet?), and on text-emphasis-skip.
As always, send feedback to www-style with the spec code ([css3-writing-modes] or [css3-text]) and your comment topic in the subject line.
14:58:50, by Richard Ishida , 219 words, 6485 views Categories: Miscellaneous, Highlight, w3cSemanticWeb, w3cWebDesign, w3cWebArchitecture, w3cWebOfDevices, w3cWebServices, w3cXMLCore, w3cWebUserAgents
Registrations are filling up for the MultilingualWeb workshop in Limerick, 21-22 Sept.
Register now if you want to ensure that you get a place.
Participation in the workshop is free, but spaces are limited. We have another great program in place.
The keynote speaker will be Daniel Glazman, of Disruptive Innovations, and co-chair of the W3C CSS Working Group. He is followed by a strong line up in sessions entitled Developers, Creators, Localizers, Machines, Users, and Policy. On the morning of the second day Jaap van der Meer of TAUS will facilitate "Open Space" style discussion sessions, where workshop participants themselves will choose topics to discuss in several breakout groups.
There will be a dinner reception on the evening of 21 September (free of charge, workshop registrants only).
The MultilingualWeb workshops, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the W3C, look at best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing and deploying the multilingual Web. The workshops are successful because they attracted a wide range of participants, from fields such as localization, language technology, browser development, content authoring and tool development, etc., to create a holistic view of the interoperability needs of the multilingual Web.
This workshop is co-located with the 16th Annual LRC Conference, and hosted by the LRC (Language Research Centre) and the University of Limerick.
We look forward to seeing you in Limerick!
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