Latest Press Releases of the World Wide Web Consortium. (Usually published in English, French, and Japanese, and often translated to other languages like Spanish, German, Chinese, or Korean.) http://www.w3.org/Press/ 2008-08-12 http://www.w3.org/ -- 29 July 2008 -- W3C today announced new standards that will make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices. Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, published as a W3C Recommendation, condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating mobile-friendly content. (...) http://www.w3.org/2008/07/mwbp-pressrelease 2008-07-29T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/2008/06/egov-pressrelease 2008-06-03T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 27 May 2008 -- Today W3C invites participation in a new group chartered to explore the potential of mobile technology to help bridge the digital divide. The Mobile Web For Social Development (MW4D) Interest Group will study the issues that rural communities and underprivileged populations face in accessing information and communication technology. The MW4D Interest Group provides an multidisciplinary forum for discussing these issues, and in doing so, contributes to the W3C mission of making the Web available to all. (...) http://www.w3.org/2008/05/mw4dig-pressrelease 2008-05-27T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 30 April 2008 -- Today, W3C announces that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is ready for developers and designers to test in Web content and Web applications. Publication of WCAG 2.0 as a Candidate Recommendation, a major step in the W3C standards process, signals broad consensus in the WCAG Working Group and among public reviewers on the technical content of the document. (...) http://www.w3.org/2008/04/wcag20cr-pressrelease 2008-04-30T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 18 March 2008 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) invites WWW2008 conference attendees to discuss pressing Web issues at the W3C Track in Beijing, China. W3C Member and Staff representatives will present nearly 25 topics and invite discussion over the course of two days, 23-24 April. In addition to the W3C Track, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web, will give a keynote titled "The Future of Web Applications" on Thursday, 24 April. A press conference with Tim Berners-Lee is scheduled on Wednesday 23 April at the Beijing International Convention Center; see the W3C track page for more details. (...) http://www.w3.org/2008/03/www2008-pressrelease 2008-03-18T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 11 March 2008 -- As part of its mission to ensure that the Web is available to all, W3C invites people to attend a Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development in São Paulo, Brazil, on 2-3 June 2008. The goal of the Workshop is to identify the challenges of providing e-services on mobile phones to people in developing economies. (...) http://www.w3.org/2008/03/mw4d-pressrelease 2008-03-11T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 12 February 2008 -- To mark the ten year anniversary of the publication of its Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation, the World Wide Web Consortium plans throughout 2008 to recognize and thank the dedicated communities and individuals responsible for XML for their contributions — including people who have participated in W3C's XML groups and mailing lists, the SGML community, and xml-dev — through a variety of activities and events. XML is a simple, open, and flexible format used to exchange a wide variety of data on and off the Web. The success of XML is a strong indicator of how dedicated individuals, working within the W3C Process, can engage with a larger community to produce industry-changing results. (...) http://www.w3.org/2008/02/xml10-pressrelease 2008-02-12T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 22 January 2008 -- W3C today published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the Web. The HTML Working Group is creating HTML 5 to be the open, royalty-free specification for rich Web content and Web applications. The group operates entirely in public with nearly five hundred participants, including representatives from W3C Members ACCESS, AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera. (...) http://www.w3.org/2008/02/html5-pressrelease 2008-01-22T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 15 January 2008 -- W3C announced today the publication of SPARQL, the key standard for opening up data on the Semantic Web. With SPARQL query technology, pronounced "sparkle," people can focus on what they want to know rather than on the database technology or data format used behind the scenes to store the data. Because SPARQL queries express high-level goals, it is easier to extend them to unanticipated data sources, or even to port them to new applications. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/12/sparql-pressrelease 2008-01-15T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 13 November 2007 -- Today, W3C provides new means for people to create and find mobile friendly content. W3C invites Web authors to run the alpha release of the W3C mobileOK checker and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/11/mok-pressrelease 2007-11-13T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 7 November 2007 -- Today, authors of the next version of HTML mix it up with Semantic Web developers, security experts, Web accessibility advocates, and the media on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). W3C welcomes over 400 experts from around the world to participate in a compelling Plenary Day Program where they will address issues shaping the future of the Web. Plenary Day is the centerpiece of a week of meetings at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hotel where over 40 groups will gather to exchange ideas in meetings and hallway conversations. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/11/tpac07-pressrelease 2007-11-07T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 30 October 2007 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is proud to announce the launch of its first W3C Office in South America: the W3C Brazil Office, hosted by the NIC.br (Brazilian Network Information Center) institute, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. W3C looks forward to increasing interaction with the Portuguese-speaking community through this Office. Moreover, the current IT landscape in Brazil aligns with exciting current trends at W3C, such as mobile Web, Web applications, and video on the Web. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/10/braziloffice-pr 2007-10-30T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 23 October 2007 -- W3C Director and Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee will deliver a keynote, "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the Mobile Web with Open Standards" at Mobile Internet World, 13-15 November at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA, USA. W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) is holding a pre-conference Developer's Summit on Mobile Web Standards. Summit attendees can learn even more about the W3C "One Web" vision, with updates on the latest mobile Web developments from MWI staff and sponsors, including Google, MobileAware, mTLD, Nokia, Opera Software, France Telecom Group, and Vodafone. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/10/miw-mediaadvisory 2007-10-23T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 16 October 2007 -- Leaders in the development of Web Standards are coming together in Cambridge, MA, USA, for a week of discussions, problem solving, and networking about the future of the Web. For the first time, the media is invited to join in the fray on the central event of the week, Plenary Day. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/10/tpac07-media 2007-10-16T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 25 September 2007 -- Experts in mobile applications development, Ajax, and Web standards come together this week to build a more complete picture of the future of interactive mobile Web applications. W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance have convened a Workshop on 28 September at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, CA, USA. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/09/mobileajax-pressrelease 2007-09-25T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 11 September 2007 -- Today, the World Wide Web Consortium completed an important link between Semantic Web and microformats communities. With "Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages", or GRDDL (pronounced "griddle"), software can automatically extract information from structured Web pages to make it part of the Semantic Web. Those accustomed to expressing structured data with microformats in XHTML can thus increase the value of their existing data by porting it to the Semantic Web, at very low cost. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/07/grddl-pressrelease 2007-09-11T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 4 September 2007 -- Today, the World Wide Web Consortium issued a critical Web standard for extending the features of Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. Building on the fundamental open Web services standards from W3C, Web Services Policy enables developers to meet requirements for secure transactions, reliable messaging, addressing metadata, and other scenarios, in modular fashion. With Web Services Policy 1.5, SOA developers can enable extensions to a service without disruption or requiring changes to lower level service descriptions. The extensions themselves (consisting of what are called "policy assertions") are defined by other specifications. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/07/wspolicy-pressrelease 2007-09-04T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 27 June 2007 -- Today, W3C has finalized a Web services description language with full support of the primary protocol for the Web, HTTP, and the most frequently implemented Web services protocol, SOAP. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 incorporates both the improvements for WSDL 1.1 found in the WS-I Basic Profile, and builds in inheritance, import functions, improved description of faults and errors, and full HTTP and SOAP support. Rigorous testing and interop sessions, including week-long programming marathons by the Web Services Description Working Group itself, have produced a solid interoperable standard that delivers on the goals of the initial WSDL 1.1 version, and also meets the needs of Web applications developers today. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/06/wsdl20-pressrelease 2007-06-27T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 19 June 2007 --W3C published standards today that enhance the capabilities and interoperability of voice browsers and speech recognition systems. The W3C Voice Browser Working Group has completed work on both VoiceXML 2.1 and Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) 1.0, two critical pieces of W3C's Speech Interface Framework. Testimonials from companies and organizations demonstrate strong support for the new standards. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/06/voice-pressrelease 2007-06-19T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 5 June 2007 -- Today and tomorrow, Web application experts are coming together in Dublin, Ireland, to see how the use of declarative techniques that capture the application developer's intentions, rather than the exact means for how to realize them, could reduce the costs of developing and maintaining Web applications. The W3C's Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications is focused on making more effective Web applications available within a full range of environments - whether in the home, office or mobile settings. It is hosted by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/06/dwa-pressrelease 2007-06-05T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 15 May 2007 -- Web standards and research leaders are looking for input from government experts on how the Web currently works for them, and what efforts would make it a more effective tool for achieving their goals, both in terms of greater access to and transparency of information and new approaches to citizen services. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), in co-ordination with the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), has issued a call for papers for "Toward More Transparent Government - Workshop on eGovernment and the Web". The workshop will be held in Washington, DC (USA), on 18-19 June 2007. Deadline for paper submissions is Tuesday 22 May 2007. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/05/egovpressrelease 2007-05-15T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 24 April 2007 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announces the launch of its Southern Africa Office and invites experts in the region to join the international effort of developing Web standards at W3C. The Office is hosted by the Meraka Institute, a center managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/03/saoffice-pr 2007-04-24T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 17 April 2007 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) presents its recent achievements and future work plans through the W3C Track at the WWW2007 conference, to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9 to 11 May 2007. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/04/www2007-pressrelease 2007-04-17T00:00:00Z http://www.w3.org/ -- 3 April 2007 -- The latest Web Standard from W3C, "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 1.0," makes it easy to create internationalized XML content. This content can be adapted, at lower cost, to the language, cultural and other requirements of a specific target market, a process called localization. Whether ITS 1.0 is used to build an internationalized XML schema from scratch, to add support to an existing schema, or to improve the internationalization of existing content, ITS 1.0 gives users the power to create XML for worldwide use. (...) http://www.w3.org/2007/04/its-pressrelease 2007-04-03T00:00:00Z