14 March 2001: W3C is delivering a series of tutorials on Privacy, Graphics, Multimedia and Accessibility at CeBIT 2001 in Hannover, Germany, from 22-28 March 2001. Atttendees have the opportunity to meet members of the W3C Team and the staff of the W3C Office in Germany. Read the Press Release for more details.
 Annotea
Project Launches Home Page
9 March 2001: The product of collaboration at
W3C, the Annotea project now has a home page. Annotations are external remarks
attached to any Web document. When the user gets the document he can
load the annotations and see what his peer group thinks. The first
client implementation of Annotea is W3C's Amaya
browser and authoring tool. See a quick tutorial for
annotations to get you started. This project is part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity Advanced Development
work to develop and deploy RDF infrastructure.
Winie
1.0.8 Available
9 March 2001: Winie version 1.0.8 is available
for download. Winie is a free network utility to put, get, and delete
files on the Web using HTTP/1.1. Version 1.0.8 features basic support
for the Content-Language entity-header field and a digest
authentication bug fix. Winie discussion takes place on the public
mailing list www-winie@w3.org (archive).
CSS3 Color
Module Working Draft Published
5 March 2001: The CSS Working Group has released
a Working Draft of CSS3 module: Color. The draft
merges parts of HTML 4, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) levels 2 and 3,
and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0. It describes CSS properties
authors can use to specify foreground color and opacity, ICC color
profiles, and rendering intent of image content. Read about CSS level 3 and visit the CSS home page.
Amaya 4.3
Released
5 March 2001: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool.
Version 4.3 features MathML 2.0 attribute support, improved math
editing, more SVG support, and access keys and window shortcuts. Download Amaya binaries for Unix and
Windows NT/95/98. Source code is
available. Amaya includes collaborative annotation based on Resource
Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer. Visit the Annotea home page.
5 March 2001: W3C held its first ever Technical
Plenary and Working Group Meeting Event on 26 February - 2 March in
Cambridge, MA, USA. Over 300 W3C Working and Interest Group
participants attended face to face and birds of a feather meetings.
Mid-week, an all-group plenary included panel discussions on Web
architecture, XML Schema usage, and the Candidate Recommendation
experience. If your organization would like to join W3C and lead the
Web to its full potential, please refer to the W3C Membership page.
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