Extending the Web to all kinds of devices including sensors and effectors. Application areas include home monitoring and control, home entertainment, office equipment, mobile and automotive. (more details).
Our Publications
The UWA replaces the Device Independence Activity and inherit its documents which range from Working Group Notes all the way to full W3C Recommendations. The current editors are shown after the document titles. Some documents are not being actively maintained at this time.
Recent publications
A second public Working Draft was published for the Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) on 27 July 2007
Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0 and Delivery Context: XPath Access Functions 1.0 moved to Candidate Recommendation status on 25 July 2007.
Delivery Context: Client Interfaces (DCCI) 1.0 re-entered Last Call on 4 July 2007 following a normative change whereby the DCCI interface now inherits from DOM Element interface instead of the DOM Node interface. The Last Call review period Ends 27 July 2007.
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 2.0 was published as a Last Call Working Draft on 30 April 2007
A Working Draft is expected on ontologies of core presentation characteristics for mobile devices which defines an abstract ontology rather than a concrete syntax. We hope to follow up with ontologies for a wider range of device capabilities, including geolocation.
We anticipate new Working Drafts to be published as we start on new work items called for by the UWA Charter. The work on these was kicked off with the June 2007 face to face.
Recommendations
- Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0
- A CC/PP profile is a description of device capabilities and user preferences. This document describes the structure of a CC/PP profile and shows how vocabularies for these capabilities are used. The CC/PP Test Suite and Implementation report are also available
Candidate Recommendations
- Delivery Context Client Interfaces (DCCI) (Ed. Keith Waters et al.)
- Defines a framework for client-side access to a hierarchy of device properties together with a means to set event handlers for notifications of changes to propertie values.
- W3C Candidate Recommendation published in December 2007
- Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0 (Ed. Rhys Lewis)
- This document defines a markup for selecting between versions of content.
- W3C Candidate Recommendation published in July 2007
- Delivery Context: XPath Access Functions 1.0 (Ed. Rhys Lewis)
- This document defines a suite of XPath functions for access the delivery context.
- W3C Candidate Recommendation published in July 2007
Last Call Working Drafts
- Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 2.0 (CC/PP 2.0) (Ed. Cédric Kiss)
- This working draft updates the CC/PP 1.0 Recommendation by making it in line with the latest revision of RDF, and ensures its interoperability with OMA's UAProf2. The Last Call review period for this document is until Friday 6 July 2007 (extended from 15 June)..
Working Drafts
- Delivery Context Ontology (Ed. Rhys Lewis)
- W3C First Public Working Draft published in December 2007. It describes an OWL ontology for device properties as a basis for adaptation to the context in which an application is executed.
- Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) (Ed. Kevin Smith)
- This working draft describes a markup language for the filtering and presentation of Web page content available across different delivery contexts. The second Public Working Draft published in July 2007
- Content Selection (DISelect) Primer 1.0 (Ed. Rhys Lewis)
- W3C First Public Working Draft published in October 2006
- Core Presentation Characteristics: Requirements and Use Cases
- This working draft describes the requirements for core presentation characteristics and covers a number of use cases.
Working Group Notes
- Authoring Techniques for Device Independence (Ed. Rotan Hanrahan)
- This note provides a summary of several techniques and best practices that Web site authors and solution providers may employ when creating and delivering content to a diverse set of access mechanisms.
- Device Independence Principles
- This note discusses the general principles associated with device independence.
- Authoring Challenges for Device Independence (Ed. Rhys Lewis)
- This note discusses the challenges associated with authoring materials that can be accessed by a wide range of device with very different capabilities. It includes a set of high level requirements for systems that support device independence.
Glossary
- Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (Ed. Rhys Lewis)
- This document provides a glossary of terms used in discussions of device independence.
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