22 December 2000
Amaya is
W3C's free Web browser and authoring tool, used to demonstrate and test
new Web protocols and data formats. People who downloaded the
short-lived version 4.2 are advised to install 4.2.1. Download Amaya binaries for Unix and Windows
NT/95/98. Source code and a
new features history are available.
21 December 2000
Amaya is
W3C's Web browser and authoring tool, used to demonstrate and test new
Web protocols and data formats. Version 4.2 features limited handling
of UTF-8 documents, better support for MathML 2.0, and bug fixes.
Download Amaya binaries for Unix and
Windows NT/95/98. Source code is
also available.
20 December 2000
Libwww
version 5.3.2 has been released for download on the Web and by FTP. Libwww is a free, highly
modular client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32).
The new version includes enhancements to the RDF parser and many bug
fixes, principally in the cache, chunk, and hash modules.
20 December 2000
The XForms Working Group has published a Working
Draft of XForms 1.0. This
document describes the architecture, concepts, processing model, and
terminology underlying XForms, the next generation Web forms. Comments
are invited on the public mailing list www-forms@w3.org (archive). Learn
more about XForms.
20 December 2000
The XML Core Working Group has published a
Working Draft of the XML
Information Set (Infoset) based on discussion and Last Call
comments. Infoset defines a set of seventeen types of information items
in XML documents. Your comments on the new draft are invited on the
public mailing list www-xml-infoset-comments@w3.org
(archive).
Read more about the W3C XML Activity.
20 December 2000
XLink Markup Name Control
has been published as a W3C Note for review. The Note proposes an XML
Schema-based solution to the need to use XLink
in XML languages such as XHTML 1.0.
20 December 2000
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of XML Linking
Language (XLink) Version 1.0 and XML Base to Proposed
Recommendation. XLink is a vocabulary that allows hyperlinks to be
added to XML documents. XML Base provides a facility similar to the
HTML base element for defining base URIs. Comments should be sent to
the addresses in the Status of this Document sections by 31 January.
Read more about the W3C XML Activity.
19 December 2000
The XML Protocol Working Group has published XML Protocol Requirements as a
Working Draft. XML Protocol (XP) allows two or more peers to
communicate in a distributed environment using XML as its encapsulation
language. XP discussion takes place on the public mailing list xml-dist-app@w3.org (archive). Read
more about the XML Protocol
Activity.
19 December 2000
W3C today released XHTML Basic as a W3C
Recommendation. The specification is stable, and has been reviewed by
the W3C membership, who favors its adoption by the industry. XHTML
Basic content can be shared across desktop computers, TVs, PDAs,
pagers, and mobile phones. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, said, "XHTML
Basic offers the simplicity and wide interoperability of early versions
of HTML and reflects ten years of Web
experience, including advances in XML and accessibility." Read the
press release and
testimonials.
15 December 2000
Unicode in XML and other Markup
Languages has been released as a Unicode Technical Report and a W3C
Note. The Note covers the use of Unicode in marked-up text such as XML and
HTML. It is published jointly by the Unicode Technical Committee and
the W3C Internationalization Working Group and Interest Group. Read
more about the W3C
Internationalization Activity.
15 December 2000
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the Platform for
Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P 1.0) Specification to Candidate
Recommendation. P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web
site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Read
the answers to frequently asked questions
about P3P and more on the W3C Privacy
Activity.
14 December 2000
As part of the W3C DOM Activity, the DOM Working Group has updated
the Document Object
Model (DOM) Requirements Working Draft. Changes include the
addition of Embedded DOM requirements. DOM Level 3 will not address
Views and Formatting. Comments are invited on the public mailing list
www-dom@w3.org (archive).
12 December 2000
The Canonical XML Candidate
Recommendation has been revised based on a four week Call for
Implementation. An interoperability report is
available. Canonical XML permits applications such as digital
signatures to determine whether an application has substantively
changed a document beyond syntactical variances permitted by XML 1.0
and Namespaces in XML. Canonical XML is produced by the XML Signature Working Group, a joint effort of the
IETF and W3C.
12 December 2000
The XSL Working Group has
published XSL Transformations
(XSLT) Version 1.1 as a Working Draft. A transformation expressed
in XSLT, called a style sheet, describes rules for transforming a
source tree into a result tree. The source tree can be filtered and
reordered, and arbitrary structure can be added. Learn more about
XSL and the W3C
Style Activity.
08 December 2000
Charles McCathieNevile of the
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will speak on
Web Accessibility - Present and Future on 20 December. The
venue is the W3C Italian Office at the
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
(CNR) in Rome.
05 December 2000
W3C held its semi-annual
Advisory Committee Meeting on 28-30 November, 2000, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA. W3C Member
Organizations participated in two days of presentations and
discussions on the range of W3C
Activities. If you would like to join W3C, visit the W3C Membership page, and please
consider attending the next Advisory Committee Meeting to be held 30
April - 1 May 2001, in Hong Kong.
04 December 2000
The XML Query Working Group has published a
Working Draft of The XML
Query Algebra. Building on traditions in the database community,
the algebra is powerful enough to capture the semantics of many XML
query languages, and includes analogues of most of the laws of
relational algebra. Please send comments to the mailing list www-xml-query-comments@w3.org
(archive).
04 December 2000
The Voice Browser Working Group
has published Introduction
and Overview of W3C Speech Interface Framework as a Working Draft.
The Working Group is designing markup languages for dialog, speech
recognition grammar, speech synthesis, natural language semantics, and
a collection of reusable dialog components. Comments should be sent to
the mailing list www-voice@w3.org
(archive).
Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.
03 December 2000
LexiPraxi 2000 will be held
in Paris, France, on 8 December, 2000. Karl Dubost, W3C Conformance
Manager, will speak on Être strict pour
partager: les standards du W3C pour garantir le multilinguisme sur
internet.
03 December 2000
Kazuhiro Kitagawa of the W3C
Team at Keio will give a talk at the DBWeb2000 symposium, taking place
in Tokyo, Japan, on 6-8 December, 2000. This conference is held by the
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and the ACM Special
Interest Group on Management of Data, Japan Chapter. Kazuhiro will
speak about TV and the Web, and the Device Independence Activity.
Details are available in
Japanese.
03 December 2000
Registration is open through 12
January for the W3C Workshop on Digital
Rights Management to be held at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, on
22-23 January, 2001. Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to
techniques for describing and perhaps enforcing copyrights associated
with Web resources. Position papers should be submitted to the Workshop
Chairs by 22 December.
03 December 2000
W3C is co-hosting the XML
2000 Conference and Exposition in Washington, DC, USA, on 3-8
December. Several W3C Team members are speaking. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
Director, will give an opening keynote on RDF and the Semantic
Web (slides). Wendy
Chisholm will present W3C's XML Accessibility Guidelines.
Chris Lilley will co-present Comparison of SVG and WebCGM.
Joseph M. Reagle Jr. will speak on XML Digital Signatures
(slides). C. Michael
Sperberg-McQueen will speak on the W3C XML Schema Definition
Language. Ralph Swick will present W3C Privacy and
Security Initiatives.
24 November 2000
The W3C Jigsaw team has released the first Jigsaw WebDAV package. Jigsaw is W3C's
leading-edge Web server platform. WebDAV is a set of extensions to the HTTP
protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on
remote Web servers.
23 November 2000
Amaya is
W3C's Web browser and authoring tool, used to demonstrate and test new
Web protocols and data formats. Version 4.1 is a bug fix release for
XHTML, MathML, SVG, and annotation support, and other features.
Download Amaya binaries for Unix and
Windows NT/95/98. Source code is
also available.
21 November 2000
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the Extensible
Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation.
Designers use an XSL style sheet to express
how source content should be styled, laid out, and paginated onto a
presentation medium such as a browser window, a pamphlet or a book.
Please send comments and reports of implementation experience to
xsl-editors@w3.org (archive) by 28
February, 2001. Read more about the Style
Activity.
20 November 2000
The W3C Voice Browser Working
Group has published a Working Draft of Natural Language Semantics Markup
Language for the Speech Interface Framework. This markup language
is intended for use by systems that provide semantic interpretations
for input such as speech and natural language text. Discussion takes
place on www-voice@w3.org
(archive).
Read more about the Voice Browser Activity.
17 November 2000
Winie version 1.0.7 is available for
download. Winie is a free network utility to put files on the Web using
HTTP/1.1. Version 1.0.7 features basic support for digest
authentication, keyboard shortcuts, and bug fixes. Winie discussion
takes place on the public mailing list www-winie@w3.org (archive).
17 November 2000
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
was featured today from 3-5:00 p.m. EST in the debut episode of the
VisionQuest Series, a
student organized, globally broadcast forum. Airing biannually from
Binghamton University, New York, USA, VisionQuest is distributed by
satellite transmission and Web streaming (archive).
15 November 2000
As part of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Activity, the DOM
Working Group has released a Working Draft of the DOM Level 3 Views and
Formatting Specification. The draft proposes two ways to give a DOM
application access to a view's computed layout and presentation. Please
send comments to the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org (archive).
13 November 2000
Five parts of DOM Level 2 have
been advanced to W3C
Recommendation status. The sixth component, the Document Object Model (DOM)
Level 2 HTML Specification, has been published as a Working Draft,
to ensure backwards compatibility, and to allow the W3C Working Groups
to review it with the goal of resuming the W3C Recommendation track.
Comments are invited on the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org (archive).
13 November 2000
The International Web Accessibility
Summit was held 15-16 November, in Melbourne, Australia. The event
is supported by the W3C Australia Office and the Internet Industry
Association (IIA). Karl Dubost, W3C Conformance Manager, presented "The
W3C standards as a guarantee for Accessibility and Interoperability."
Charles McCathieNevile of the W3C Web Accessibility
Initiative, presented "Accessibility in emerging Web
Technology."
13 November 2000
On 9 November, W3C opened a
new Office in Rabat, Morocco, at L'Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, a higher
education engineering school celebrating its 40th year that day. Daniel
Dardailler, Vincent Quint, Philipp Hoschka, Thierry Michel, Karl
Dubost, and Stephane Boyera of the W3C Team gave presentations.
W3C Offices assist with promotion
efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and
encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
13 November 2000
W3C is pleased to announce
advancement of Mathematical
Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 to Candidate Recommendation.
MathML is an XML application that describes the presentation and
content of mathematical notation. It enables mathematics to be served,
received, and processed on the Web, just as HTML enables this
functionality for text. Please send your comments to www-math@w3.org (archive) by 14
December. Learn more about the W3C Math
Activity.
13 November 2000
W3C today released the
Document Object Model
(DOM) Level 2 as a W3C Recommendation. The specification is stable,
contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C
membership, who favor its adoption by the industry. "The DOM Level 2
Recommendation builds on the solid work done in DOM Level 1, and gives Web authors the power
to move to XML for dynamic content," says Lauren Wood, Chair of the W3C
DOM Working Group. Read the Press Release, Testimonials, and more about the
DOM Activity.
10 November 2000
Amaya is
W3C's Web browser and authoring tool, used to demonstrate and test new
Web protocols and data formats. The new release supports SVG graphics,
introduces collaborative annotations based on RDF, XPointer, and XLink,
and offers XHTML and MathML enhancements. Download Amaya binaries for Unix and Windows
NT/95/98 and the source code.
03 November 2000
W3C is pleased to announce
advancement of XHTML
Basic to Proposed Recommendation. XHTML Basic provides an
extensible XHTML document type that is rich enough for simple content
authoring that can be shared across devices from desktop computers to
TVs, PDAs, pagers, and mobile phones. Please send comments to the
addresses given in the Status of this Document section by 3 December.
Learn more on the HTML home page.
02 November 2000
The SVG Working Group has
re-issued the Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. The new draft
reflects minor changes to the specification and editorial updates
resulting from implementation feedback. SVG delivers two-dimensional
vector graphics to the Web in XML, ensuring accessibility, dynamism,
reusability, and extensibility. Read more in the SVG overview.
01 November 2000
As part of the W3C DOM (Document Object Model) Activity, the DOM
Working Group has updated a Working Draft of the DOM
Level 3 Content Models and Load and Save Specification. Section 1
provides a representation and operations for XML content models like
DTDs and W3C XML schemas. Section 2 provides an API for loading XML
source documents into a DOM representation and for saving a DOM
representation as an XML document. Comments are invited on the public
mailing list www-dom@w3.org
(archive).
31 October 2000
W3C is pleased to announce that
XML-Signature Syntax and
Processing has become a Candidate Recommendation. XML digital
signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and signer
authentication services. The specification is the work of the joint
IETF-W3C XML Signature Working Group.
Comments should be sent to the editors with a cc: to w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org (archive).
Read more about the XML Digital Signature
Activity.
26 October 2000
XML Core Working Group has
released XML Inclusions
(XInclude) Version 1.0 as a Working Draft, introducing a processing
model and syntax for merging XML documents. Comments are invited on the
public mailing list www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org
(archive).
26 October 2000
W3C is pleased to announce that
Canonical XML 1.0 has
become a Candidate Recommendation. This specification describes a
method for determining whether two XML documents with differing
syntactical representations are actually equivalent in this
specification's XML data model (based on XPath). This permits
applications such as digital signatures to determine whether an
application has substantively changed a document beyond syntactical
variances permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML. Canonical XML is
produced by the XML Signature Working Group,
a joint effort of the IETF and W3C.
26 October 2000
W3C is hosting an
interoperability session in Palo Alto, California, USA, on 2 November
to "test drive" P3P and to demonstrate its uses and
capabilities. P3P provides a simple, automated way for users to gain
control over the use of personal information on Web sites they visit.
Read the Press Release
and FAQ for complete information.
25 October 2000
The CSS Working Group has
released a Working Draft of Syntax of CSS rules in HTML's
"style" attribute. The draft describes the history, grammar, and
cascading order for CSS fragments in the "style" attribute. Read more
about CSS on the style sheets home page.
24 October 2000
The co-chairs of the XML Linking Working
Group have published XLink Markup Name Control as
a W3C Note. The document proposes an XML schema-based solution to the
need to use XLink in XML-based languages such as XHTML 1.0.
24 October 2000
W3C is pleased to announce
advancement of the XML Schema language to Candidate Recommendation
status. Read the Press
Release and Testimonials. The specification
is written in three parts:
23 October 2000
The W3C Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has issued a Last Call Working Draft
of User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0 and its companion Working Draft, Techniques for User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. They provide guidelines for designing
user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with
disabilities, and help developers create more usable software for all
Web users. Please send comments to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org (archive) by 13
November.
21 October 2000
W3C is pleased to announce that
Modularization of
XHTML has become a Candidate Recommendation. This period is a call
for implementation, testimonials, and review by W3C Members and the
public, and lasts through 17 November. The specification subsets XHTML
and extends XHTML's reach onto emerging platforms like mobile devices,
television, and appliances. Read more on the HTML
home page.
18 October 2000
The XSL Working Group has
released a Working Draft of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
addressing Last Call comments. Designers use an XSL style sheet to express how source content should
be styled, laid out, and paginated onto a presentation medium such as a
browser window, a pamphlet or a book. Please send comments to xsl-editors@w3.org (archive).
18 October 2000
The P3P Specification Working
Group has issued a Platform for
Privacy Preferences (P3P) 1.0 Last Call Working Draft. P3P enables Web sites to express their privacy practices in
a standard format. P3P user agents will inform users of site practices.
Please send comments to www-p3p-public-comments@w3.
org (archive)
by 31 October.
16 October 2000
W3C co-sponsored the first
MathML Conference, on
20-21 October in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. Irène Vatton and
Vincent Quint of the W3C/INRIA presented "Editing MathML on the
Web with Amaya." Learn more about MathML and
review the current working draft of MathML
2.0.
13 October 2000
The CSS Working Group has
released a CSS Mobile Profile
1.0 Working Draft. The specification defines a subset of Cascading
Style Sheets Level 2 tailored for mobile devices such as wireless
phones. Learn about CSS on the style sheets home
page.
12 October 2000
The joint IETF-W3C XML Signature Working Group has published a revision
of the Last Call Working Draft, XML-Signature Syntax and
Processing. XML digital signatures provide integrity, message
authentication, and signer authentication services. Comments should be
sent to the editors with a cc: to w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org (archive) by
20 October.
11 October 2000
The W3C Netherlands Office has organized two one
day courses in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. On 17 October, F.R.A.
Hopgood and Lloyd Rutledge will speak on SVG and SMIL.
On 23 November, Steven Pemberton will speak on XHTML. Refer
to the events page for program and registration
information.
11 October 2000
The W3C Offices are participating in the
XML Days Europe
conference series, 17 to 27 October. At many of the events, W3C Offices
staff will be in attendance and would be pleased to meet with you. XML
Days are being held in Brussels, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen,
Amsterdam, Munich, Zurich, and Milan.
11 October 2000
The joint IETF-W3C XML Signature Working Group has issued a Working
Draft of Canonical XML Version
1.0, addressing all comments received during the second Last Call
that ended 28 July. An interoperability matrix
is available. Please send comments to the editor with a cc: to the
public mailing list w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org (archive).
11 October 2000
W3C is hosting an
interoperability session in Palo Alto, California, USA, on 2 November
to "test drive" P3P and to demonstrate its uses and
capabilities. P3P provides a simple, automated way for users to gain
more control over the use of personal information on Web sites they
visit. Please consult the P3P Interop page for agenda and registration details.
06 October 2000
W3C is pleased to announce that
the XML Core Working Group has
published the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) 1.0 Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation. The
second edition is not a new version of XML; it brings the XML 1.0
Recommendation up to date with the first edition errata. Read more
about the W3C XML Activity.
05 October 2000
Modularization of
XHTML has been released as a Working Draft. XHTML Modularization
takes XHTML 1.0 and reassembles it as a collection of modules that
provide specific types of functionality. This supports the goal of
making the full Web available to mobile devices, televisions, and
appliances. This is the same document released prematurely as a
Candidate Recommendation, the maturity level for which it is being
considered. W3C regrets the error. Learn more about XHTML from the
W3C HTML Activity home page.
05 October 2000
The CSS Working Group has
published a CSS3 module:
W3C selectors Working Draft. The draft describes the selectors that
are proposed for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Level 3. The Working
Group is seeking feedback and requests that comments be sent to the
editors. Discussion takes place on the mailing list www-style@w3.org (archive). Learn
about CSS on the style sheets home page.
29 September 2000
Harvesting RDF Statements from
XLinks has been released as a W3C Note. Based on the general
principle that each arc in an XLink link
yields one RDF statement, it defines
a mapping that allows links to be harvested as a source of
metadata.
29 September 2000
The W3C DOM Activity has released the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1
Specification (Second Edition) as a Working Draft for public
review. The DOM is a platform- and language-neutral interface that
allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the
content, structure and style of documents. The second edition is not a
new version; it is designed to bring the DOM 1.0 Recommendation up to
date with the first edition errata. Please report errors to the mailing
list www-dom@w3.org (archive) by 27
October.
28 September 2000
The W3C Note Describing and retrieving photos
using RDF and HTTP has been updated. The authors' system includes
RDF schemas, search methods, data-entry software, and a way to serve
photos and metadata over HTTP (demo).
27 September 2000
DOM Level 2 has become a W3C
Proposed Recommendation, and is now being reviewed by the W3C
membership for consideration as a W3C Recommendation. Public review and
comments are welcome; the review period ends 25 October 2000. Read the
Technical Reports page to find all DOM Level 2
modules. Learn more about the DOM
Activity.
22 September 2000
The W3C XML Activity has released three XML schema
Working Drafts. XML schemas provide a superset of the capabilities
found in XML 1.0 document type definitions (DTDs). XML Schema Part 0: Primer is an
introduction. XML Schema
Part 1: Structures specifies the XML Schema definition language,
which offers facilities for describing the structure and constraining
the contents of XML 1.0 documents. XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
specifies a robust, extensible datatype system for XML. This is an
interim release in anticipation of a request for Candidate
Recommendation status in the near future, provided now to give timely
notice of important syntax changes.
21 September 2000
Registration is open for the
W3C XML Encryption
Workshop to be hosted by Xcert
in Lafayette/San Francisco, California, USA on 2
November. The workshop will focus on requirements, proposals
discussed on the XML encryption public mailing
list, and the structure of a possible W3C Activity.
21 September 2000
As part of the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Activity, the SYMM
Working Group has issued a Last Call Working Draft of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language 2.0. SMIL (pronounced "smile") 2.0 defines an XML-based
language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia
presentations, and allows reusing of SMIL syntax and semantics in other
XML-based languages. Last Call comments may be sent to the public
mailing list www-smil@w3.org
(archive)
through 20 October.
21 September 2000
The Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has released a series of four W3C
Notes that offer techniques for Web content providers wishing to
satisfy the W3C Recommendation, "Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0" (WCAG). The series includes:
21 September 2000
The White House invited
Judy Brewer, Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at W3C, to speak at its
Digital Divide Event on Accessible Technologies on 21 September, in
Flint, Michigan, USA. "WAI works by bringing together industry,
disability organizations, accessibility researchers, and government,"
explained Brewer. "We can show that accessible design is not only
possible, but is also good design, and well within reach of all Web
content publishers." Read the Press
Release.
19 September 2000
The Open Research Forum (in
Japanese) is the yearly open house extending research and development
at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus) to
interested companies and the general public. On 22 September, W3C
presents recent W3C activities, in particular in the areas of open
source software, mobile Web access, and Web accessibility.
18 September 2000
The IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group has issued a Last Call
Working Draft of XML-Signature Syntax and
Processing. XML digital signatures provide integrity, message
authentication, and signer authentication services. Please send
comments to the editors with a cc: to w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org (archive).
The Last Call period ends 5 November.
15 September 2000
A new Working Draft of the
Platform for Privacy Preferences
1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification has been published as part of the
P3P Activity. The Platform for Privacy Preferences
Project (P3P) enables Web sites to express their privacy practices in a
standard format. P3P user agents will inform users of site practices.
Comments may be sent to www-p3p-public-comments@w3.org
(archive).
14 September 2000
Work in the new XML Protocol Activity will focus on XML as the encapsulation language for
communication in a distributed environment. Learn more:
08 September 2000
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the XML Base
specification to Candidate Recommendation status. The document
describes a mechanism for providing base URI services to XLink and to
other XML applications benefiting from control over relative URIs. The
Candidate Recommendation period ends 8 December, 2000, when the
XML Linking Working Group
expects to deliver proof of use of XML Base in new specifications, and
a report of successful XML Base implementations in applications based
on them. Implementors are invited to contact the Working Group chairs
to participate. Comments may be sent to the public mailing list
www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
(archive).
07 September 2000
The fourth Working Draft of
Canonical XML Version 1.0
has been released, addressing comments received during Last Call that
ended 28 July. It is the goal of this specification to establish a
method for determining whether two documents are identical, or whether
an application has not changed a document, except for transformations
permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML. Please send comments to the
editor with a cc: to the public mailing list w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org (archive).
01 September 2000
As part of the W3C DOM Activity, the DOM Working Group has
published the first public Working Drafts of the Document Object Model
(DOM) Level 3. The DOM is a platform- and language-neutral interface
that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the
content, structure, and style of documents. Comments are invited on the
public mailing list www-dom@w3.org
(archive).
28 August 2000
The XSL Working Group has
published the first public XSL
Transformations Requirements Version 1.1 Working Draft. The draft
describes the requirements for the XSLT 1.1 specification. Its goals
are to improve style sheet portability, include vendor extensions built
in to meet user demand, and to support XML Base.
28 August 2000
XML World 2000 will take place in
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from 5 to 8 September. Tim
Berners-Lee, W3C Director, will deliver a keynote speech, "XML and the
Web," on 6 September.
28 August 2000
The HTML
Working Group has issued the second public Working Draft of XHTML Events. The
specification defines the Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
event module, providing XHTML host language integration with the
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 event interfaces.
Comments about the draft and XHTML may be sent to the public mailing
list www-html@w3.org (archive).
25 August 2000
The W3C XForms Working Group has
released XForms
Requirements, a Working Draft outlining requirements for the next
generation of Web forms. Comments are welcome on the www-forms@w3.org public mailing list
(archive).
See how forms are changing on the W3C XForms
home page.
24 August 2000
Members of the W3C Team and
P3P Working Groups are presenting
at
Sommer Akademie 2000: e-Privacy and Data Protection on the Internet
in Kiel, Germany, on 28 August 2000. Sommer Akademie
2000 is sponsored by the Centre for Privacy
Protection Schelswig-Holstein, Germany.
21 August 2000
W3C is a sponsor of the Seventeenth International Unicode
Conference in San Jose, California, USA from 5 to 8
September. The theme of the conference program is "Unicode and
the Web: The Global Connection." Martin Dürst of W3C/Keio University is
co-presenting the tutorial Weaving the Multilingual
Web: Standards and their Implementations on 6 September.
17 August 2000
Winie version 1.0.6 is available for
download. Written by W3C engineer Benoît Mahé, Winie is a network
utility to put files on the Web using HTTP/1.1. Among other changes,
version 1.0.6 features a new logo by Coralie Mercier. Winie discussion
takes place on the new public mailing list www-winie@w3.org (archive).
15 August 2000
The XML Query Working Group has
issued a revised XML Query
Requirements Working Draft, incorporating the comments received on
the first public version. XML Query provides facilities to extract and
process data from XML documents and from databases and other persistent
storage. Comments may be sent to the www-xml-query-comments@w3.org
mailing list (archive).
15 August 2000
The W3C XForms Working Group has
published an XForms
1.0: Data Model Working Draft. Benefits of next generation Web
forms include XML data transfer, easier visual layout, and separation
of user interface and presentation from the data model and logic,
allowing the same form to be used on a variety of devices. Discussion
is welcome on the public mailing list www-forms@w3.org (see archive). Learn
more on the XForms home page.
14 August 2000
The XML Core Working Group has released a draft
of the Extensible Markup Language
(XML) 1.0 Second Edition for public review. The second edition is
not a new version of XML; it is designed to bring the XML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with the first
edition's errata. A color-coded review version is available.
Please report errors to the xml-editor@w3.org mailing list (archive).
09 August 2000
Download Jigsaw 2.1.2, W3C's leading-edge
Web server platform. Included in this revision are support for CC/PP
and JSP, as well as stabilizing improvements. Read on for more information about Jigsaw.
08 August 2000
The W3C Voice
Browser Activity has published a Working Draft of the Speech Synthesis Markup
Language Specification for the Speech Interface Framework. With
this XML language, authors can produce natural-sounding, synthetic
speech in voice, Web, and accessibility user agents. Comments are
welcome on the public mailing list www-voice@w3.org (archive).
07 August 2000
The Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has published a W3C Note, Accessibility Features of SVG.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) provides many
accessibility benefits to disabled users and people with similar
functional needs. Please send comments to the WAI Education and
Outreach Working Group at w3c-wai-eo@w3.org (public archive of
discussion list).
04 August 2000
Libwww
version 5.3.1 is available. Libwww is the W3C's protocol library, a
modular, client-side Web API (Application Program Interface) written in
C for Unix and Windows (Win32). See the release notes and download the
libwww source code as well as
other W3C open source software.
03 August 2000
W3C is co-sponsoring the first
MathML Conference,
scheduled for 20-21 October in Urbana-Champaign. Registration
is open. Learn more about MathML and review the
current working draft of MathML 2.0.
03 August 2000
Meet W3C Team members at Extreme!
Extreme
Markup Languages 2000 is a new, highly technical conference
concentrating on the evolving abstractions that underlie modern
information management. Extreme runs in Montreal from 15
to 18 August, with pre-conference
tutorials from 13 to 14 August.
02 August 2000
W3C has issued Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) as a Candidate Recommendation. SVG delivers
two-dimensional vector graphics to the Web in XML, ensuring
accessibility, dynamism, reusability, and extensibility. Developers are
invited to create SVG implementations, and test them with the W3C SVG Test Suites. Read the Press Release and Testimonials.
31 July 2000
The W3C
Synchronized Multimedia Activity has published a new SMIL Animation Working
Draft. Synchronized Multimedia Language (SMIL) Animation puts animation
onto a time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and
describes basic animation elements for any XML-based language. Feedback
should be sent to the SMIL public mailing
list. Read about SMIL in the Synchronized Multimedia Activity
Statement.
28 July 2000
The W3C Style Activity has published a SAC: Simple API for CSS Note
describing a common API (Application Program Interface) for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) parsers. Comments are
invited on the W3C Style public mailing
list. Find download links and more about SAC on the SAC home page.
26 July 2000
The XML Core Working Group released a new
XML Information Set
(Infoset) Working Draft, which defines a set of fifteen types of
information items in XML documents. Comments are welcome on the Infoset
public
mailing list. For background, consult the XML Activity Statement.
21 July 2000
The HTML
Working Group has updated their Roadmap to reflect current
deadlines and objectives for XHTML developments. Comments may be
sent to the www-html-editor@w3.org
mailing list. Public discussion takes place on www-html@w3.org.
21 July 2000
The Composite
Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP) Working Group has published four
new drafts. CC/PP is a user-side hardware, software and preferences
profile written in Resource Description Framework (RDF), W3C's language
for modeling metadata. Comments may be sent to the www-mobile@w3.org
mailing list. Learn more about CC/PP in the W3C Mobile Access Activity Statement.
10 July 2000
Last call comments are invited on
the Canonical XML 1.0 Working
Draft through 28 July 2000. This specification describes a method
for generating a physical representation of an input XML document that
does not change under variations that XML 1.0 defines as logically
equivalent. Canonical XML is produced by the XML-Signature Working Group, a joint effort of the
IETF and W3C.
05 July 2000
Jigsaw version 2.0.5 is now available.
Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform, providing a sample
HTTP/1.1 implementation and a variety of other features on top of an
advanced architecture implemented in Java. Download Jigsaw.
04 July 2000
Amaya version 3.2, W3C's browser/editor
now available. Download
Amaya. Find out what's
new in Amaya 3.2.
03 July 2000
The XML Linking Language
(XLink) offers XML authors an
advanced hyperlinking mechanism. In addition to an extensible linking
semantics, XLink supports annotation services and precise addressing of
subresources when using XPointers.