31 December 2003
Buckingham Palace today
announced that Queen Elizabeth II
will make Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
Director, a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).
UK
Honours are available to all who give service in the United
Kingdom. Mr. Berners-Lee, a British citizen, is being knighted in
recognition of his services to the global development of the Internet
through the invention of the World Wide Web. Please read the press release.
19 December 2003
The XML Query Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0
(XQueryX). Designed to be read with the XQuery language and its formal semantics, the
document proposes that XQueryX will be an optional conformance level.
The Working Group invites comments. Visit the XML home
page.
18 December 2003
The Multimodal
Interaction Working Group has released the second public Working Draft
of EMMA. Comments are welcome.
The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange
format for interaction management systems. EMMA represents user input.
Speech and handwriting recognizers, natural language engines, media
interpreters, and multimodal integration components generate EMMA
markup. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home
page.
18 December 2003
The CSS Working Group
has released two Last Call Working Drafts, parts of the Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) language. Comments are welcome through 31 January 2004.
The CSS3 Paged Media
Module adds pagination, page margins, headers and footers,
footnotes and endnotes, and cross-references with page numbers. The
CSS Print Profile works
with XHTML-Print for printing to
low-cost devices. Visit the CSS home page.
18 December 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of the Speech Synthesis Markup
Language Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are
welcome through 18 February 2004. With this XML-based language, content
authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling
pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity.
18 December 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of the Speech Recognition Grammar
Specification Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are
welcome through 18 February 2004. Speech grammars allow voice-based
application authors to create rules describing what users are expected
to say after listening to each application prompt. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
15 December 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) to
Proposed Recommendation. Comments are invited through 19 January. OWL
is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies,
supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge
management. Read about the Semantic Web
Activity. The OWL language is presented in six parts:
- Overview - A
simple introduction
- Guide - Demonstrates
OWL through an extended example. Provides a glossary
- Reference - A compact,
informal description of OWL modelling primitives
- Semantics and
Abstract Syntax - Normative definition of the OWL language
- Test Cases - Test
cases illustrating correct OWL usage, the formal meaning of constructs,
and resolution of issues. Specifies conformance
- Use Cases and
Requirements - Usage scenarios, goals and requirements for a Web
ontology language
15 December 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of the Resource Description
Framework (RDF) to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are invited
through 19 January. The RDF language is presented in six technical
reports. RDF is used to represent information and to exchange knowledge
in the Web. Read about the Semantic Web
Activity.
15 December 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of the Document Object Model (DOM)
Level 3 Validation Specification to Proposed Recommendation. The
Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the
content and style of documents dynamically. This module of DOM3 ensures
that documents remain or become valid. Comments are invited through 14
January. Read about the DOM Activity.
10 December 2003
Students and educators
participating in the World Summit on the Information Society are laying
the foundation for a global infrastructure of school networks and a
culture of peace. On 10 December in cooperation with the CERN
SIS-Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and W3C Director
Tim Berners-Lee sent an
email to summit participants at 800 schools in 80 countries using
the NeXT computer that was used to invent the World Wide Web. The U.N.
Cyberschoolbus
and the
European Schoolnet co-organized the World Summit Event for Schools.
10 December 2003
The XML Core Working
Group has published the XML Information Set, Second
Edition (Infoset) as a Proposed Edited Recommendation. The document
updates the Infoset to cover XML 1.1 and Namespaces 1.1, clarifies the
consequences of certain kinds of invalidity, and corrects typographical
errors. The Infoset defines a set of eleven types of information items
in XML documents. Visit the XML home page.
09 December 2003
The Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released the first public Working
Draft of SVG Tiny Version
1.2 Requirements. Delivering Web vector graphics, text, and images
to mobile phones, SVG Tiny 1.2 adds features from SVG 1.2 and is based on implementor and designer
feedback on SVG Tiny 1.1. Comments are
welcome. Visit the SVG home page.
09 December 2003
The W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) has released a Last Call Working Draft of the
Architecture of the World Wide
Web, First Edition. The document is written for Web developers,
implementers, content authors and publishers. It describes the
properties that are desired of the Web and the design choices that have
been made to achieve them. Comments are invited through 5 March 2004.
Read the press release and
visit the TAG home page.
02 December 2003
W3C held its semiannual
Advisory Committee Meeting on 17-19 November in Shin Yokohama,
Kanagawa, Japan. W3C Member
organizations participated in two days of talks and discussion on
the range of W3C Activities. If
your organization would like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page. The next Advisory
Committee Meeting will be held 16-18 May 2004, colocated with WWW2004
in New York, NY, USA.
02 December 2003
Sixteen W3C Working Group
participants and Team members present at XML 2003 on 7-12 December in
Philadelphia, PA, USA. We look forward to meeting with you at dedicated
sessions and Town Hall meetings. The conference is devoted to
technologies based on the Extensible Markup
Language (XML). W3C is staffing booth #117 with live demonstrations
of W3C work in action. Please refer to the W3C demo schedule and the conference
schedule.
02 December 2003
Jigsaw
version 2.2.3 is available for download. The new version features
complete SSL support in WebDAV and has fixes for stability and HTTP/1.1
compliance. New tools for manipulating JPEGs are in the package. Jigsaw
is W3C's open source Web server platform implemented in Java. W3C
thanks the many contributors to this release.
25 November 2003
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative's Research
and Development Interest Group is extending the call for papers for
its teleconference on the accessibility and visualization of complex
information. We are seeking position papers from researchers and
practitioners (academia, industry, government, consulting) on state of
the art work in visualization technologies. Position papers are due 12
December. The telecon is tentatively 26 January 2004 and will include
real-time transcription to ensure audio accessibility. Please refer to
the call for papers
for more information.
15 November 2003
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version
8.2 includes new features and
enhancements for selection, CSS and CSS debugging, backup files, loaded
objects and images, undo, structure and source view, SVG, HTML, and
annotations. Download Amaya binaries
for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the
Amaya home page and the Annotea home page.
12 November 2003
The XML Protocol Working
Group has released a Working Draft of SOAP Optimized Serialization Use
Cases and Requirements. The document illustrates the reasons for
optimizing the serialization of SOAP
messages. It distills constraints and the features necessary for
interoperability with existing protocols, bindings, and serialization
formats such as SOAP 1.2, WSDL and MIME. Visit the Web Services home page.
12 November 2003
The SVG Working Group
has released its fourth Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2.
SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text,
and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group explicitly encourages
public feedback on this draft. Visit the SVG
home page.
10 November 2003
The Web Services
Description Working Group has released two Working Drafts of the Web
Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Message Patterns.
WSDL is a model and XML format for describing network services. The
language enables separate, fundamental stages for abstract function and
concrete details. Read about Web Services.
10 November 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of QA Framework: Specification
Guidelines to Candidate Recommendation. A set of organizing
guidelines and verifiable checkpoints, the document is written to help
W3C Working Groups write technical reports. It provides for conformance
requirements and definitions, and facilitates the generation of test
materials. Comments are welcome through 10 May 2004. Learn more about
Quality Assurance (QA) at W3C.
10 November 2003
The XML Core Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version
1.0. XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML
documents (information sets) using existing XML
constructs—elements, attributes and URI references. Comments are
welcome through 31 December. Visit the XML home
page.
07 November 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of two Document Object Model (DOM)
specifications to Candidate Recommendations. With DOM Level 3 Core, software
developers and Web script authors can access and manipulate HTML and
XML content. DOM Level 3
Load and Save allows programs and scripts to dynamically load the
content of an XML document into a DOM document and serialize a DOM
document into an XML document. Comments are welcome through 30
November. DOM
Level 3 Events was published as a Working Group Note. Visit the
DOM home page.
06 November 2003
The Device Independence
Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Authoring Techniques for Device
Independence. The document 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. Learn more about the W3C Device
Independence Activity.
05 November 2003
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Available
for testing, the 8.2 pre-release includes new
features and enhancements for selection, CSS and CSS debugging,
backup files, loaded objects and images, undo, structure and source
view, SVG, HTML, and annotations. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux
and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. The final is
expected in about one week. Visit the Amaya home
page and the Annotea home page.
05 November 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1
and Namespaces in XML
1.1 to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 5
December. XML 1.1 addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending
issues. Namespaces 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a
mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Read about the XML
Activity.
05 November 2003
The WAI Protocols and
Formats Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of
Inaccessibility of
Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests. Requests for visual
verification of a bitmapped image pose problems for those who are
blind, have low vision, or have a learning disability such as dyslexia.
The draft examines ways for systems to test for human users while
preserving access for users with disabilities. Comments are welcome.
Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
03 November 2003
The report and minutes
have been published from the W3C Workshop
on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets held in Santa
Clara, CA, USA on 24-26 September. All of the more than 40 position
papers are publicly available. The workshop concluded that research is
needed before W3C would produce any specifications in this area, and
recommended that a Working Group be proposed to the W3C Membership. W3C
thanks host Sun Microsystems, and all 60 attendees for their
participation. Visit the XML home page.
01 November 2003
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel.
- Katrin Franke, W3C Multimodal Interaction
Pen Input subgroup, presents at the 11th Conference of the International
Graphonomics Society (IGS2003) in Scottsdale, AZ, USA, 2-5
November.
- Karl Dubost presents at CRDP at the
Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada on 5 November.
- Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at SIMO in Madrid, Spain on
6 November.
- James Larson, W3C Voice Browser Working Group
co-Chair; Wu Chou, W3C Multimodal Interaction
EMMA subgroup co-Chair; and Yi-Min Chee, W3C Multimodal Interaction Ink
subgroup Chair, participate in a panel at the Fifth International Conference on Multimodal
Interfaces (ICMI-PUI'03) in Vancouver, BC, Canada on 6
November.
- Judy Brewer, Ivan Herman, Philipp Hoschka, Richard Ishida and
Matthew May present at the China International Forum
on WWW's Development 2003 in Beijing, China on 12-13 November.
- Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Bratt, Wendy Chisholm, Shawn Lawton Henry,
Masayasu Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Philippe Le Hégaret, Eric
Prud'hommeaux, Dave Raggett and Nobuo Saito present at W3C Day Japan
2003 (in Japanese) at Keio University Mita Campus in Tokyo, Japan
on 14 November.
- Philipp Hoschka and Dave Raggett present at the ITU Workshop on
Standardization in Telecommunications for motor vehicles in Geneva,
Switzerland on 24-25 November.
- Marie-Claire Forgue runs the W3C booth at Intégration 2003: XML
& Web Services in Paris, France on 26-27 November.
30 October 2003
The XML Core Working
Group has published the Extensible
Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Third Edition as a Proposed Edited
Recommendation. The third edition is not a new version of XML. It
brings the XML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with second edition
errata, and clarifies its use of RFC 2119 key words like must,
should and may. Comments are welcome through 1
December. Visit the XML home page.
29 October 2003
W3C Day Japan
2003 (in Japanese) will be held on 14 November 2003 at Keio
University Mita Campus in Tokyo, Japan. The conference is organized by
the Keio Research Institute at SFC in advance of their Open Research
Forum. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee and members of the W3C Team will
speak about XML, SOAP, WSDL, RDF, accessibility, device independence,
and the Semantic Web. The event is open to the public and registration
is required. Please read the press release.
29 October 2003
Acting on the advice of
the W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group, W3C has
presented the United States Patent and Trademark Office with prior art
establishing that US Patent No. 5,838,906 (the '906 patent) is invalid.
W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee has written an unprecedented request to US
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property James E. Rogan to
take action to remove the patent to allow operation of the Web. Please
refer to the briefing.
21 October 2003
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
Version 2.0 (Second Edition) as a W3C Recommendation. The
specification has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its
adoption by industry. MathML is an XML application that allows
mathematical notation and content to be served, received and processed
on the Web. The second edition contains clarifications and errata
corrections. Read the testimonials and visit the Math home page.
21 October 2003
Metalog 2.0b is a reasoning system built for the
Semantic Web that adds a query layer on top of RDF.
Developed by Massimo Marchiori, Antonio Epifani and Samuele Trevisan,
Metalog is user friendly and makes reasoning and thinking about the Web
easy through an interface
similar to natural language. Download
Metalog for Windows and Linux. Free source code is available. Learn
more about Metalog, W3C Open Source software and the Semantic
Web.
20 October 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the opening of the W3C
Spanish Office in Oviedo, Spain. The Office is hosted by the
Fundación para el Fomento de la
Investigación Científica y la Tecnología (FICYT). Francisco Sanchez is
Office Manager. Vicente Alvarez-Areces, Luis Iturrioz-Viñuela, Jesús
García, Daniel Dardailler, Marie-Claire Forgue and Ivan Herman present
at the opening ceremonies on 20 October in Oviedo. Read the press release and about W3C Offices.
14 October 2003
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released XForms 1.0 and XML Events as W3C
Recommendations. The specifications have been reviewed by the W3C
Membership, who favor their adoption by industry. Written for authors
and implementers alike, XForms is the new generation of Web forms.
XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the
server, offer device independence, and, using XML Events, reduce the
need for scripting. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the XForms home page.
14 October 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of XForms 1.0 Basic Profile to
Candidate Recommendation. The specification describes XForms processing
tailored to the needs of constrained devices and environments. The
XForms Working Group invites comments and expects to collect test cases
and information about implementations through 1 March 2004. Visit the
XForms home page.
10 October 2003
The RDF Core Working
Group has released the second Last Call of six Working Drafts. The
Resource Description Framework (RDF) supports the
exchange of knowledge on the Web. Comments are welcome through 7
November. Also updated is the Working Group Note LBase, a framework for specifying
the meaning of Semantic Web languages. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
08 October 2003
The XML Protocol Working
Group has completed work on SOAP Version 1.2 Message
Normalization and published it as a Working Group Note. The
document defines an algorithm to render equivalent SOAP messages
identically. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging
structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment.
Visit the Web Services home page.
03 October 2003
The HTML Working Group has
released a second Last Call Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in
XML Schema with changes for use in non-XHTML contexts. Comments are
welcome through 14 November. The document provides a complete set of
XML Schema modules for XHTML, and allows document authors to modify and
extend XHTML in a conformant way. Visit the HTML
home page.
01 October 2003
The W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft of the
Architecture of the World Wide
Web. Drafted for discussion at the TAG's upcoming face-to-face
meeting, the document explains Web protocols in three dimensions:
identification and resources, interaction, and representation and
formats. Comments are welcome. Visit the TAG home
page.
30 September 2003
Design a SVG Tiny greeting card in 30k or less, and win a
Nokia 3650
tri-band GSM handset. The best entries will be featured on the W3C Web
site, linked to their designers' Web pages, with an interview with the
winning designer. Enter as many times as you like through 3 November.
The SVG Working Group will choose the winner who will be announced on
24 November. Read about Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG). Announced at SVG Open, the SVG Mobile Competition is the first in
a series of SVG competitions.
30 September 2003
W3C Workshops have been compiled from
1995-2003. The W3C Communications Team would like to thank the Working
Group Chairs and Team members who helped build the list. From the
W3C Process
Document, workshops "convene experts and other interested parties
for an exchange of ideas about a technology or policy," or "address the
pressing concerns of W3C Members."
30 September 2003
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel.
- Ivan Herman participates in a panel at iX 2003 on 1 October
and presents to the IT Standards Committee on 3 October in
Singapore.
- Deborah Dahl, W3C Multimodal Interaction
Working Group Chair, and James Larson, W3C Voice
Browser Working Group co-Chair, present at SpeechTEK 2003 in New York, NY, USA on
2 October.
- Henry S. Thompson gives a keynote at The XML Day in Paris,
France on 7 October.
- Rigo Wenning presents at the
OECD Global Forum on Information Systems and Network Security in
Oslo, Norway on 14 October.
- James Hendler, co-Chair of the W3C Web
Ontology Working Group, speaks about ontologies at the International Lisp
Conference (ILC 2003) in New York, NY, USA on 15 October.
- Philipp Hoschka gives a talk at Berliner
XML Tage 2003 in Berlin, Germany on 15 October.
- Marie-Claire Forgue runs the W3C booth at la
Fête de la Science in Sophia Antipolis, France on 18
October.
- Steven Pemberton participates in a panel at the 3rd IEEE Conference
on Standardization and Innovation in
Information Technology at Delft University of Technology, Delft,
The Netherlands on 22 October.
- Ivan Herman presents at the Next Generation Internet
Workshop at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain on 22
October.
- Tim Berners-Lee gives an invited talk at the 2nd International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC2003) in Sanibel Island, FL, USA on 23
October.
- James Hendler speaks at Technology Day 2003:
Virtual Delivery (PDF) presented by the Special Libraries Association Maryland
Chapter, in Baltimore, MD, USA on 29 October.
25 September 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of QA Framework: Operational
Guidelines to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome
through 27 February 2004. The document is designed to help W3C Working
Groups plan, develop, deploy and maintain conformance test materials.
The Quality Assurance Working Group asks for comment by 26 September on
a Working Draft of QA
Framework: Specification Guidelines. The QA Framework Introduction was published
as a Working Group Note. Learn more about the QA
Activity.
23 September 2003
Under W3C Current Patent Practice, a Patent
Advisory Group (PAG) has been launched to study issues for HTML-related
Working Drafts and Recommendations raised by the court case of Eolas v.
Microsoft and US Patent 5,838,906. Public discussion takes place on the
public-web-plugins@w3.org
mailing list. Read the FAQ and
visit the HTML home page and the HTML PAG public home page.
15 September 2003
The CSS Working Group
has released a Last Call Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 Revision
1 (CSS 2.1). The Cascading Style Sheets language is used to render
structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in
speech. A "snapshot" of CSS usage, the draft adds a few highly
requested features, fixes errata, and brings CSS2 in line with
implementations. Comments are welcome through 10 October. Visit the
CSS home page.
09 September 2003
The CSS Working Group
has released an updated Working Draft of the CSS3 module: Paged Media, part of
the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language level 3. The module adds
pagination, page margins, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes,
and cross-references with page numbers. Visit the CSS home page.
08 September 2003
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version
8.1b has editing enhancements and bug fixes for XHTML, HTML, CSS and
SVG. Download Amaya binaries for
Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the
Amaya home page.
05 September 2003
The RDF Core Working
Group has released six Working Drafts in response to Last Call
comments. The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
supports the exchange of knowledge on the Web. Also published as a
Working Group Note is LBase, a framework for specifying
the meaning of Semantic Web languages. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
02 September 2003
W3C has stopped work on
Libwww and invites the libwww user community to
participate in a Future of Libwww
Survey that will help to determine its future. Libwww is a free,
highly modular client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows. A
W3C account is required to complete the survey. Read about W3C Open Source/Free software.
02 September 2003
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel and in
iCalendar format.
- Martin Dürst, Richard Ishida and Chris Lilley present at the
24th
Internationalization & Unicode Conference in Atlanta, GA, USA
on 3-5 September.
- James Hendler, W3C Web Ontology Working
Group co-Chair, gives a talk at the Research Councils UK (RCUK)
e-Science
All Hands Meeting in Nottingham, UK on 4 September.
- Charles McCathieNevile speaks at the National Gallery Archives on 5
September and at LaTrobe University on 8 September, both in Melbourne,
Australia.
- Eric Miller gives a keynote at the Semantic
Technologies for eGovernment conference in Washington, DC, USA on 8
September.
- Matt May presents a tutorial at the Seybold-WOW Web Design and
Development Conference in San Francisco, CA, USA on 9
September.
- Rigo Wenning presents at the W3C
Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages in Sydney, Australia
on 9 September.
- Philippe Le Hégaret participates in a panel at Integrate 2003 in Boston, MA, USA
on 10 September.
- Rigo Wenning participates in a panel at the 25th International
Conference of Data Protection and
Privacy Commissioners in Sydney, Australia on 11 September.
- Rigo Wenning lectures at the University of Technology, Sydney,
Australia on 12 September.
- Tim Berners-Lee gives keynotes at the IT - The Universal
Enabler conference on 17 September, the
Royal Society on 22 September, and the World
Creative Forum 2003 on 23 September, all in London, UK.
- Hugo Haas gives a keynote at IT Conference in
Salvador, Brazil on 18 September.
- Bert Bos speaks at W3C Mitgliedertreffen in Erfurt, Germany on 23
September.
- Dave Raggett gives a talk at the UK Unix Users Group AGM held at
University College London, UK on 25 September.
- Deborah Dahl, W3C Multimodal Interaction
Working Group Chair, and James Larson, W3C Voice
Browser Working Group co-Chair, present at SpeechTEK 2003 held 29 September to 2
October in New York, NY, USA.
28 August 2003
W3C invited its Members as
well as other key commercial and open source software interests to
attend an ad hoc meeting hosted by Macromedia on Tuesday 19 August in
San Francisco, CA, USA. Participants discussed Eolas v. Microsoft and
US Patent 5,838,906. W3C has created the public-web-plugins@w3.org
archived public mailing list for discussion. Please refer to the
report from Steven R Bratt, W3C Chief
Operating Officer.
25 August 2003
The Device Independence
Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the
Glossary of Terms used in
the group's publications. The
glossary definitions are maintained with unique identifiers, and can be
linked to from documents new and old. Read about W3C work on device independence and single-authored content for all
Web access devices.
21 August 2003
W3C public and Member
email lists are not currently operating. In cooperation with the
W3C Communications
Team, the W3C Systems
Team makes W3C System Status
available from our home page. Similar to system status for subscribers
to Internet service providers (ISPs), this new resource covers items
such as power outages at W3C hosts MIT, ERCIM and Keio; email; and
mailing list services. W3C Members also have the Member home page. Thank you for your patience.
19 August 2003
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of the OWL Web Ontology Language to Candidate
Recommendation. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called
ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and
knowledge management. Comments are welcome. Read the press release and FAQ and more about the Semantic Web Activity. The OWL Web Ontology Language in
six parts:
11 August 2003
W3C's Semantic Web Advanced Development initiative
announces a new release of IsaViz, a
visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as
graphs. Version 2.0 supports GSS, an RDF-based stylesheet
language. Other new features include datatype support, enhanced
navigation, better handling of namespace prefix bindings, and an
import/export plug-in interface. Learn more about IsaViz.
11 August 2003
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal
Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction
management systems. EMMA represents user input. Speech and handwriting
recognizers, natural language engines, media interpreters, and
multimodal integration components generate EMMA markup. Feedback on
this draft is welcome. Visit the Multimodal
Interaction home page.
08 August 2003
The Web Services
Architecture Working Group has updated two Working Drafts: Web Services Architecture and the
Web Services Glossary. The
reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines
their relationships and establishes constraints. Changes since the
prior publication include five architectural models. Visit the Web Services home page.
06 August 2003
The XML Core Working Group
has released the first public Working Draft of xml:id Requirements. Applicable
to all classes of XML processors, the requirements describe a mechanism
to identify an XML element by an explicit identifier (ID) independent
of DTD and XML schema validation. Comments are invited. Visit the
XML home page.
06 August 2003
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the
Ink Markup Language (InkML).
The InkML data format is used to represent ink entered with an
electronic pen or stylus. Ink-aware Web applications can process and
exchange handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational
languages. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home
page.
05 August 2003
W3C is pleased to publish a
Proposed Edited Recommendation of the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
Version 2.0 (2nd Edition). MathML is an XML application that allows
mathematical notation and content to be served, received and processed
on the Web. The 2nd edition contains clarifications and errata
corrections. Comments are welcome through 6 September. Visit the
Math home page.
05 August 2003
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of XML
Events to Proposed Recommendation. The specification defines a
module used to associate behaviors with document-level markup for XML
languages, and supports the DOM Level 2 event model. Comments are
welcome through 2 September. Visit the HTML home
page.
05 August 2003
Registration is open for
the IDG Japan Web Services Conference 2003 on 28 August (Technology day) and
29 August (Business day) in Tokyo. On 28 August, Hugo Haas, W3C Web Services Activity Lead, gives
the keynote Web Services Infrastructure: Where Do We
Stand? and Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C
Device Independence Activity Lead, moderates a panel on Web
Services and the Digital Home Network. W3C provides an
exhibition booth both days. Read about Web
services.
01 August 2003
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of XForms
1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 29
August. More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies,
the new generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and
data. The XForms specification is written for authors and implementers
alike. Visit the XForms home page.
30 July 2003
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of the Document Object Model (DOM)
Level 3 Validation Specification to Candidate Recommendation. The
Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the
content and style of documents dynamically. This module of DOM3 ensures
that documents remain or become valid. Comments are invited through 31
August. Read about the DOM Activity.
29 July 2003
The HTML Working Group has
released XHTML-Print as
a first public and Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome
through 7 September. XHTML-Print is designed for printing from mobile
devices, low-cost printers and in environments without a
printer-specific driver. The work is based on XHTML-Print
written by the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of the IEEE-ISTO.
Visit the HTML home page.
28 July 2003
XML Protocol (XMLP)
Requirements has been published as a Working Group Note. The XML
Protocol Working Group discontinued work on this guide that was
developed for evaluating candidate protocols and for reasoning about
the development of the protocol itself. The group feels the document
has served its purpose. Read about the Web Services
Activity.
28 July 2003
Position papers are due 11
August for the W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information
Item Sets to be held in Santa Clara, CA, USA on 24-26 September. 60
attendees will study methods to compress XML documents to save
bandwidth and parsing time. The workshop goal is to determine whether a
W3C Working Group might be chartered to produce an interoperable,
accessible, internationalized binary transmission format. Visit the
XML home page.
15 July 2003
Amaya
is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.1a is a bug fix
release with user interface, annotation, XHTML, HTML, MathML, SVG, and
CSS enhancements. Download Amaya
binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages.
Source code is available. Visit
the Amaya home page.
15 July 2003
The SVG Working Group has
released the first public Working Draft of SVG Print. The document assumes
the reader is familiar with SVG 1.2, and is a guideline that explains
how to use SVG 1.2 features for printing. Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) describes two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics
in XML. The Working Group invites public feedback on this draft. Visit
the SVG home page.
15 July 2003
The SVG Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2
outlining potential areas of new work. SVG delivers accessible,
dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in
XML. The Working Group explicitly encourages public feedback on this
draft. Visit the SVG home page.
03 July 2003
The CSS Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of Basic User Interface, a module of
the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. The document addresses user
interface states and features, element fragments, forms, stylistic
attributes in HTML, focus navigation, and styling elements as icons for
accessibility. Comments are invited through 31 July. Visit the CSS home page.
01 July 2003
The W3C Advisory Committee
has filled five open seats on the W3C Advisory
Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the
Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and
conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board
participants are Ann Bassetti (Boeing), Jim Bell (Hewlett-Packard),
Klaus Birkenbihl (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft), Carl Cargill (Sun
Microsystems), Don Deutsch (Oracle), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Ken Laskey
(MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Lauren Wood (Unaffiliated). Steve
Zilles is the interim Advisory Board Chair.
01 July 2003
The 18 June 2003 W3C Process Document is
operative effective today. Produced by the W3C Advisory Board and
reviewed by the W3C, the document describes the structure and
operations of the W3C. Among the changes are new document
maturity levels, rules for amending Recommendations, and an enhanced
liaison process for W3C work with partner organizations. The companion
W3C Publication Rules have been
updated and are public.
30 June 2003
SVG Open 2003 runs 15-18 July in
Vancouver, Canada. Additional half-day workshops and tutorials are
13-14 July. Co-sponsored by W3C, the SVG Open conference series is the
premier forum for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share
ideas, examples and implementations. Registration is open. The W3C SVG
Working Group and W3C's Chris Lilley and Dean Jackson will participate.
Read about SVG.
27 June 2003
The XML Query Working Group
has released an updated Working Draft of XML Query (XQuery)
Requirements. The draft specifies goals, requirements, and usage
scenarios for the XQuery data model, algebra, and query language. It
indicates the status of each requirement in the XQuery family of
specifications. Visit the XML home page.
27 June 2003
The W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft of the
Architecture of the World Wide
Web. The document discusses architectural principles of the Web and
the behavior of agents exchanging information within it. It addresses
some social issues that contribute to the shared information space.
Comments are welcome. Visit the TAG home page.
24 June 2003
The Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working
Draft for Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 based on broad design principles.
Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with
disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices such as
phones, handhelds, kiosks and network appliances. Read about the
Web Accessibility Initiative.
19 June 2003
The DOM Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of the DOM Level 3 Load and Save
Specification. This Document Object Model (DOM) interface allows
programs and scripts to dynamically load the content of an XML document
into a DOM document and serialize a DOM document into an XML document.
Comments are welcome through 31 July. Visit the DOM
home page.
13 June 2003
The Web Ontology Working
Group has released XML
Presentation Syntax for the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as a
W3C Note. The Note suggests one possible XML presentation syntax and
includes XML schemas for OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full. OWL is used to
publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced
Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read about the
Semantic Web Activity.
13 June 2003
Updated for The
Unicode Standard, Version 4.0, Unicode in XML and other Markup
Languages has been republished as a Unicode Technical Report and a
W3C Note. These guidelines cover the use of Unicode with markup languages such as
XML. They are published jointly by the Unicode Technical Committee and
the W3C Internationalization Working Group and Interest Group. Read
about the W3C Internationalization
Activity.
12 June 2003
The Voice Browser Working
Group has published the third public Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version
1.0 including some major updates. CCXML, the Call Control
eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for
VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome. Visit the
Voice Browser home page.
11 June 2003
The Web Services Description
Working Group has released three Working Drafts of the Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2. Core Language and Bindings are updates and
Message Patterns is
a first public Working Draft. WSDL is an XML format for describing
network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages. Read
about Web Services.
10 June 2003
W3C launches its Semantic Tour today in Rome. Funded
by the European Commission, the tour includes events in London, Munich,
Athens and Brussels, and features presentations from W3C Members and
technical staff. The tour promotes W3C technologies that bring to the
Web more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse of
data. Events run 10-24 June and are free to the public but registration
is required. Read the press release in seven
languages.
02 June 2003
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel and in
iCalendar format.
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen presented at Web X: A Decade of the World Wide
Web in Athens, GA, USA on 1 June.
- Massimo Marchiori presents at the SaS Seminar
Series, University of Linköping, Sweden on 5 June.
- Matt May presents at SLA
2003 in New York, NY, USA on 10 June.
- The W3C Semantic Tour is
held 10-24 June in five cities across Europe (Rome, London, Munich,
Athens, Brussels).
- Hugo Haas gives the keynote on tape at the Enterprise Portal & Web Services Conference
2003 in Hong Kong on 18 June.
- Shawn Lawton Henry presents on 24, 25 and 26 June at the UPA 12th Annual Conference
"Ubiquitous Usability" in Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
27 May 2003
W3C is pleased to announce
the publication of the Portable
Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) as a Proposed
Recommendation. Comments are invited through 23 June. PNG is a graphics
file format for raster images. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor
images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. The document is
in the final stages of standardization at ISO as an International
Standard, ISO/IEC 15948. Read about the Graphics Activity.
21 May 2003
The World Wide Web Consortium
has approved the W3C
Patent Policy based on review by the W3C Advisory Committee and the
public. Written by the Patent Policy Working Group, the policy received
more support from the Membership than any Recommendation in recent
history. The policy encourages royalty-free Web standards. It governs
the handling of patents in the process of producing and implementing
W3C Recommendations. Read the public Director's
decision and the press
release and visit the patent policy home
page.
16 May 2003
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the QA Framework: Test Guidelines.
One in a family of QA Framework documents, the draft defines a set of
common guidelines for conformance test materials for W3C
specifications. The group welcomes comments. Visit the QA home page and read about the QA
Activity.
14 May 2003
The Web Services Architecture
Working Group has updated three Working Drafts: Web Services Architecture, Usage Scenarios and the
Web Services Glossary.
Software applications can communicate using Web services to present
dynamic context-driven information to the user. The reference
architecture identifies Web services components, defines their
relationships, and establishes constraints. Visit the Web Services home page.
14 May 2003
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of three CSS3 modules to Candidate Recommendation:
Color, Ruby, and Text. A second Candidate
Recommendation of the CSS TV
Profile 1.0 incorporates editorial suggestions. The CSS Working
Group also released first public Working Drafts of the CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content
and Speech modules.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured
documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. Comments are
welcome. Visit the CSS home page.
12 May 2003
W3C thanks the volunteers who
contributed thousands of hours translating W3C publications into more
than 30 languages. Showcasing W3C Semantic Web,
XML and internationalization technologies, data for
volunteer translations of W3C technical reports and
related documents is now maintained in RDF encoded
in XML. Combining this metadata with other RDF, the
translation index makes extensive use of Unicode, links to official
versions, and can be viewed according to language or technology. Read
the project
description and please visit Translations at W3C.
10 May 2003
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group released an update to the W3C Multimodal Interaction
Framework W3C Note. The framework identifies the major components
for multimodal systems. The group is writing specifications to extend
the Web user interface to offer input and output choices "anywhere, on
any device, anytime." Visit the Multimodal
Interaction home page.
08 May 2003
The W3C RDF Validation Service has been updated to
support all of the specifications described in the RDF Last Call
Working Drafts announcement. A new
interactive graphical visualization of models builds on IsaViz. The RDF validator is based on the
ARP parser version 2
alpha that is distributed as open source by Hewlett-Packard. New to ARP
version 2 is RDF datatype support. Graphs are generated using Graphviz 1.8.9.
The service runs under Jigsaw.
07 May 2003
The HTML Working Group has
released the fifth public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. A modularized language
without presentation elements, XHTML 2 takes HTML back to its roots in
document structuring. This draft includes an early implementation of
XHTML 2.0 in RELAX NG. Comments
are welcome. Visit the HTML home page.
05 May 2003
Through joint efforts, the
XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released ten Working Drafts.
The data model and functions and operators are used by XPath, XSLT, and
by XQuery, and are in Last Call through 30 June. Comments on all of
these documents are invited. Visit the XML home
page.
04 May 2003
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel and in
iCalendar format.
- Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at the Gartner
Web Services and Application Integration Summit in Los Angeles, CA,
USA on 5 May.
- Ivan Herman speaks at "Semantic Web
and Web Services: Semantic Web is Here -- Are You Ready?" in
Helsinki, Finland on 6 May.
- Paul Cotton, Chair, W3C XML Query Working Group, Henry S. Thompson
and Richard Tobin present at XML
Europe 2003 in London, UK on 6 May.
- Wendy Chisholm presents at WEBBIT 2003 (in Italian) in Padova, Italy on 10
May.
- Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at Integrazione di Usabilità e Accessibilità nei Siti Web
(in Italian) in Pisa, Italy on 12 May.
- Ivan Herman gives a talk sponsored by the W3C Office in Hungary at the
Polytechnic University of Budapest on 13 May.
- Daniel Weitzner participates in Technologies
For Protecting Personal Information: The Consumer Experience and The
Business Experience in Washington, DC, USA on 14 May.
- Tim Berners-Lee gives a lecture at Cultural Convergence
and Digital Technology in Athens, Greece on 16 May.
- Dan Connolly, Tim Berners-Lee and Sandro Hawke give a tutorial at
WWW2003 in Budapest, Hungary on 20
May.
- Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at WWW2003 in Budapest, Hungary on 21 May.
- The W3C Team presents the W3C
Track chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue at WWW2003 in Budapest, Hungary on 21-23
May.
- Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Ralph Swick, Emmanuel Pietriga and José
Kahan present at the Semantic Web track, Chris
Lilley and Dean Jackson present at the Web Graphics track, and Steven
Pemberton and TV Raman present at the Mobile Web track, all at the
WWW2003 Developers Day in
Budapest, Hungary on 24 May.
29 April 2003
The Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working
Draft for Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 based on broad design principles.
Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with
disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices such as
phones, handhelds, kiosks and network appliances. Read about the
Web Accessibility Initiative.
29 April 2003
The SVG Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2
outlining potential areas of new work. SVG describes two-dimensional
vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. The Working Group
explicitly invites feedback on this draft that includes many new
features. Visit the SVG home page.
23 April 2003
Amaya is W3C's Web browser
and authoring tool. New features in
version 8.0 include menu access keys in Windows and enhanced support
for SVG, SMIL, CSS and MathML. The Amaya team thanks all users who
helped to test the pre-release. Download
Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM
packages. Source code is
available. Visit the Amaya home page.
18 April 2003
W3C is pleased to announce
three management assignments allowing for stronger international
representation. Daniel Dardailler now
serves as Associate Chairman for Europe. Philipp Hoschka becomes Deputy Director for
Europe and maintains his role as Interaction Domain Leader. Steve Bratt, Chief Operating Officer, takes the
additional role of Acting Chairman. Read about the W3C Management Team.
17 April 2003
The Guidelines, Education
& Outreach Task Force (GEO) of the Internationalization Working
Group has published a Working Draft of a Framework Document for
i18n Guidelines 1.0. I18n is shorthand for "internationalization."
GEO has a mandate to make the internationalization aspects of W3C
technology better understood and more widely and consistently used.
Comments are welcome. Visit the Internationalization home page.
02 April 2003
W3C holds a series of one
day events in Rome, London, Munich, Athens and Brussels from 10-24
June. The W3C Semantic Tour
promotes W3C technologies that bring to the Web more effective
discovery, automation, integration, and reuse of data. Organizers come
from the W3C Italy,
UK and Ireland, Germany, Greece and Benelux Offices. All events are open to the
public and free of charge.
01 April 2003
The W3C Track has been announced for the
Twelfth International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2003) in Budapest, Hungary. On 21-23 May, W3C
presents three days of presentations on the Web, future Web browsers,
W3C architectural principles, the XML family, Web services, the
Semantic Web, new devices, and horizontal essentials. WWW2003 early
bird registration is
open through 15 April.
01 April 2003
The Web Ontology Working
Group has released six Working Drafts, five in Last Call, for the OWL
Web Ontology Language 1.0, including the OWL Guide, Overview, Use Cases and Requirements,
Semantics and Abstract
Syntax, Reference, and
Test Cases. Comments are
welcome through 9 May. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms
called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and
knowledge management. Visit the Semantic Web home
page.
31 March 2003
The Document Object Model
(DOM) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the
DOM Level 3
Events specification. Comments are welcome through 1 May. Language
and platform neutral, the system allows registration of event handlers,
describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides context for
each event. Read about the DOM Activity.
28 March 2003
The XML Protocol Working
Group has released SOAP
Version 1.2 Message Normalization as a W3C Note. The document
defines a transformation algorithm that renders all semantically
equivalent SOAP messages identically. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight
protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized,
distributed environment. Visit the Web Services
home page.
27 March 2003
The W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft of the
Architecture of the World Wide
Web. Comments are welcome. The draft discusses architectural
principles of the Web and the behavior of agents exchanging information
within it. It addresses some social issues that contribute to the
shared information space. Visit the TAG home
page.
25 March 2003
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released XPointer as a three-part W3C Recommendation.
The XPointer
Framework is an extensible system for identifying regions in XML
documents which provides for multiple addressing schemes. The
element()
scheme
allows basic addressing of XML elements in terms of a document's tree
structure. The xmlns()
scheme is used
to interpret namespace prefixes in scheme names and pointers. Read the
press release and visit
the XML home page.
19 March 2003
The Patent Policy Working
Group has released a Working Draft of the Royalty-Free Patent Policy
for review by the W3C Advisory Committee and the public. The draft
governs the handling of patents in the process of producing and
implementing W3C Recommendations. Comments
from both W3C Members and the public are welcome through 30 April. Read
an informative summary and
the press release and
visit the patent policy home page.
04 March 2003
W3C is pleased to announce
the first in a series of teleconferences on Web accessibility research.
Researchers and practitioners in document collaboration, human-computer
interaction, assistive technologies, disability studies, Web
accessibility, and related fields are invited. The event is sponsored
by the Web Accessibility Initiative's Research and Development Interest Group. The first
telecon is tentatively 14 April. Position papers are due 21 March.
Please refer to the call for papers.
03 March 2003
W3C holds its third annual
Technical Plenary and All Working
Group Meeting from 3-7 March in Cambridge, MA, USA. 30 W3C Working
Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Mid-week, many
of the more than 400 participants attend the all day public plenary, by
far the largest group in the event's history. If your organization
would like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page.
01 March 2003
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
- Kazuhiro Kitagawa participates in a panel at the workshop on
Rethinking
Media Policy in the Internet Age in Singapore on 10-12 March.
- Karl Dubost speaks at ConstellationW3 (in French) in
Montréal, Québec, Canada on 15 March.
- Philippe Le Hégaret speaks at Web
Services and XML in Johannesburg, South Africa on 17-18 March.
- Wendy Chisholm, Marja-Riitta Koivunen and Matt May present at the
CSUN 18th
Annual International Conference in Northridge, CA, USA held 17-22
March.
- David Booth participates in a panel at Web Services
Edge in Boston, MA, USA on 19 March.
- Daniel Dardailler speaks and Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at
Fête de l'Internet (in
French) in Paris, France on 22 March.
- Martin Dürst, Richard Ishida and Chris Lilley present papers and
give tutorials at the 23rd Internationalization
& Unicode Conference in Prague, Czech Republic on 24-26
March.
26 February 2003
The CSS Working Group
has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the CSS3 module: Text incorporating
all comments from the first Last Call. The group welcomes feedback
through 5 March. The document is a set of text formatting properties.
Many address international contexts, particularly East Asian and
bidirectional text. Visit the CSS home page.
26 February 2003
The DOM Working Group
has released updated Working Drafts of the DOM Level 3 Core and Load and Save
specifications. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and
scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically.
Comments are welcome. Visit the DOM home page.
26 February 2003
The XForms
Implementation Workshop is underway 27-28 February at Novell in
Waltham, MA, USA. Participants in the XForms Working Group and XForms
implementers will exchange experiences and techniques and compare
functionality. Comments on the XForms 1.0 Candidate Recommendation
are invited through 5 March. Visit the XForms
home page.
21 February 2003
Judy Brewer received the Susan G. Hadden Pioneer
Award "for pioneering efforts in telecommunications and consumer
access" from the Alliance for Public
Technology (APT) in Washington, DC, USA. The award recognizes those
who continue Hadden's legacy of ensuring equitable access to technology
as a democratizing principle. Read about the W3C Web
Accessibility Initiative.
21 February 2003
The Document Object
Model (DOM) Working Group has released a Working Draft of the DOM Level 3 Events
specification. Comments are welcome. Language and platform neutral, the
system allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow
through a tree structure, and provides context for each event. Read
about the DOM Activity.
21 February 2003
The Web Ontology Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Language Reference for the Web
Ontology Language (OWL) 1.0. The document is designed for OWL users
familiar with RDF who want to construct OWL
ontologies for publishing and sharing on the Web. Read about the
Semantic Web Activity.
20 February 2003
The XML Protocol Working
Group has released a final Working Draft of the XML Protocol Abstract Model. First
published in 2001, the document was an evaluation and reasoning tool
used to craft SOAP Version 1.2. The Working Group believes the model
has served its purpose and plans no further work on it. Visit the
Web Services home page.
19 February 2003
The SVG Working Group
has released the first public Working Draft of SVG Printing Requirements. The
draft describes usage scenarios, feature sets, design principles and
requirements for the optimal use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) on
SVG-enabled printers. Comments are welcome. Visit the SVG home page.
14 February 2003
Through joint efforts,
the XQuery and XSL Working Groups have released the first public
Working Drafts of XQuery and XPath Full-Text Requirements
and Use
Cases. The drafts describe the basis for full-text searching of XML
text and documents. Comments are invited. Read about the XML Activity.
14 February 2003
The CSS Working Group
has released a second Last Call Working Draft of CSS3 module: Color harmonized
with SVG 1.0. The draft describes color units and properties that
authors can use to specify foreground color and opacity, color
profiles, and rendering intent. Comments are welcome through 28
February. Visit the CSS home page.
10 February 2003
Celebrate the fifth
birthday of the Extensible Markup Language (XML), first published as a
W3C Recommendation on 10 February 1998. Visit the XML
home page. Read about XML's growth in this article by Dave Hollander and
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, participants in
the W3C XML Working Group who wrote the original twenty-five page XML
specification. The authors believe, "Just as interchangeable parts
drove the Industrial Age, reusable information powers the
Information Age."
10 February 2003
The Web Ontology Working
Group has released updated Working Drafts of the Web Ontology Language
(OWL) Guide and Overview. The guide
demonstrates OWL through an extended example and provides a glossary.
The overview lists and briefly describes the language features. Read
about the Semantic Web Activity.
07 February 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of XML Events to Candidate
Recommendation. The specification defines a module used to associate
behaviors with document-level markup for XML languages, and supports
the DOM Level 2 event model. Comments are welcome through 5 March.
Visit the HTML home page.
05 February 2003
Based on feedback
received during Last Call, the DOM Working Group has released an
updated Working Draft of the Document Object Model (DOM)
Level 3 Validation Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM)
allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of
documents dynamically. This module of DOM3 ensures that documents
remain or become valid. Comments are invited. Read about the DOM Activity.
04 February 2003
The Web Ontology Working Group has released an
updated Working Draft of Use
Cases and Requirements for the Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.0. The
draft defines "ontology." It outlines six use cases, design goals,
requirements and objectives for a language which can describe the
semantics of classes and properties used in Web documents. Read about
the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
03 February 2003
Early bird registration has
started for SVG Open 2003, to be
held in Vancouver, Canada on 15-18 July 2003, with additional half-day
workshops and tutorials on 13-14 July. Co-sponsored by W3C, the SVG
Open conference series is the premier forum for Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas, examples and implementations.
The call for papers
is open through 28 February.
03 February 2003
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version
7.2 is a bug fix release with user interface, annotation, XHTML, HTML,
SVG, MathML, CSS, and XML enhancements. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux,
and Windows. Source code is
available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
03 February 2003
The Web Ontology Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Abstract Syntax and Semantics. The draft is a high-level
description of the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0 and its sublanguages
OWL DL and OWL Lite. Automated tools can use common sets of terms
called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search,
intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is used to
publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
03 February 2003
On 5 February, Yasuyuki
Hirakawa, Kazuhiro Kitagawa and Masayasu Ishikawa present at
PAGE2003 (in
Japanese) in Tokyo, Japan. On 12-13 February, Philipp Hoschka and
Thierry Michel speak at SMIL Europe
2003 in Paris, France. On 17 February, Massimo Marchiori presents
at the International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management
(MKM 2003) in Bertinoro,
Italy. On 22 February, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen speaks at korpus
linguistik deutsch (in German) in Würzburg, Germany. Browse
upcoming W3C appearances and
events.
31 January 2003
Karl Dubost of the W3C Team has released an update
to the Common User Agent
Problems W3C Note. The Note explains common mistakes that Web
client software makes due to incorrect or incomplete implementation of
specifications. It offers suggestions for good user agent behavior.
Read about the Quality Assurance Activity.
31 January 2003
The results of a vote by
the W3C Advisory Committee are in: Technical Architecture Group (TAG)
participants as of 1 February are Tim Bray, Dan Connolly, Paul Cotton,
Roy Fielding, Chris Lilley, David Orchard, Norm Walsh, Stuart Williams
and the Chair, Tim Berners-Lee. Created in 2001, the TAG documents
principles of Web architecture and works with other groups to resolve
architectural issues. Visit the TAG home page.
31 January 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the creation of the XForms Activity. More flexible than
previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, XForms separate purpose,
presentation, and data. The Activity is producing advanced forms logic,
improved internationalization, and rich user interface capabilities.
Read the XForms Activity statement
and visit the XForms home page.
31 January 2003
The HTML Working Group
has released the fourth public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2.0 is a relative
of the Web's familiar publishing languages HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 and
1.1. The draft contains XHTML 2.0 modules for creating rich, portable
Web-based applications. Comments are welcome. Visit the HTML home page.
29 January 2003
Answering comments
received during Last Call, the CSS Working Group has released an
interim Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 Revision
1 (CSS 2.1). Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to
render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and
in speech. The draft brings CSS2 in line with implementations and CSS2
errata, and removes obsolete features. Visit the CSS home page.
24 January 2003
The Web Services
Description Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of the
Web Services Description
Language (WSDL) Version 1.2 and bindings for use with SOAP
1.2, HTTP, and MIME. WSDL is an XML format for describing network
services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either
document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. Read about
Web Services.
24 January 2003
The RDF Core Working Group has released six Last
Call Working Drafts. Comments are welcome through 21 February. Also
published is a W3C Note, LBase, a framework for specifying
Semantic Web languages in a uniform and coherent way. Read about the
Semantic Web Activity.
21 January 2003
The XML Schema Working
Group has released the first public Working Draft of Requirements for XML Schema
1.1. Schemas are technology for specifying and constraining the
structure of XML documents. The draft adds functionality and clarifies
the XML Schema Recommendation Part 1 and Part 2. Read about the
XML Activity.
17 January 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the creation of the Timed Text
Working Group (TTWG) within the SYMM (Synchronized Multimedia)
Activity. The TTWG is chartered to develop an XML based format used to
represent streamable text synchronized with timed media like audio or
video. Movie captions on the Web are a typical timed text application.
Read the group's charter
and more about the Synchronized Multimedia
Activity.
14 January 2003
W3C Team members will
speak at PAGE2003 (in Japanese) to be held
5-7 February in Tokyo, Japan. On 5 February, Yasuyuki Hirakawa, W3C Communications Team,
presents an Introduction to W3C; Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C Device
Independence Activity Lead, presents Device Independence
Authoring Techniques and its standardization; and Masayasu Ishikawa, W3C HTML Activity Lead,
presents XHTML 2.0. Registration is open.
14 January 2003
W3C is pleased to
announce the creation of the Web Services
Choreography Working Group as part of the Web Services Activity.
Choreography describes linkages and usage patterns between Web
services. The group is chartered to create the definition of a
choreography, one or more languages built on WSDL 1.2 for describing choreography, and rules
for choreographed Web services. Read the Working Group charter and more about W3C work on
Web services.
13 January 2003
Registration is open
through 21 February for the W3C Workshop
on XForms Implementation to be held in Waltham, MA, USA on 27-28
February 2003. Participants must be in the XForms Working Group or have
an XForms 1.0 implementation. Attendees will exchange experiences,
hints and techniques, compare functionality, and discuss XForms 1.0 Candidate Recommendation
issues. Visit the XForms home page.
13 January 2003
The Multimodal
Interaction Working Group has released Requirements for EMMA as a W3C
Note. The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language (EMMA) is an
exchange mechanism between input processors and interaction management
systems. Recognizers can annotate data such as confidence scores, time
stamps, alternative and partial recognition, and key stroke, speech and
pen input. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home
page.
09 January 2003
Jigsaw
version 2.2.2 is available for download. The new version fixes
bugs, adds performance enhancements and HTTP compliance fixes and
features SSL support contributed by Thomas Kopp. Jigsaw is W3C's
leading-edge Web server platform implemented in Java. Learn more about
Jigsaw.