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Mobile Ajax: W3C and OpenAjax Alliance Joint Workshop

photo of Workshop on Mobile Ajax2007-09-25: The Workshop on Mobile Ajax co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance will be held 28 September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Attendees will explore use cases for mobile Ajax to help shape its use in mobile Web browsers. Topics may include user experience, application development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether needs exist for standardization and best practices. Results will be linked from the Workshop page in October. Read the media advisory and about the Mobile Web Initiative and W3C Workshops. (Photo credit: Daniel K. Appelquist. Permalink)

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Enabling Read Access: Working Draft

2007-10-01: The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Enabling Read Access for Web Resources. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)

Last Call: Web Services Policy Primer and Guidelines for Authors

2007-09-28: The Web Services Policy Working Group released two Last Call Working Drafts. Comments are welcome through 19 October. The Web Services Policy 1.5 - Primer introduces the policy language and policy attachment mechanisms. The Web Services Policy 1.5 - Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors provide best practices for creating policy assertions. Both are companions to the Web Services Policy 1.5 Framework and Attachment specifications. Read about Web services. (Permalink)

Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0

2007-09-28: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. Comments are welcome through 19 October. These tests provide the basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices. Read about the Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)

POWDER Description Resources, Datatypes and Vocabulary: Working Drafts

2007-09-28: The POWDER Working Group published First Public Working Drafts of Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Description Resources and Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources (WDR) Vocabulary and Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources Datatypes (WDRD). POWDER is a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)

Service Modeling Language (SML): Working Drafts

2007-09-28: The Service Modeling Language (SML) Working Group released updated Working Drafts of Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1 and its Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1. SML is used to model complex services and systems including their structure, constraints, policies and best practices. Based on XML Schema and Schematron, SML allows inter-document references and user-defined constraints. Read more about XML. (Permalink)

Update to SPARQL Candidate Recommendation: XML Results Format

2007-09-25: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SPARQL Query Results XML Format to Candidate Recommendation. The SPARQL Query Language for RDF offers developers and end users a way to write and consume search results across a wide range of information and provides a means of integration over disparate sources. With this format, SPARQL variable binding and boolean results can be expressed in XML. Read about the RDF Data Access Working Group and visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)

POWDER Description Resources and Vocabulary: Working Drafts

2007-09-25: The POWDER Working Group published First Public Working Drafts of Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Description Resources and Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources (WDR) Vocabulary. POWDER is a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)

A MathML for CSS Profile: Working Draft

2007-09-24: The Math Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of A MathML for CSS profile. This subset of MathML 3.0 can be used to capture the structure of mathematical formulas in a way particularly suitable for further CSS formatting. Coordinated with ongoing work on CSS Level 3, the profile is expected to facilitate adoption of MathML in Web browsers and CSS formatters. Visit the Math home page. (Permalink)

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