A new edition of W3C Mobile Web 1: Best Practices online training starts today, and there is still time to register. Participants gain expertise in improving the Web user experience on mobile devices. This 6-week online training course (from 12 Nov. to 23 Dec. 2012), led by a mobile Web professional, lets you study at your own pace. The course is available in English or Spanish during the same period. Learn more about W3DevCampus, W3C's online training for developers.

W3C announced today the launch of the Pointer Events Working Group. Web browsers can receive input in a variety of ways. A “pointer” is an abstract form of input that can be any point of contact on a input surface made by a mouse cursor, pen, finger, or multiple fingers. The mission of this group is to define a single unified event model for mouse, touch, and pen/tablet user interfaces. Enabling content creators to use a single model for different input types will make content creation more efficient and inclusive. See the Pointer Events Working Group Charter for more information.

W3C announced today the agenda and accepted papers for Shift into High Gear on the Web , W3C's first Web and Automotive Workshop, hosted by Intel Open Source Technology Center, in Rome, Italy on 14-15 November.

People today enjoy applications and services from multiple networked devices. With our increasingly mobile lifestyles, it’s time to include the connected car in this mix. Participants in this workshop will share their own perspectives, requirements, and ideas to ensure that emerging global technology standards meet the needs of the Web and Automotive industries.

The Workshop is also supported through sponsorships from QNX and Webinos.

Registration is now open for the online symposium on Text Customization for Readability to be held on 19 November 2012. This symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, and users with disabilities to explore the needs of people with low vision, dyslexia, and other conditions and situations that impact reading. It focuses specifically on text customization requirements and functionality, that is, providing users the ability to change (or personalize) specific aspects of text display to improve readability for their particular needs. For details and registration, see Text Customization for Readability - Online Symposium. To share your perspectives on text customization for readability, see Invitation for short contributions. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Grid Layout. Grid Layout contains features targeted at web application authors. The Grid can be used to achieve many different layouts. It excels at dividing up space for major regions of an application, or defining the relationship in terms of size, position, and layer between parts of a control built from HTML primitives. Like tables, the Grid enables an author to align elements into columns and rows, but unlike tables, the Grid doesn't have content structure, and thus enables a wide variety of layouts not possible with tables. In addition, the absence of content structure in the Grid helps to manage changes to layout by using fluid and source order independent layout techniques. By combining media queries with the CSS properties that control layout of the Grid and its children, authors can adapt their layout to changes in device form factors, orientation, and available space, without needing to alter the semantic nature of their content. Learn more about the Style Activity.