Talks

December

8

Charles McCathieNevile presented Web Accessibility and Guidelines at the WAP Forum meeting in Sydney, Australia.

6 - 8

Dave Raggett and Daniel Veillard attended XML'99 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. On 6 December, Dave Raggett presented XHTML - moving the Web to XML (audio) and Daniel Veillard presented XLink and XPointer.

November

15

Ian Jacobs and Charles McCathieNevile presented Making The Web Accessible at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, USA.

4

Charles McCathieNevile presented The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative at the SIDAR annual conference held in Dusseldorf, Germany.

4

Charles McCathieNevile presented Improving Web Accessibility at the AAATE conference in Dusseldorf, Germany.

October

20

Freedom Forum, San Francisco, California, USA

• Weaving the Web book tour, Tim Berners-Lee on C-SPAN (video)

September

13 - 15

Dave Raggett gave presentations on the Voice Browser Activity and the HTML Activity at the WAP Forum meeting in London, UK.

August

31

Fifteenth International Unicode Conference in San Jose, California, USA

• Tutorial: Weaving the multilingual Web - Standards and their implementation by François Yergeau and Martin Dürst
• A Character Model for the WWW: Purpose and Status by Martin Dürst

May

10-11

Eighth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW8), Toronto, Canada

• Challenges of the second decade keynote by Tim Berners-Lee
• WDAI: a simple World Wide Web distributed authorization infrastructure by José Kahan

W3C Track

• World Wide Web Access
  • Web Accessibility Initiative & Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by Judy Brewer
  • WAI Highlight: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 by Ian Jacobs
  • Internationalization by Martin Dürst
  • Television and the Web by Philipp Hoschka
  • W3C, the Web, and mobility by Johan Hjelm
• XML: From Markup to Meaning
  • XML Update by Dan Connolly
  • W3C HTML Activity by Dave Raggett
  • RDF - Using XML to Describe Data by Ralph R. Swick
• Web Technologies Service Society
  • Building Trust on the Web: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) by Daniel J. Weitzner
  • Report on W3C signed-XML99 Workshop by Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
  • Query Languages by Massimo Marchiori
• Multimedia Models and Management
  • Style Sheets: CSS, XSL and CSS-OM
    Current directions in Web style sheets by Bert Bos
  • SMIL: Multimedia for Everyone by Philipp Hoschka
• Community Contributions and Participation
  • Web Characterization Activity by Henrik Frystyk Nielsen et al.

Developers' Day

• Towards CSS modularization by Bert Bos
• Style sheets for Voice Browsers by Dave Raggett
• The CSS Object Model by Philippe Le Hégaret

April

22

W3C Office Opening, CNR/CNUCE, Pisa, Italy

• Stylesheets - modularization by Bert Bos

15

WAP Forum, Montreux

• SMIL: The multimedia for everybody by Philippe Le Hégaret
• Style Sheets in wireless client environments by Håkon Lie and Bert Bos

14

LCS 35th Anniversary Celebration

• Tim Berners-Lee presented The Future of the Web at the Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (RealVideo recording, courtesy of ZDNet.)

March

25

Tim Berners-Lee gave the keynote address The Web is Changing - What Will Happen to Electronic Commerce? at the Internet Commerce Expo in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

24

W3C LA event in Stockholm

• XHTML: The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language by Dave Raggett
• Style Sheets in wireless client environments by Håkon Lie and Bert Bos

February

Dan Connolly presented Web Architecture at the WAP Forum in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

23

Jim Gettys gave a keynote address, The Parable of The Blind Men and the Elephant, at OSDI '99 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

January

15

Johan Hjelm presented The W3C Mobile Activity at the IBC WAP conference in London, UK.