2007-12-11: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, and Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0 and Techniques for WCAG 2.0. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technologies. Comments are requested by 1 February 2008. Read the WCAG Overview, Call for Review, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (Permalink)
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2007-12-11: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members NICTA, Google, SICS, and IBM. The mission of this Incubator Group is to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path forward via an emergency management systems information interoperability framework. Read about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. (Permalink)
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2007-11-30: On 28 November, W3C Chief Executive Officer Steve Bratt delivered two talks ? a keynote entitled "The World Wide Web Needs World Wide Standards" and an overview of W3C's standards work ? at the 2007 Open Standards International Conference in Beijing, China. Today he gave an invited lecture on "Now and Future Web Technologies" at Beihang University in Beijing, where he was appointed Guest Professor by University President Li Wei and Professor and Executive Vice President Huai Jinpeng. Read also about the W3C Office in Beijing. (Permalink)
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2007-11-29: The Forms Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of XForms 1.1. XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. An XForms-based Web form gathers and processes XML data using an architecture that separates presentation, purpose and content. XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as XHTML, ODF, or SVG. The Working Group invites implementation experience of this technology from the community; see also the group's wiki for tracking XForms 1.1 implementations. Learn more about the XForms Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-29: W3C is pleased to announce the reopening of the Emotion Incubator Group (XG). The mission of this new instance of the XG is to propose a specification draft for an Emotion Markup Language, to document it in a way accessible to non-experts, and to illustrate its use in conjunction with a number of existing markups. Note that this document would not be a standards-track document until W3C charters a Working Group to develop it as a W3C Recommendation. The XG is sponsored by W3C Members DFKI; Deutsche Telekom T-Com; Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab; Loquendo, S.p.A.; Chinese Academy of Sciences; and SRI International. W3C Members may use this form to join the group. Read the final report of the previous Emotion XG and the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. (Permalink)
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2007-11-29: The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc, a language for describing XML pipelines. Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform atomic operations on XML documents and constructs similar to conditionals, loops and exception handlers which control which steps are executed. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-28: W3C has published a summary and full minutes of the Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces , organized by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group in Fujisawa, Japan on 16-17 November. Participants from 17 organizations generated a list of requirements on the current MMI Architecture. The Working Group will review the list as a basis for improvements to the Multimodal Framework. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (Photo credit: Kazuyuki Ashimura. Permalink)
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2007-11-26: The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML Design Principles. This document describes the set of guiding principles used by the HTML Working Group for the development of HTML5, expected to define the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web. These design principles are an attempt to capture consensus on design approach in the areas of compatibility, utility, interoperability, and universal access. Learn more about the HTML Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-26: The XHTML2 Working Group has published a Working Draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0. The aim of this document is to outline an abbreviated syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). While the XHTML2 Working Group has jointly published this document with the HTML Working Group, the proposed technolocy does not target the XHTML Family Markup Languages exclusively. The target audience for this document is designers of technology (e.g., markup languages), not the users of that technology. Learn more about the HTML Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-26: The Web Application Formats Working Group has published a Working Draft of Access Control for Cross-site Requests. This document introduces an "opt-in policy" mechanism whereby people managing a resource can declare whether other sites can retrieve it. The document also defines a mechanism based on the same policy to allow a resource to opt-in to requests using an HTTP method other than GET. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-13: Today, W3C provides new means for people to create and find mobile friendly content. W3C invites Web authors to run the alpha release of the W3C mobileOK checker and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices. The checker runs the tests defined in the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. Read the press release and testimonials. (Permalink)
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2007-11-13: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. This document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim of W3C mobileOK Basic conformance and are based on W3C Mobile Web Best Practices. You are invited to use the alpha version of the W3C mobileOK Checker to test your content. Read the press release and learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-13: The RDF Data Access Working Group has published three SPARQL Proposed Recommendations: SPARQL Query Language for RDF, SPARQL Query Results XML Format, and SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The first specification defines the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language for RDF. SPARQL can be used to express queries across diverse data sources, whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. The results of SPARQL queries can be results sets or RDF graphs; the second specification defines an XML format for the variable binding and boolean results formats. The third specification uses WSDL 2.0 to describe an HTTP protocol for conveying SPARQL queries to an SPARQL query processing service and returning the query results to the party that made the request. Comments are welcome through 10 December. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-13: The Web Services Policy Working Group has published two Group Notes: Web Services Policy 1.5 - Primer and Web Services Policy 1.5 - Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors. The former introduces the Web Services Policy language with examples. The latter explains how to use the relevant specifications to maximize interoperability. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-07: Authors of the next version of HTML mix it up with Semantic Web developers, security experts, Web accessibility advocates, and the media on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). Over 400 experts from around the world will participate in a compelling Plenary Day Program (TPAC) where they will address issues shaping the future of the Web. The program includes a panel on the growing relationships between W3C and the at-large developer community, the challenges HTML5 and XHTML2 propose to solve, and W3C's emerging vision of what's needed for video on the Web. The day culminates with a talk by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee: "Cracks and Mortar", a review of the Web to date and a close look at the gaps for signs of both wear and opportunity. Press are invited to the event; see the press release and contact
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2007-11-02: The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of DIAL Part 0: Primer. This document provides an introduction to, and the benefits of, DIAL (the Device Independent Authoring Language). It summarizes the concept of device independence, the scenarios in which it could be used, and the considerations in order to achieve that goal. It then describes the role of DIAL in ensuring the delivery of content suitable for the user, device and inherent circumstances in which it was requested. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-01: The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has published two Group Notes: Device Description Ecosystem 1.0 and Device Description Landscape 1.0. The first describes the business models surrounding the creation, maintenance and use of device descriptions. It identifies the main actors in the current model, explores their motivations for participating, identifies the costs associated with participation and the benefits that accrue to participants. The second describes what efforts the W3C and other organizations are doing in order to provide accurate device descriptions, part of making it easier to author for the Mobile Web. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-11-01: The Web Security Context Working Group has published two documents: the First Public Working Draft of Web Security Context: Experience, Indicators, and Trust, which defines guidelines and requirements for the presentation and communication of Web security context information to end-users; ceremonies for secure data entry; and good practices for Web Site authors. The second is a Last Call Working Draft of Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and Use Cases, which helps explain what the group aims to achieve, what technologies may be used and how technical proposals will be evaluated. Last Call comments are welcome through 30 November. See also the companion to the Last Call draft, Web User Interaction: Threat Trees, a W3C Group Note. Learn more about the Security Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-10-31: The XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group published updated Working Drafts of Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0 and Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0. The patterns can describe XML 1.0 representations of commonly used data structures independent of any particular programming language, database or modelling environment. Contribute to the test suite, and read the interoperability report and about Web services. (Permalink)
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