2007-10-31: The Geospatial Incubator Group published theirs reports on Geospatial Vocabulary and Geospatial Ontologies. The first document define a basic ontology and OWL vocabulary for representation of geospatial properties for Web resources. The second gives an overview and description of geospatial foundation ontologies to represent geospatial concepts and properties on the Web. Use cases for this work are described in the charter of the XG. Both publications are part of the Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment. (Permalink)
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2007-10-31: The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Requirements, which defines planned new work on the second generation of UAAG. UAAG provides guidance on designing Web browsers, media players, assistive technologies, and other 'user agents' to be accessible and to increase accessibility of Web content for people with disabilities. UAAG is part of a series of accessibility guidelines described in Essential Components of Web Accessibility. Read the UAAG Overview and about WAI. (Permalink)
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2007-10-30: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the W3C Brazil Office, hosted by the NIC.br (Brazilian Network Information Center) institute, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Vagner Diniz is Office Manager. W3C looks forward to increasing interaction with the Portuguese-speaking community through this Office, its first in South America. The IT landscape in Brazil aligns with exciting current trends at W3C such as mobile Web, Web applications and video on the Web. Read the press release and visit the Offices home page. (Permalink)
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2007-10-29: The World Wide Web Consortium today released XForms 1.0 Third Edition as a Recommendation. The document responds to implementor feedback, brings the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with second edition errata and reflects clarifications already implemented in XForms processors. XForms separates presentation and content, minimizes the need for scripting and round-trips to the server, and offers device independence. Visit the forms home page. (Permalink)
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2007-10-26: W3C has named Shadi Abou-Zahra to the position of WAI International Program Office Activity Lead. The Activity's groups are responsible for education and outreach, coordination with research, general discussion on Web accessibility, coordination with the WAI Technical Activity, and WAI liaisons with other organizations including standards organizations. Shadi joined W3C in 2003. He coordinates WAI outreach in Europe, accessibility evaluation techniques, and worked on the WAI-TIES Project, and currently with the WAI-AGE Project. Shadi will continue to lead development of the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) and chair the Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG). W3C wishes to thank Judy Brewer who led the Activity, and continues her roles as Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative, and WAI Technical Activity Lead. Read more about WAI. (Permalink)
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2007-10-25: The Content Transformation Task Force of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Content Transformation Landscape 1.0. This document identifies some issues surrounding the use of transforming proxies in the delivery of Web content. Discussion of these issues is expected to influence the (future) requirements document for Content Transformation Guidelines. Read about the Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)
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2007-10-23: Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) presents "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the Mobile Web with Open Standards" at Mobile Internet World, 13-15 November in Boston, MA, USA. W3C's Mobile Web Initiative holds a pre-conference Developers Summit on 13 November with initiative sponsors including Google, MobileAware, mTLD, Nokia, Opera Software, France Telecom Group and Vodafone to discuss the "One Web" vision and mobile standards. W3C hosts a media and analyst luncheon with the speakers on 14 November. Read the media advisory and about the Mobile Web Initiative. (Photo credit: Le Fevre Communications. Permalink)
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2007-10-23: The report of the Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML Encryption is available. The report shows strong interest in additional work on XML security at W3C. A basic signature profile, the referencing and transform models, updating the set of supported cryptographic algorithms, and revisiting XML canonicalization were seen as highest priority among the several topics identified by the participants. The Workshop was held in September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by VeriSign and chaired by Frederick Hirsch (Nokia) and Thomas Roessler (W3C). Read about W3C Workshops and about the Security Activity. (Permalink)
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2007-10-19: We thank the thousands of people who participated in the QA Activity which has completed its work and closed as of 18 October 2007. However, we anticipate further developing the dialog with the community; we welcome your comments on the Q&A Weblog. W3C will continue to maintain and develop tools, the most popular resources on w3.org. We congratulate and thank Daniel Dardailler, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux and Karl Dubost of W3C who led the Activity, Lofton Henderson (OASIS), Lynne Rosenthal (NIST), Patrick Curran (Sun Microsystems), and Karl Dubost and Olivier Théreaux (W3C) who served as Chairs. Read the QA Activity Statement and visit the Q&A Weblog. (Permalink)
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2007-10-19: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML2 Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing. RDFa attributes can be used with languages such as HTML and XHTML to express structured data. RDFa allows terms from multiple independently-developed vocabularies to be freely intermixed. This document has parsing rules for those creating an RDFa parser as well as guidelines for users in organizations who wish to use RDFa. For those who would like start using RDFa, the RDFa Primer is an introduction to its use and shows real-world examples. Visit the Semantic Web XHTML2 home pages. (Permalink)
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2007-10-19: The CSS Working Group released a Working Draft of CSS Mobile Profile 2.0. Comments are welcome through 15 November. This subset of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 is a baseline for implementations of CSS on constrained devices like mobile phones, written with WICD Mobile 1.0 to ensure interoperability and for alignment with OMA's Wireless CSS Specification 1.1. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
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2007-10-19: The CSS Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007. All stable specifications that have been implemented for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language at all Levels are given in this single document as a guide for authors. The snapshot is not a guide to what features are implemented. The group expects it to be a future Working Group Note. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
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2007-10-19: The CSS Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Behavioral Extensions to CSS. Behavioral extensions provide a way to link to binding technologies such as XBL from CSS style sheets. Bindings thus can be selected using the CSS cascade and can transparently benefit from the user style sheet mechanism, media selection, and alternate style sheets. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
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2007-10-19: The Web API Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Selectors API. Widely used in CSS, selectors are patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. These methods are defined to retrieve element nodes from the DOM by matching against a group of selectors, and simplify the process of acquiring specific elements, especially compared with more verbose techniques used in the past. Visit the Web API home page. (Permalink)
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2007-10-17: Position papers are due 21 November for the Workshop on Video on the Web on 12-13 December 2007 in San Jose, California, USA, hosted by Cisco Systems. The Workshop goal is to help make video a first class Web citizen. Attendees will discuss topics such as the impact of video on the Web, user experience, search, accessibility, parental control, video production, description, digital rights, adaptation, mobile access, Web architecture, scalability, formats and delivery. Read about W3C Workshops. (Permalink)
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2007-10-17: The Web API Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Language Bindings for DOM Specifications. The draft specifies the IDL language for use by W3C specifications that define DOM interfaces and specifies conformance requirements for their ECMAScript and Java bindings. This guide for implementors of DOM specifications is also a reference for new ones, written to ensure conforming implementations of DOM interfaces are interoperable. Read about rich Web clients. (Permalink)
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2007-10-16: W3C holds Technical Plenary Week on 5-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA. A record 39 W3C Working Groups plus the Advisory Committee and Advisory Board hold face-to-face meetings and network about the future of the Web. For the first time, members of the media are invited to join Plenary Day on Wednesday, 7 November, when program includes the developer community, discussion of HTML5 and XHTML2, and video on the Web. W3C thanks platinum sponsors BEA, Cisco, IBM and Nokia for their generous support of this meeting. Registration is required. Join W3C and attend the next Technical Plenary planned for October 2008 in France (tentative). (Photo credit: Coralie Mercier. Permalink)
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2007-10-16: The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Widgets 1.0. Written for users to run in their Web browser environment, widgets are small applications that display and update remote data, for example, clocks, stock tickers, news casters, weather forecasters and games. The group is specifying widgets' packaging format, their configuration and processing model, launching by the user agent, version control, DOM APIs and events including communication between widgets, digital signing, accessibility, and discovery within HTML documents. Read about Rich Web Clients. (Permalink)
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2007-10-12: The report of the Workshop on Mobile Ajax co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance is available. Among areas the Workshop identified as needing attention are JavaScript access to device APIs, offline/disconnected operation, widgets, mashups and security. The Workshop was held in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Read about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web Inititative. (Photo credit: Daniel K. Appelquist. Permalink)
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2007-10-05: The HTML Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of XHTML Role Attribute Module. With the role attribute, authors can annotate XML languages with machine-readable semantic information about the purpose of elements. Use cases include accessibility, device adaptation, server-side processing and complex data description. The attribute can be integrated into any markup language based on XHTML Modularization. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
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