20 December 2002
The Quality Assurance
(QA) Working Group has released the first published Working Draft of
the QA Framework: Test
Guidelines. The document defines a set of common guidelines for
conformance test materials for W3C specifications. Visit the QA home page and read about the QA
Activity.
19 December 2002
The XML Linking Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of XPointer xpointer() Scheme.
Used with the XPointer
Framework Proposed Recommendation, the draft allows full addressing
of portions of XML documents. It is based on XPath, and adds the
ability to address strings, points, and ranges in accordance with
definitions in DOM 2 Range. Read about the XML
Activity.
19 December 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of SOAP Version 1.2 to Candidate
Recommendation. The specification is in three parts: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Messaging Framework
and Part 2: Adjuncts.
Publicly developed, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for
exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed
environment. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity.
18 December 2002
Due to construction at MIT, on
Friday, 27 December, power for W3C MIT-based systems will be turned off
at approximately 23:00 UTC for about twenty-six hours. All services
will be suspended and the W3C site will be accessible in a read-only
state. Mail sent to W3C archives will be queued and posted when the
power is restored. Power is expected to return on Sunday, 29 December
at 01:00 UTC. We apologize for the inconvenience.
18 December 2002
The HTML Working Group
has released the third Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2.0 is a relative
of the Web's familiar publishing languages, HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 and
1.1, and is not intended to be backward compatible with them. The draft
contains the XHTML 2.0 markup language in modules for creating rich,
portable Web-based applications. Comments are welcome. Visit the
HTML home page.
18 December 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of Namespaces in XML 1.1 to
Candidate Recommendation. Identified by IRI references, namespaces
qualify element and attribute names in XML documents. Version 1.1
incorporates errata corrections and provides a mechanism to undeclare
prefixes. Comments are welcome through 14 February. Read about the
XML Activity.
13 December 2002
Richard Ishida of the W3C Team has become
co-chair of the Internationalization & Unicode
Conference. The event (renamed from "Unicode Conference" to more
accurately reflect its content) is the premier technical conference
worldwide for both software and Web internationalization. The W3C Internationalization
Activity is pleased to be able to reaffirm in this way its
longstanding and beneficial association with the event. The 23rd
Internationalization & Unicode Conference (IUC23) is to be held on
24-26 March 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic.
12 December 2002
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version
7.1 is a bug fix release with SVG, MathML, and printing enhancements.
Download Amaya binaries for Solaris,
Linux, and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. If you are
interested in annotations, visit the Annotea
home page.
12 December 2002
The HTML Working Group
has released an updated Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2.0 is a relative
of the Web's familiar publishing languages, HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 and
1.1, and is not intended to be backward compatible with them. The draft
contains the XHTML 2.0 markup language in modules for creating rich,
portable Web-based applications. Comments are welcome. Visit the
HTML home page.
10 December 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the first Welcome Page
Competition for Amaya, W3C's editor/browser.
Design the start page using W3C technologies such as HTML, XHTML, CSS
style sheets, MathML expressions, and SVG drawings. Enter as often as
you wish. Deadline for submissions is 3 February 2003.
09 December 2002
The HTML Working Group
has released a Last Call Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in
XML Schema. Comments are welcome through 31 January. The document
provides a complete set of XML Schema modules for XHTML, and allows
document authors to modify and extend XHTML in a conformant way. Visit
the HTML home page.
05 December 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce a home page redesign and accompanying FAQ. Written for newer, standards-compliant
user agents in XHTML 1.0
strict, the design features table-less columns and more navigation for
accessibility, and
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for layout. W3C
welcomes your comments.
05 December 2002
The Multimodal
Interaction Working Group has released Multimodal Interaction Use
Cases as a W3C Note. Airline reservations, driving directions, and
name dialing from mobile terminals are analyzed. They highlight device
requirements, event handling, network dependencies, and user
interaction. Read about the Multimodal Interaction
Activity.
04 December 2002
W3C is pleased to co-host
XML 2002 to be held
8-13 December in Baltimore, MD, USA. Chris
Lilley participates in a Town Hall panel on the W3C Technical
Architecture Group on 10 December. Philippe Le Hégaret presents W3C
Update on 11 December and DOM Level 3 on 12
December. Daniel Weitzner and
Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, will
attend.
03 December 2002
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. New features in version 7.0 include user
interface enhancements, migration to the Raptor parser, and improved
support for XML, SVG, and CSS. Download
Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are
interested in annotations, visit the Annotea
home page.
02 December 2002
On 3 December, Hugo Haas
presents at
Iliatech Club Day on Web Services at INRIA Rocquencourt, Le
Chesnay, France, and Charles McCathieNevile presents at LexiPraxi (in
French) at the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie in Paris,
France. On 5 December, Kazuhiro Kitagawa gives a keynote at Internet World Asia in Tokyo,
Japan. Several Team members attend XML 2002 in Baltimore, MD,
USA held 8-13 December. On 10 December, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
participates in a panel at the CNET Building a Web
Services Foundation conference in San Francisco, CA, USA. Daniel
Dardailler presents at Internet: un diritto
per tutti (in Italian) in Venice, Italy on 16 December. Browse
upcoming W3C appearances and
events.
02 December 2002
The Quality Assurance
(QA) Working Group has released Operational Examples &
Techniques as a W3C Note. Part of the QA Framework and developed in
tandem with Operational Guidelines, the
latest version is now maintained at the QA Activity until it stabilizes. The
document gives examples and techniques of quality practices within W3C
Working Groups.
02 December 2002
The Multimodal
Interaction Working Group released the first publication of the
W3C Multimodal
Interaction Framework as a W3C Note. The framework identifies
markup languages required by components and for data flowing among
components. It describes input and output modes widely used today and
can be extended. Read about the Multimodal
Interaction Activity.
02 December 2002
The Voice Browser Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Speech Synthesis Markup
Language Version 1.0. Comments are welcome through 15 January 2003.
With this XML-based language, content authors can generate synthetic
speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate.
Read about the Voice Browser Activity.
26 November 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce an upgrade to the W3C
Markup Validation Service. Changes include improved result pages,
accessibility fixes, restructured code and design, and more MathML,
XHTML and SVG support. Feedback is welcome. The
announcement names contributors and has release notes.
25 November 2002
W3C is pleased to
co-sponsor Internet World Asia 2002 (in
Japanese) to be held 4-6 December in Tokyo, Japan. Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C Device
Independence Activity Lead, gives the keynote New services based
on the Semantic Web on 5 December. Registration is open.
25 November 2002
W3C held its semiannual
Advisory Committee Meeting on 18-20 November in Cambridge, MA, USA.
W3C Member organizations
participated in two days of talks and discussion on the range of
W3C Activities. If your
organization would like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page. The next Advisory
Committee Meeting will be held 18-20 May 2003, colocated with WWW2003
on 20-24 May in Budapest, Hungary.
25 November 2002
In the past 6 months,
W3C Working Groups released a record 137 publications, 36 during 2
weeks in November. Find them linked to the index of
technical reports. W3C thanks our Webmaster Henri Fallon and the W3C SysWeb team for making this
possible. SysWeb supports the needs of the W3C Membership, the Team and
the public. Currently, they serve 680,000 Web pages and 796,000 pages
of mailing list archives on machines
in the USA, Japan, and France.
15 November 2002
The XML Query, XSL, and
XML Schema Working Groups have released a number of documents through
joint efforts. Please see the status section of each document for
authorship and the change history. The documents are part of the
XML and Style Activities.
15 November 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1
and Mobile SVG to
Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 20 December.
SVG delivers vector graphics, text, and
images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into
reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles
optimized for cellphones and pocket computers.
15 November 2002
The W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft,
Architecture of the World Wide
Web. Comments are welcome. With technical issues organized around
identification, representation, and interaction, the document also
addresses some non-technical social issues that contribute to the
shared information space. Visit the TAG home
page.
15 November 2002
The SVG Working Group
has released the first public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2.
Potential areas of new work identified in SVG 1.2 include integration
with other XML formats, and text wrapping, printing, streaming,
painting, rendering model, and DOM enhancements. Visit the SVG home page.
14 November 2002
The Open Research Forum
(in Japanese) is the yearly open house extending research and
development at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus) to
interested companies and the general public. On 22 November, W3C holds
a tutorial
seminar (in Japanese) at ORF: Masayasu
Ishikawa, W3C HTML Activity Lead, chairs and
introduces XHTML 2.0 and its Family including
XForms. Invited speakers are Toshihiko
Yamakami of ACCESS who speaks on mobile access, and Yuichi Koike of NEC
who speaks on privacy and P3P.
14 November 2002
The Web Services
Architecture Working Group has released the first public Working Draft
of Web Services
Architecture. Software applications can communicate using Web
services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The
reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines
relationships among those components, and establishes constraints upon
them. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity.
14 November 2002
The Web Ontology Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Language Reference for the Web
Ontology Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of
terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web
search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is
used to publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C
Semantic Web Activity.
14 November 2002
The CSS Working Group
has released two modules of Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). A first public draft, Border extends border styles,
colors and images. Lists
enhances the styling of lists and their markers. Comments are
welcome. Visit the CSS home page.
13 November 2002
The RDF Core Working
Group has released updated Working Drafts of the RDF Primer, RDF Test Cases, and RDF Semantics (formerly named RDF
Model Theory). The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing
information in the Web. The primer is an introduction for all readers.
The test cases correspond to technical issues the Working Group is
addressing. Semantics specifies precise semantics for RDF and RDFS,
with some entailment results. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
13 November 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of the XPointer Framework to Proposed
Recommendation. The XPointer Framework is an
extensible system for XML addressing and underlies additional schemes.
The element()
scheme allows
basic addressing of XML elements. The xmlns()
scheme is used
for interpreting namespace prefixes in pointers. Comments are welcome
through 13 December. Read about the XML Activity.
12 November 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of XForms 1.0 to Candidate
Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 5 March 2003. More
flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new
generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and data. Read
the press release and
testimonials and visit the
XForms home page.
12 November 2002
The RDF Core Working
Group has released a Working Draft of the Resource Description
Framework (RDF) Concepts
and Abstract Syntax (formerly named Concepts and Abstract Data
Model). The draft defines the abstract graph syntax on which RDF is
based. It discusses design goals, the meaning of RDF documents, key
concepts, character normalization and handling of URI references. Read
about the Semantic Web Activity.
11 November 2002
The Euroweb 2002 Conference will be
held at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, on 17-18 December. Euroweb 2002
is an international forum of research presentations on the GRID, Web
services, the Semantic Web, and the future computing infrastructure.
Invited speakers include Brian McBride of Hewlett-Packard on the
Semantic Web, Domenico Laforenza of CNR on the Grid, and John Ibbotson
of IBM on Web services. Early registration at a reduced fee ends 15
November.
11 November 2002
The Web Ontology Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of OWL Abstract Syntax and
Semantics. The draft is a high-level description of the OWL Web
Ontology Language 1.0 and its subset OWL Lite. Automated tools can use
common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more
accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge
management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web.
Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
08 November 2002
The Web Ontology Working
Group has published its first Working Draft of the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Guide. The OWL Guide demonstrates the use of OWL to formalize a
domain by defining classes and properties of those classes; define
individuals and assert properties about them, and reason about these
classes and individuals to the degree permitted by the formal semantics
of the OWL language. Read about the Web
Ontology Working Group.
08 November 2002
The Document Object Model
(DOM) Working Group has published DOM Level 2 HTML as a W3C
Proposed Recommendation. DOM Level 2 HTML is a platform- and
language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to
dynamically access and update the content and structure of HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0
documents. The Call for Review closes 6 December. Read about the
DOM Activity.
04 November 2002
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
- Karl Dubost, Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Matt May, Steven Pemberton, and
Richard Ishida present at the W3C/NIST Usability Workshop at
the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD,
USA on 4-5 November.
- Daniel Dardailler presents at
IST 2002 on 4-6 November in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- On 7 November, Wendy Chisholm presents a hands-on session at the
Assistive
Technology and Accessible Media in Higher Education Conference at
the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- On 12 November, Ivan Herman presents at SURFnet Relatiedagen 2002
in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
- On 13 November, Yves Lafon presents and Marie-Claire Forgue runs a
booth at Intégration 2002
Forum XML & Web Services in Paris, France.
- Vincent Quint gives a keynote at IHM 2002 on 26-29 November in
Poitiers, France.
- At 2002 XML Japan in Tokyo,
Japan, Masayasu Ishikawa presents on 28 November, Kazuhiro Kitagawa
gives the keynote on 29 November, and Yasuyuki Hirakawa serves on the
Program Committee.
- On 29 November, Daniel Dardailler participates in a panel at
DocForum -
Rencontres "S@voirs, réseaux,
partage" in Lyon, France.
04 November 2002
W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee was a 1 November guest on
National Public Radio (NPR) Talk of the Nation: Science
Friday. Host Ira Flatow and callers from the United States
discussed inventions, the Semantic Web, privacy, patents, broadband,
"always on" connections, openness, trust, and spam. NPR provides a
three-quarter hour audio
archive of the show, as well as Mr. Berners-Lee's previous
visit to Science Friday in 1999.
28 October 2002
The Web Services
Description Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of
Web Services Description
Requirements. The document describes definitions and requirements
for specifying application to application communication. Comments are
welcome through 31 December. Read about the Web Services Activity.
25 October 2002
The Device Independence
Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Authoring Challenges for Device
Independence. The draft describes the considerations that Web
authors face in supporting access to their sites from a variety of
different devices. It is written for authors, language developers,
device experts and developers of Web applications and authoring
systems. Read about the Device Independence
Activity
24 October 2002
The first public Working
Draft of Web Ontology Language
(OWL) Test Cases has been released. The draft illustrates correct
OWL usage, the formal meaning of OWL constructs, and resolution of
issues considered by the Web Ontology Working Group. OWL is used to
publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing accurate
Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read
about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
24 October 2002
The CSS Working Group has
released two Last Call Working Drafts and welcomes comments on them
through 27 November. CSS3
module: text is a set of text formatting properties and addresses
international contexts. CSS3
module: Ruby is properties for ruby, a short run of text alongside
base text typically used in East Asia. CSS3 module: The box model for the
layout of textual documents in visual media is also updated. Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured documents
like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. Visit the
CSS home page.
22 October 2002
The DOM Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of the Document Object Model (DOM)
Level 3 Core Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows
programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents
dynamically. The draft introduces two new interfaces:
TypeInfo
and DOMConfiguration
. Read about the
DOM Activity.
17 October 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of User
Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation.
Comments are welcome through 14 November. Written for developers of
user agents, the guidelines lower barriers to Web accessibility for
people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and
neurological). The companion Techniques Working Draft is
updated. Read about the Web Accessibility
Initiative.
15 October 2002
The Web Services
Architecture Working Group has updated Web Services Architecture
Requirements. Software applications can communicate using Web
services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The
draft contains the reference architecture and the constraints used to
determine implementation conformance. Comments are welcome. Read about
the Web Services Activity.
15 October 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of XML
1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 14
February 2003. The specification addresses Unicode, control character,
and line ending issues. Visit the XML home page.
09 October 2002
The DOM Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of the Document Object Model (DOM)
Level 3 Validation Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM)
allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of
documents dynamically. This module of DOM3 ensures that documents
remain or become valid. Comments are welcome through 27 November. Read
about the DOM Activity.
07 October 2002
Responding to implementer
feedback and test suite results, the DOM Working Group has released an
updated Document
Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Candidate Recommendation. Comments
are welcome through 16 October. The sixth component of DOM Level 2, DOM2 HTML is a set of interfaces used to
manipulate the structure and contents of HTML and XHTML documents. Read
more about the DOM Activity.
07 October 2002
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
- 8 October - Janet Daly, Hugo Haas, and Joseph Reagle speak at
W3C Day at the Evolve
2002 conference in Sydney, Australia.
- 8 October - Charles McCathieNevile speaks at the Ecole Mohammadia
d'Ingénieurs in Rabat, Morocco.
- 11 October - Daniel Dardailler, Marie-Claire Forgue, Ivan Herman,
Yves Lafon, and Marja-Riitta Koivunen present at the W3C
Finnish Office Opening Event in Tampere, Finland.
- 16 October - Ivan Herman speaks at a W3C Office in Germany and Austria
event in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
- 16 October - Eric Miller gives the keynote and a tutorial at the
DC-2002 Dublin Core
conference in Florence, Italy.
- 16-17 October - Dan Brickley, Charles McCathieNevile, Eric Miller,
and partners from SWAD-E give workshops at
DC-2002.
- 24 October - Charles McCathieNevile speaks at Las VI Jornadas del SIDAR in Tenerife,
Spain.
- 24-25 October - Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at the ERCIM
workshop User
Interfaces for All in Paris, France.
- 27 October - Daniel Dardailler speaks at the Middle East Webmaster Forum in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- 30 October - Charles McCathieNevile presents at the Maturity Matters conference
in Perth, Australia.
03 October 2002
The WAI Protocols and
Formats Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Accessibility Guidelines. The draft
is a guide for tools designers and authors of XML formats. It explains
how to design accessible XML applications that lower barriers to Web
accessibility for people with disabilities. Comments are welcome. Read
about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
03 October 2002
W3C Day is being held on 8
October as part of the Evolve 2002
Conference in Sydney, Australia from 8-11 October 2002. Janet Daly,
Hugo Haas, Dean Jackson, and Joseph Reagle of the W3C Team will be on
hand, focusing on the W3C Privacy, Web Services, XML Signature, XML
Encryption and XML Key Management Activities. Read the W3C Day programme.
24 September 2002
The XML Protocol
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature. The
draft can be used as the basis for defining SOAP bindings that support
the transmission of messages with attachments. Comments are welcome
through 15 October. Read more on the Web services
home page.
22 September 2002
W3C is pleased to
co-support XML
Days that are underway in Europe. Klaus Birkenbihl of the W3C
Office in Germany and Austria, and Oreste Signore of the W3C Office in
Italy have participated, and Steven Pemberton, Bert Bos, Rigo Wenning,
and Ivan Herman of the W3C Team will give keynotes.
17 September 2002
Responding to feedback,
the XML Core Working Group has released an updated Candidate
Recommendation of XML
Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0. XInclude introduces a generic
mechanism for merging XML documents using elements, attributes, and URI
references. Comments are welcome through 1 November. Read about the
XML Activity.
17 September 2002
The Twelfth
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003) is to be held in
Budapest, Hungary, on 20-24 May 2003. A day of tutorials and workshops
is followed by a three-day technical program. Proposals for tutorials
and workshops are due 15 October, papers are due 15 November, and
posters are due 15 January. Visit the conference Web site.
16 September 2002
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Among the
changes, version 6.4 features Finnish dialogs by Tisza Daniel and a new
revision of German pages and dialogs by Rudolf Troeller. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux,
and Windows. Source code is
available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
13 September 2002
The HTML Working Group
has published the first public Working Draft of HLink. The draft gives the XHTML
Family the ability to specify which attributes represent hyperlinks,
and how those hyperlinks should be traversed. Comments are welcome.
Visit the HTML home page.
13 September 2002
Registration is open
through 29 October for the W3C
Workshop on the Future of P3P to be held in Dulles, VA, USA on
12-13 November 2002. Participants will discuss Platform for Privacy
Preferences (P3P) technology and policy. Position papers are due 30
September. Visit the P3P home page.
10 September 2002
In collaboration with
W3C, NIST is holding a workshop on Web usability in Gaithersburg,
Maryland, USA (near Washington, DC) on 4-5 November. Participants will
discuss the usability of W3C specifications, how they affect usability
of software based on them, and how to improve the overall usability of
the Web. The extended deadline for position papers is 30 September.
Please refer to the workshop page for details.
09 September 2002
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. New features in version 6.3 include control over
whether images are loaded; new preference options; more SVG, MathML,
and Unicode support; and support for annotations described with Dublin
Core 1.1. Download Amaya binaries for
Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source
code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the
Annotea home page.
06 September 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the renewal of the Internationalization Activity through
August 2004. In keeping with W3C's
goals, the Internationalization Activity makes it easy to use W3C
technology worldwide, with different languages, scripts, and cultures.
Visit the Internationalization home page.
05 September 2002
The XML Core Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Namespaces in XML 1.1.
Identified by IRI references, namespaces qualify element and attribute
names in XML documents. Version 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and
provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Comments are welcome
through 28 September. Read about the XML Activity.
03 September 2002
The HTML Working Group
has released XHTML 1.0
in XML Schema as a W3C Note. This work in progress provides
informative XML schemas corresponding to the XHTML 1.0 Strict,
Transitional, and Frameset DTDs. Comments are welcome. Visit the
HTML home page.
02 September 2002
Ivan Herman speaks at
HKUST and the Web Services Conference 2002 in Hong Kong
on 2 and 3 September. On 10 September, Steven Pemberton speaks at
BayCHI in Palo Alto, CA, USA. On
24 September, Péter Inzelt, László Kovács, Daniel Dardailler,
Marie-Claire Forgue, Éva Megyaszai, Ivan Herman, Vincent Quint, and Max
Froumentin speak at the W3C
Hungarian Office Opening Event in Budapest. On 26 September, Chris
Lilley speaks at the Applied
Visualization Laboratory in Knoxville, TN, USA. Philipp Hoschka
gives a keynote at Informatik
2002 in Dortmund, Germany. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
30 August 2002
The W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) has released its first public Working Draft,
Architectural Principles of the
World Wide Web. Comments are welcome. This document establishes a
reference set of principles and good practice for Web architecture,
including identifiers, formats, and protocols. Visit the TAG home page.
27 August 2002
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of XML-Signature XPath Filter
2.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 24
September. The specification defines a means to digitally sign a
document subset using XPath, the language for addressing parts of an
XML document. Visit the XML Signature home
page.
26 August 2002
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has released a Working Draft of the QA Framework: Specification
Guidelines. The guidelines are designed to help W3C Working Groups
write clearer, more implementable, and better testable technical
reports. This is a major revision and comments are welcome. Visit the
QA home page.
23 August 2002
W3C is pleased to announce
the rechartering of the HTML Working Group through August 2004. The
group seeks to fulfill the promise of XML for applying XHTML to a wide
variety of platforms. It supports rich Web content, combining XHTML
with W3C work in areas such as math, scalable vector graphics,
synchronized multimedia, and forms. Read the group's work items in its
charter and visit the HTML home page.
22 August 2002
The Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working
Draft of the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web
content accessible to people with disabilities, and to a variety of
Web-enabled devices, such as phones, handhelds, kiosks, and network
appliances. Read about the Web Accessibility
Initiative.
21 August 2002
The XForms Working Group
has released a Working Draft of XForms 1.0 incorporating all issues
received during Last Call. Comments are welcome through 4 September.
More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new
generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and data.
Visit the XForms home page.
21 August 2002
The User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
1.0 as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 18
September. Written for developers of user agents, the guidelines lower
barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual,
hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological). The companion Techniques Working Draft is
also updated. Read about the Web Accessibility
Initiative.
19 August 2002
The Web Services
Architecture Working Group has updated Web Services Architecture
Requirements. Software applications can communicate using Web
services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The
draft contains the reference architecture and the constraints used to
determine implementation conformance. Comments are welcome. Read about
the Web Services Activity.
16 August 2002
The XML Query, XSL, and
XML Schema Working Groups have released a number of documents through
joint efforts. Please see the status section of each document for
authorship and change history information. The documents are part of
the XML and Style Activities.
15 August 2002
The HTML Working Group has
released a Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in
XML Schema. The draft provides a complete set of XML Schema modules
for XHTML, and allows document authors to modify and extend XHTML in a
conformant way. Visit the HTML home page.
14 August 2002
The XML Protocol Working
Group has released the first Working Draft of the SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature. This
abstract SOAP 1.2 feature can be used as the basis for defining SOAP
bindings that support the transmission of messages with attachments.
Comments are welcome. Read more on the Web services
home page.
12 August 2002
The HTML Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of XML Events that incorporates
comments received during Last Call. The specification defines a module
used to associate behaviors with document-level markup for XML
languages, and supports the DOM Level 2 event model. Comments are
welcome. Visit the HTML home page.
09 August 2002
The HTML and SVG Working
Groups have published the second Working Draft of An XHTML + MathML + SVG
Profile. The draft enables mixing XHTML, MathML and SVG in
the same document using the XML namespaces mechanism while allowing
validation. Comments are welcome. Read about the HTML and the Graphics
Activities.
09 August 2002
The Voice Browser Working
Group has released the first Working Draft of Voice Browser Interoperation:
Requirements. The draft describes requirements for how voice
browsers and other call sites share user, application, and session data
to coordinate user experience. Comments are welcome. Read more on the
Voice Browser home page.
08 August 2002
On Friday, 9 August, power
at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) will be turned off at
approximately 23:00 UTC for about four hours. All services will be
suspended and the W3C site will be accessible in a read-only state.
Mail sent to W3C archives will be queued and posted when the power is
restored. Power is expected to return on Saturday, 10 August at 03:00
UTC. We apologize for the inconvenience.
06 August 2002
The HTML Working Group has
released the first public Working Draft of XFrames. Replacing HTML frames,
XFrames is an XML application for composing documents together that
makes the content of framesets visible in their URIs. It addresses the
usability, search and security problems associated with HTML frames.
Comments are welcome. Read more on the HTML home
page.
05 August 2002
The HTML Working Group has
released the first public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2.0 is a relative
of the Web's familiar publishing languages, HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 and
1.1, and is not intended to be backward compatible with them. The draft
contains the XHTML 2.0 markup language in modules for creating rich,
portable Web-based applications. Comments are welcome. Visit the
HTML home page.
05 August 2002
The HTML Working Group has
updated the W3C Note XHTML Media Types.
Expressed in RFC compatible terms, the Note summarizes best current
practice for serving XHTML Family documents by addressing four media
types: 'text/html', 'application/xhtml+xml', and generic XML media
types 'application/xml' and 'text/xml'. Read more on the HTML home page.
02 August 2002
Paper submissions are due
13 September for SMIL Europe
2002 to be held in Paris, France on 20-22 November 2002. SMIL, pronounced "smile," enables
authoring of interactive audiovisual rich media presentations. SMIL has
been adopted as a basis for MMS, and for adding timing to other markup
languages such as SVG. SMIL Europe is a forum for SMIL research and
advanced applications. For more information, visit the conference Web
site.
02 August 2002
The CSS Working Group has
released Cascading Style Sheets,
Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) as a Last Call Working Draft.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured
documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. The
draft brings CSS2 in line with implementations and CSS2 errata, and
removes obsolete features. Comments are welcome through 30 August.
Visit the CSS home page.
01 August 2002
Registration is open
through 6 September for the W3C Workshop on Device
Independent Authoring Techniques to be held in St. Leon-Rot, near
Heidelberg, Germany on 25-26 September 2002. Participants will discuss
authoring for multiple devices, how markup languages can be used to
achieve greater device independence, and possibly new markup standards.
Interest statements are due 4 September. Read about the W3C Device Independence Activity.
01 August 2002
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released XHTML
1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) as a
W3C Recommendation. XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML in XML, giving
the rigor of XML to Web pages. The second edition is not a new version;
it brings the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with comments from
the community, ongoing work within the HTML Working Group, and the
first edition errata. Read more on the HTML home
page.
31 July 2002
The Web Ontology Working
Group has released three first Working Drafts. The Feature Synopsis, Abstract Syntax and Language Reference describe the OWL
Web Ontology Language 1.0 and its subset OWL Lite. Automated tools can
use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as
more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge
management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web.
Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
30 July 2002
The Web Services
Architecture Working Group has released the first Working Draft of
Web Services
Architecture Usage Scenarios. The draft is a collection of usage
scenarios and use cases used for generating Web services architecture
requirements and for evaluating existing technologies. Comments are
welcome. Visit the Web Services Activity home
page.
29 July 2002
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
co-chairs and Liam Quin, Charles McCathieNevile, and Dan Connolly
attend Extreme Markup
Languages held 4-9 August in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. C. M.
Sperberg-McQueen presents the closing talk, What matters?.
On 14 August, Charles McCathieNevile lectures on Multimedia
Accessibility - Current Work at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Australia. Browse upcoming W3C
appearances and events.
25 July 2002
The DOM Working Group has
split DOM Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save into two Working
Drafts, Validation
and Load and Save,
and a W3C Note Abstract Schemas (the Note
is no longer a work in progress). The Document Object Model (DOM)
allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of
documents dynamically. Comments are
welcome. Read about the DOM Activity.
20 July 2002
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of XML-Signature XPath Filter
2.0 to Candidate Recommendation. The Call for Implementations ends
8 August, and comments on implementation experience may be sent to the
public
comment list. The draft defines a means to digitally sign a
document subset using XPath, the language for addressing parts of an
XML document. Visit the XML Signature home
page.
20 July 2002
The W3C Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI) received the Roland Wagner Award at the
International Conference on Computers Helping People (ICCHP) on 17 July in
Linz, Austria. The award was given by the Austrian Computer Society, in recognition of
WAI's international contributions to making Web technologies accessible
to the broadest possible audience. Learn more about Web
accessibility.
12 July 2002
The Document Object Model
(DOM) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the
DOM Level 3
Events specification. Comments are welcome
through 16 August. Language and platform neutral, the system allows
registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree
structure, and provides context for each event. Read about the DOM Activity.
11 July 2002
Supported by the W3C UK and Ireland Office and IW3C2, the EuroWeb 2002 Conference will be
held in Oxford, UK on 17-18 December 2002. The conference focus is "The
Web and the GRID: from e-science to e-business." Research and position
papers should be submitted by 27 September. For more information,
please read the call for
papers and consult the conference Web site.
10 July 2002
The XML Linking Working
Group has released four Working Drafts, three in Last Call. Comments
are welcome through 31 July. The XPointer Framework is an
extensible system for XML addressing and underlies additional schemes.
The element()
scheme allows
basic addressing of XML elements, the xmlns()
scheme is for
interpreting namespace prefixes in pointers, and xpointer()
scheme
allows full XML addressing. Read about the XML
Activity.
09 July 2002
The Web Services Description
Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the
Web Services Description
Language 1.2 and bindings for use with SOAP
1.2, HTTP, and MIME. WSDL is an XML format for describing network
services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either
document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. Read the press release and visit the Web Services home page.
09 July 2002
The Web Ontology Working Group has released an
updated Working Draft of requirements for the Ontology
Web Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of terms
called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search,
intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read about the
W3C Semantic Web Activity.
08 July 2002
W3C is pleased to announce
the renewal of the Device Independence Activity through May 2004. In
keeping with W3C's goals, the Device
Independence Activity works to ensure seamless Web access and single
Web authoring on all kinds of devices, for the benefit of Web users and
content providers alike. Read the group's work items in its charter and visit the
Device Independence home page.
08 July 2002
Amaya
is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 6.2 is
internationalized and includes more encodings. New features include easier install on Windows; a
choice of typical, compact, or custom installation; German
documentation thanks to Rudolf Troeller; and CSS, SVG, STIX font, and
Annotea icon enhancements. Download
Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are
interested in annotations, visit the Annotea
home page.
08 July 2002
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of Media Queries to
Candidate Recommendation. This module of the upcoming CSS3
specification proposes a registry of media types to describe what type
of devices a style sheet applies to, and expressions to limit a style
sheet's scope. Comments are invited. Visit the CSS home page.
02 July 2002
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
- 7 July - Max Froumentin presents at ISSAC 2002 Internet Accessible
Mathematical Computation in Lille, France.
- 11 July - Hugo Haas presents at the IDG Web Services Conference in
Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan.
- 15-16 July - Chris Lilley, Vincent Hardy, Dean Jackson, Ivan
Herman, and Max Froumentin present at SVG Open / Carto.net
conference in Zürich, Switzerland.
- 22 July - Tim Berners-Lee gives the opening keynote and Steve Bratt
presents at the Open
Group Web Services Conference in Boston, MA, USA.
- 23 July - Eric Miller gives a keynote at the American
Association of Law Libraries conference in Orlando, FL, USA.
- 24 July - Liam Quin speaks at the O'Reilly
Open Source Convention in San Diego, CA, USA.
- 25 July - Dean Jackson and Philipp Hoschka present at SIGGRAPH 2002 in San Antonio, TX,
USA.
- 31 July - Dean Jackson presents at Open Publish 2002 in Sydney,
Australia.
27 June 2002
The W3C Advisory Committee
has filled six open seats on the W3C Advisory
Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the
Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and
conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board
participants are Ann Bassetti (Boeing), Jim Bell (Hewlett-Packard),
Carl Cargill (Sun Microsystems), Don Deutsch (Oracle), Steve Holbrook
(IBM), Renato Iannella (IPR Systems), Ken Laskey (SAIC), Ora Lassila
(Nokia), and Lauren Wood (Unaffiliated). Steve Zilles is the interim
Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board in the
W3C Process Document.
26 June 2002
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of Speech Recognition Grammar
to Candidate Recommendation. Speech grammars allow voice-based
application authors to create rules describing what users are expected
to say after listening to each application prompt. Read the press release and testimonials, and visit the Voice Browser home page.
20 June 2002
The joint IETF/W3C XML
Signature Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of
XML-Signature XPath
Filter 2.0. Comments are welcome through 11 July. The draft defines
a means to digitally sign a document subset using XPath, the language
for addressing parts of an XML document. Visit the XML Signature
home page.
19 June 2002
Registration is open for the
MathML International
Conference 2002 to be held in Chicago, IL, USA, on 28-30 June 2002.
W3C is happy to co-sponsor this conference, whose aim is to bring
together people involved in defining the future of mathematics and
scientific content on the Web. Read about Math at
W3C.
17 June 2002
W3C is pleased to co-sponsor
the Web Services
Conference to be held 11 July 2002 (Technology day) and 12 July
(Business day) at Aoyama TEPIA in Tokyo, Japan. On 11 July, Hugo Haas, W3C Web Services Activity Lead, gives
the keynote speech, and Kazuhiro
Kitagawa, W3C Device Independence Activity Lead, moderates a panel
discussion. Registration is open. Read
about Web services.
10 June 2002
Libwww version 5.4.0 has been released for download on
the Web and by FTP. Libwww is a free, highly
modular client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows. The new
version features support for WebDAV protocols, RDF parser bug fixes,
and updated auto-tool files scripts. Thanks to Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro,
Richard Atterer, and many others for their contributions. To carry on
this work, a project coordinator, a documentation maintainer, and other
volunteers are needed. Please write to the www-lib@w3.org mailing
list.
29 May 2002
On Friday, 31 May, power at
the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) will be turned off at
approximately 8:00 p.m. Eastern (0:00Z 1 June) to complete retooling of
the building's power configuration. All services will be suspended and
the site will be accessible in a read-only state. Mail sent to W3C
archives will be queued, and posted when the power is restored. Power
is expected to return by 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 1 June (21:00Z). We
apologize for the inconvenience.
28 May 2002
Vincent Quint presents Documents structurés sur
le Web (in French) at IDT/net 2002 in Paris, France. On 5 June,
Tatsuya Hagino presents W3C Technology
on Metadata (PDF in Japanese) at the JAGAT
seminar in Tokyo, Japan. On 15 June, Karl
Dubost presents Les standards Web? Ah non,
jamais! in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. On 18 June,
Judy Brewer and Wendy Chisholm present a 1/2 day tutorial,
Web
Accessibility: Technology and Policy for an Inclusive
Future, at INET 2002 in Arlington, VA, near Washington,
D.C., USA. On 20 June, Daniel J.
Weitzner participates in the Panel on Private Governance:
Perils and Prospects for Self-Regulation (G-2), also at INET 2002. On 30 June, Vincent Quint and
Irène Vatton present MathML in e-Learning
with Amaya at the MathML Conference 2002 in
Chicago, IL, USA. Browse W3C appearances and events.
21 May 2002
The World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) is holding a series of public one-day events across Europe from
21 May to 3 June, in Paris, Vienna, Dublin, and Brussels. The W3C Interop Tour promotes W3C technologies,
and demonstrates their interoperability on the World Wide Web. The tour
also marks the start of three new regional W3C Offices, expanding the impact of W3C in
Europe. Read the press
release.
16 May 2002
The Quality
Assurance (QA) Working Group has released four Working Drafts.
The W3C QA Activity's goals include planning and process; better,
more testable specifications; coordination with internal and external
groups; and building and acquiring conformance test materials. Comments are welcome.
Visit the QA home page.
16 May 2002
The CSS Working Group has
released four Working Drafts.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured
documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. Read
about CSS level 3 and visit the
CSS home page.
16 May 2002
The W3C Team presented over
25 talks at the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference
(WWW2002) in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,
during May. Slides are
available for the W3C Track chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue and the
keynote speech
given by Tim Berners-Lee. Read about the Team and W3C presentations.
14 May 2002
The deadline for early
registration for the MathML
International Conference 2002 has been extended from 17 May to 24
May. W3C is happy to be a co-sponsor of this conference, in Chicago
28-30 June, whose aim is to bring together those involved in defining
the future of mathematics on the Web under the rubric "MathML and
Technologies for Mathematics on the Web". Read more about Math at W3C.
06 May 2002
As W3C increases its presence
worldwide through its Office program, some of the Offices have been
transformed into regional Offices. This means that they are
not bound to national borders any more and that they act as regional
outreach centers for countries that share common culture, history, or
language. As a first step, the former W3C German Office is now the W3C
Office in Germany and Austria, the former W3C UK Office is now the W3C
Office in the UK and Ireland, and the former W3C Dutch Office is now
the W3C Office in the Benelux (i.e., Belgium, the Netherlands, and
Luxembourg). Read more about the W3C
Offices Program.
30 April 2002
W3C is pleased to announce
the advancement of Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG to Candidate
Recommendations. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into reusable
building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles
optimized for cellphones and pocket computers. SVG delivers accessible,
dynamic, reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web, in XML.
Read the press release and
testimonials, and visit the
SVG home page.
30 April 2002
The XML Query Working Group, XML
Schema Working Group, and XSL Working
Group have released a number of documents through joint efforts
(see the status section of each document for authorship
information):
XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, XQuery
is an query language for XML, and XSLT is a language for describing XML
transformations. Read about how they work together as part of the
XML Activity.
29 April 2002
Amaya
is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 6.1 is a bug fix
release adding support for more international documents and encodings
and new MIME types; enhanced SVG, MathML, annotation, and CSS support;
and other new features. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux,
and Windows. Source code is
available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
29 April 2002
The Web Services
Architecture Working Group has released the first Working Draft of
Web Services Architecture
Requirements, the reference architecture and the constraints used
to determine implementation conformance. The Web Services Description
Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Web Service Description
Requirements, the definitions and requirements for application to
application communication. Comments are welcome. Read about the
Web Services Activity.
29 April 2002
The RDF Core Working Group has released updated
Working Drafts of the RDF
Primer, RDF Test
Cases, and RDF Model
Theory. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing
information in the Web. The primer provides the fundamentals required
to use RDF in applications. The test cases described correspond to
technical issues the Working Group is addressing. The model theory
Working Draft specifies model-theoretic semantics for RDF and RDFS, and
some basic results on entailment. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
29 April 2002
The Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group
has released a Working Draft of Requirements for WCAG 2.0.
Written for page authors, site developers, and developers of authoring
tools, WCAG checkpoints explain how to make Web content accessible to
people with disabilities and to all users. Feedback is welcomed. Read
about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
26 April 2002
The joint IETF/W3C XML
Signature Working Group has released a Working Draft of XML-Signature XPath Filter
2.0. The draft defines a means to digitally sign a document subset
using XPath, the language for addressing parts of an XML document.
Comments are welcome. Visit the XML Signature home page.
24 April 2002
Amaya
is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. New
features in version 6.0 include support for more international
documents and encodings and new MIME types, and enhanced SVG, MathML,
annotation, and CSS support. Download
Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are
interested in annotations, visit the Annotea
home page.
24 April 2002
The Voice Browser Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Voice Extensible Markup Language
(VoiceXML) Version 2.0. Comments are welcome through 24 May.
VoiceXML uses XML to bring
synthesized speech, spoken and touch-tone input, digitized audio,
recording, telephony, and computer-human conversations to the Web.
Visit the Voice Browser home page.
22 April 2002
The SVG (Scalable Vector
Graphics) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of
SVG 1.1/1.2/2.0
Requirements for future versions of the SVG
language. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector
graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. Comments are welcome.
Read more on the SVG home page.
22 April 2002
The CSS Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of CSS3 module: Color. Comments are
welcome through 17 May. The draft describes properties that authors can
use to specify foreground color and opacity, ICC color profiles, and
rendering intent of image content. Visit the CSS
home page.
16 April 2002
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released The
Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P 1.0) as a W3C
Recommendation. The specification has been reviewed by the W3C
Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. P3P allows people to
define and publish their Web site privacy policies, and helps automate
how those policies are read. P3P also gives users control over the use
of their personal information on Web sites they visit, thus promoting
trust and confidence in the Web. Read the press release and testimonials.
08 April 2002
Jigsaw
version 2.2.1 is available for download. The new version includes a
security fix for URI parsing, a new JigShell utility, XHTML/HTML
validation on PUT, JigEdit support for WebDAV, Apache mod_asis, and
PushCache contributed by Paul Henshaw. The release notes list all new features
and bug fixes. Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform
implemented in Java. Learn more about the Jigsaw Activity.
01 April 2002
The conference program and
registration are available for the SVG Open / Carto.net Developers
Conference to be held in Zurich, Switzerland on 15-17 July 2002,
with 6 additional workshops on 18 July. SVG Open is a platform for
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas,
examples and implementations. The event is organized by ETH Zurich, W3C
and Zurich University. The deadline for early bird registration is 30
April.
01 April 2002
Browse past W3C Team talks and presentations and upcoming W3C appearances and events.
- 6 AprilLiam Quin
speaks on XML at the World Wide Web Consortium at GUADEC, the GNOME Users And Developers
European Conference, in Seville, Spain.
- 8 AprilDave
Raggett presents on W3C voice and multimodal work at the WAP Forum meeting in Paris, France.
- 11 AprilBert Bos
presents Web Publishing with XSL, Stephane Boyera presents Device Independent
Principles, and Ivan Herman
presents W3C - Why and
How at
Cross Media Publishing in Sankt Augustin, Bonn, Germany.
- 18 AprilDaniel
J. Weitzner participates in the US Department of Justice and
Federal Trade Commission hearing "Competition and Intellectual
Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy" about
patents and standards in Washington, DC, USA.
- 18 - 20 AprilThree W3C Team members attend
Museums and the Web 2002
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. On 18 April, Charles McCathieNevile presents The
Virtual On-Ramp. On 19 April, Eric
Miller and Ralph Swick present a
mini-workshop, RDF -
How can museums take advantage of it?. On 20 April, Eric Miller presents Weaving
Meaning: the W3C's Semantic Web Initiatives.
- 19 AprilSeveral Team members speak at the
W3C Korean Office
Opening in Daejeon, Korea. Steve
Bratt presents an Overview of W3C. Marie-Claire Forgue presents W3C Process
for Issuing W3C Recommendations. Tatsuya Hagino speaks on the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman presents an Overview of XML Related
Recommendations. Kazuhiro
Kitagawa presents Device Independence activities of
W3C.
- 22 AprilSteven
Pemberton presents a tutorial Styling the New
Web at the CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- 30 AprilCharles
McCathieNevile presents A
Best Practice Guide to Web Site Standards - Streamlining
Accessibility at the Online Business - Law and Regulation
conference in Sydney, Australia.
26 March 2002
A Working Draft of the
XQuery 1.0 Formal
Semantics has been released. XQuery is a computer language designed
to return information to users or their agents. It is applicable to XML
data sources from documents to databases, search engines, and object
repositories. XQuery is defined jointly by the XML Query Working Group,
part of the XML Activity, and the XSL Working
Group, part of the Style Activity.
21 March 2002
The RDF Core Working Group has released the first
public Working Draft of the RDF Primer. The Resource
Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose
language for representing information in the Web. This primer provides
the fundamentals required to use RDF in applications. Read about the
Semantic Web Activity.
21 March 2002
The W3C Track has been
announced for the Eleventh International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002) in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. W3C
will present three days on 8-10 May: W3C's Achievements and
Expectations, Web Services, the Semantic Web, XML, Document Formats,
Cool Web, Universal Access, Device Independence, Amaya, and a Town
Meeting. Please visit the W3C Track page for details on
presentations. Conference registration is open.
15 March 2002
W3C held its second annual
Technical Plenary and Working
Group Meeting on 25 February - 1 March in Cannes Mandelieu, France.
More than 20 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups held face-to-face
meetings. Mid-week, over 200 participants attended the all day public
plenary. Minutes have been
published. If your organization would like to join W3C, please refer to
the Membership page.
14 March 2002
W3C's Semantic Web Advanced Development initiative
announces the release of IsaViz, a visual environment for browsing and
authoring RDF models represented as graphs. IsaViz
has a 2.5D user interface allowing smooth zooming and navigation.
IsaViz supports RDF/XML and N-Triple import and export, and SVG and PNG
export. Developed by Emmanuel Pietriga of W3C and Xerox Research Centre
Europe, IsaViz is based on the Xerox Visual Transformation Machine,
Hewlett-Packard's Jena, Graphviz from AT&T Research, and Apache's
Xerces. Learn more about IsaViz.
12 March 2002
Workshop materials are available for the
W3C Workshop on Delivery Context held at W3C/INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis,
France, on 4-5 March. Participants exchanged ideas and developed a
roadmap for the W3C Device Independence
Activity work on delivery context, a term used to describe user
preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms.
08 March 2002
The Web Ontology Working Group has released a
Working Draft of requirements for the Ontology
Web Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of terms
called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search,
intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read about the
W3C Semantic Web Activity.
04 March 2002
Browse past W3C Team talks and presentations and upcoming W3C appearances and events.
- 5-6 MarchIan
Jacobs speaks on W3C
Technologies and Accessibility at the University of Venezia in Venice and the
University of Bologna Dept. of Internet
Economics in Forlì, Italy.
- 7 MarchHugo Haas
speaks on Web services at
W3C at the OMG workshop Web
Services From Technology to Reality in San Jose, California,
USA.
- 13 MarchVincent
Hardy, W3C Fellow from Sun Microsystems, speaks on SVG in Web
Services at XML & Web Services
2002 in London, UK.
- 14 MarchDaniel
Dardailler, Vincent Quint, Philipp Hoschka, and Marie-Claire Forgue attend an Aristote seminar on
Travaux du
W3C in Paris, France. Their talks are broadcast live on the
Renater network via IP multicast. Philipp's talk is titled
Point sur les besoins des nouveaux
terminaux sur le Web.
- 20 MarchWendy
Chisholm presents Learn To Use
Tools And Processes To Evaluate Web Content For
Accessibility at CSUN's Technology and Persons With
Disabilities conference held at California State University,
Northridge, CA, USA.
- 20-21 MarchW3C has a booth at Documation
2002 at Paris La Défense, France.
- 27 MarchVincent
Hardy speaks on
SVG Graphics on the Java Platform and
Scalable Vector Graphics and the Batik Project at JavaOne 2002 held in San
Francisco, CA, USA.
- 27 MarchPhilipp
Hoschka speaks on Applications
vocales de XML at Net 2002
in Paris, France.
- 28 MarchIvan
Herman presents a tutorial 2D Web Graphics: SVG in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands at a Masterclass
organized by the W3C Dutch Office and
the Dutch chapter of ISOC.
26 February 2002
Responding to comments
from the public, W3C Members, the W3C Advisory Committee, and the Open
Source/Free Software community, the Patent Policy Working Group has
released a Royalty-Free
Patent Policy interim Working Draft. Its goal is to produce W3C
Recommendations that can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis.
Comments
are welcome. Read more in the press release and backgrounder.
20 February 2002
The CSS Working Group
has released the first public Working Draft of CSS3 module: Lists. This module
of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 3
describes how lists are rendered and offers enhanced list marker
styling. Comments are
welcome. Visit the CSS home page.
20 February 2002
The W3C
Internationalization Working Group has released an interim Working
Draft of the Character Model
for the World Wide Web 1.0 recording their progress. This document
provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content
developers a common reference for interoperable text manipulation.
Please hold comments until the second Last Call. Read about W3C work on
internationalization.
14 February 2002
The World Wide Web
Consortium today released XML-Signature Syntax and
Processing as a W3C Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C
XML Signature Working Group, XML digital signatures provide integrity,
message authentication, and signer authentication services. Read the
press release and
testimonials.
14 February 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the creation of the Multimodal Interaction Activity. By
developing markup specifications for synchronization across multiple
modalities and devices, the new Activity is extending the Web user
interface. Read more on the Multimodal Interaction
Activity home page.
13 February 2002
W3C is pleased to be
co-sponsoring the second international MathML conference, "MathML and
Technologies for Mathematics on the Web," scheduled for 28-30 June
2002, near Chicago, IL, USA. The deadline for submitting abstract and
panel proposals is 18 February. Poster abstracts and demo proposals are
due 15 March. MathML 2.0
became a W3C Recommendation one year ago. Visit the MathML Conference 2002 Web
site.
08 February 2002
The Document Object Model
(DOM) Working Group has released two updated Working Drafts. DOM Level 3 XPath
provides functionalities to access a DOM tree using XPath 1.0. DOM Level 3 Events is an
interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically update the
content, structure, and style of documents. Comments are
welcome. Read about the W3C DOM Activity.
31 January 2002
The SYMM Working Group
has published XHTML+SMIL Profile as a W3C
Note integrating a subset of the SMIL 2.0 specification with XHTML. The
profile includes modules for animation, content control, media objects,
timing and synchronization, time manipulations, and transition effects.
Read about the W3C Synchronized Multimedia
Activity.
25 January 2002
W3C is pleased to
announce the creation of the Web Services
Activity. Initially composed of three Working Groups and a
Coordination Group and folding in the former W3C XML Protocol Activity,
the new Activity will develop a set of interfaces for application to
application communication on the Web. Chartered to build three
Recommendations, Web services work is conducted publicly. Read more in
the Web Services Activity statement.
23 January 2002
The CSS Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of Media queries. The draft
proposes a registry of media types to describe what type of devices a
style sheet applies to, and provides for expressions to limit a style
sheet's scope. Comments are invited. Visit the CSS home page.
18 January 2002
The XForms Working Group has released a Last Call
Working Draft of XForms 1.0.
More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new
generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and data.
Comments
are welcome through 22 February. Visit the XForms home page.
17 January 2002
The CSS Working Group is
pleased to announce the first release of the CSS Selectors Test
Suite written by Daniel Glazman (Netscape/AOL), Ian Hickson, and
Tantek Çelik (Microsoft) for Selectors and the Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) language Levels 2 and 3. Ian Hickson developed variants for all
kinds of XML and HTML in a format invented by Tantek Çelik. The
original CSS1 Test Suite has been
converted to the new format. object
elements allow the
same tests to be used in different test suites. The Working Group
welcomes comments. Visit
the CSS home page.
13 January 2002
W3C Team members will
attend the Twentieth
International Unicode Conference in Washington, DC, USA. On 29
January, Martin J. Dürst and François
Yergeau give a tutorial titled Weaving the Multilingual Web:
Standards and their Implementations. On 30 January, Vincent Quint presents Amaya: Towards an
Internationalized Web Authoring Tool and Chris Lilley presents SVG: Vector Graphics
meets Unicode. On 31 January, Martin Dürst gives a tutorial
titled UTF-8: Properties and Usage.
13 January 2002
Dr. Jean-François
Abramatic steps down as W3C Chairman. From 1996 to 2001, Jean-François
led the Consortium with wisdom and insight. Many thanks and best wishes
to Jean-François! Please join W3C in welcoming Dr. Steven R. Bratt, W3C's new Chief Operating
Officer. Steve will oversee worldwide operations, the W3C Process, the
Team, strategic plans, budget, legal matters, and major events. See a
photo of our new COO and visit
People of the W3C.
08 January 2002
Philippe Le Hégaret presents A Short
History of the Web at the Faculty of Science, University of
Nice, France on 8 January. On 10 January, Daniel Dardailler presents an Update on
W3C Technologies and Vincent
Quint speaks at Autrans 2002 (in
French) "Internet au défi des
usages" in Autrans (Vercors), France. On 14 January, Philippe Le Hégaret gives a talk on DOM Level
3 at ILOG in Sophia-Antipolis,
France. On 22 January, Daniel Dardailler presents Tools and
standards: Evolution and perspectives at the Benchmark Forum (in French)
"Gestion de contenu
Internet-Intranet" in Paris, France. On 23 January, Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk titled
Semantic Web: Toward Machine Processable Data on the Web
at the Cambridge-MIT Institute
Distinguished Lecture Series "Innovation at the Boundaries" in
Cambridge, MA, USA. On January 25, Ivan
Herman gives a W3C
Overview to employees of ETRI in Daejeon, Korea. On January 28, Ivan
Herman presents A Tour Around W3C
XML Recommendations at IDA in Singapore.
07 January 2002
Registration is open
through 11 February for the W3C Workshop on Delivery Context
to be held at W3C/INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, France, on 4-5 March 2002.
Participants will exchange ideas and develop a roadmap for the W3C Device Independence Activity work on
delivery context, a term used to describe user preferences and the
capabilities of their Web access mechanism. Position papers must be
submitted by 11 February.