21 December 2004
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the SPARQL Variable Binding
Results XML Format. The SPARQL
query language (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end
users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range
of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata
about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a
means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
20 December 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Graphics Activity. The
Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group is chaired by Chris Lilley (W3C)
and is chartered through 30 September 2006. The SVG Working Group
develops the SVG language for describing
two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML, including
profiles for desktops, mobile devices and printers. Participation is
open to W3C Members. Visit the
SVG home page.
20 December 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released XML Inclusions
(XInclude) Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Strengthening the
XML family, XInclude provides a generic method for merging XML
documents into a single composite document. It contributes to efficient
content management at the enterprise level. XInclude uses existing XML
constructs—elements, attributes and URI references. Read the
press release and testimonials and visit the
XML home page.
17 December 2004
The CSS Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of the CSS3 Speech Module. The
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to render structured
documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. The
draft defines aural properties that match the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
model. Comments are welcome. Visit the CSS home
page.
17 December 2004
The Web Services Choreography
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Web Services Choreography Description
Language Version 1.0 (WS-CDL). This XML-based language describes
peer-to-peer collaborations between Web service participants by
defining their behavior from a global viewpoint. Ordered message
exchanges thus accomplish a common business goal. Comments are welcome
through 31 January. Visit the Web services home
page.
17 December 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Patent Policy Activity. The new
Patents and Standards Interest Group
(PSIG) is chaired by Don Deutsch (Oracle) and Daniel J. Weitzner (W3C)
and is chartered through 1 December 2007. The PSIG is is a forum for
W3C Members and Invited Experts to discuss policy issues regarding the
implementation of the W3C
Patent Policy as well as new patent-related questions that arise
which require action or attention from the W3C Membership.
16 December 2004
The XSL Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Version 1.1. Version 1.1 updates the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change
marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for
graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are invited. Read
about the XML Activity.
15 December 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released Architecture of
the World Wide Web, Volume One as a W3C Recommendation. The Web
uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability,
efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable
information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages,
cultures and media. This architecture document discusses the core
design components of the Web in an effort to preserve these properties
of the information space as its technologies evolve. Read the press release, Member testimonials, and visit the
TAG home page.
14 December 2004
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal
Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction
management systems. Part of the W3C
Multimodal Interaction Framework, the specification describes
markup for describing user input together with annotations such as
confidence scores, timestamps and input medium. This version includes
the associated XML schema. Visit the Multimodal
Interaction home page.
09 December 2004
In a proclamation issued 1 December,
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has declared December 2004 to be
World Wide Web Consortium Month. Read by COO Steve Bratt at the
W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration,
the proclamation cites W3C for "its good work and concern for the
diverse users of the Web" and says W3C "earned their respect, trust and
support." See the official document and read the
full text.
08 December 2004
The Web Services Addressing
Working Group has released three First Public Working Drafts. Web Services Addressing - Core
enables message transmission through networks that include processing
nodes such as endpoint managers, firewalls, and gateways in a
transport-neutral manner. WSDL Binding defines how the
core specification's properties are described in the Web Services
Description Language (WSDL). SOAP Binding defines their
association to SOAP messages. Read
about Web services.
06 December 2004
W3C held its semiannual
Advisory Committee Meeting on 2-3 December in Cambridge, MA, USA.
W3C Member organizations
participated in two days of discussions on W3C Activities. If your organization would
like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page. The next Advisory
Committee Meeting will be held 5-7 June 2005 in Mandelieu, France.
30 November 2004
This year, the World Wide Web
Consortium celebrates its tenth anniversary—ten years of its
mission to lead the Web to its full potential. On 1 December, W3C
Members, Team, invited speakers, and international media will gather in
Boston, USA to reflect on the progress of the Web, W3C's central role
in its growth, and the risks and opportunities facing the Web during
W3C's second decade. "This special anniversary brings the opportunity
to acknowledge the impact of the Web and the W3C's stewardship role,"
said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "I hope it will also inspire ever
more collaboration, creativity, and understanding across the globe."
Sign the greeting card, read the
press release and read more
about the W3C Tenth Anniversary
Celebration.
22 November 2004
Through joint efforts, the
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group and the CSS Working Group
have released a second Working Draft of SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL). The
sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behavior of
elements outside the SVG namespace. The XBL task force considers the
sXBL specification to be nearly ready for Last Call. Visit the SVG and CSS home
pages.
22 November 2004
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Dynamic Properties Framework (DPF).
Written for the W3C Multimodal Interaction
Framework, the draft describes interfaces for dynamic access to
properties that represent device capabilities, device configuration,
user preferences and environmental conditions. The previous Working
Draft was named "System and Environment Framework." Comments are
welcome through 10 January. Read about Multimodal
Interaction.
22 November 2004
The Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released a Last Call Working
Draft of Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and a Working Draft of its companion
Implementation
Techniques. The guidelines are written to help developers create
accessible authoring interfaces that produce accessible Web content.
Resulting content can be read by a broader range of readers including
those with disabilities. Comments are welcome through 7 January. Read
about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
22 November 2004
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the QA Framework: Specification
Guidelines. The document is designed to help W3C editors write
better specifications by making a specification easier to interpret
without ambiguity, and clearer as to what is required in order to
conform. Comments are welcome through 28 January. The QA Handbook is now a
Working Group Note. Written for W3C Working Group Chairs and Team
Contacts, the handbook provides techniques, tools, and templates for
test suites and specifications, and is designed to facilitate and
accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups. Learn more about quality assurance at W3C.
22 November 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of two parts of the Character Model for the World Wide Web
1.0. Fundamentals is a
Proposed Recommendation and Resource Identifiers is a
Candidate Recommendation. The documents provide authors of
specifications, software developers, and content developers with a
common reference for text manipulation and the use of internationalized
resource identifiers on the Web. They build on the Universal Character
Set defined by Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. Comments are welcome through
20 December and 15 January respectively. Visit the Internationalization home page.
19 November 2004
The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft
for Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0. This draft focuses on guidelines, attempts to apply
guidelines to a wider range of technologies, and uses wording that may
be understood by a more varied audience. Following WCAG checkpoints
makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to users
of a variety of Web-enabled devices. Read about the Web
Accessibility Initiative.
18 November 2004
SFC Open Research Forum (ORF) (in Japanese) is an annual
open house event of the Keio Research Institute of Shonan Fujisawa
Campus (SFC), Keio University, Japan. At ORF 2004, W3C/Keio will
organize a talk session, "W3C Forum in ORF," on 24 November. Tatsuya
Hagino chairs, and Masayasu Ishikawa, Martin Dürst, Yoshio Fukushige
and Kazhiro Kitagawa will give talks on Web technologies such as
Compound Document Formats, Internationalization, the Semantic Web and
Social Information Filtering. The event is open to interested companies
and the general public.
17 November 2004
The W3C "Mobile Web Initiative"
Workshop is 18-19 November in Barcelona, Spain. Participants will
discuss how a W3C initiative could help to make Web access from a
mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as Web access from a
desktop device. Sponsored by W3C Members HP, Orange, Vodafone and
Volantis, and colocated with an OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) meeting, the
workshop is designed for industry and community input and feedback.
Read the press release, the
program, about workshops, and about W3C's mobile Web work.
16 November 2004
The Web Services
Internationalization Task Force of the Internationalization Working
Group has published Requirements for the
Internationalization of Web Services as a Working Group Note.
Developed to help achieve worldwide usability for Web services, the
requirements address the way internationalization options are exposed
in Web services definitions, descriptions, messages, and discovery
mechanisms. Visit the Internationalization
home page.
16 November 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of three technical reports to Proposed Recommendations
offering an optimal way to transfer binary data like images in Web
services messages. Produced by the XML Protocol Working Group, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for
exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed
environment such as the Web. Comments are welcome through 16 December.
Visit the Web services home page.
15 November 2004
The XForms Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of XForms 1.1. XForms is the new
generation of Web forms. Addressing immediate needs for the forms
community, version 1.1 has enhancements for the XForms 1.0 framework, embraces
SOAP, makes XForms authoring easier, and facilitates XForms use in
other host languages. Comments are welcome. Visit the XForms home page.
09 November 2004
The SYMM Working Group has
released a Proposed Edited Recommendation for the Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language (SMIL 2.0). This second edition is not a new version; its
purpose is to correct errors in the SMIL 2.0 first edition as a
convenience to readers. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts animation on a
time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and describes
animation elements for any XML-based host language. Comments are
welcome through 5 December. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia home page.
09 November 2004
The XML Core Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of xml:id Version 1.0. The
specification introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be
treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized. Comments are
welcome through 13 December. Visit the XML home
page.
09 November 2004
The XML Binary
Characterization Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of
XML Binary
Characterization Use Cases. Presenting documented examples, the
draft will help to decide if standardized and optimized serialization
can be used to improve the generation, parsing, transmission and
storage of XML-based data. Visit the XML home
page.
05 November 2004
Addressing comments received
during Last Call, the XSL Working Group has released a Working Draft of
XSL Transformations (XSLT)
Version 2.0. Comments are welcome. Version 2.0 of the XSLT language
allows transformation of XML documents and non-XML data into other
documents, is designed for use with XPath
2.0 and includes the means to serialize the results of a
transformation. Visit the XML home page.
05 November 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Architecture of
the World Wide Web, First Edition to Proposed Recommendation. The
World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient
scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a
remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across
languages, cultures and media. In an effort to preserve these
properties of the information space as its technologies evolve, this
architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web.
Comments are welcome through 8 December. Visit the TAG home page.
04 November 2004
The XML Binary
Characterization Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of
XML Binary
Characterization Use Cases. Presenting documented examples, the
draft will help to decide if standardized and optimized serialization
can be used to improve the generation, parsing, transmission and
storage of XML-based data. Comments are welcome. Visit the XML home page.
01 November 2004
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel.
- Steve Bratt presents at the European Research Consortium for Informatics
and Mathematics Strategy Workshop in Malaga, Spain on 3
November.
- Steven Pemberton presents tutorials at User Experience
2004 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 4 and 6 November.
- Ivan Herman presents at the W3C
Spanish Office, the University of Oviedo in Oviedo, Spain, and the
W3C Spanish Office Standards Tour
2004 in Bilbao, Spain on 7 November.
- Daniel Weitzner presents at the UCLA Journal of Law and Technology
First Annual JOLT Symposium: "Patent Policy in the Context of Internet
Open Standards Development" in Los Angeles, CA, USA on 9 November.
- Eric Miller presents at the CrossRef
Annual Member Meeting 2004 in Boston, MA, USA on 9 November.
- Steve Bratt gives a keynote at the Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, USA on 9 November.
- Daniel Weitzner speaks at the Distinguished
Lecture Series at the University of California School of
Information Management and Systems in Berkeley, CA, USA on 10
November.
- Bert Bos presents at the W3C Spanish Office
Standards Tour in Barcelona, Spain on 10 November.
- Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at the W3C Spanish Office
Standards Tour in Valencia, Spain on 11 November.
- Ivan Herman presents at Media Elements 2004 in Enschede,
The Netherlands on 12 November.
- Hugo Haas presents and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen presents and gives a
tutorial at XML 2004
in Washington, DC, USA on 15-17 November.
- Richard Ishida presents at Localization World in San
Francisco, CA, USA on 16 November.
- Eric Miller presents at
National Archive Partnerships in Innovation - Serving a Networked
Nation in Washington, DC, USA on 16 November.
- David Booth and Steve Bratt present at the Gartner
Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Orlando, FL, USA
on 17 and 20 November.
- Eric Miller gives a tutorial at the Professional
Development Seminars Series of the Greater Boston Chapter of the
ACM in Boston, MA, USA on 20 November.
- Daniel Dardailler and Hugo Haas present at Forum Integration in
Paris, France on 25 November.
- Matt May participates in a keynote panel at the Gilbane Content
Management Technologies Conference in Boston, MA, USA on 30
November.
01 November 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Device Independence Activity. The Device Independence
Working Group is chaired by Rhys Lewis (Volantis) and is chartered
through October 2006. Guiding content authors and enabling different
devices with different capabilities, the group's specifications ensure
access to a unified Web from any device in any context by anyone.
Participation is open to W3C
Members. Visit the Device Independence home
page.
29 October 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released XML Schema Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation in
three parts: Part 0:
Primer, Part 1:
Structures and Part 2:
Datatypes. The second edition is not a new version; it corrects
errors found in the XML Schema first edition. A modular approach
well-suited to distributed applications, XML schemas define shared
markup vocabularies and the structure of XML documents using those
vocabularies. Visit the XML home page.
29 October 2004
The XML Query Working Group
and the XSL Working Group have released five updated Working Drafts
addressing comments received during Last Call. Comments are invited on
all of these drafts. Visit the XML home page.
27 October 2004
The SVG Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2.
The SVG language delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector
graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The document also
describes a set of APIs for building
graphics-based applications. Comments are welcome through 24 November.
Visit the SVG home page.
26 October 2004
The W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life
Sciences is being held in Cambridge, MA, USA on 27-28 October. Data
networks allow biology to progress from the mapping of one-dimensional
DNA to understanding multi-dimensional organisms and their diseases.
Semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL enable the rapid creation of rich information
networks and can assist in the generation of hypotheses across massive
data sets. Workshop participants will address the publication, sharing
and management of data networks, and will develop use cases and
prototypes. Read the press
release and about W3C workshops,
and visit the Semantic Web home page.
15 October 2004
The GEO (Guidelines, Education
and Outreach) Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has
published an updated Working Draft of Specifying the Language of
Content. Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an
aid to specifying the language of content for an international
audience. Comments are welcome. Visit the Internationalization home page.
12 October 2004
The Web Services Choreography
Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the Web Services Choreography Description
Language Version 1.0 (WS-CDL). This XML-based language describes
peer-to-peer collaborations between Web service participants by
defining their behavior from a global viewpoint. Ordered message
exchanges thus accomplish a common business goal. Visit the Web services home page.
12 October 2004
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Data Access Use Cases and
Requirements. The draft suggests how an RDF
query language and data access protocol could be used in the
construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like
Web publishing, personal information management, transportation and
tourism. Comments are welcome. Visit the Semantic
Web home page.
12 October 2004
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for
RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users
a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of
information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about
digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means
of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
07 October 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the Compound Document Formats Activity. The Compound Document Formats (CDF) Working Group,
chartered through 6 October 2006,
is chaired by Vincent Hardy (Sun). The group's specifications will
combine selected existing document formats (such as XHTML, SVG and
SMIL) with other technologies (such as CSS and DOM) and specify their
runtime behavior. Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit the Compound Document Formats home page.
07 October 2004
This year, W3C celebrates its
tenth anniversary. During a symposium for Members and invited guests in
Boston, USA on 1 December, W3C will reflect on the progress of the Web,
W3C's central role in its growth, and risks and opportunities facing
the Web during W3C's second decade. Please sign the greeting card and read about the W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration.
05 October 2004
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel.
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen presented at the W3C Office in Germany and Austria on 1
October.
- Karl Dubost presented at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec,
Canada on 5 October.
- Yasuyuki Hirakawa presented at the 9th Workshop: Overview of
Web Standardization Organizations in Tokyo, Japan on 5
October.
- Steven Pemberton presents tutorials at User Experience
2004 in Las Vegas, NV, USA on 6 and 8 October.
- Shawn Lawton Henry gives a keynote at HighEdWebDev 2004,
eMergingVisions in Rochester, NY, USA on 11 October.
- Carine Bournez and Philipp Hoschka present at W3C-Tag in
Berlin, Germany on 13 October.
- Eric Miller gives a keynote at the 2nd Shanghai International Library
Forum (SILF) and the International Conference on Dublin Core
and Metadata Applications 2004 (DC2004) in Shanghai, China on 13
October.
- Bert Bos and Marie-Claire Forgue run a booth at Fête de la
Science 2004 in Sophia Antipolis, France on 16 October.
- John Wilbanks participates in the Integrating
Knowledge in the Life Sciences Product Life Cycle virtual
conference held 18-29 October.
- Karl Dubost presents at Découvrir et bien choisir vos technologies Web in
Montréal, Québec, Canada on 20 October.
- Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote at the Symposium
of the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries
Association (JEITA) in Tokyo, Japan on 20 October.
05 October 2004
The XML Binary
Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working
Draft of XML Binary
Characterization Properties. Derived from use cases, this first draft
in a series describes properties identified as desirable for any
serialization of an XML data model. Comments are welcome. Visit the
XML home page.
30 September 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of XML Inclusions
(XInclude) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. XInclude
introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information
sets) using existing XML constructs—elements, attributes and URI
references. Comments are welcome through 29 October. Visit the XML home page.
29 September 2004
Position papers are due 15
October for the W3C "Mobile
Web Initiative" Workshop to be held in Barcelona, Spain on 18-19
November. Attendees will discuss how a W3C initiative could help to
make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as
Web access from a desktop device. Read about workshops and W3C's mobile Web work.
28 September 2004
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released a third Working Draft of the Ink Markup Language (InkML). The
InkML data format is used to represent ink entered with an electronic
pen or stylus. Ink-aware Web applications can process and exchange
handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages.
Visit the Multimodal Interaction home
page.
27 September 2004
W3C is pleased to announce
that Noah Mendelsohn (IBM) has been appointed to the W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG). Noah joins TAG participants Dan Connolly
(W3C), Paul Cotton (Microsoft), Roy Fielding (Day Software), Chris
Lilley (W3C), Norm Walsh (Sun), and co-Chairs Stuart Williams
(Hewlett-Packard) and Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). The remaining one open
seat will be filled at the next TAG election. Created in 2001, the TAG
documents principles of Web architecture and works with other groups to
resolve architectural issues. Read the Architecture of the World Wide Web
Last Call Working Draft and visit the TAG home
page.
20 September 2004
Massimo Marchiori, W3C Research Scientist at MIT
and research professor in Computer Science at the University of Venice,
has been chosen as one of Technology Review's
2004
TR100, a group of one hundred young innovators in technology
from around the world. The award recognizes Massimo's innovative
contributions in a variety of fields including search engines,
networks, Semantic Web, privacy, and modularity. Join us in
congratulating Massimo for his achievement. Read about his past and
ongoing work on Massimo's home page.
08 September 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released the Speech Synthesis Markup
Language (SSML) Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. With the
XML-based SSML language, content authors can generate synthetic speech
on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. "SSML
builds on the work of the pioneers in speech synthesis to provide
application developers with a powerful and flexible means to deliver a
high quality mix of synthetic and pre-recorded speech as part of
interactive voice response services," said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon).
Read the press release,
testimonials and implementation report and visit the Voice Browser home page.
02 September 2004
The deadline for position
papers has been extended one week to 13 September for the W3C Workshop on Metadata for Content
Adaptation to be held in Dublin, Ireland on 12-13 October.
Attendees will discuss how metadata can help the adaption of Web
content to fit user needs and device characteristics, and will provide
feedback and suggestions for future W3C work. Read about workshops and Interaction at W3C.
02 September 2004
The 26th Internationalization
& Unicode Conference will be held 7-10 September in San Jose,
CA, USA. Presenters include Team members Martin Dürst and Richard
Ishida and participants in the W3C Internationalization Working Group.
The event is the premier technical conference worldwide for software
and Web internationalization. During four days of tutorials and
presentations, leaders in the field will discuss internationalized Web
addresses and markup, language and locale tagging, complex scripts,
ICU, software
internationalization and other topics. Read about Unicode and the W3C Internationalization Activity.
01 September 2004
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel.
- Ivan Herman presents at the Web Intelligence Symposium at the
STeP-2004 conference in Helsinki, Finland on 2
September.
- Participants in the Internationalization
Working Group and Team members present at the 26th Internationalization
and Unicode Conference in San Jose, CA, USA on 7-10 September.
- Participants in the Voice Browser and
Multimodal Interaction Working Groups present
at SpeechTEK 2004 in
New York, NY, USA on 13-16 September.
- Tim Berners-Lee gives the keynote at SpeechTEK 2004 in New York,
NY, USA on 14 September
- Robin Berjon, XML Binary Characterization Working Group, presents
at XML for Binary
Interchange in Hampton, VA, USA on 21 September.
- Massimo Marchiori presents at Web Intelligence (WI
2004) in Beijing, China on 21 September.
- John Wilbanks presents at the Fourth Virtual
Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics on 22 September.
- Steve Bratt presents in Woods Hole, MA, USA on 23 September.
- Karl Dubost presents at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal in
Montréal, Québec, Canada on 25 September.
- Richard Ishida presents at La
typographie entre les domaines de l'art et de l'informatique in
Rabat, Morocco on 25 September.
- Matt May presents a tutorial at OSCOM 4 in Zürich,
Switzerland on 29 September.
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen gives a keynote at Net.Object Days 2004 in Erfurt,
Germany on 29 September.
01 September 2004
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal
Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction
management systems. EMMA represents user input. Speech and handwriting
recognizers, natural language engines, media interpreters, and
multimodal integration components generate EMMA markup. Visit the
Multimodal Interaction home page.
01 September 2004
Through joint efforts, the
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group and the CSS Working Group
have released the First Public Working Draft of SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL). The
sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behavior of
elements outside the SVG namespace. A future version may extend XBL to
any markup. Visit the SVG and CSS home pages.
31 August 2004
The XForms Working Group has
updated the XForms 1.1
Requirements Working Group Note. XForms is the new generation of
Web forms. Version 1.1 has enhancements for the XForms 1.0 framework, embraces
SOAP, makes XForms authoring easier, and facilitates XForms use in
other host languages. Visit the XForms home
page.
30 August 2004
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has published three Working Drafts. Written for W3C
Working Group Chairs and Team Contacts, The QA Handbook provides
techniques, tools, and templates for test suites and specifications.
QA Framework:
Specification Guidelines are designed to help make technical
reports easy to interpret without ambiguity, and explain how to define
and specify conformance. Variability in
Specifications is a First Public Working Draft. Formerly part of
the Specification Guidelines, the document contains advanced design
considerations and conformance-related techniques. Read about QA at W3C.
26 August 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of three technical reports to Candidate Recommendations,
offering an optimal way to transfer binary data like images in Web
services messages. Produced by the XML Protocol Working Group, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for
exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed
environment such as the Web. Comments are welcome through 15 September.
Visit the Web services home page.
23 August 2004
The deadline for position
papers has been extended one week to 3 September for the W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities
for Web Services to be held in Redwood Shores, CA, USA on 12-13
October. Attendees will discuss the establishment of a framework for
describing Web services constraints and capabilities, and will provide
feedback and suggestions for future work. Read more about workshops and Web
services.
19 August 2004
The W3C Technical Architecture
Group (TAG) has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the
Architecture of the World Wide
Web, First Edition. The document is written for Web developers,
implementers, content authors and publishers. It describes the
properties that are desired of the Web and the design choices that have
been made to achieve them. Comments are welcome through 17 September.
Visit the TAG home page.
17 August 2004
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has
announced two Last Call Internet-Drafts important for Web addressing.
The documents are coordinated IETF-W3C efforts.
-
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax is written by Tim
Berners-Lee (W3C), Roy Fielding (Day Software) and Larry Masinter
(Adobe) with involvement of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG).
Last Call ends 13 September. Simple text strings that refer to
Internet resources, URIs may refer to documents, resources, to people,
and indirectly to anything. URIs are a fundamental component of the
Web. Read about the W3C URI Activity and
visit the TAG home page.
- Internationalized
Resource Identifiers (IRIs) is written by Martin Dürst (W3C) and
Michel Suignard (Microsoft) with involvement of the W3C
Internationalization Working Group. Lifting the limitation to a subset
of US-ASCII
previously allowed in Web addresses, IRIs allow characters in the
Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO 10646).
Last Call ends 8 September. Visit the W3C Internationalization home page.
13 August 2004
The Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Mobile SVG Profile: SVG Tiny,
Version 1.2. The draft defines SVG Tiny 1.2, a mobile profile of
SVG 1.2 suitable for displaying vector graphics on small devices.
Comments are welcome through 17 September. Visit the SVG home page.
06 August 2004
The Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) Working Group has released the fourth Working Draft of Mobile SVG Profile: SVG Tiny,
Version 1.2. The draft defines SVG Tiny 1.2, a mobile profile of
SVG 1.2 suitable for displaying vector graphics on small devices. The
Working Group invites comments. Visit the SVG
home page.
05 August 2004
SVG Open 2004, the 3rd annual
conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, will be held 7-10 September at
Keio University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo. The conference
schedule has courses and
presentations and location and
accommodation. Registration opens 31
August. A joint event, UPIMap is colocated on 7-9
September. SVG Open is your chance to discuss SVG development
experiences, products, workflows and strategies. The conference
language is English; translation facilities will be available to
encourage English-Japanese communication. Read about SVG.
05 August 2004
W3C's mailing lists are being
moved to a new server on Saturday, 7 August at 04:00 UTC. List service
will be suspended for a few hours but the majority of the W3C Web site
will remain accessible. Mail sent to W3C archives will be queued and
posted when the move is complete. The W3C Systems Team expects to have
list service restored on the same day. We appreciate your patience.
04 August 2004
The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Data Access Use Cases and
Requirements. The draft suggests how an RDF
query language and data access protocol could be used in the
construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like
Web publishing, personal information management, transportation and
tourism. Comments are welcome. Visit the Semantic
Web home page.
03 August 2004
The Web Services Description
Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of the Web
Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language, Part 2: Predefined
Extensions and Part
3: Bindings. WSDL is an XML language for describing network
services. The drafts describe functionality, and define sequence,
cardinality and criteria for conformant processors. Comments are
welcome through 4 October. Read about Web
services.
02 August 2004
The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft
for Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0. Version 2.0 widens the range of technologies
covered and simplifies wording. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web
content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a
variety of Web-enabled devices. Read about the Web
Accessibility Initiative.
29 July 2004
W3C and the Open Mobile
Alliance (OMA) today
announced a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) enabling their cooperation on mobile Web
specifications. "Together, W3C and OMA are well positioned to lead
development toward technological compatibility and the ease of
repurposing Web content, known as single Web authoring," said Philipp
Hoschka (W3C). In widespread use, W3C Recommendations for the mobile
industry include XHTML Basic markup,
SMIL multimedia and SVG graphics. Read the press release and more about Device Independence.
28 July 2004
The XML Binary
Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working
Draft of XML Binary
Characterization Use Cases. Presenting documented examples, the
draft will help to decide if standardized and optimized serialization
can be used to improve the generation, parsing, transmission and
storage of XML-based data. Comments are welcome. Visit the XML home page.
27 July 2004
The CSS Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of the CSS3 Speech Module. The
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to render structured
documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. The
draft defines aural properties that match the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
model. Comments are welcome. Visit the CSS home
page.
26 July 2004
The XML Query Working Group
and the XSL Working Group have released five updated Working Drafts.
Comments on all of these documents are invited. Visit the XML home page.
22 July 2004
The HTML Working Group has
released the sixth public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. A modularized language
without presentation elements, XHTML 2 takes HTML back to its roots in
document structuring. The draft includes an early implementation of
XHTML 2.0 in RELAX NG. Comments
are welcome. Visit the HTML home page.
20 July 2004
The P3P Specification Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1
(P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site
privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version
1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from
W3C workshops and the privacy community. Read about privacy and P3P.
19 July 2004
The XML Schema Working Group
has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 in two
parts: Part 1:
Structures and Part
2: Datatypes. The drafts include change logs from the XML Schema
1.0 language and are based on version 1.1 requirements. XML schemas
define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which
use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with
them. Visit the XML home page.
16 July 2004
Queen Elizabeth II has
dubbed Sir Timothy Berners-Lee a
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) during an
Investiture at Buckingham Palace in London on 16 July. UK Honours
are available to all who give service to the United Kingdom. Sir
Timothy, a British citizen who lives in the United States and is
Director of W3C, was knighted in recognition of his services to the
global development of the Internet through his invention of the World
Wide Web. Please read the congratulations and press release.
15 July 2004
The W3C Advisory Committee has
filled five 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 Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG), Ann Bassetti (Boeing),
Jim Bell (Hewlett-Packard), Klaus Birkenbihl (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft),
Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Ken Laskey
(MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Lauren Wood (Unaffiliated). Steve
Zilles is the interim Advisory Board Chair.
15 July 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the Speech Synthesis Markup
Language (SSML) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments
are welcome through 27 August 2004. With the XML-based SSML language,
content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling
pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity.
09 July 2004
Through joint efforts the XML
Query and XSL Working Groups have released the First Public Working
Draft of XQuery 1.0
and XPath 2.0 Full-Text. The use cases have
been updated. The drafts define a language that extends XQuery and
XPath to allow full-text searching of XML text and documents. Comments
are invited. Read about the XML Activity.
08 July 2004
Position papers are due 6
September for the W3C Workshop on
Metadata for Content Adaptation to be held in Dublin, Ireland on
12-13 October. Attendees will discuss how metadata can help the
adaption of Web content to fit user needs and device characteristics,
and will provide feedback and suggestions for future W3C work. Read
about Workshops and Interaction at W3C.
05 July 2004
Addressing a selection of Last
Call issues, the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released a
updated Working Draft of the Architecture of the World Wide Web,
First Edition. The document is written for Web developers,
implementers, content authors and publishers. It describes the
properties that are desired of the Web and the design choices that have
been made to achieve them. Visit the TAG home
page.
01 July 2004
W3C is pleased to announce
that the RDF Core and Web Ontology Working Groups have successfully
completed all deliverables. Together these W3C Working Groups developed
twelve W3C Recommendations specifying the Resource
Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web
Ontology Language. Please join us in thanking all participants and
Chairs Brian McBride (HP Labs), Dan Brickley (W3C), Jim Hendler
(University of Maryland) and Guus Schreiber (Ibrow) for their
contributions. Visit the Semantic Web home
page.
14 June 2004
W3C is pleased to announce
that on 15 June in Helsinki, Ms. Tarja
Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland, will present the
first
Millennium Technology Prize to W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee. The award is given in one
of four disciplines for "outstanding technological achievements that
directly promote people's quality of life, are based on humane values,
and encourage sustainable economic development." The ceremonies are
held in conjunction with the
Millennium Technology Conference (
Programme PDF 1.5MB) in Espoo, Finland on 13-16 June.
11 June 2004
The XForms Working Group has
updated the XForms 1.1
Requirements Working Group Note. XForms is the new generation of
Web forms. Version 1.1 has enhancements for the XForms 1.0 framework, embraces
SOAP, makes XForms authoring easier, and facilitates XForms use in
other host languages. Visit the XForms home
page.
09 June 2004
W3C is pleased to announce
Making Visualizations of Complex
Information Accessible for People with Disabilities, a
teleconference sponsored by the W3C Web Accessibility
Initiative's Research and Development Interest Group. Registration
is required and is open through 21 June to 40 participants. Attendees
can expect to learn about current research in making visualization
technologies for the Internet accessible to persons with disabilities
and to develop contacts with people performing that research. The
telecon is 28 June 2004 and includes real-time captioning.
08 June 2004
The XML Protocol Working Group
has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SOAP Resource Representation
Header. Comments are welcome through 29 June. The document
describes a SOAP header block that allows applications to carry a
representation of a resource in a SOAP message. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for
exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed
environment. Visit the Web services home
page.
03 June 2004
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has released QA Specification Guidelines as
a Working Draft. The document is designed to help W3C Working Groups
write technical reports. Reflecting major changes in the W3C QA
Framework, these newly rewritten guidelines are lightweight and more
user-friendly. Comments are welcome. Learn more about Quality Assurance (QA) at W3C.
14 May 2004
The W3C Track chaired by Marie-Claire
Forgue runs from 19-21 May at the Thirteenth International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2004) in New York, NY USA. W3C Members and Team
present three days of content on W3C technologies and achievements. The
W3C Track conference room is New York Ballroom B. Conference attendees
are also invited to Developers Day presentations on 22 May.
11 May 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the CSS3 Basic
User Interface Module to Candidate Recommendation. The Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to render structured documents like
HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. This module addresses
user interface states and features, element fragments, forms, stylistic
attributes in HTML, focus navigation, and styling elements as icons for
accessibility. Comments are invited through 11 November. Visit the
CSS home page.
10 May 2004
The SVG Working Group has
released the seventh public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2.
The SVG language delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector
graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group invites
comments on this draft. Visit the SVG home
page.
10 May 2004
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released the Requirements and
Capabilities Assessment for the Document Object Model (DOM) as a
Working Group Note. Based on their framework. the Multimodal Interaction Activity
is extending the Web user interface to allow multiple modes of
interaction: aural, visual and tactile. The document examines
interfaces between modality components and their host environment.
Visit the Multimodal Interaction home
page.
10 May 2004
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of The QA Handbook. Written for
W3C Working Group Chairs and Team Contacts, the document replaces and
incorporates the best features of the former QA Framework's
Introduction and Operational Guidelines. It provides techniques, tools,
and templates for test suites and specifications, and is designed to
facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups. Visit the
QA home page.
03 May 2004
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel.
- Ivan Herman presented an SVG tutorial for the Professional
Development Seminars Series of the Greater Boston Chapter of the
ACM in Cambridge, MA, USA on 1 May.
- Max Froumentin presented at the W3C Seminar at
DSTC, IIB, Brisbane, Australia on 4 May.
- Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel at the
Université de Printemps de la Fondation Internet Nouvelle
Génération in Aix-en-Provence, France on 6 May.
- Max Froumentin presents at the National Library of Australia, Canberra on
7 May.
- Daniel Weitzner participates in a panel on Internet standards at
INET 2004 in Barcelona, Spain
on 12 May.
- Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote at CRIS 2004, the 7th International
Conference on Current Research Information Systems in Antwerp,
Belgium on 15 May.
30 April 2004
The Voice Browser Working
Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version
1.0 including major updates. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible
Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML
and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome through 28 May. Visit
the Voice Browser home page.
28 April 2004
The XML Protocol Working Group
has released the First Public Working Draft of SOAP Resource Representation
Header. The document describes a SOAP header block that allows
applications to carry a representation of a resource in a SOAP message.
SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight
protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized,
distributed environment. Visit the Web services
home page.
28 April 2004
The P3P Specification Working
Group has released the second public Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1
(P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site
privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version
1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from
W3C workshops and the privacy community. Read about privacy and P3P.
28 April 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Synchronized Multimedia (SYMM) Activity. The Synchronized Multimedia Working Group is co-chaired
by Yoshihisa Gonno (Sony) and Guido Grassel (Nokia) and will extend the
SMIL 2.0 W3C Recommendation. The Timed Text Working Group is chaired by Glenn
Adams (XFSI) and is developing XML vocabulary and document types for
subtitles and captions. Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia home page.
16 April 2004
SVG Open 2004, the 3rd annual conference
on Scalable Vector Graphics, will be held 7-10 September 2004 at Keio
University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo. The submission deadline
for paper abstracts has been extended to 7 May. Proposals for courses
or exhibitions may be submitted online. SVG Open is your chance to
discuss SVG development experience, products, workflows and strategies.
The conference language is English; translation facilities will be
available to encourage English-Japanese communication. Read about
SVG.
15 April 2004
W3C is pleased to announce
that the Finnish Technology Award Foundation board has unanimously
presented its first Millennium Technology Prize to
W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee. The
award is given in one of four disciplines for "outstanding
technological achievements that directly promote people's quality of
life, are based on humane values, and encourage sustainable economic
development." Read the press
release.
14 April 2004
W3C's Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI) has provided an initial response to the Web
Access Report released 14 April 2004 by the UK Disabilities Rights
Commission. The DRC Report explores the state of Web site accessibility
and usability in the UK, and in some sections makes recommendations
regarding work done by W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Learn
more about Web Accessibility
14 April 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Math Activity. The W3C Membership approved the Math
Interest Group and its charter. The group will maintain the
MathML W3C Recommendation and continue its
task of facilitating the use of mathematics on the Web, for use in
science, technology and education. Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit the Math home page.
13 April 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of XML Inclusions
(XInclude) Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. XInclude
introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information
sets) using existing XML constructs—elements, attributes and URI
references. Comments and implementation reports are welcome through 28
May. Visit the XML home page.
08 April 2004
The XML Core Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of xml:id Version 1.0. The
specification introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be
treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized. Comments are
welcome. Visit the XML home page.
07 April 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released two Document Object Model (DOM) specifications as W3C
Recommendations. With DOM Level 3 Core,
software developers and script authors manipulate the content,
structure and style of Web documents. DOM Level 3 Load and Save
allows programs and scripts to load, serialize and filter document
contents. Read the press release
and visit the DOM home page.
07 April 2004
The XML Core Working Group has
released XML
Processing Model Requirements as a Working Group Note. The XML
Processing Model and Language it outlines is an interoperable way for
applications to describe the order in which processes should be applied
to XML documents. Visit the XML home page.
01 April 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
first standalone release of the W3C Link Checker. Started by
Hugo Haas in 1999, the project is now managed by Ville Skyttä and the
W3C Quality Assurance (QA) Activity. Documentation and source code are
available. Comments are welcome on the www-validator@w3.org mailing
list (archive). Read
about W3C's free software and visit the QA home page.
29 March 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
creation of the XML Binary Characterization
Working Group in the XML Activity. Robin Berjon (Expway) chairs.
Chartered for a
year, the group will analyze and develop use cases and measurements for
alternate encodings of XML. Its goal is to determine if serialized
binary XML transmission and formats are feasible. Participation is open
to W3C Members. Read about the
XML Activity.
29 March 2004
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel.
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen gives a public lecture at the Austrian Academy Corpus (AAC) Scientific
Advisory Board Meeting in Vienna, Austria on 1 April.
- Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote at the 2nd International Conference
on Trust Management to be held at St. Anne's College, Oxford, UK on
1 April.
- Steven Pemberton gives the keynote at the Origo Industry XForms
Briefing at IBM South Bank, London, UK on 6 April.
- Ivan Herman presents at the Visualisation Ontology
Workshop in Edinburgh, UK on 7 April.
- Steven Pemberton gives a keynote and Liam Quin presents at XML Europe 2004 in Amsterdam,
Netherlands on 19 April.
- Daniel Weitzner participates in the United States Federal Trade
Commission Spyware
Workshop in Washington DC, USA on 19 April.
- Ivan Herman presents at Boundaryless Information Flow:
Managing the Flow in Brussels, Belgium on 19 April.
- Daniel Weitzner moderates a panel at the 14th Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference
(CFP 2004) in Berkeley CA, USA on 22 April.
- Deborah Dahl, W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair, gives
a keynote and runs a workshop at the 4th annual SITE Tech
Conference in Springfield, IL, USA on 24 April.
- Steven Pemberton presents an XForms tutorial at CHI2004 in Vienna, Austria on 25
April.
26 March 2004
The Web Services Description
Working Group has updated two Working Drafts of the Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Message Patterns.
WSDL is a model and XML format for describing network services. The
drafts enable abstract functionality and concrete details, and define
sequence, cardinality and criteria for conformant processors. Read
about Web Services.
24 March 2004
The Web Services Choreography
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the
WS Choreography Model
Overview. The Working Group is defining a choreography definition
language for coordinating interactions among Web services and their
users. Visit the Web services home page.
23 March 2004
The Web Graphics
Track at SIGGRAPH 2004
is accepting submissions through 31 March. Potential topics include Web
standards, Internet applications, usability, accessibility,
visualization, animation and games. The Web Graphics Track is a recent
addition to the world's premier graphics conference which runs this
year from 8-12 August in Los Angeles CA, USA. Read about the W3C
Graphics Activity.
22 March 2004
The W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group (PAG) has published
its final report. The PAG was
chartered in 2003 to study HTML specification issues raised by the
court case of Eolas v. Microsoft and US Patent 5,838,906. The HTML PAG
recommended that the W3C Director contact the US Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO) and request a reexamination which is
underway. The USPTO made a preliminary report rejecting all claims. Visit the
HTML home page.
18 March 2004
The XML Schema Working Group
has released a Proposed Edited Recommendation for XML Schema Second
Edition in three parts: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Structures, Part 2: Datatypes. The second
edition is not a new version; its purpose is to correct errors in the
XML Schema Recommendation. XML schemas define shared markup
vocabularies and the structure of XML documents using those
vocabularies, using a modular approach well-suited to distributed
applications. Comments are welcome through 16 April. Visit the XML home page.
18 March 2004
The SVG Working Group has
released the sixth public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2.
The SVG language delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector
graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group invites
comments on this draft. Visit the SVG home
page.
18 March 2004
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel.
- Judy Brewer, Wendy Chisholm, Marja-Riitta Koivunen and Matt May
present at the CSUN
19th Annual International Conference, "Technology and Persons With
Disabilities," at California State University in Northridge, CA, USA on
15-20 March.
- Charles McCathieNevile presents at the University of Melbourne,
Australia on 24 March.
- From the W3C Internationalization Activity, Steve Billings, Mark
Davis, Martin Dürst, Richard Ishida, Michael McKenna, Addison Phillips,
Michel Suignard, Tex Texin and Andrea Vine present at the 25th Internationalization
and Unicode Conference in Alexandria, VA, near Washington, DC, USA
on 31 March - 2 April. Also presenting is Michael Rys, W3C XML Query
Working Group.
- Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote on 1 April at the 2nd International Conference
on Trust Management held at St. Anne's College, Oxford, UK.
11 March 2004
The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft for
Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0. Version 2.0 widens the range of technologies
covered and simplifies wording. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web
content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a
variety of Web-enabled devices. Read about the Web
Accessibility Initiative.
11 March 2004
W3C's systems based at the MIT
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, MA, USA are being
moved to their new location in the MIT Stata Center on
Saturday, 13 March. Many services will be suspended but the majority of
the W3C Web site will remain accessible. Mail sent to W3C archives will
be queued and posted when the move is complete. The W3C Systems Team expects to have
all services tested and functioning by the end of Sunday, 14 March
(Monday, 15 March UTC). We appreciate your patience.
09 March 2004
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also
available as an RSS channel.
- Tatsuya Hagino presents at the International
Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR2004) at the Tokyo
Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan on 9 March.
- Wendy Chisholm participates in the panel Accessibility is for
Everybody at the
SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, USA
on 13 March.
- Hugo Haas gives a keynote and Marie-Claire Forgue runs the W3C
booth at Les 2èmes
Rencontres Web Services at CNIT, Paris La Défense, France on 18
March.
- James Larson, W3C Voice Browser Working Group co-Chair, gives a
talk on 24 March and Deborah Dahl, W3C Multimodal Interaction Working
Group Chair, presents on 25 March at AVIOS SpeechTEK Spring in
San Francisco, CA, USA.
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen gives a public lecture at the Austrian Academy Corpus (AAC) Scientific
Advisory Board Meeting in Vienna, Austria on 1 April.
08 March 2004
The third annual SVG Open Conference and Exhibition will
be held 7-10 September in Tokyo, Japan. Co-sponsored by W3C and hosted
by Keio University, the SVG Open conference series is the premier forum
for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas, examples
and implementations. Proposals are welcome through 16 April for course
outlines and abstracts for papers. Opportunities are open now for booth
exhibits and conference sponsorships. The W3C SVG Working Group and
W3C's Chris Lilley will participate. Read about SVG.
01 March 2004
W3C holds its Technical Plenary Week from 1-5 March
in Cannes-Mandelieu, France where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest
Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests
attend the plenary mid-week where there will be 3-minute lightning
talks and presentations on Web architecture, mixed markup, quality
assurance, new Web devices and searching the Web. W3C thanks sponsors
IBM and Sun Microsystems for their generous
support.
26 February 2004
The SVG Working Group has
released its fifth public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2.
SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text,
and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group invites feedback on
this draft. Visit the SVG home page.
26 February 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of three Candidate Recommendations for the Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) language. A snapshot of CSS usage, CSS 2.1 adds a few highly requested
features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations.
CSS Print Profile works
with XHTML-Print for printing to low-cost devices. CSS3 Paged Media Module adds
pagination, page margins, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes,
and cross-references with page numbers. Comments are welcome through 25
August. Visit the CSS home page.
25 February 2004
The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the QA Framework: Test Guidelines.
One in a family of QA Framework documents, the draft defines a set of
common guidelines for conformance test materials for W3C
specifications. The group welcomes comments. Visit the QA home page.
25 February 2004
The CSS Working Group has
released two First Public Working Drafts, parts of the Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) language. The
CSS 'Reader' Media Type instructs devices to display and speak a
document or display and render it in braille. The CSS3 Hyperlink Presentation
Module describes the presentation of links and their activation.
Comments on both drafts are invited. Visit the CSS home page.
25 February 2004
The Internationalization
Working Group has published the Character Model for the World Wide Web
1.0 in two parts: Fundamentals in Last Call through
19 March, and Normalization. The documents
address character encoding identification, early uniform normalization,
string identity matching, string indexing, and URI conventions. They
build on the Universal Character Set defined by Unicode and ISO/IEC
10646. Visit the Internationalization home
page.
23 February 2004
The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the Ink Markup Language (InkML). The
InkML data format is used to represent ink entered with an electronic
pen or stylus. Ink-aware Web applications can process and exchange
handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages.
Visit the Multimodal Interaction home
page.
20 February 2004
The XML Query and XSL Working
Groups have released a Last Call Working Draft of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0
Formal Semantics. Part of a set, the document gives precise
meanings in terms of the XQuery and XPath 2.0 data model. It is written for readers
already familiar with these languages. The Working Group invites
comments through 15 April. Visit the XML home
page.
18 February 2004
Jigsaw
version 2.2.4 is available for download. As this version contains a
security fix, updating to 2.2.4 is highly recommended. The new version
also includes a revamped HTTP client stack as well as new SSL code from
Thomas Kopp. Implemented in Java, Jigsaw is W3C's open source Web
server platform.
17 February 2004
W3C has published a new
version of the Process
Document to align with the Patent Policy, which was
approved in May 2003. Among the changes are clarifications for
Technical Architecture Group (TAG) and Advisory Board participation,
and for the definitions of "consensus" and "First Public Working
Draft." W3C has adopted a transition procedure as part of implementing
the patent policy.
11 February 2004
The P3P Specification Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1
(P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site
privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version
1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from
W3C workshops and the privacy community. Read about privacy and P3P.
10 February 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web
Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C Recommendations. RDF is used to
represent information and to exchange knowledge in the Web. OWL is used
to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting
advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read the
press release and testimonials and visit the Semantic Web home page.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF):
The OWL Web Ontology Language:
- Overview - A
simple introduction
- Guide - Demonstrates
OWL through an extended example. Provides a glossary
- Reference - A compact,
informal description of OWL modelling primitives
- Semantics and
Abstract Syntax - Normative definition of the OWL language
- Test Cases - Test
cases illustrating correct OWL usage, the formal meaning of constructs,
and resolution of issues. Specifies conformance
- Use Cases and
Requirements - Usage scenarios, goals and requirements for a Web
ontology language
05 February 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of two Document Object Model (DOM) specifications to
Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 5 March. With
DOM Level 3 Core,
software developers and script authors manipulate the content,
structure and style of Web documents. DOM Level 3 Load and Save
allows programs and scripts to load, serialize and filter document
contents. Visit the DOM home page.
04 February 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released the Extensible
Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Third Edition as a W3C Recommendation.
The third edition is not a new version of XML. It brings the XML 1.0
Recommendation up to date with second edition errata, and clarifies its
use of RFC 2119 key words like must, should and
may. Visit the XML home page.
04 February 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released the XML
Information Set, Second Edition (Infoset) as a W3C Recommendation.
The document updates the Infoset to cover XML 1.1 and Namespaces 1.1,
clarifies the consequences of certain kinds of invalidity, and corrects
typographical errors. The Infoset defines a set of eleven types of
information items in XML documents. Visit the XML home
page.
30 January 2004
The W3C Advisory Committee has
elected Roy Fielding (Day Software) and Mario Jeckle (DaimlerChrysler)
to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). The other TAG
participants as of 1 February 2004 are Tim Bray (unaffiliated), Dan
Connolly (W3C), Paul Cotton (Microsoft), Chris Lilley (W3C), Norm Walsh
(Sun), and co-Chairs Stuart Williams (Hewlett-Packard) and Tim
Berners-Lee (W3C). Created in 2001, the TAG documents principles of Web
architecture and works with other groups to resolve architectural
issues. Read the Architecture
of the World Wide Web Last Call Working Draft and visit the
TAG home page.
27 January 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium
today released Document Object Model Level 3
Validation as a W3C Recommendation. DOM Level 3 Validation is a
module that provides guidance to programs and scripts to dynamically
update the content and the structure of documents while ensuring that
the document remains valid, or to ensure that the document becomes
valid. Learn more about the DOM Activity.
27 January 2004
The XForms Working Group has
released XForms 1.1
Requirements as a Working Group Note. XForms is the new generation
of Web forms. Version 1.1 has enhancements for the XForms 1.0 framework, embraces
SOAP, and facilitates XForms authoring. Visit the XForms home page.
21 January 2004
The Web Ontology Working Group
has released Parsing OWL
in RDF/XML as a Working Group Note. The OWL language is used to
publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced
Web search, software agents and knowledge management. This document
describes a strategy for OWL-RDF parsers. Read about the Semantic Web.
20 January 2004
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of XHTML-Print to Candidate
Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 20 July. XHTML-Print is
designed for printing from mobile devices, low-cost printers and in
environments without a printer-specific driver. The work is based on
XHTML-Print
written by the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of the IEEE-ISTO.
Visit the HTML home page.
15 January 2004
Amaya is
W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.2+ includes bug fixes
and new features for dates, tables, shortcuts and transformations.
Download Amaya binaries for Linux and
Windows NT/2000/XP and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the
Amaya home page and the Annotea home page.