W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-05-07

   W3C Public Newsletter

7 May 2007

W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

   W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-8 May in
   Banff/Calgary, Alberta, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate
   in two days of discussions and strategic planning about W3C
   Activities and future work. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and
   join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting to be held with
   Technical Plenary Week on 4-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA.

   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join

W3C Names Technology and Society Domain Leader, Policy Director

   W3C has named Ralph Swick Technology and Society Domain Leader and
   Daniel J. Weitzner to the new position Technology and Society Policy
   Director. Ralph, who was Technology and Society Technical Director
   since 1997, will oversee the T&S Activities, currently Privacy,
   Security, and Semantic Web. Danny will lead W3C public policy
   strategy efforts, continue to co-chair the Patents and Standards
   Interest Group, and direct and perform outside research, funded
   through grants to MIT's DIG and the WSRI . Read about T&S, W3C's
   work at the intersection of Web technology and public policy, and
   about W3C.

   http://www.w3.org/People/domain?domain=Management
   http://www.w3.org/People/all#swick
   http://www.w3.org/People/Weitzner.html
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities#TechnologyandSocietyDomain
   http://dig.csail.mit.edu/
   http://www.webscience.org/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities#TechnologyandSocietyDomain
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

Generated Content for Paged Media: CSS3 Working Draft

   The CSS Working Group has released an updated Working Draft for
   Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). "Generated Content for Paged
   Media" describes features such as cross-references, footnotes,
   headers and footers often used in printed publications. CSS is the
   Web's most widely-implemented language for style, used to render
   structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in
   speech. Visit the CSS home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-gcpm-20070504/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

mobileOK Scheme: Working Draft

   The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group released an updated
   Working Draft of the "W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0." mobileOK marks are
   machine-readable labels that indicate Web content and delivery pass
   the "Mobile Web Best Practices" test suite. Designed to create an
   effective user experience, mobileOK is written for content authors,
   tools developers and content providers. Read about the W3C Mobile
   Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content
   providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile
   operators.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-20070504/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

GRDDL Advances to W3C Candidate Recommendation

   W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "GRDDL" to Candidate
   Recommendation and the publication of "GRDDL Test Cases" as a Last
   Call Working Draft. Implementation feedback and comments are welcome
   through 31 May. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL
   mechanism is used to extract RDF statements from XHTML and XML
   content using programs such as XSLT. Read about the Semantic Web.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-grddl-20070502/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-grddl-tests-20070502/
   http://www.w3.org/RDF/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

SVG Tiny 1.2 Test Fest

   The SVG Working Group will hold a test fest on the first day of its
   face to face meeting in Zurich, Switzerland on 5 June. The beta SVG
   Tiny 1.2 test suite will be run against available SVG Tiny 1.2
   implementations to create an initial implementation report.
   Implementors are invited to attend or to send their implementations
   in for testing. For further details please mail the SVG Working
   Group. Visit the SVG home page.

   mailto:[email protected]
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

SVG 1.2 Primers, Language and Filters: Working Drafts

   The SVG Working Group published five Working Drafts for version 1.2
   of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), three extending the language to
   add raster effects like drop shadows. First Public Working Drafts
   include SVG Filter "Requirements," "Primer" and "Language."
   Previously part of SVG 1.1 but published here as an independent
   module, SVG Filters are used to process images before they are
   displayed. These filter effects are defined in XML for SVG and can
   be used in other environments such as HTML styled with CSS, or
   XSL:FO. Updated Working Drafts, SVG Print 1.2 "Primer" and
   "Language" extend the language for multiple page and color
   management support. SVG provides interactive vector graphics, text,
   images, animation and graphical applications in XML. Visit the SVG
   home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilterReqs12-20070501/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilterPrimer12-20070501/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilter12-20070501/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGPrintPrimer12-20070501/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGPrint12-20070501/
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

Last Call: CC/PP 2.0 to Guide Content Adapation

   The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group released "Composite
   Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies
   2.0" as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 15
   June. A CC/PP profile describes a device's capabilities and user
   preferences and is used to guide content adaptation. Version 2.0 is
   an update to the "CC/PP 1.0" Recommendation for alignment with RDF
   and OMA UAProf 2.0. This Recommendation is one of the areas of
   convergence between W3C and OMA. Read about ubiquitous Web
   applications.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab2-20070430/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-CCPP-struct-vocab-20040115/
   http://www.w3.org/RDF/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

Upcoming Meetings

     * W3C Workshop on HTML Mail, 24 May
     * W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
       Applications, 5-6 June
     * Toward More Transparent Government:Workshop on eGovernment and
       the Web, 18-19 June
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 7 May, London, United Kingdom: Designing for International
       Users: Practical Tips. Richard Ishida presents at @media07
       Europe.
     * 8 May, Banff, AB, Canada: Accessibility of Emerging Rich Web
       Technologies: Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web. Michael Cooper gives
       a keynote at International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web
       Accessibility (W4A).
     * 9 May, Banff, Canada: WICD and Ubiquitous Web Applications. Dave
       Raggett presents at W3C Track, The 16th International World Wide
       Web Conference (WWW2007).
     * 9 May, Banff, Canada: W3C booth. Marie-Claire Forgue is at The
       16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007).
     * 9 May, Stockholm, Sweden: Mot web 2.0, och bortom. Olle Olsson
       presents at TelekomDagarna.
     * 14 May, Paris, France: XML vocabulary design and specification
       using XML Schema 1.0. Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial
       at XTech 2007: The ubiquitous Web.
     * 15 May, Paris, France: W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
       Dave Raggett presents at XTech 2007.
     * 15 May, Paris, France: XForms 1.1. Steven Pemberton gives a
       tutorial at XTech 2007: “The Ubiquitous Web”.
     * 24 May, San Francisco, USA: Designing for International Users:
       Practical Tips. Richard Ishida presents at @media07 America.
     * 28 May, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Global eStandards and Web
       Architectures for eGovernment projects. José Manuel Alonso
       presents at 13th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum.
     * 7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.
       Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
     * 21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility. Shawn
       Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML
       Conversion. Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at
       International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
       (ICDAR).
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for
       Pen-Based Computing. Stephen M. Watt presents at International
       Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
     * View upcoming talks by country
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
       tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
     * More talks...
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/

   Multiple presenters will be at W3C Track, The 16th International
   World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) in Banff, Canada:

9 May

     * Next steps for HTML Forms, by Dave Raggett
     * Describing, Exchanging, and Aggregating Test Results, by Shadi
       Abou-Zahra
     * Device Description: Important New Work in Progress, Why We Need
       your Participation, by Rhys Lewis
     * Mobile Web Applications, by Kevin Kelly
     * CSS, 10 Years After, by Bert Bos
     * Enriching the Web Application Model?, by Arun Ranganathan
     * Widgets and Web Applications, by Art Barstow
     * Mobile Web Initiative Success Stories, by Michael Smith
     * Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide, by Charles
       McCathieNevile
     * Content Accessibility with WCAG 2.0, by Michael Cooper
     * Mobile Web Initiative: The Road Ahead, by Michael Smith, Daniel
       Appelquist
     * HTML Reloaded, by Chris Lilley
     * The Future of the Web Page, by Chris Lilley, Dave Raggett
     * Towards a mobileOK Web, by Daniel Appelquist
     * Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), by Dave
       Raggett

10 May

     * Semantic Annotations for WSDL, by Jacek Kopecky
     * Harnessing the Semantic Web to Answer Scientific Questions; A
       HCLS IG Demo, by Susie Stephens, Alan Ruttenberg
     * Web Services Policy Language, by Charlton Barreto
     * Design by Crowds: User Experience Design and Testing with Open
       Source Projects, by Mike Beltzner
     * Rule Interchange Format Work Report, by Sandro Hawke
     * Why Should We Care About the Web Services Description Language
       2.0?, by Philippe Le Hégaret
     * Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with GRDDL, Microformats, and
       RDFa, by Harry Halpin, Fabien Gandon
     * Report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing
       Workshop, by Philippe Le Hégaret
     * Moving User-Centered Security from Grand Challenge to Standards
       Work, by Mary Ellen Zurko
     * Usability Design and Testing for Security, by Rachna Dhamija

11 May

     * The W3C Rich Web Application Backplane, by John Boyer
     * XML Application Components and Controllers, by Rafah Hosn
     * XSL-FO, the XSL Formatting Language, by Sharon Adler, Liam Quin
     * Schema Support inXQuery to Help Developers, by Mary Holstege
     * How to Author Multimodal Web Applications, by Kazuyuki Ashimura
     * xH: A Standards-based Web Application Programming Language, by
       Mark Birbeck
     * Voice on the Web: Input/Output Modality Challenges, by Jerry
       Carter
     * Efficient XML Interchange, by Mike Cokus
     * State Chart XML: the Core Component for Multimodal Web
       Applications, by Rafah Hosn

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