Tech all over the world: October 2007

http://www.w3.org/2007/11/mwi-boston

http://www.w3.org/2007/10/miw-mediaadvisory

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xforms-20071029/

XForms 1.0 Third Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium today released "XForms 1.0 Third
Edition" as a Recommendation. The document responds to implementor
feedback, brings the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with
second edition errata and reflects clarifications already
implemented in XForms processors. XForms separates presentation and
content, minimizes the need for scripting and round-trips to the
server, and offers device independence. Visit the forms home page.

http://www.w3.org/2006/03/REC-xforms-20060314-errata-diff-20070719.h

tml

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_Implementations

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

RDFa Primer: Working Draft

The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML2 Working
Group jointly published an updated Working Draft of the "RDFa Primer
1.0." The primer is an introduction to "RDFa," a method for
embedding structured data in XHTML. Among changes in this draft are
the term "chaining," previously called striping, and a new
instanceof attribute. Visit the XHTML2 and Semantic Web home pages.

http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20071026/

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

W3C Names Shadi Abou-Zahra WAI International Program Office Activity
Lead

W3C has named Shadi Abou-Zahra to the position of WAI International
Program Office Activity Lead. The Activity's groups are responsible
for education and outreach, coordination with research, general
discussion on Web accessibility, coordination with the WAI Technical
Activity, and WAI liaisons with other organizations including
standards organizations. Shadi joined W3C in 2003. He coordinates
WAI outreach in Europe, accessibility evaluation techniques, and
worked on the WAI-TIES Project, and currently with the WAI-AGE
Project. Shadi will continue to lead development of the Evaluation
and Report Language (EARL) and chair the Evaluation and Repair Tools
Working Group (ERT WG). W3C wishes to thank Judy Brewer who led the
Activity, and continues her roles as Director of the Web
Accessibility Initiative, and WAI Technical Activity Lead. Read more
about WAI.

http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/

http://www.w3.org/WAI/IPO/Activity

http://www.w3.org/WAI/Technical/

http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/

http://www.w3.org/WAI

XMLHttpRequest Object for Ajax: Working Draft

The Web API Working Group released an updated Working Draft of "The
XMLHttpRequest Object." The core component of Ajax, the
XMLHttpRequest object is an interface that allows scripts to perform
HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data or loading data
from a remote Web site. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20071026/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29

http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/TaskForces/CT/

Content Transformation Landscape 1.0: Working Draft

The Content Transformation Task Force of the Mobile Web Best
Practices Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of
"Content Transformation Landscape 1.0." This document identifies
some issues surrounding the use of transforming proxies in the
delivery of Web content. Discussion of these issues is expected to
influence the (future) requirements document for Content
Transformation Guidelines. Read about the Mobile Web Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ct-landscape-20071025/

Progress Events 1.0: Working Draft

The Web API Working Group released an updated Working Draft of
"Progress Events 1.0." These five events and their interfaces are
used for data transfer in Ajax Web applications as described in
"XHR" and for "media access events." When additional data is
downloaded on demand, scripts can monitor progress, construct
loading bars, and take action once data has been transferred. Read
about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-progress-events-20071023/

http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/

http://www.w3.org/TR/MediaAccessEvents/

http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/ws/report

XML Signature and Encryption Workshop Report

The report of the Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML
Encryption is available. The report shows strong interest in
additional work on XML security at W3C. A basic signature profile,
the referencing and transform models, updating the set of supported
cryptographic algorithms, and revisiting XML canonicalization were
seen as highest priority among the several topics identified by the
participants. The Workshop was held in September in Mountain View,
CA, USA, hosted by VeriSign and chaired by Frederick Hirsch (Nokia)
and Thomas Roessler (W3C). Read about W3C Workshops and about the
Security Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/ws/cfp

http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity.html

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Upcoming Meetings

* Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 16-17
November
* W3C Workshop on Video on the Web, 12-13 December
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Upcoming Talks

* 29 October, New York City, USA: The Ubiquitous Web: Making It
Happen…. Matt Womer participates in a panel at Mobile Monday New
York.
* 14 November, Boston, MA, USA: Escaping the Walled Garden:
Growing the Mobile Web with Open Standards. Tim Berners-Lee
presents at http://www.mobilenetx.com/about_boston.shtml.

* 16 November, Paris, France: Bonnes pratiques du Web mobile.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at ParisWeb 2007.
* 19 November, Beijing, China: Semantic Web Adoption. Ivan Herman
presents at 首届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2007).
* 22 November, Hangzhou, China: What is the Semantic Web?. Ivan
Herman presents at Zheijiang University.
* 28 November, Beijing, China: The World Wide Web Needs World Wide
Standards. Steve Bratt presents at Open Standards International
Conference 2007.
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Video on the Web: Call for Participation

Position papers are due 21 November for the Workshop on Video on the
Web on 12-13 December 2007 in San Jose, California, USA, hosted by
Cisco Systems. The Workshop goal is to help make video a first class
Web citizen. Attendees will discuss topics such as the impact of
video on the Web, user experience, search, accessibility, parental
control, video production, description, digital rights, adaptation,
mobile access, Web architecture, scalability, formats and delivery.
Read about W3C Workshops.

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video-cfp.html

http://www.w3.org/QA/Activity.html

Quality Assurance Activity Completes Its Work, QA Becomes the Q&A
Weblog

We thank the thousands of people who participated in the QA Activity
which has completed its work and closed as of 18 October 2007.
However, we anticipate further developing the dialog with the
community; we welcome your comments on the Q&A Weblog. W3C will
continue to maintain and develop tools, the most popular resources
on w3.org. We congratulate and thank Daniel Dardailler, Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux and Karl Dubost of W3C who led the Activity, Lofton
Henderson (OASIS), Lynne Rosenthal (NIST), Patrick Curran (Sun
Microsystems), and Karl Dubost and Olivier Théreaux (W3C) who served
as Chairs. Read the QA Activity Statement and visit the Q&A Weblog.

http://www.w3.org/QA/

http://www.w3.org/QA/

Last Call: CSS Mobile Profile

The CSS Working Group released a Working Draft of "CSS Mobile
Profile 2.0." Comments are welcome through 15 November. This subset
of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 is a baseline for
implementations of CSS on constrained devices like mobile phones,
written with "WICD Mobile 1.0" to ensure interoperability and for
alignment with OMA's Wireless CSS Specification 1.1. Visit the CSS
home page.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css-mobile-20071019/

http://www.w3.org/TR/WICDMobile/

CSS Snapshot 2007: Working Draft

The CSS Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of
"Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007." All stable
specifications that have been implemented for the Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) language at all Levels are given in this single
document as a guide for authors. The snapshot is not a guide to what
features are implemented. The group expects it to be a future
Working Group Note. Visit the CSS home page.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css-beijing-20071019/

Behavioral Extensions to CSS: Working Draft

The CSS Working Group released an updated Working Draft of
"Behavioral Extensions to CSS." Behavioral extensions provide a way
to link to binding technologies such as XBL from CSS style sheets.
Bindings thus can be selected using the CSS cascade and can
transparently benefit from the user style sheet mechanism, media
selection, and alternate style sheets. Visit the CSS home page.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-becss-20071019/

Selectors API: Working Draft

The Web API Working Group released an updated Working Draft of
"Selectors API." Widely used in CSS, selectors are patterns that
match against elements in a tree structure. These methods are
defined to retrieve element nodes from the DOM by matching against a
group of selectors, and simplify the process of acquiring specific
elements, especially compared with more verbose techniques used in
the past. Visit the Web API home page.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-selectors-api-20071019/

Language Bindings for DOM Specifications: Working Draft

The Web API Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of
"Language Bindings for DOM Specifications." The draft specifies the
IDL language for use by W3C specifications that define DOM
interfaces and specifies conformance requirements for their
ECMAScript and Java bindings. This guide for implementors of DOM
specifications is also a reference for new ones, written to ensure
conforming implementations of DOM interfaces are interoperable. Read
about rich Web clients.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-DOM-Bindings-20071017/

http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/

Widgets 1.0: Working Draft

The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated
Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0." Written for users to run in their
Web browser environment, widgets are small applications that display
and update remote data, for example, clocks, stock tickers, news
casters, weather forecasters and games. The group is specifying
widgets' packaging format, their configuration and processing model,
launching by the user agent, version control, DOM APIs and events
including communication between widgets, digital signing,
accessibility, and discovery within HTML documents. Read about Rich
Web Clients.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-widgets-20071013/

http://www.w3.org/2007/11/TPAC/

W3C Technical Plenary Week Upcoming in Cambridge, USA

W3C holds Technical Plenary Week on 5-10 November in Cambridge, MA,
USA. A record 39 W3C Working Groups plus the Advisory Committee and
Advisory Board hold face-to-face meetings and network about the
future of the Web. For the first time, members of the media are
invited to join Plenary Day on Wednesday, 7 November, when program
includes the developer community, discussion of HTML5 and XHTML2,
and video on the Web. Read the media advisory. W3C thanks platinum
sponsors BEA, Cisco, IBM and Nokia for their generous support of
this meeting. Registration is required. Join W3C and attend the next
Technical Plenary planned for October 2008 in France (tentative).

http://www.w3.org/2007/10/tpac07-media

http://www.w3.org/2007/03/ac-tp07-sponsorship

http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35125/TPAC-Media/

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October
* Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 16-17
November
* W3C Workshop on Video on the Web, 12-13 December
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Upcoming Talks

* 23 October, Brussels, Belgium: W3C's Mobile Web Initiative,
3GWeb and NEM. Philipp Hoschka presents at 5th NEM General
Assembly.
* 14 November, Boston, MA, USA: TBD. Tim Berners-Lee presents at

http://www.mobilenetx.com/about_boston.shtml.

* 16 November, Paris, France: Bonnes pratiques du Web mobile.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at ParisWeb 2007.
* 19 November, Beijing, China: Semantic Web Adoption. Ivan Herman
presents at 首届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2007).
* 22 November, Hangzhou, China: What is the Semantic Web?. Ivan
Herman presents at Zheijiang University.
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Mobile Ajax: Workshop Report

The report of the Workshop on Mobile Ajax co-sponsored by W3C and
the OpenAjax Alliance is available. Among areas the Workshop
identified as needing attention are JavaScript access to device
APIs, offline/disconnected operation, widgets, mashups and security.
The Workshop was held in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by
Microsoft. Read about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web
Inititative.

http://www.w3.org/2007/06/mobile-ajax/report.html

http://www.w3.org/2007/06/mobile-ajax/

http://www.openajax.org/

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Upcoming Meetings

* W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
October
* Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 16-17
November
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Upcoming Talks

* 15 October, San Jose, USA: An Introduction to Writing Systems &
Unicode. Richard Ishida gives a tutorial at Internationalization
& Unicode Conference.
* 15 October, Seattle, Washington, USA: XML Schema 1.1 and the
versioning of XML vocabularies. Michael Sperberg-McQueen
presents at XML @ Boeing 2007.
* 15 October, Seattle, Washington, USA: Semi-structured data and
XML Query . Jim Melton presents at XML @ Boeing 2007.
* 17 October, San Jose, CA, USA: Internationalization Tag Set 1.0
– A New Standard for Internationalization and Localization of
XML. Felix Sasaki presents at Internationalization & Unicode
Conference 31.
* 17 October, Madrid, Spain: Semantic Web: a Short Introduction.
Ivan Herman presents at "Webelopers Day" of the Internet NG
Conference.
* 17 October, San Jose, USA: Hints for Designing International Web
Pages. Richard Ishida presents at Internationalization & Unicode
Conference.
* 17 October, Madrid, Spain: How to make the most out of
eGovernment. José Manuel Alonso presents at "Webelopers Day" of
the Internet NG Conference.
* 17 October, San Jose, USA: IRIs and IDNs: Testing,
Implementations, and Specification Evolvement. Martin Dürst
presents at 31st Internationalization & Unicode Conference.
* 18 October, Darmstadt, Germany: Wege zum Semantischen Web. Klaus
Birkenbihl presents at 4. Kongress Semantic Web und
Wissenstechnologien.
* 19 October, Orlando, FL, USA: Making the Future Web Accessible
to People with Disabilities. Shawn Henry presents at "I Invent
the Future" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007.
* 16 November, Paris, France: Bonnes pratiques du Web mobile.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at ParisWeb 2007.
* 19 November, Beijing, China: Semantic Web Adoption. Ivan Herman
presents at 首届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2007).
* 22 November, Hangzhou, China: What is the Semantic Web?. Ivan
Herman presents at Zheijiang University.
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