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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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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/2003/08/Workshops/
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/Activity.html
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/2006/webapi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-selectors-api-20071019/
http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/
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/2006/webapi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-DOM-Bindings-20071017/
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/2006/appformats/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-widgets-20071013/
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/2007/11/TPAC/
http://www.w3.org/2007/11/TPAC/
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/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join
Past home page news...
Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
October
* Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 16-17
November
* W3C Workshop on Video on the Web, 12-13 December
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
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.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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