Tech all over the world: December 2007

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

Last Call: Selectors API; New Draft of DOM Level 3 Events

The Web API Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft
of "Selectors API." Selectors, which are widely used in CSS, are
patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. The
Selectors API specification defines methods for retrieving Element
nodes from the Document Object Model (DOM) by matching against a
group of selectors. Comments are welcome through 06 January 2008.
The Working Group has also published a Working Draft of "DOM Level 3
Events," a generic platform- and language-neutral event system
which allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow
through a tree structure, and provides basic contextual information
for each event. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-selectors-api-20071221/

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20071221/

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

W3C Invites Implementations of DCCI 1.0 (Candidate Recommendation);
first draft of Delivery Context Ontology available

The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group has published the
Candidate Recommendation of "Delivery Context: Client Interfaces
(DCCI) 1.0." This document defines platform and language neutral
programming interfaces that provide Web applications access to a
hierarchy of dynamic properties representing device capabilities,
configurations, user preferences and environmental conditions. In
addition, the Working Group has published the First Public Working
Draft of "Delivery Context Ontology," which provides a formal model
for the delivery context which other specifications can reference
normatively. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-DPF-20071221/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-dcontology-20071221/

http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Last Call: SVG Print 1.2 Language, Primer

The SVG Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of "SVG
Print 1.2, Part 2: Language" and "SVG Print 1.2, Part 1: Primer."
The former defines features of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Language that are specifically for printing environments; the latter
provides guidelines on how to use the print specification with SVG
1.2 Tiny and SVG 1.2 Full modules. Comments on both specifications
are welcome through 08 February. Learn more about the Graphics
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGPrint12-20071221/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGPrintPrimer12-20071221/

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

Public Virtual Seminar on Web Issues to be Organized by W3C Spain
Office

On 23 January 2008, the W3C Spain Office will hold a virtual seminar
where W3C staff will discuss the latest news in Web topics such as
e-Government, Video on the Web, and Mobile Web in developing
countries; see the program for the full list of topics and speakers.
The public is invited to participate over the Internet in the
seminar, which will take place in English from 15:00 to 18:00
(UTC/GMT); see the participation instructions. The seminar, hosted
by UPM, will also be broadcast online. Learn more about the W3C
Spain Office.

http://www.w3c.es/

http://isabel.dit.upm.es/mediawiki/index.php/W3C_Seminar

http://isabel.dit.upm.es/mediawiki/index.php/W3C_Seminar#Programme

http://isabel.dit.upm.es/mediawiki/index.php/W3C_Seminar#Instruction

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http://www.w3c.es/

Note: Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0

The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has
published the Group Note of "Device Description Repository
Requirements 1.0." This document describes the use cases for a
Device Description Repository (DDR). Each use case is analyzed in
order to determine the behavior expected of a DDR in order to
realize it. These expected behaviors are captured as high-level
requirements, which when normalized across all use cases, lead to a
discrete set of DDR requirements. Learn more about the Mobile Web
Initiative Activity.

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

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-DDR-requirements-20071217/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-cooluris-20071217/

Cool URIs for the Semantic Web (First Public Draft)

The Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group has released
a first Working Draft of a document explaining the effective use of
URIs to enable the growth of the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform
Resource Identifiers) — more simply called "Web addresses" — are at
the heart of the Web and also of the Semantic Web. "Cool URIs for
the Semantic Web" discusses two strategies for choosing URIs for the
Semantic Web, gives pointers to several Web sites that use these
solutions, and briefly discusses why several other alternatives are
less effective. Comments on this draft are requested by 21 January,
to be integrated into a final document at the end of the Group's
charter. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

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

Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog

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

Upcoming Meetings

* More About Workshops...

* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...

http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun

Upcoming Talks

* 23 January 2008, n/a, n/a: eGovernment and the Web. José Manuel
Alonso is at Virtual W3C Seminar.
* 23 January 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA: Unifying a Fragmenting
Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry
Development. Matt Womer presents at Mobile Web USA.
* 30 January 2008, Stockholm, Sweden: The Semantic Web. Olle
Olsson presents at JFokus 2008.
* 31 January 2008, Gijón, Spain: TIC y Gobernabilidad. José Manuel
Alonso participates in a panel at Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0.
* 7 March 2008, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 8 March 2008, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility:
The Basics Quickly. Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive
2008 Conference.
* 1 April 2008, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data
in HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-12-17

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W3C Invites Implementations of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation
markup language (Candidate Recommendation)

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the Candidate
Recommendation of "EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup
language." Implementation feedback is welcome through 14 April
2008. EMMA is a data exchange format for the interface between input
processors and interaction management systems within the "Multimodal
Architecture and Interfaces," and defines the means to annotate
application specific data with information such as confidence
scores, time stamps, input mode, alternative recognition hypotheses,
and partial recognition results. Visit the Multimodal Interaction
home page.

http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-emma-20071211/

http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/

http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi

Note: Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0

The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has
published the Group Note of "Device Description Repository
Requirements 1.0." This document describes the use cases for a
Device Description Repository (DDR). Each use case is analyzed in
order to determine the behavior expected of a DDR in order to
realize it. These expected behaviors are captured as high-level
requirements, which when normalized across all use cases, lead to a
discrete set of DDR requirements. Learn more about the Mobile Web
Initiative Activity.

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

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-DDR-requirements-20071217/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-cooluris-20071217/

Cool URIs for the Semantic Web (First Public Draft)

The Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group has released
a first Working Draft of a document explaining the effective use of
URIs to enable the growth of the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform
Resource Identifiers) — more simply called "Web addresses" — are at
the heart of the Web and also of the Semantic Web. "Cool URIs for
the Semantic Web" discusses two strategies for choosing URIs for the
Semantic Web, gives pointers to several Web sites that use these
solutions, and briefly discusses why several other alternatives are
less effective. Comments on this draft are requested by 21 January,
to be integrated into a final document at the end of the Group's
charter. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

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

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0; MathML for CSS
profile; XML Entity definitions

The Math Working Group has published three Working Drafts:
"Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0," "A MathML for
CSS profile," and the First Public Working Draft of "XML Entity
definitions for Characters." The first defines the Mathematical
Markup Language (MathML), an XML application for describing
mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content,
for publication on the Web. The second describes a profile of MathML
3.0 that admits formatting with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The
third defines several sets of names which are assigned to Unicode
characters. Learn more about the Math Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Math/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20071214/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mathml-for-css-20071214/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-entity-names-20071214/

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

http://www.w3.org/Math/

W3C Invites Implementations of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification
(PLS) Version 1.0; updates SSML 1.1 draft

The Voice Browser Working Group has published the Candidate
Recommendation of "Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version
1.0." Implementation feedback is welcome through 11 April 2008;
please see the PLS 1.0 Implementation Report Plan for more
information. PLS provides the basis for describing pronunciation
information for use in "speech recognition" and "speech synthesis,"
for use in tuning applications, e.g. for proper names that have
irregular pronunciations. The Working Group has also updated "Speech
Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1." Changes from the
previous draft include addition of new "type" attribute with value
of "ruby", change of references to "pronunciation alphabet" to be
"pronunciation scheme", and modified attribute's names of audio
element. Visit the Voice Browser home page.

http://www.w3.org/Voice/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-pronunciation-lexicon-20071212/

http://www.w3.org/Voice/2007/pls-irp/

http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/

http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20071212/

http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Industry Leaders Discuss Better Integration of Video on the Web

Video on the Web is hot! That is why Adobe, Apple, Canon, CBS
Interactive, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, Hitachi, Motorola, Mozilla,
Nokia, Opera, RealNetworks, Samsung, Sony, Sun, Turner Broadcasting,
Web3D Consortium, YouTube, and other industry leaders have chosen to
meet in San Jose (California) at the W3C Video on the Web Workshop
on 12-13 December 2007 to discuss the video landscape. More and more
people are publishing high-quality video, social networks are
sprouting up around Web-delivered media, and IPTV (Internet-based
delivery of television programming) is maturing rapidly. These and
other changes pose challenges to the underlying technologies and
standards to support the platform-independent creation, authoring,
encoding/decoding, and description of video. To ensure the success
of video as a "first class citizen" of the Web, W3C has invited the
community to explore how to build a solid architectural foundation
that enables people to create, navigate, search, and distribute
video, and to manage digital rights; see the full agenda. W3C thanks
Cisco for hosting the Workshop and to all the participants who sent
position papers.

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/papers.html

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/agenda.html

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/papers.html

Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working
Draft

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
released a second Last Call Working Draft of "Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0," and Working Drafts of "Understanding
WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 2.0." Following WCAG makes Web
content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including
people with disabilities and older users, using many different
devices including a wide variety of assistive technologies. Comments
are requested by 1 February 2008. Read the WCAG Overview, Call for
Review, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20071211/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20071211/

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007OctDec/0060.html

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

"Emergency Information Interoperability Framework" Focus of Incubator
Group

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Emergency Information
Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members
NICTA, Google, SICS, and IBM. The mission of this Incubator Group is
to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies
used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path
forward via an emergency management systems information
interoperability framework. Read about the Incubator Activity, an
initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related
technologies.

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

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Upcoming Meetings

* More About Workshops...

* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...

http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun

Upcoming Talks

* 23 January 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA: Unifying a Fragmenting
Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry
Development. Matt Womer presents at Mobile Web USA.
* 31 January 2008, Gijón, Spain: TIC y Gobernabilidad. José Manuel
Alonso participates in a panel at Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0.
* 7 March 2008, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 1 April 2008, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data
in HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-12-11

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

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Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working
Draft

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
released a second Last Call Working Draft of "Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0," and Working Drafts of "Understanding
WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 2.0." Following WCAG makes Web
content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including
people with disabilities and older users, using many different
devices including a wide variety of assistive technologies. Comments
are requested by 1 February 2008. Read the WCAG Overview, Call for
Review, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20071211/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20071211/

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007OctDec/0060.html

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

W3C Invites Implementations of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation
markup language (Candidate Recommendation)

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the Candidate
Recommendation of "EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup
language." Implementation feedback is welcome through 14 April
2008. EMMA is a data exchange format for the interface between input
processors and interaction management systems within the "Multimodal
Architecture and Interfaces," and defines the means to annotate
application specific data with information such as confidence
scores, time stamps, input mode, alternative recognition hypotheses,
and partial recognition results. Visit the Multimodal Interaction
home page.

http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-emma-20071211/

http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/

http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi

"Emergency Information Interoperability Framework" Focus of Incubator
Group

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Emergency Information
Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members
NICTA, Google, SICS, and IBM. The mission of this Incubator Group is
to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies
used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path
forward via an emergency management systems information
interoperability framework. Read about the Incubator Activity, an
initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related
technologies.

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

Past home page news...

Upcoming Meetings

* W3C Workshop on Video on the Web, 12-13 December
* More About Workshops...

* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...

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Upcoming Talks

* 11 December, New York, USA: Video Search Engines. Philippe Le
Hégaret participates in a panel at WebVideo Summit 2007.
* 14 December, Venezia, Italy: Le nuove linee guida internazionali
per l'accessibilità del Web. Oreste Signore presents at
L'evoluzione dell'accessibilità informatica.
* 23 January 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA: Unifying a Fragmenting
Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry
Development. Matt Womer presents at Mobile Web USA.
* 31 January 2008, Gijón, Spain: TIC y Gobernabilidad. José Manuel
Alonso participates in a panel at Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0.
* 7 March 2008, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 1 April 2008, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data
in HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
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W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-12-03

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

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Steve Bratt Delivers Three Talks and Receives Honor in Beijing

On 28 November, W3C Chief Executive Officer Steve Bratt delivered
two talks — a keynote entitled "The World Wide Web Needs World Wide
Standards" and an overview of W3C's standards work — at the 2007
Open Standards International Conference in Beijing, China. Today he
gave an invited lecture on "Now and Future Web Technologies" at
Beihang University in Beijing, China, where he was appointed Guest
Professor by University President Li Wei and Professor and Executive
Vice President Huai Jinpeng. Read also about the W3C Office in
Beijing.

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

http://www.w3.org/People/all#steve

http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1128-Bratt-BeijingStdsConf/Bratt-Beijin

gStdsConfp.pdf

http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1128-sb-W3CemergingTech/Bratt-W3Cemergi

ngTechp.pdf

http://www.bsw.gov.cn/v/showNews_sjj_1_en.jsp?NewsID=107631

http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1130-sb-W3CNowAndFuture/Bratt-W3CNowAnd

Futurep.pdf

http://www.chinaw3c.org/

Minor Update to W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Candidate Recommendation

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a minor
update to the Candidate Recommendation of "W3C mobileOK Basic Tests
1.0." The update corrects the mobileOK User-Agent String. The
document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim
of W3C mobileOK Basic conformance and are based on "W3C Mobile Web
Best Practices." Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative
Activity.

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

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20071130/

http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/

W3C Opens Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group

W3C is pleased to announce the reopening of the Emotion Markup
Language Incubator Group (XG). The mission of this new instance of
the XG is to propose a specification draft for an Emotion Markup
Language, to document it in a way accessible to non-experts, and to
illustrate its use in conjunction with a number of existing markups.
Note that this document would not be a standards-track document
until W3C charters a Working Group to develop it as a W3C
Recommendation. The XG is sponsored by W3C Members DFKI; Deutsche
Telekom T-Com; Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab; Loquendo,
S.p.A.; Chinese Academy of Sciences; and SRI International. W3C
Members may use this form to join the group. Read the final report
of the original Emotion XG and the Incubator Activity, an initiative
to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/39402/join

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotion/

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

W3C Invites Implementations of XForms 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation)

The Forms Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation
of "XForms 1.1." XForms is an XML application that represents the
next generation of forms for the Web. An XForms-based Web form
gathers and processes XML data using an architecture that separates
presentation, purpose and content. XForms is not a free-standing
document type, but is intended to be integrated into other markup
languages, such as XHTML, ODF, or SVG. The Working Group invites
implementation experience of this technology from the community; see
also the group's wiki for tracking XForms 1.1 implementations. Learn
more about the XForms Activity.

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

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-xforms11-20071129/

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/Preliminary_XForms_1.1_Implement

ations

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

XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft
of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." This specification describes
the syntax and semantics of XProc, a language for describing XML
pipelines. Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform
atomic operations on XML documents and constructs similar to
conditionals, loops and exception handlers which control which steps
are executed. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20071129/

http://www.w3.org/XML/

Summary of Workshop on Advanced Requirements for the Multimodal
Framework

W3C has published a summary and full minutes of the Workshop on
W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces , organized by the
Multimodal Interaction Working Group in Fujisawa, Japan on 16-17
November. Participants from 17 organizations generated a list of
requirements on the current MMI Architecture. The Working Group will
review the list as a basis for improvements to the "Multimodal
Framework." Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page.

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/minutes.html

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/summary.html

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/minutes.html

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

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/mmi-arch/topics.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/

http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

W3C Seeks Community Support for HTML Design Principles (First Public
Working Draft)

The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft
of " HTML Design Principles." This document describes the set of
guiding principles used by the HTML Working Group for the
development of HTML5, expected to define the fifth major revision of
the core language of the World Wide Web. These design principles are
an attempt to capture consensus on design approach in the areas of
compatibility, utility, interoperability, and universal access.
Learn more about the HTML Activity.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/

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

CURIE Syntax 1.0

The XHTML2 Working Group has published a Working Draft of "CURIE
Syntax 1.0." The aim of this document is to outline an abbreviated
syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). The
proposed technology does not target the XHTML Family Markup
Languages exclusively. The target audience for this document is
designers of technology (e.g., markup languages), not the users of
that technology. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

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

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-curie-20071126/

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

Access Control for Cross-site Requests

The Web Application Formats Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Access Control for Cross-site Requests." This document
introduces an "opt-in policy" mechanism whereby people managing a
resource can declare whether other sites can retrieve it. The
document also defines a mechanism based on the same policy to allow
a resource to opt-in to requests using an HTTP method other than
GET. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

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

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20071126/

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

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