The 2008-01-28 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft, Future of Web Content
W3C today published an early draft of "HTML 5," a major revision of
the markup language for the Web. The HTML Working Group is creating
HTML 5 to be the open, royalty-free specification for rich Web
content and Web applications. "HTML is of course a very important
standard," said Tim Berners-Lee, author of the first version of HTML
and W3C Director. "I am glad to see that the community of
developers, including browser vendors, is working together to create
the best possible path for the Web." New features include APIs for
drawing two-dimensional graphics and ways to embed and control audio
and video content. HTML 5 helps to improve interoperability and
reduce software costs by giving precise rules not only about how to
handle all correct HTML documents but also how to recover from
errors. Discover other "new features," read the press release, and
learn more about the future of HTML.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080122/#new-elements
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/html5-pressrelease
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference (First Public
Working Draft)
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System
Reference." This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization
System (SKOS), a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge
organization systems via the Semantic Web. SKOS provides a standard,
low-cost means to describe the semantic relationships between
existing knowledge systems and to port those systems to the Semantic
Web. SKOS also provides a lightweight, intuitive language for
developing and sharing new knowledge organization systems. Learn
more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080125/
Relationship Between Mobile Web and Web Content Accessibility (First
Public Working Draft)
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education
and Outreach Working Group have published the First Public Working
Draft of "Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines." See the announcement email.
The groups encourage people to start by reading Web Content
Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for
People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices, which shows how
design goals for accessibility and mobile access overlap. A third
document, Experiences Shared by People with Disabilities and by
People Using Mobile Devices, provides examples of barriers that
people (without disabilities) face when interacting with Web content
via mobile devices, and similar barriers for people with
disabilities using desktop computers. Learn more about the Mobile
Web Initiative and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/mwbp-wcag/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2008JanMar/0014
http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/experiences
Document Object Model Activity Closed
W3C's Document Object Model (DOM) Activity is now closed. The
Document Object Model Working Group closed in the early 2004 after
the completion of the DOM Level 3 Recommendations. Since then,
several W3C Working Groups have taken the lead in maintaining and
continuing to develop standard APIs for the Web; these include the
HTML, SVG, CSS, and WebAPI Working Groups. W3C will continue to
develop APIs in various Working Groups. Learn more about
achievements of those participating as part of the DOM Activity on
the DOM Activity Statement.
http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity
W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
The W3C Advisory Committee has elected Ashok Malhotra (Oracle), T.V.
Raman (Google), and Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) to the
W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants
are Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), David Orchard (BEA), Jonathan Rees
(Science Commons), Norm Walsh (Sun), and Stuart Williams (HP), who
co-Chairs the TAG with Tim Berners-Lee. The mission of the TAG is to
build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to
interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve
issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to
help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside
and outside W3C.
http://www.w3.org/2004/10/27-tag-charter.html#Mission
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* link test suite by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/link_test_suite.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* IE8 versioning snowstorm by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/ie8_versioning_snowstorm.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* www.w3.org/TR/html5 by Michael(tm) Smith
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/html5.html
* IE8 and opt-in versioning mechanism by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/ie8-versioning-mechanism.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* SVG On Acid? by Doug Schepers
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/svg_on_acid.html
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 28 January, Albany, NY, USA: Making the Web Accessible to All.
Shawn Henry presents at University at Albany.
* 30 January, Stockholm, Sweden: The Semantic Web. Olle Olsson
presents at JFokus 2008.
* 31 January, Gijón, Spain: TIC y Gobernabilidad. José Manuel
Alonso participates in a panel at Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0.
* 31 January, Houston, Texas, USA: World Wide Web Consoritum:
Semantic Web and Opportunities for the Oil and Gas Industry.
Steve Bratt presents at PCA Member Meeting.
* 5 February, Tokyo, Japan: HTML 5. Michael(tm) Smith presents at
Jagat.
* 11 February, Wellington, New Zealand: Achieving Web for All:
Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your
Website. Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Webstock 2008.
* 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The
Basics Quickly. Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008
Conference.
* 10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER
(tentative). Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at
Web 2.0 Telecoms.
* 17 March, Geneva, Switzerland: Video on the Web at W3C. Philippe
Le Hégaret presents at Media Distribution over Open Internet.
* 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April, 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, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des
Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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