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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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New W3C Working Group Brings Location Information to the Web
The number of location-aware Web devices has increased dramatically
as of late: built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and
mobile phone tower triangulation services have made mobile phones
location-aware, Wifi triangulation services brings location
information to Wifi enabled devices, GPS receivers now have Web
connectivity. Location, location, location!
Thus far there has been no standard method for these devices to make
their location available to Web applications, and so in response to
requests from the community W3C has created the new Geolocation
Working Group, which is chartered to develop a standardized
interface to provide location information to Web applications and
thus enable an exciting new class applications. This new group is
part of W3C's Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Call for Review: Device Description Repository Simple API Proposed
Recommendation
The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has
published the Proposed Recommendation of "Device Description
Repository Simple API." Web content delivered to mobile devices
usually benefits from being tailored to take into account a range of
factors such as screen size, markup language support and image
format support. Such information is stored in "Device Description
Repositories" (DDRs). This document describes a simple API for
access to DDRs, in order to ease and promote the development of Web
content that adapts to its Delivery Context. Comments are welcome
through 31 October. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-DDR-Simple-API-20080917/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Requirements
The Web Applications Working Group has published the Last Call
Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0: Requirements." A Widget is an
interactive single purpose application for displaying and/or
updating local data or data on the Web, packaged in a way to allow a
single download and installation on a user's machine or mobile
device. Typical examples of widgets include clocks, CPU gauges,
sticky notes, battery-life indicators, games, and widgets that make
use of Web services, like weather forecasters, news readers, e-mail
checkers, photo albums and currency converters. This document lists
the design goals and requirements that specifications would need to
address in order to standardize various aspects of widgets. Comments
are welcome through 13 October. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-widgets-reqs-20080915/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published the Last
Call Working Draft of "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0."
EXI is a very compact representation for the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to simultaneously
optimize performance and the utilization of computational resources.
The EXI format uses a hybrid approach drawn from the information and
formal language theories, plus practical techniques verified by
measurements, for entropy encoding XML information. Using a
relatively simple algorithm, which is amenable to fast and compact
implementation, and a small set of data types, it reliably produces
efficient encodings of XML event streams. Comments are welcome
through 07 November. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language
(XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-20080919/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Last Call: WebCGM 2.1
The WebCGM Working Group has published the First Public Last Call
Working Draft of "WebCGM 2.1." Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is
an ISO standard, defined by ISO/IEC 8632:1999, for the interchange
of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile
of CGM, which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications
in technical illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical
data visualization, and similar fields. First published (1.0) in
1999, WebCGM unifies potentially diverse approaches to CGM
utilization in Web document applications. It therefore represents a
significant interoperability agreement amongst major users and
implementers of the ISO CGM standard. Comments are welcome through
01 November. Learn more about the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-webcgm21-20080917/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
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W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Alexa Global Top 500 against HTML 5 validation by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/top-500-html5-validity.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* ParisWeb 2008 - registration is open by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/parisweb-2008.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* World Wide Web Foundation Launched by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/09/world-wide-web-foundation.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
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Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil &
Gas, 9-10 December
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Upcoming Talks
* 23 September, London, United Kingdom: Standardisation vs.
Openness vs. Proprietary Systems - Examining in which Direction
the Mobile Web Industry is heading and why this really Matters.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at Mobile Web Europe 2008.
* 23 September, York, United Kingdom: How web accessibility
guidelines apply to design for the ageing population. Andrew
Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at Accessible Design in the
Digital World.
* 24 September, Washington, DC, USA: Introducing the W3C
eGovernment Interest Group. Kevin Novak presents at The Next
Generation of Our Public Record:Many Voices, One Voice.
* 24 September, Vienna, Austria: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2nd European Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 24 September, Berlin, Germany: Auf dem Weg ins Semantische Web.
Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at W3C-Tag.
* 26 September, Corfu, Greece: Improving Access to Government
through Better Use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso gives a
keynote at 2nd International Conference on Methodologies,
Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government.
* 30 September, São Paulo, Brazil: On the Way to the Semantic Web.
Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at W3C Brazil meeting.
* 2 October, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: On the Way to the Semantic
Web. Klaus Birkenbihl, Ivan Herman present at Rio Info 2008.
* 2 October, London, United Kingdom: Working Across Borders. José
Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at OASIS Open Standards
Forum.
* 6 October, Nice, France: Les applications et services de
l'Internet mobile. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at
Internet of Things Internet of the Future.
* 13 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0
World. Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0.
* 14 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Getting Real with Accesibility.
Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0.
* 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
Models for Virtual Goods.
* 26 October, Karlsruhe, Germany: RDFa—Bridging the Web of
Documents and the Web of Data. Michael Hausenblas, Ivan Herman,
Ben Adida give a tutorial at 7th International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC2008).
* 14 November, Paris, France: La mode se démode, le Style jamais.
Daniel Glazman presents at Paris Web 2008.
* 5 December, Turn, Italy: Overlapping User Experiences: Mobile
Web Usability and Accessibility for People with Disabilities.
Shawn Henry presents at UPA Europe 2008, Usability and design:
cultivating diversity.
* 6 December, Turin, Italy: How New Web Accessibility Standards
Impact User Experience Design . Shawn Henry presents at UPA
Europe 2008, Usability and design: cultivating diversity.
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