The 2008-11-17 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Four POWDER Documents published; three Last Call Drafts
The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
published four Working Drafts today. The purpose of the Protocol for
Web Description Resources (POWDER) is to provide a means for
individuals or organizations to describe a group of resources
through the publication of machine-readable metadata.
* "Description Resources" (Last Call); which details the creation
and lifecycle of Description Resources (DRs), which encapsulate
metadata
* "Grouping of Resources" (Last Call); which describes how sets of
IRIs can be defined such that descriptions or other data can be
applied to the resources obtained by dereferencing IRIs that are
elements of the set.
* "Formal Semantics" (Last Call); which describes how the
relatively simple operational format of a POWDER document can be
transformed for processing by Semantic Web tools
* "Primer" (First Public Draft)
Last Call comments are welcome through 5 December. Learn more about
the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-dr-20081114/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-grouping-20081114/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-formal-20081114/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-primer-20081114/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
XML Signature Best Practices First Public Draft
The XML Security Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "XML Signature Best Practices." This document
collects best practices for implementors and users of the "XML
Signature specification." Most of these best practices are related
to improving security and mitigating attacks, yet others are for
best practices in the practical use of XML Signature, such as
signing XML that doesn't use namespaces, for example. Learn more
about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xmldsig-bestpractices-20081114/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0 Draft Published
The Math Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0," which defines
the Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML. MathML is an XML
application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both
its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable
mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide
Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Learn
more about the Math Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-MathML3-20081117/
http://www.w3.org/Math/
W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0 Updated
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published an update
of Working Draft of "W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0." The document
provides an overview of how the mobileOK specification helps ensure
that content is suitable for use on very basic mobile devices. Learn
more about the Mobile Web Initiative Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-mobileOK-20081117/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
W3C Publishes XML Signature Best Practices First Public Draft
The XML Security Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "XML Signature Best Practices." The "XML Signature
specification" offers powerful and flexible mechanisms to support a
variety of use cases. This flexibility has the downside of
increasing the number of possible attacks. One countermeasure to the
increased number of threats is to follow best practices, including a
simplification of the use of XML Signature where possible. This
document outlines best practices noted by the XML Security
Specifications Maintenance Working Group, the XML Security Working
Group, and other ideas cited at the Workshop on Next Steps for XML
Security. While most of these best practices are related to
improving security and mitigating attacks, yet others are for best
practices in the practical use of XML Signature, such as signing XML
that doesn't use namespaces. Learn more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xmldsig-bestpractices-20081114/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/
http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/ws/report.html
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Last Call: Selectors API
The Web Applications 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 DOM by matching against a group of
selectors. It is often desirable to perform DOM operations on a
specific set of elements in a document. These methods simplify the
process of acquiring specific elements, especially compared with the
more verbose techniques defined and used in the past. Comments are
welcome through 12 December. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-selectors-api-20081114/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* HTML 5, the markup by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/11/html_5_the_markup.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* SVG Wireframe For Your Website Design by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/11/svg-wireframe-webdesin.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Do Not Steal My SVG Semantics by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/11/authoring-svg-semantics.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* What would a new CSS validator look like? by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/11/dreamimg_a_new_css_validator.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* W3C Open Web Standards by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/11/w3c-open-web-standards.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/
Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil &
Gas, 9-10 December
* W3C Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web,
10-11 December
* W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, 15-16 January
2009
* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
2009
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 18 November, Sophia Antipolis, France: The W3C Multimodal
Architecture. Ingmar Kliche presents at ETSI Workshop on
Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Devices .
* 20 November, Budapest, Hungary: Web Accessibility and Ageing.
Andrew Arch presents at Info-kommunikációs Akadálymentességi
Műhelykonferencia 2008.
* 27 November, Milano, Italy: Il Web compie 20 anni. Dovè il
Semantic Web?. Oreste Signore presents at The 13th KNOWLEDGE
MANAGEMENT FORUM.
* 28 November, Berlin, Germany: Semantic Web im E-Government.
Klaus Birkenbihl participates in a panel at
E-Government-Standards für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung.
* 28 November, Berlin, Germany: Towards eGovernment 2.0 through
better use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at
E-Government-Standards Kongress.
* 4 December, Malmö, Sweden: Standarder och Open Source. Olle
Olsson presents at DFS-seminarium.
* 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.
* 8 December, Boston, MA, USA: Web Accessibility for Everyone and
Everything. Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World - Boston
2008.
* 9 December, Boston, MA, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World.
Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World - Boston 2008.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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* More talks...
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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