The 2009-02-02 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090202
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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HTML 5 Receives Support for Authoring Materials
Dan Connolly, an active member of the HTML community for many years,
has received support from Adobe to work on HTML 5 materials for
authors. The HTML Working Group Chairs have requested additional
resources to ensure that HTML 5 meets the needs of authors and
browser developers alike. As a provider of Web development and
authoring tools, W3C Member Adobe is not only participating in the
Working Group, they have also provided financial support for the
open standards process. Learn more about HTML.
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/html/
Last Call: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1
The XML Schema Working Group has published the Last Call Working
Drafts of "W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1:
Structures" and "Part 2: Datatypes." This former specifies the XML
Schema Definition Language, which offers facilities for describing
the structure and constraining the contents of XML documents,
including those which exploit the XML Namespace facility. The schema
language, which is itself represented in an XML vocabulary and uses
namespaces, substantially reconstructs and considerably extends the
capabilities found in XML document type definitions (DTDs). The
latter defines facilities for defining datatypes to be used in XML
Schemas as well as other XML specifications. The datatype language,
which is itself represented in XML, provides a superset of the
capabilities found in XML document type definitions (DTDs) for
specifying datatypes on elements and attributes. Comments are
welcome through 20 February. Learn more about the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlschema11-1-20090130/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlschema11-2-20090130/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Last Call: WebCGM 2.1
The WebCGM Working Group has published the 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 March. Learn
more about the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webcgm21-20090130/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
XML Base (Second Edition) Is a W3C Recommendation
The XML Core Working Group has published the W3C Recommendation of
"XML Base (Second Edition)." This document describes a mechanism
for providing base URI services to XLink, but as a modular
specification so that other XML applications benefiting from
additional control over relative URIs but not built upon XLink can
also make use of it. The syntax consists of a single XML attribute
named xml:base. The functionality is similar to the base element in
HTML. This document is part of W3C's ongoing work to maintain the
core XML technologies. Learn more about the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xmlbase-20090128/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Note: XHTML Media Types - Second Edition
The XHTML2 Working Group has published the Group Note of "XHTML
Media Types - Second Edition." Many people want to use XHTML to
author their Web pages, but are confused about the best ways to
deliver those pages in such a way that they will be processed
correctly by various user agents. This Note contains suggestions
about how to format XHTML to ensure it is maximally portable, and
how to deliver XHTML to various user agents - even those that do not
yet support XHTML natively. This document is intended to be used by
document authors who want to use XHTML today, but want to be
confident that their XHTML content is going to work in the greatest
number of environments. Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20090116/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Valid sites work better(?) by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/01/valid_sites_work_better.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* JavaScript required for basic textual info? TRY AGAIN by Dan
Connolly
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/01/javascript_required_for_basic.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/
Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
* Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in
Fostering Social and Economic Development, 1-2 April
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 4 February, Malmö, Sweden: Standarder och Open Source. Olle
Olsson presents at DFS-seminarium.
* 6 February, Paris, France: World Wide Web 2010. Steve Bratt
gives a keynote at Netexplorateur Forum 2009.
* 12 February, Gijón, Spain: Innovative Uses of Mobile ICTs for
Development. José Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at II
International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation.
* 25 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: W3C's Semantic Web in Heath
Care and Life Sciences Interest Group. Lee Feigenbaum, Susie
Stephens, Eric Prud'hommeaux give a tutorial at Conference on
Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) .
* 14 March, Austin, TX, USA: Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools
and Techniques. Michael Cooper participates in a panel at South
by Southwest Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: The New WCAG 2: Web
Accessibility Q&A with the Editors. Shawn Henry, Michael Cooper,
Loretta Guarino Reid participate in a panel at CSUN
International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Conference.
* 19 March, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Towards a More Accessible
Browser. Jeanne Spellman, Jim Allan present at CSUN Center on
Disabilities 24th Annual International Technology and Persons
with Disabilities Conference.
* 21 March, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and
Choreography. Mohamed Zergaoui is at XML Prague 2009.
* 22 March, Prague, Czech Republic: Exploring XProc. Norman Walsh
presents at XML Prague 2009.
* 27 March, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Access – Device-independent
or Accessible. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates in a panel
at European Accessibility Forum.
* 29 April, Madrid, Spain: Web Accessibility and Older Users - We
Are There!. Andrew Arch gives a keynote at W4A2009 -
International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web
Accessibility.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
Herman presents at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 16 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introducing OWL 2. Ivan Herman
participates in a panel at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 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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