W3C Newsletter: August/September 2005

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Upcoming Event: 

 

28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference, 7-9 September, Orlando,
Florida, USA

http://www.global-conference.com/iuc28/

 

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Technical News: 

 

Specification Guidelines are a W3C Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium today released Specification
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-qaframe-spec-20050817/>  Guidelines as a W3C
Recommendation. Written for editors of W3C technical reports, the guidelines
explain how to define and specify conformance. The Quality Assurance (QA)
Working Group has completed its work and will close. The QA Interest Group
will continue W3C's four-year QA effort through mailing lists and online
tools. "QA's products will be integral resources that ensure the work of
W3C's Working Groups is of high quality," said Steve Bratt, W3C Chief
Operating Officer.

 

Web Services Addressing is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-ws-addr-core-20050817/>  Services Addressing -
Core and its SOAP <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-ws-addr-soap-20050817/>
Binding to Candidate Recommendation. The core specification defines
properties that allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages,
independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines the core
properties' association to SOAP <http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/>
messages.

 

Web Accessibility Business Case Documents Published

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group
(EOWG) has published "Developing <http://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/>  a Web
Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization." The 5-page resource
suite describes social, technical, financial, legal and policy aspects of
Web accessibility. It is designed to help organizations develop their own
customized business case for Web accessibility. It provides text that can be
used as is, as well as guidance on identifying the most relevant factors for
a specific organization.

 

Internationalization Articles Published

The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working
Group publishes information to help people understand and use international
aspects of W3C technologies. In the past month, the group published Using
<http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes.html>  Character
Entities and NCRs, Using
<http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-navigation-select>  <select>
to Link to Localized Content and Ruby Markup and Styling
<http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/ruby/> , as well as numerous
updates <http://www.w3.org/International/#qa>  and translations
<http://www.w3.org/International/#newtrans> .

 

Working Group Note: Schema Languages and Type System Support in WSDL 2.0

The Web Services Description Working Group has published Discussion of
Alternative Schema Languages and Type System Support
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-wsdl20-altschemalangs-20050817/>  in WSDL
2.0 as a Working Group Note. The note discusses WSDL 2.0 type system
extensibility, defines the use of XML Schema 1.0 as a type system in the
WSDL 2.0 core specification, and includes the basics of extensions for DTDs
and Relax NG.

 

Working Draft: SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL)

The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released an updated
Working Draft of SVG's <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-sXBL-20050815/>  XML
Binding Language (sXBL). The sXBL language defines the presentation and
interactive behavior of elements outside the SVG namespace. Comments are
welcome.

 

Working Draft: CSS3 Values and Units

The CSS Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of CSS3 Values
and Units <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-values-20050726/> . The draft
explains specified, computed, and actual values and defines common values
and units in one specification which can be referred to by other CSS3
modules.

 

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