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- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:50:17 -0800
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W3C Weekly News
3 November - 11 November 2006
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Third Workshop on Internationalizing SSML: Call for Participation
Position papers are due 1 December for the Third Workshop on
Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on
13-14 January 2007 in Hyderabad, India, jointly hosted by the
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) and Bhrigus
Software. Attendees will discuss improvements for using SSML to render
under-represented languages including Arabic, Hebrew and the Indian
languages Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarthi and Urdu. Read
about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice Browser home page.
http://www.w3.org/2006/10/SSML/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Last Call: CSS 2.1
The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of
"Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1)." Comments are
welcome through 7 December. CSS 2.1 is derived from and is intended to
replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS language usage, the specification adds
a few highly requested features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line
with implementations. Visit the CSS home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CSS21-20061106/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Last Call: Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition
The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft
of "Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0."
SISR tags for grammar rules are used to extract meaning from speech
recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in
the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as
serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. This draft removes the
starttime and endtime features present at Candidate Recommendation.
Comments are welcome through 24 November. Visit the Voice Browser
home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-semantic-interpretation-20061103/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Widgets 1.0: Working Draft
The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First
Public Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0." Also known as gadgets or
modules, widgets are small programs like clocks, stock tickers, news
casters, games and weather forecasters that display and update remote
data and run on the Web browser environment. The specification defines
the packaging format, manifest file and scripting interfaces for
downloading and installation on client machines. Also published, the
requirements document has been updated and retitled. Read about Rich
Web Clients.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-widgets-20061109/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WAPF-REQ-20061109/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
XForms 1.1: Working Draft
The XForms Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of
"XForms 1.1." Designed to refine and strengthen the XML processing
platform introduced by XForms 1.0, version 1.1 adds several submission
capabilities, a more powerful action processing facility, the ability
to manipulate data arbitrarily and to access event context information,
and adds numerous helpful data types, utility functions, user interface
improvements, and action event handlers. Visit the XForms home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xforms11-20061103/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
W3C Tenth Anniversary
The W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration in Asia (W3C10 Asia) will be held
28 November in Tokyo, Japan. The day-long symposium with luminaries
from Japan and Asia will review the past decade of the Web, show how
industry works with Web standards, and how Asian dynamics may drive the
Web's next decade of Web development. The event is open to the public.
Read the media advisory and register.
http://www.w3.org/2006/11/W3C10/
http://www.w3.org/2006/10/w3c10-Asia_media_advisory
Planet Mobile Web Set in Motion
W3C is pleased to announce Planet Mobile Web. This community service is
for discussions across blogs about mobile Web usage and is expected to
generate new ideas. The Planet provides both an aggregated HTML view
and aggregated RSS/Atom feeds. Read about the W3C Mobile Web
Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/planet
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Mobile Web Webinar 20 November
Join us for a free W3C Webinar where you will learn how to mobilize
your Web content. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C) will present
documents and tools provided by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working
Group including best practices, techniques, plans for the future
mobileOK mark, and a demonstration of the best practices checker. The
webinar will be held on 20 November at 10:00 a.m. UTC. Please register
and visit the Mobile Web Initiative home page.
http://www.w3.org/2006/10/webcast/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Incubator Group to Develop Common Web Language (CWL)
W3C is pleased to announce that Institute of Semantic Computing (ISeC),
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST), and Justsystem have chosen the W3C Incubator process as a means
to explore a Common Web Language (CWL) for information exchange through
the Web, to enable computer processing of that language, and to provide
a pilot model and conversions for RDF/OWL, UNL and UWs. Read about the
Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging
Web-related technologies.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/cwl/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
W3C Members may use this form to join the group:
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/39865/join
W3C Talks
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS
channel.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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