W3C Public Newsletter, 2008-07-21

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Last Call: CSS Color Module Level 3

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
   Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Color Module Level 3." CSS
   (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language for describing the rendering
   of HTML and XML documents on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. It
   uses color related properties and respective values to color the
   text, backgrounds, borders, and other parts of elements in a
   document. This specification describes color values and properties
   for foreground color and group opacity. These include properties and
   values from CSS level 2 and new values. Comments are welcome through
   01 September. Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-color-20080721/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

XML Entity definitions for Characters Draft Published

   The Math Working Group has published the Working Draft of "XML
   Entity definitions for Characters." Many XML entity names are in
   common use for mathematical symbols, and this specification aims to
   provide standard mappings to Unicode for each of these names. Learn
   more about the Math Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Math/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xml-entity-names-20080721/
   http://www.w3.org/Math/

First Drafts of XQuery 1.1 and XQuery 1.1 Use Cases Published

   The XML Query Working Group has published the First Public Working
   Drafts of "XQuery 1.1" and "XQuery 1.1 Use Cases." The former
   describes a query language called XQuery, which is designed to be
   broadly applicable across many types of XML data sources. This
   version of XQuery extends the version of the XQuery 1.0
   Recommendation published on 23 January 2007; see the "list of
   changes." The latter document describes usage scenarios that will
   impact the design of XQuery 1.1. Learn more about the Extensible
   Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xquery-11-20080711/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xquery-11-use-cases-20080711/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xquery-11-20080711/#id-revision-log
   http://www.w3.org/XML/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

W3C Questions and Answers Blog 
     * Proposed W3C Test Suite Licenses; Feedback Welcome by Ian Jacobs
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/07/proposed_w3c_test_suite_licens.html
     * Dear W3C… by olivier Théreaux
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/07/dear_w3c.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
     * RSS 1.0 and RDFa by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/07/rss-feed-with-rdfa.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Past Q&A Blog ...
       http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS.
       Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with
       CSS.
     * 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
       Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
     * 22 August, Ghent, Belgium: Detailed introduction into RDF and
       the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 4th Search &
       Find Workshop.
     * 1 September, Liverpool, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility and
       the Older Population. Andrew Arch presents at HCI and the Older
       Population 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.
     * 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.
     * 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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