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- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:47:26 -0400
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Standards Make Mobile Web Experience More Inviting
W3C today announced new standards that will make it easier for
people to browse the Web on mobile devices. "Mobile Web Best
Practices 1.0," published as a W3C Recommendation by the Mobile Web
Best Practices Working Group, condenses the experience of many
mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating
mobile-friendly content. These guidelines will help to improve the
experience of people browsing the Web on a wide array of mobile
handsets. W3C published a second standard today: "XHTML Basic 1.1
Recommendation," the preferred format specification of the Best
Practices. With this, there is now a full convergence in mobile
markup languages, including those developed by the Open Mobile
Alliance (OMA). The Working Group also published today the first
draft of a next generation of guidelines, "Mobile Web Application
Best Practices," aimed at mobile Web applications. Read the press
release and testimonials, try the W3C mobileOK checker (beta), and
learn more about W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI).
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-mobile-bp-20080729
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xhtml-basic-20080729/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-mwabp-20080729/
http://www.w3.org/2008/07/mwbp-pressrelease.html.en
http://www.w3.org/2008/07/mwbp-testimonial
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Requirements
The Voice Browser Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0
Requirements." "VoiceXML 2.0" is designed for creating audio
dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio,
recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, recording of spoken input,
telephony, and mixed initiative conversations. VoiceXML 3.0 is the
next major release of VoiceXML. Its purpose is to provide even more
powerful dialog capabilities that can be used to build advanced
speech applications and to provide these capabilities in a form that
can be easily and cleanly integrated with other W3C languages. Learn
more about the Voice Browser Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-vxml30reqs-20080808/
http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Working Draft
Published
The Protocols and Formats Working Group published an updated Working
Draft of "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)."
WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more
accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with
dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with
Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. WAI-ARIA is
introduced in the WAI-ARIA Overview and the WAI-ARIA FAQ. Read the
updated WAI-ARIA Specification announcement that requests feedback
on host language embedding, and about the Web Accessibility
Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-20080806/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2008JulSep/0034
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
W3C Invites Implementations of XQuery Update Facility 1.0 (Candidate
Recommendation)
The XML Query Working Group has published the Candidate
Recommendation of "XQuery Update Facility 1.0." This document
defines an update facility that extends the XML Query language,
XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility provides expressions that can be
used to make persistent changes to instances of the XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Data Model. This document incorporates changes made
against the Candidate Recommendation of 14 March 2008. Learn more
about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-xquery-update-10-20080801/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Mobile Profile 2.0 (Candidate
Recommendation)
The CSS Working Group has published a Candidate Recommendation for
"CSS Mobile Profile 2.0.," which defines a common baseline of CSS
support that even constrained mobile devices can provide. This
effort is part of W3C's ongoing efforts to make the Web easier to
use from a mobile devices (see related news). For the CSS Mobile
Profile 2.0, W3C has worked closely together with OMA to remove the
differences between W3C's and OMA's previous CSS-mobile profiles. An
"alpha" quality test suite is available for the mobile profile. The
Working Group will track implementations during the Candidate
Recommendation phase. Implementers are invited to send feedback
before February 2009. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-css-mobile-20080801
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
http://www.w3.org/News/2008/News/2008#item129
http://www.openmobilealliance.org
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/Mobile/2.0/css-mobile-implementatio
ns.html
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Last Call: CSS Marquee Module Level 3
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last
Call Working Draft of "CSS Marquee Module Level 3." CSS describes
the rendering of documents on various media. When documents (e.g.,
HTML) are laid out on visual media (e.g., screen or print) and the
contents of some element are too large for a given area, CSS allows
the designer to specify whether and how the overflow is displayed.
One way, available on certain devices, is the "marquee" effect: the
content is animated and moves automatically back and forth. This
module defines the properties to control that effect. 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-marquee-20080801/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Last Call: Content Transformation Guidelines 1.0
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Last
Call Working Draft of "Content Transformation Guidelines 1.0."
Content Transformation is the manipulation in various ways, by
proxies, of requests made to and content delivered by an origin
server with a view to making it more suitable for mobile
presentation. The overall objective of this document is to provide a
means, as far as is practical, for users to be provided with at
least a "functional user experience" when accessing the Web with a
mobile device. Comments are welcome through 16 September. Learn more
about the Mobile Web Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-ct-guidelines-20080801/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Six RIF Working Drafts Published; Last Call for Basic Logic Dialect and
RDF-OWL
The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group published six
documents yesterday:
* "RIF Basic Logic Dialect" (Last Call)
* "RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility" (Last Call)
* "RIF Framework for Logic Dialects"
* "RIF Use Cases and Requirements"
* "RIF Production Rule Dialect" (First Public Draft)
* "RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0"
"RIF Basic Logic Dialect" (BLD) specifies an XML format for rules at
an intermediate expressive power. The language is roughly Horn rules
with URIs, datatypes, and builtins. This goes beyond datalog (it has
function terms), but does not provide any kind of negation. "RIF RDF
and OWL Compatibility" explains and specifies how RIF rulesets are
to be used in combination with RDF and OWL. Comments on these
documents welcome until 19 September. In addition, RIF Production
Rule Dialect (PRD) specifies an XML format for the exchange of
production rules. PRD and BLD are expected to be the basis of the
two main dialect-branches, with RIF Core being the things in common
between the two. RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (FLD) and RIF
Datatypes and Builtins (DTB) provide common elements for specific
dialects to use. RIF Uses Cases and Requirements (UCR), last
published about two years ago, has been simplified and now has
examples written in the PRD and BLD presentation syntaxes. Learn
more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-bld-20080730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-rdf-owl-20080730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-fld-20080730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-ucr-20080730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-prd-20080730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-dtb-20080730/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
W3C Organizes Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I to
Focus on Oil and Gas
W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Semantic Web in
Energy Industries; Part I: Oil & Gas to be hosted by Chevron in
Houston, Texas, USA on 9-10 December 2008. Participants will explore
how Semantic Web technologies can play a role in the management and
analysis of the huge amounts of data gathered from highly diverse
sources in this sector of the energy industry. Position papers are
due 19 September. W3C invites you to read more about the Workshop
goals and learn about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/07/ogws-cfp
http://www.w3.org/2008/07/ogws-cfp#section1.5
http://www.w3.org/2008/07/ogws-cfp#section1.1
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Stable Version of Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers Released
The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has released a new and
stable version of its Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers,
featuring more technologies and several improvements over the
previous version. Read more about the design of the test and learn
more about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests
http://www.w3.org/2008/06/mobile-test/
http://www.w3.org/blog/MWITeam/2008/07/30/new_release_of_web_compati
bility_test_fo
http://www.w3.org/2008/06/mobile-test/doc
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Two Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Drafts Published: Format 1.0;
Evaluation
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group published two Working
Drafts today: "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0" and
"Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation." The former specifies the
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format. EXI is a very compact
representation for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Information
Set that is intended to simultaneously optimize performance and the
utilization of computational resources. The EXI format uses a hybrid
approach drawn from the information and formal language theories,
plus practical techniques verified by measurements, for entropy
encoding XML information. Using a relatively simple algorithm, which
is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a small set of
data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of XML event
streams. The latter document, a first public draft, is an evaluation
of the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 with reference to
the Properties identified by the (now closed) XML Binary
Characterization (XBC) Working Group, relative to XML, gzipped XML
and ASN.1 PER. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-20080728/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-evaluation-20080728/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Past home page news...
http://www.w3.org/News/
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Markup Validator Updated by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/markup_validator_updated.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* Towards better Web professionals by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/07/better_web_education.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* 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
* 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.
* 2 September, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: From pages to
applications: Mobile Web Best Practices. François Daoust
presents at Mobile Internet User eXperience (MIUX'08).
* 16 September, Yahoo!'s Mission College Campus, Santa Clara,
California, USA: Introduction to the Protocol for Web
Description Resources. Phil Archer, Matt Womer are at POWDER:
More of what you want, when you want it.
* 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.
* 23 September, London, United Kingdom: Standardisation vs.
Openness vs. Proprietary Systems - Examining in which Direction
the Mobile Web Industry is heading and why this really Matters.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at Mobile Web Europe 2008.
* 24 September, Vienna, Austria: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2nd European Semantic Technology
Conference.
* 13 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0
World. Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0.
* 14 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Getting Real with Accesibility.
Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0.
* 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.
* 26 October, Karlsruhe, Germany: RDFa—Bridging the Web of
Documents and the Web of Data. Michael Hausenblas, Ivan Herman,
Ben Adida give a tutorial at 7th International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC2008).
* 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.
* 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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