W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-07-27

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The 2009-07-27 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
  http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090727

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementations of Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration

   The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the
   Candidate Recommendation of "Widgets 1.0: Packaging and
   Configuration." This specification standardizes a packaging format
   for software known as widgets. Widgets are client-side applications
   that are authored using Web standards, but whose content can also be
   embedded into Web documents. The specification relies on PKWare's
   Zip specification as the archive format, XML as a configuration
   document format, and a series of steps that runtimes follow when
   processing and verifying various aspects of a package. The packaging
   format acts as a container for files used by a widget. The Working
   Group plans to develop a test suite during the Candidate
   Recommendation phase. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-widgets-20090723/
   http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/tests/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0: Updated Working Draft

   The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published
   an updated Working Draft of the "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
   (UAAG) 2.0." UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other
   "user agents" should support accessibility for people with
   disabilities and work with assistive technologies. Read the
   invitation to review the UAAG 2.0 Working Draft and about the Web
   Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-UAAG20-20090723/
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009JulSep/0016
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Flexible Box Layout Module First Draft Published

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "Flexible Box Layout Module." The
   draft describes a CSS box model optimized for interface design. It
   provides an additional layout system alongside the ones already in
   CSS. This model is based on the box model in the XUL user-interface
   language. Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-flexbox-20090723/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

CSS Image Values Module Level 3 First Draft Published

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "CSS Image Values Module Level 3."
   This CSS Image Values module defines the syntax for image values in
   CSS. Image values can be a single URI to an image, a list of URIs
   denoting a series of fallbacks, sprites (image slices), or
   gradients. Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-images-20090723/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/
   Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog 
     * Interview: David Ezell on NACS Participation in W3C by Ian
       Jacobs
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/07/interview_david_ezell_on_nacs.html
     * Past Q&A Blog ...
       http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

     * Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 5-6 October
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 27 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Ex-XHTML HTML. Doug
       Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
     * 28 July, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Open Graphics and the
       Sustainable Web: Scalable Vector Graphics and Canvas. Doug
       Schepers presents at The Summer XML 2009 Conference.
     * 10 August, Montréal, Canada: Memory management in streaming:
       buffering, lookahead, or none. Which to choose?. Mohamed
       ZERGAOUI presents at Balisage.
     * 11 August, Montreal, Canada: Automatic XML Namespaces. Liam Quin
       presents at Balisage.
     * 11 August, Montréal, Canada: Visual Designers: Those XML tools
       with no angle bracket at all!. Mohamed ZERGAOUI presents at
       Balisage.
     * 26 August, Hanoi, Viet Nam: Web 2.0 and Beyond. Dominique
       Hazaël-Massieux presents at WITFOR 2009.
     * 26 August, New York, USA: Improving Dialogs with EMMA. Deborah
       Dahl presents at SpeechTEK.
     * 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
       Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
     * 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
       Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
     * 2 September, Florence, Italy: Web Accessibility and Older
       People. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at AAATE
       conference.
     * 4 September, Bristol, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility Benefits
       Older Users. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at British
       Society of Gerontology 38th Conference.
     * 17 September, London, United Kingdom: Improving the web
       experience for older people. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra
       present at Techshare 2009.
     * 29 October, Chicago, IL, USA: WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making
       Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible. Shawn Henry
       presents at ATIA 2009 Chicago.
     * 30 October, Chicago, IL, USA: Web Accessibility Standards and
       Guidelines Update 2009. Shawn Henry presents at ATIA 2009
       Chicago.
     * 13 March 2010, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Prague 2010. Mohamed
       ZERGAOUI is at XML Prague 2010.
     * View upcoming talks by country
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
       tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
     * More talks...
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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