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The 2009-12-21 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module
Level 3, Multi-Column Layout
17 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8686
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites
implementation of two Candidate Recommendations: "CSS
Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3" and "CSS Multi-column
Layout Module." CSS is a language for describing the rendering
of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on
paper, in speech, etc. The main extensions in Backgrouns and
Borders over CSS 2 related to borders consisting of images,
boxes with multiple backgrounds, boxes with rounded corners and
boxes with shadows. Multicolumn features allow authors to flow
content into multiple columns with a gap and a rule between
them. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-css3-background-20091217/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-css3-multicol-20091217/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Media Fragments URI 1.0 First Draft Published
17 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8685
The Media Fragments Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "Media Fragments URI 1.0." Audio and
video resources on the World Wide Web are currently treated as
"foreign" objects, which can only be embedded using a plugin
that is capable of decoding and interacting with the media
resource. Specific media servers are generally required to
provide for server-side features such as direct access to time
offsets into a video without the need to retrieve the entire
resource. Support for such media fragment access varies between
different media formats and inhibits standard means of dealing
with such content on the Web. Media Fragments URI 1.0 provides
for a media-format independent, standard means of addressing
media fragments on the Web using Uniform Resource Identifiers
(URI). The Working Group also updated "Use cases and
requirements for Media Fragments." Learn more about the Video
in the Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-frags-20091217/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-frags-reqs-20091217/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
Five Web Services Drafts Updated
17 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8684
The Web Services Resource Access Working Group published
updates to five Working Drafts: "Web Services Enumeration
(WS-Enumeration)," "Web Services Eventing (WS-Eventing),"
"Web Services Resource Transfer (WS-RT)," "Web Services
Transfer (WS-Transfer)," and "Web Services Metadata Exchange
(WS-MetadataExchange)." The first describes a general
SOAP-based protocol for enumerating a sequence of XML elements
that is suitable for traversing logs, message queues, or other
linear information models. The second describes a protocol that
allows Web services to subscribe to or accept subscriptions for
event notification. The third defines extensions to WS-Transfer
that deal primarily with fragment-based access to resources to
satisfy the common requirements of WS-ResourceFramework and
WS-Management. The fourth describes a general SOAP-based
protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based
resources. The fifth defines how metadata associated with a Web
service endpoint can be represented as resources, how metadata
can be embedded in endpoint references, and how metadata could
be retrieved from a Web service endpoint. Learn more about the
Web Services Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-enumeration-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-eventing-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-resource-transfer-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-transfer-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20090924/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Use Cases for Possible Future EMMA Features Note Published
15 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8683
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Group
Note of "Use Cases for Possible Future EMMA Features." Since
"EMMA 1.0" became a W3C Recommendation, a number of new
possible use cases for the EMMA language have emerged, e.g.,
multimodal output, biometrics, emotion, sensor data,
multi-stage dialogs and interactions with multiple users. This
document describes those use cases and illustrates how the EMMA
language could be extended to support them. Learn more about
W3C's Multimodal Interaction Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-emma-usecases-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/emma/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity
New Drafts of XQuery 1.1, XPath 2.1 and Supporting Documents
Published
15 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8682
As part of work on XSLT 2.1 and XQuery 1.1, the XQuery and XSL
Working Groups have published First Public Working Drafts of
"XQuery and XPath Data Model 1.1," "XPath and XQuery Functions
and Operators 1.1," "XSLT and XQuery Serialization 1.1" and
"XPath 2.1." In addition, The XQuery Working Group has updated
drafts for "XQuery 1.1: An XML Query Language," "XQueryX 1.1"
and "XQuery 1.1 Requirements." Learn more about XML at W3C.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xpath-datamodel-11-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xpath-functions-11-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-11-20091
215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xpath-21-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xquery-11-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xqueryx-11-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xquery-11-requirements-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/
W3C China Office Supports First Web Standards Event of Webrebuild.org
in Beijing
15 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8681
[] The W3C China Office supported Webrebuild.org with their
first Web Standards Event in Beijing. The theme of the event,
attended by over 100 people, was "Thoughts on Web Standards"
and it aimed at offering a platform for developers in Beijing
to discuss and share ideas of how to make better use of Web
standards and technologies. Speakers discussed browser
compatibility, CSS3.0, HTML5 and ontologies. AnQi (Angel) Li
from the W3C China Office gave an opening speech to welcome the
attendees and introduced the W3C China Office. Learn more about
upcoming W3C talks internationally.
http://www.webrebuild.org/
http://www.chinaw3c.org/
http://www.webrebuild.org/
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), Authoring
Practices, and Implementation Guide Working Drafts Published
15 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8680
The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) published an
updated Working Draft of "WAI-ARIA," the Accessible Rich
Internet Applications technical specification for making
dynamic, interactive Web content accessible to people with
disabilities. PFWG also published Working Drafts of the
"WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide" that provides
guidance on how browsers and other user agents should expose
WAI-ARIA features to platform accessibility APIs, and "WAI-ARIA
Authoring Practices" that describes how Web content developers
can develop accessible rich Web applications using WAI-ARIA.
These and other WAI-ARIA documents are described in the
WAI-ARIA Overview. Read the WAI-ARIA review announcement for
details, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-practices-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009OctDec/0118
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
W3C Invites Implementations of MathML Version 3.0, CSS Profile
15 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8679
The Math Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate
Recommendations "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version
3.0" and "A MathML for CSS Profile." The former defines the
Mathematical Markup Language, an XML application for describing
mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and
content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be
served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as
HTML has enabled this functionality for text. The second
specification describes a profile of MathML 3.0 that allows
formatting with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The group is
developing a Test Suite for specifications, starting from the
MathML 2.0 Test Suite. Read the disposition of last call
comments for MathML 3.0 and for the CSS Profile. Learn more
about the Math Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-MathML3-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-mathml-for-css-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/
http://www.w3.org/Math/lastcall3/Overview
http://www.w3.org/Math/lastcallcss/Overview
http://www.w3.org/Math/
Call for Review: Selectors Level 3 Proposed Recommendation Published
15 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8678
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Proposed Recommendation of "Selectors Level 3." Selectors are
patterns that match against elements in a tree, and as such
form one of several technologies that can be used to select
nodes in an XML document. Selectors have been optimized for use
with HTML and XML, and are designed to be usable in
performance-critical code. See the group's implementation
report and "disposition of Last Call comments." Comments are
welcome through 31 January 2010. Learn more about the Style
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-css3-selectors-20091215/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS3/Selectors/20091025/report
s/CR-ImpReport
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-selectors-20090310/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
WAI Gathering Additional Resources Supporting Web Accessibility
Business Case
14 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8677
The WAI Education and Outreach Working Group today published a
first collection of statistics, case studies, and articles that
support the business case for web accessibility, in Resources
for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your
Organization. To learn about sharing your resources, see Share
Resources Supporting the Web Accessibility Business Case blog
post. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO
http://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/resources
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/12/share_resources_supporting_the
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
W3C Blog
* Share Resources Supporting the Web Accessibility Business
Case
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/12/share_resources_supporting_the
14 December 2009 by Shawn Henry
http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
Upcoming Talks
* 8 JAN 2010
The ten euro computer: a contemplation on values
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/01-08-steven-ten-euro-computer
by Steven Pemberton
Freelance Factory
http://freelancefactory.ning.com/events/the-10-euro-compute
r
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 11 JAN 2010
SKOS hands-on workshop
by Regine Stein
SKOS hands-on workshop
Tel-Aviv, Israel
* 18 JAN 2010
Bringing Together Usability and Accessibility in Design
Practice
by Shawn Henry
Multiple Facets of Accessible Design
http://www.milwauchi.org/
Milwaukee, WI, USA
* 28 JAN 2010
Web Accessibility Promotion and Advocacy: Approaches and
Resources
by Shawn Henry
ATIA 2010 Orlando
http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3545
Orlando, FL, USA
* 29 JAN 2010
Web Accessibility Standards and Guidelines Update 2010
by Shawn Henry
ATIA 2010 Orlando
http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3545
Orlando, FL, USA
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