W3C Public Newsletter, 2010-04-05

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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XML Entity Definitions for Characters is a W3C Recommendation

   01 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8761

   The Math Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of
   "XML Entity Definitions for Characters." Notation and symbols
   have proved very important for human communication, especially
   in scientific documents. Mathematics has grown in part because
   its notation continually changes toward being succinct and
   suggestive. On the Web, the majority of cases it is preferable
   to store characters directly as Unicode character data or as
   XML numeric character references. This document is the result
   of years of employing entity names on the Web. It presents a
   completed listing harmonizing the known uses of character
   entity names throughout the XML world and Unicode. Learn more
   about the Math Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Math/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xml-entity-names-20100401/
   http://www.w3.org/Math/

W3C Invites Implementations of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML
Version 1.0

   01 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8760

   The Voice Browser Working Group invites implementation of the
   Candidate Recommendation of "Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML
   Version 1.0." This document describes CCXML, or the Call
   Control eXtensible Markup Language. CCXML provides declarative
   markup to describe telephony call control. It can provide a
   complete telephony service application, comprised of Web server
   CGI compliant application logic, one or more CCXML documents to
   declare and perform call control actions, and to control one or
   more dialog applications that perform user media interactions.
   CCXML is a language that can be used with a dialog system such
   as (but not limited to) VoiceXML. Learn more about the Voice
   Browser Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Voice/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-ccxml-20100401/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Updated Capture API Working Draft Published

   01 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8759

   The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "The Capture API," which defines
   an Application Programming Interface (API) that provides access
   to the audio, image and video capture capabilities of the
   device. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-capture-api-20100401/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

New Mobile Web Training Course Open for Early Bird Registration

   31 March 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8757

   W3C has updated the popular online training course Introduction
   to W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices for 2010. The first run of
   this updated course begins on Monday, 10 May. Early Bird
   registration is now open!

   http://www.w3.org/2009/03/mobitrain_course_description

   Led by members of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative, people attending
   the course will:

   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
     * learn about the specific promises and challenges of the
       mobile platform;
     * learn how to use W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices to design
       mobile-friendly Web content and to adapt existing content
       for mobile;
     * learn client side and server side techniques for adapting
       your content to different classes of device.

   Read more about the Mobile Web Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Last Call for Six Web Services Drafts

   30 March 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8756

   The Web Services Resource Access Working Group published six
   Last Call Working Drafts for Web Services: "Enumeration
   (WS-Enumeration)," "Event Descriptions (WS-EventDescriptions)"
   , "Eventing (WS-Eventing)," "Fragment (WS-Fragment),"
   "Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange)," and "Transfer
   (WS-Transfer)." Comments welcome through 11 May 2010. Learn
   more about the Web Services Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-enumeration-20100330
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-event-descriptions-20100330
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-eventing-20100330
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-fragment-20100330
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20100330
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-transfer-20100330
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

   More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

Workshops

     * 2010-05-13 (13 MAY) – 2010-05-14 (14 MAY)
       Workshop on Future Standards for Model-Based User
       Interfaces
       http://www.w3.org/2010/02/mbui/cfp
       Rome, Italy
       Hosted by CNR/ISTI
       Web application developers face increasing difficulties due
       to wide variations in device capabilities, in the details
       of the standards they support, the need to support
       assistive technologies for accessibility, the demand for
       richer user interfaces, the suites of programming languages
       and libraries, and the need to contain costs and meet
       challenging schedules during the development and
       maintenance of applications. Research work on model-based
       design of context-sensitive user interfaces has sought to
       address the challenge of reducing the costs for developing
       and maintaining multi-target user interfaces through a
       layered architecture that separates out different concerns.
       Workshop participants will collectively help to identify
       opportunities and challenges for new open standards in the
       area, particularly concerning the semantics and syntaxes of
       task, abstract and concrete user interface models. In
       addition, workshop participants will have the opportunity
       to discuss the role of model-based approaches in relation
       to other standards, for instance, XForms, ANSI/CEA-2018 and
       MDA, and the relationship to work on standards for Web
       delivery including HTML5 and browser scripting APIs.
     * 2010-06-18 (18 JUN) – 2010-06-19 (19 JUN)
       W3C Workshop on Conversational Applications
       http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/cfp
       Somerset, NJ, USA
       Openstream
       The goal of the workshop is to understand the limitations
       of the current W3C language model in order to develop a
       more comprehensive model. We plan to collect and analyze
       use cases and prioritize requirements that ultimately will
       be used to identify improvements to the W3C language model.
       Just as W3C developed SSML 1.1 to broaden the languages for
       which SSML is useful, this effort will result in improved
       support for language capabilities that are unsupported
       today.
     * 2010-06-26 (26 JUN) – 2010-06-27 (27 JUN)
       RDF Next Steps
       http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/
       Palo Alto, CA
       Hosted by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
       (NCBO), at Stanford University
       The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Web
       community on whether and, if yes, in which direction "RDF"
       should evolve. One of the main issues the Workshop should
       help deciding is whether it is timely for W3C to start a
       new RDF Working Group to define and standardize a next
       version of RDF.
       http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/

W3C Blog

     * HTML5 Meetup - Paris
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/03/html_5_meetup_-_paris
       31 March 2010 by Philippe Le Hégaret
       http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2010-04-07 (7 APR)
       Mobile Web Application Best Practices: Review workshop
       by Eyal Sela
       Mobile Web Application Best Practices: Review workshop
       http://www.w3c.org.il/article/mobile_application_review
       Petach Tikva, Israel
     * 2010-04-08 (8 APR)
       Enlazando Datos de la Administración Pública
       http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2010/0408-lgdDiaW3CAdmin-M
       A
       by Martín Álvarez
       Día W3C en la Administración Pública
       http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2010/DiaW3Cadmin
       Zaragoza, Spain
     * 2010-04-08 (8 APR)
       The future from now... on the internet
       http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/04-08-steven-future/
       by Steven Pemberton
       Solar Initiative Lecture Series
       http://www.solar.nl/
       Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     * 2010-04-19 (19 APR)
       Unleashing Opportunities through Accessibility
       keynote by Shawn Henry
       2010 UIC Digital Accessibility Expo
       http://uicweb.net/dae2010
       Chicago, IL, USA
     * 2010-04-23 (23 APR)
       Distributed Multimodality in the Multimodal Architecture
       by Deborah Dahl
       Mobile Voice Conference
       http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/
       San Francisco, USA
     * 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
       Web Accessibility from the Usability and UX Perspectives
       by Shawn Henry
       AccessU, Usability Track
       http://www.knowbility.org/conference/?content=usabilitytrac
       k
       Austin, TX, USA
     * 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
       Accessibility Now
       keynote by Shawn Henry
       AccessU
       http://www.knowbility.org/conference/
       Austin, TX, USA
     * 2010-05-24 (24 MAY)
       Develop a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your
       Organization
       by Shawn Henry
       UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
       Design for the World
       https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
       x.new
       Munich, Germany
     * 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
       How Does Accessibility Fit into Today’s Usability Practice?
       panel features Shawn Henry
       UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
       Design for the World
       https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
       x.new
       Munich, Germany

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