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- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:31:49 -0400
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2011-04-25 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20110425
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Call for Review: CSS 2.1 Proposed Recommendation; CSS3 Speech Draft
Updated
19 April 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9070
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Proposed Recommendation of "Cascading Style Sheets Level 2
Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification." This specification
defines Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1).
CSS 2.1 is a style sheet language that allows authors and users
to attach style (e.g., fonts and spacing) to structured
documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications). By
separating the presentation style of documents from the content
of documents, CSS 2.1 simplifies Web authoring and site
maintenance. See the CSS Test Suite, a valuable tool in
achieving interoperable implementations of this specification.
Comments are welcome through 17 May. The group also published
today an updated Working Draft of "CSS3 Speech Module." Learn
more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-CSS2-20110412/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-speech-20110419
http://www.w3.org/Style/
W3C to Participate in SVG Open 2011
20 April 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9074
Developers and designers are excited by the ability to use SVG
in all modern browsers. W3C joins other sponsors to help with
SVG Open 2011, the 9th international conference on Scalable
Vector Graphics, 17-20 October 2011. This year, Microsoft
Corporation will be hosting the conference at their New England
Research and Development (NERD) Center in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. SVG Open provides an opportunity for designers,
developers and implementers to learn about SVG, and share
ideas, experiences, products, and strategies. Members of the
W3C SVG Working Group, including W3C Team members Chris Lilley
and Doug Schepers, will be attending and presenting at the
conference. The SVG Working Group will also brief attendees on
recent developments around the SVG specification, including
SVG2 and integration with CSS and HTML. The conference includes
a day of workshops. The deadline for presentation abstracts and
course outlines has been extended through 15 May. Learn more
about the W3C Graphics Activity.
http://www.svgopen.org/2011/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.svgopen.org/2011/participate.shtml
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Four Web Applications Drafts Updated
19 April 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9073
The Web Applications Working Group today updated several
Working Drafts:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* WebSocket API, which enables full-duplex bidirectional
communication between a Web application and a remote host.
* Indexed Database API, which defines a concrete API that a
Web application can use to maintain an indexed database,
and, within that database, to perform advanced key-value
data management with in-order retrieval of keys, efficient
searching over values, and storage of duplicate values for
a key.
* Two publications that build on the the File API
specification, which provides an API for representing file
objects in web applications, as well as programmatically
selecting them and accessing their data. The first
published today is File API: Writer, which defines an API
for writing to files from web applications. The second is
The File API: Directories and System, which defines an API
to navigate file system hierarchies, and defines sandboxed
sections of a user's local filesystem to web applications,
for secure local storage.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
First Draft of Calendar API Published
19 April 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9071
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published the
First Public Working Draft of "Calendar API." The Calendar API
defines the high-level interfaces required to obtain read
access to a user's calendaring service. Learn more about the
Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-calendar-api-20110419/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
RDFa API and RDFa 1.1 Primer Drafts Updated
19 April 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9069
The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published a new
Working Draft of the RDFa API. This document specifies an API
to access the RDF data embedded in an HTML or XHTML page using
RDFa. The Working Group also published a First Public Working
Draft of the RDFa 1.1 Primer; this is an updated version of the
"RDFa Primer" that has been adapted to the features of "RDFa
Core 1.1" specification. Learn more about the Semantic Web
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/2011/WD-rdfa-api-20110419
/
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/2011/WD-rdfa-primer-20110
419/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20081014/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdfa-core-20110331/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2011-04-28 (28 APR) – 2011-04-29 (29 APR)
Web Tracking and User Privacy
http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/
Princeton, New Jersey
Hosted by the Center for Information Technology Policy at
Princeton University
Tracking (e.g., for behavioral advertising) has come to the
forefront recently as part of the overall Web privacy
conversation in the broader Web and policy community.
Several software vendors (including Microsoft, Mozilla, and
Google) are offering measures that are intended to permit
users to opt out of this tracking, or to prevent tracking
by Web sites that are known to engage in these practices.
Similar technology is deployed in a number of plugins
(including NoScript, AdBlock plus, TACO, and
PrivacyChoice). As part of ongoing efforts in the area of
user privacy on the Web, W3C is organizing a Workshop on
Web Tracking and User Privacy.
* 2011-05-24 (24 MAY) – 2011-05-25 (25 MAY)
Identity in the Browser
http://www.w3.org/2011/identity-ws/
Mountain View, CA, USA
Hosted by Mozilla Foundation
The Web is now critical infrastructure and, as such,
requires mechanisms that foster trust. For critical
enterprise activity, effective government engagement, and
sensitive social information accessed over the Web, a
higher level of identity assurance, privacy protection, and
security is required, and client-side technologies like
browsers have an important role to play. There is a
pressing need for trustworthy, widely-applicable digital
identity management. W3C is therefore organizing a Workshop
on Identity in the Browser. Participants will investigate
strategies to facilitate the development and deployment of
improved identity authentication and authorization
technologies across the Web. Also included in the workshop
will be explorations into the operational, policy, and
legal issues that must be addressed by the solutions.
* 2011-06-03 ( 3 JUN) – 2011-06-05 ( 5 JUN)
Federated Social Web Europe
http://d-cent.org/fsw2011/
Berlin, Germany
Hosted by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Social networking has transformed the Web. However, most
Social Web applications today limit relationships to those
with accounts in the same system. As with many other
communications tools (telephone, email, Web) people will
ultimately prefer Social Web applications without such
barriers, where anyone can communicate seamlessly with
anyone else, whatever application they are using. W3C will
be exploring how to achieve "One Social Web" at Federated
Social Web Europe.
* 2011-06-04 ( 4 JUN) – 2011-06-05 ( 5 JUN)
Mobile and Web Technologies in Social and Economic
Development
http://public.webfoundation.org/2011/01/MW4D_WS/
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Jointly organized by the World Wide Web Foundation and W3C
The Workshop on Mobile and Web Mobile Technologies in
Social and Economic Development aims to understand the
challenges associated with using mobile phones and Web
technologies to deliver sustainable services for
underprivileged populations in developing countries.
W3C Blog
* None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
http://www.w3.org/QA/
Upcoming Talks
* 2011-04-28 (28 APR)
Designing for Inclusion
by Shawn Henry
Campus Designer's Meeting
http://comets.wisc.edu/event/designing-inclusion
Madison, WI, USA
* 2011-05-01 (1 MAY)
Usability, accessibility and inter-operability standards
for multimodal mobile healthcare and clinical trials
ATA 2011: American Telemedicine Association 16th Annual
Meeting and Exposition
http://www.americantelemed.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3
773
Tampa, USA
* 2011-05-03 (3 MAY)
차세대 웹 표준 기술 동향
by Kangchan Lee
SMART on ICT 2011
Seoul, Korea
* 2011-05-04 (4 MAY)
HTML5: The technology for the upcoming web
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0504-html5-plh/
by Philippe Le Hégaret
J. Boye - Philadelphia 2011
http://jboye.com/conferences/philadelphia11/
Philadelphia, PA, USA
* 2011-05-18 (18 MAY)
The semantic web and its applications
by Eyal Sela
Info2011
http://www.teldan.com/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1
&TMID=84&FID=720
Tel Aviv, Israel
* 2011-05-25 (25 MAY)
Update on international web accessibility standards and
support material
by Shawn Henry
Evolving Standards in Accessibility
http://www.bcs.org/category/15015
London, United Kingdom
* 2011-05-25 (25 MAY)
HTML5 & CSS3 in Practice
http://www.webvisionsevent.com/workshops/html5--css3-in-pra
ctice/
by Daniel Davis
WebVIsions 2011
http://www.webvisionsevent.com/
Portland, Oregon, USA
* 2011-06-06 (6 JUN)
Introduction to Semantic Web
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0606-SemTech-Tut-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
2011 Semantic Technology Conference
http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/
San Francisco, CA, USA
* 2011-06-07 (7 JUN)
Introduction to RDFa
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0607-SemTech-RDFa-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
2011 Semantic Technology Conference
http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/
San Francisco, CA, USA
* 2011-06-10 (10 JUN)
HTML5: le nouveau visage du Web
panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
E1 Saison 2
http://www.e1conference.com/
La Seyne sur Mer, France
* 2011-06-15 (15 JUN)
The semantic web and its applications
by Eyal Sela
Guest lecture at Bar-Ilan university
Ramat-Gan, Israel
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