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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2011-01-03 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Build Smarter Mobile Web Apps with Best Practices Standard
14 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8976
" " W3C today issues standard best practices to create smarter
mobile Web applications. The "Mobile Web Application Best
Practices " offers practical advice from many mobile Web
stakeholders for the easy development and the deployment of
mobile Web applications that work across many platforms. The
guidelines also indicate how to design Web applications that
are efficient, well-suited to different contexts, and which
boost the overall mobile user experience. A convenient set of
cards, available in English and other languages, summarizes the
key points for easy use. Read the press release and
testimonials. Learn more about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-mwabp-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-mwabp-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/MWABP/
http://www.w3.org/2010/12/mwabp-pr
http://www.w3.org/2010/12/mwabp-testimonials
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Early Bird Rate Extended for SVG Introduction Course
22 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8984
Register for the next session of W3C's online training course:
Introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). The early bird
rate of €124 is extended until 4 January 2011. After that, the
rate is €165. Professor David Dailey of Slippery Rock
University, Pennsylvania, will lead the course, as he has led
previous sessions. The course is six weeks long, starting in
January 2011. The first four weeks are the "core" of the
training, where participants learn how to create SVG documents,
add border effects, rescale and rotate images, etc.The final
two weeks of the course, optional, will show how to add
animation, use scripting, create interactive graphics, and
more. The only pre-requisite for the course is to have some
familiarity with HTML/XML and the ability to edit source code
directly. Full details of the course (audience, content,
timing, weekly commitment) are available in the Introduction to
SVG: Course Description. Learn more about Scalable Vector
Graphics.
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/intro_svg_course_description.php
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/intro_svg_course_description.php
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
Two Voice Specifications Updated: VoiceXML 2.0 and SCXML
16 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8983
The Voice Browser Working Group has published Working Drafts
today of "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0" and
"State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control
Abstraction." VoiceXML 3.0 is a modular XML language for
creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized
speech, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, telephony,
mixed initiative conversations, and recording and presentation
of a variety of media formats including digitized audio, and
digitized video. SCXML is a general-purpose event-based state
machine language that can be used in many ways, including with
VoiceXML. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-voicexml30-20101216/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-scxml-20101216/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
XHTML2 Working Group Documents Published as W3C Notes
16 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8982
W3C today published a number of documents from the XHTML 2
Working Group as W3C Notes:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
* XHTML 2.0, a general-purpose markup language designed to
represent documents for a wide range of purposes across the
World Wide Web.
* XML Events 2, designed to provide an interoperable way of
associating behaviors with document-level markup.
* CURIE Syntax 1.0, a syntax for expressing Compact URIs
* HLink, a module that provides the ability to specify which
attributes of elements represent links, and how those links
should be traversed. HLink also extends XLink use to a
wider class of languages than those restricted to the
syntactic style allowed by XLink.
* XHTML Role Attribute Module, a module to support role
classification of elements
* XHTML Access Module, a module designed to enhance document
accessibility.
* XFrames, intended originally to replace HTML Frames.
Learn more about the XHTML 2 Working Group.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
Design Notes for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0 Draft
Published
16 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8981
The XSL Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Design
Notes for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0." This
document describes initial design notes for version 2.0 of XSL
Formatting Objects (XSL-FO). The requirements involve
pagination and layout, composition, non-Western language
support, and more. The new draft includes work on copy-fitting,
parallel text, numbering, Ruby (as described by the Japanese
Layout Task Force), and multiple columns with individual
styles. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xslfo20-20101216/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
W3C Updates and Aligns XML Query and XPath 3.0 versions
16 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8980
In addition to publishing Second Editions of the 1.0 versions
of XML Query and XPath, the XSL and XML Query Working Groups
updated Working Drafts for the next major version of the
specifications, in particular: "XQuery 3.0," "XQueryX 3.0,"
and "XPath 3.0." The number "3.0" was chosen so that all of
the corresponding specifications would have the same number,
simplifying the previous mixture of "1.1" and "2.1" version
numbers. The new 3.0 drafts incorporate the changes that were
made for the second editions, and also add significant new
features. XPath is a language for selecting parts of XML
documents; XQuery and XQueryX are query languages for
selecting, joining and manipulating XML documents. All three
languages operate on any data source that can be represented as
instances of the XQuery and XPath abstract Data Model (XDM).
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8979
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xquery-30-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xqueryx-30-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xpath-30-20101214/
The Working Group also published the following supporting
documents, each of which lists notable changes in an appendix:
" XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0," "XPath and XQuery
Functions and Operators 3.0," "XQuery 3.0 Use Cases," and "
XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0."
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xpath-datamodel-30-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xpath-functions-30-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xquery-30-use-cases-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-30-20101
214/
W3C Revises XPath 2.0, XQuery 1.0, XQueryX 1.0, and Supporting
Recomendations
16 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8979
Today the XML Query and XSL Working Groups published three
revised Recommendations, "XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (Second
Edition)," "XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (Second
Edition)" and "XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX) (Second
Edition)." XPath is a language for selecting parts of XML
documents; XQuery and XQueryX are query languages for
selecting, joining and manipulating XML documents. All three
languages operate on any data source that can be represented as
instances of the XQuery and XPath abstract Data Model. Also
published are second editions of their supporting documents,
"XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM)," "Query 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators," "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0
Formal Semantics," and "XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization"
.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xpath20-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xquery-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xqueryx-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xpath-datamodel-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xpath-functions-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xquery-semantics-20101214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xslt-xquery-serialization-2010121
4/
The new editions incorporate errata and make a number of
clarifications that resulted from experience of over 50
implementations and widespread use. In addition, a number of
issues that arose during testing for the second edition were
clarified, a process that took several months. The Working
Groups are continuing to process issues that arrived after the
end of the review period; any resulting changes will be
incorporated either into a third edition or into the 3.0
versions of these documents. Learn more about XML technology.
http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/
W3C Launches Federated Social Web Incubator Group
15 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8978
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Federated Social
Web Incubator Group, whose mission is to investigate the core
functionality and the overall technical architecture for a
federated social web, provide a set of community-driven
specifications and a test-case suite for a federated social web
that offers a compelling experience for users. The following
W3C Members have sponsored the charter for this group: DERI,
Google, OpenLink, Vodafone. Read more about the Incubator
Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging
Web-related technologies. Incubator Activity work is not on the
W3C standards track but in many cases serves as a starting
point for a future Working Group.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
Incubator Group Report: Provenance XG Final Report
14 December 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8977
The W3C Provenance Incubator Group has published their final
report. The provenance of information is crucial to making
determinations about whether information is trusted, how to
integrate diverse information sources, and how to give credit
to originators when reusing information. The report highlights
the importance of provenance and presents requirements in a
variety of contexts in the Web based on use cases collected
from the community. Based on these requirements and a close
examination of existing provenance work, the XG identified the
need for standard mechanisms to represent and access
provenance. The group formulated a roadmap for provenance on
the Web that includes short term and long term priorities. The
group also agreed to concrete starting points to ensure rapid
progress towards a standardization effort, and proposed a
charter for a Provenance Interchange Working Group. This
publication is part of the Incubator Activity, a forum where
W3C Members can innovate and experiment. This work is not on
the W3C standards track.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/XGR-prov/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
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SVG - Early bird rate expiring soon!!
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