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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Workshop: Identity in the Browser
21 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9042
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, to take place
24-25 May 2011 in Mountain View, California, and hosted by the
Mozilla Foundation. 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. Anyone may participate and there is no fee to
participate. All participants are required to submit a position
paper by 22 April; see additional participation requirements.
To help with planning, brief "expressions of interest" are
appreciated as rapidly as possible. Learn more about the
Workshop on Identity in the Browser.
http://www.w3.org/2011/identity-ws/
http://www.w3.org/2011/identity-ws/#cfp_participationRequiremen
ts
http://www.w3.org/2011/identity-ws/
W3C to Participate in Web Summit Bilbao
18 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9041
[] The W3C Spain Office, together with representatives from W3C
Members Anoboto and CTIC; the City Council of Bilbao; the
Basque Government; and the Spanish Ministry of Science and
Innovation announced this week the first Bilbao Web Summit to
take place 17-18 May 2011 at the Euskalduna Conference Center
in Bilbao, Spain. The Bilbao Web Summit will bring together the
Web community and global leaders in business, technology,
government, media, health and education sectors to discuss the
future of the Web. Speakers include W3C staff and Membership,
and many other organizations are participating in the
conference as speakers and sponsors. The event is open to the
public; learn more about registration. Contact the Bilbao Web
Summit for more information about speaking and sponsorship
opportunities.
http://www.bilbaowebsummit.com/pages_en/index
http://www.w3c.es/
http://www.bilbaowebsummit.com/pages_en/index
http://www.bilbaowebsummit.com/pages_en/registration/registrati
on.html#
http://www.bilbaowebsummit.com/pages_en/contact
XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0; XQuery Update Facility 1.0 are W3C
Recommendations
17 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9040
W3C published two Recommendations today: "XQuery Update
Facility 1.0" and "XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0." The former
defines an update facility that extends the XML Query language,
XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility provides expressions that
can be used to make persistent changes to instances of the
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model. The latter extends XQuery
1.0 and XPath 2.0 with full-text search capabilities. The
former document was published by the XML Query Working Group,
the latter jointly with the XSL Working Group. Learn more about
XML.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-xquery-update-10-20110317/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-xpath-full-text-10-20110317/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/
Last Call: HTML5 Web Messaging
17 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9039
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "HTML5 Web Messaging." Web browsers, for
security and privacy reasons, prevent documents in different
domains from affecting each other; that is, cross-site
scripting is disallowed. While this is an important security
feature, it prevents pages from different domains from
communicating even when those pages are not hostile. This
specification defines two mechanisms for communicating between
browsing contexts in HTML documents. Comments are welcome
through 01 June. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-webmessaging-20110317/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: Media Fragments URI 1.0
17 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9038
The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Last Call
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. This specification provides for a
media-format independent, standard means of addressing media
fragments on the Web using URIs. Comments are welcome through
10 April. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-media-frags-20110317/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
Device API Access Control Use Cases and Requirements Note Published
17 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9037
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Group
Note of "Device API Access Control Use Cases and Requirements"
. With the emergence of numerous new APIs in Web browsers and
runtime engines, the need to control which Web sites and
applications can make use of these APIs increases. This
document describes use cases and requirements for controlling
access to these APIs. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-dap-policy-reqs-20110317/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Last Call: SVG Compositing Specification
16 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9036
The SVG Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
of "SVG Compositing Specification." SVG is a language for
describing vector graphics, but it is typically rendered to a
display or some form of print medium. The SVG Compositing
module adds support for the full range of Porter and Duff
operators [PorterDuff] and blending modes. The module allows
for raster and vector objects to be combined to produce eye
catching effects. Comments are welcome through 12 April. Learn
more about the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-SVGCompositing-20110315/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
W3C Invites Implementations of Navigation Timing
16 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9035
The Web Performance Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "Navigation Timing." This
specification defines an interface for web applications to
access timing information related to navigation and elements. A
preliminary implementation report is available and will be
updated during the Candidate Recommendation period. Learn more
about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-navigation-timing-20110315/
http://www.w3.org/2011/03/navigation-timing-report
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Invites Discussion of Open Web Platform for All at WWW 2011
16 March 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9034
W3C invites all WWW2011 participants to meet at the Hyderabad
International Convention Centre (HICC) to discuss the regional
and global impact of this expanding Open Web Platform for
application development. Participants have several
opportunities to meet with the W3C staff, including the W3C
track and a keynote by W3C Director Tim-Berners-Lee. This
year's W3C track consists of two sessions: people (Accessible
and Multilingual Web camp) and devices (Mobile Web Applications
camp). Tim Berners-Lee's keynote titled Designing the Web for
an Open Society" takes place Thursday, 31 March. The W3C track
was organized with the support of the W3C India Office and the
MobiWebApp EU project. Read the press release for more
information.
http://www.www2011india.com/
http://www.hicc.com/
http://www.w3.org/2011/03/w3c-track
http://www.w3cindia.in/
http://mobiwebapp.eu/
http://www.w3.org/2011/03/w3ctrack-pr.html.en
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2011-04-04 ( 4 APR) – 2011-04-05 ( 5 APR)
Content on the Multilingual Web
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/pisa-workshop/pisa-
cfp
Pisa, Italy
Hosted jointly by the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica
and Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche.
Today, the World Wide Web is fundamental to communication
in all walks of life. As the share of English web pages
decreases and that of other languages increases, it is
vitally important to ensure the multilingual success of the
World Wide Web. The MultilingualWeb project is looking at
best practices and standards related to all aspects of
creating, localizing and deploying the Web multilingually.
The project aims to raise the visibility of existing best
practices and standards and identify gaps. The core vehicle
for this is a series of four events which are planned for
the coming two years. Following the highly successful first
event in Madrid, this second workshop will be held in Pisa,
Italy.
* 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)
W3C Workshop on 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.
* 2011-06-04 ( 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 organied 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
* Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-03-14 - 2011-03-20
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/03/openweb-weekly-03
20 March 2011 by Karl Dubost
http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/
Upcoming Talks
* 2011-03-24 (24 MAR)
HTML5 et les nouvelles technologies du Web
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
43.117 monthly meeting
Toulon, France
* 2011-03-31 (31 MAR)
The power of Mobile Web Applications
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
W3C Track in WWW 2011 conference
http://www.w3.org/2011/03/w3c-track
Hyderabad, India
* 2011-04-04 (4 APR)
Multilingual Forms and Applications
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/04-04-steven-i18n
by Steven Pemberton
Content on the Multilingual Web
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/pisa-workshop
Pisa, Italy
* 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
* 2011-05-18 (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
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