W3C Public Newsletter, 2011-08-08

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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W3C Invites Implementations of WOFF File Format 1.0

   04 August 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9165

   The WebFonts Working Group invites implementation of the
   Candidate Recommendation of "WOFF File Format 1.0." This
   document specifies the WOFF font packaging format. This format
   was designed to provide lightweight, easy-to-implement
   compression of font data, suitable for use with CSS @font-face
   rules. Any properly licensed TrueType/OpenType/Open Font Format
   file can be packaged in WOFF format for Web use. User agents
   decode the WOFF file to restore the font data such that it will
   display identically to the input font. Learn more about the
   Fonts Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-WOFF-20110804/
   http://www.w3.org/Fonts/

W3C Organizes Workshop on Data and Services Integration

   05 August 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9167

   Integration of heterogeneous data and services has always been
   a concern for creators and managers of services. With the
   emergence of the Web, the need for reusing data and services
   has become even stronger as the number of available services
   has grown. Different services stacks now exist from Web
   Services to Cloud-based services. On 20-21 October, W3C is
   organizing a Workshop on Data and Services Integration hosted
   by MITRE in Bedford, MA, USA to bring together people with
   different ways of looking at the issues left unsolved by the
   existing stacks, to investigate the possible paths to help
   bridging services built using different paradigms, and to
   identify points where standardization would help integration of
   services and data. The Workshop is open to all at no cost,
   space permitting. Participants must submit a position paper by
   9 September 2011. Learn more about the Workshop.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop/
   http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop/#paper
   http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop

CSSOM View Module Draft Published

   04 August 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9164

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
   Working Draft of "CSSOM View Module." The APIs introduced by
   this specification provide authors with a way to inspect and
   manipulate the visual view of a document. This includes getting
   the position of element layout boxes, obtaining the width of
   the viewport through script, and also scrolling an element.
   Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-cssom-view-20110804/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

First Draft Published of Web Application Privacy Best Practices

   04 August 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9163

   The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "Web Application Privacy Best
   Practices." This document outlines good privacy practices for
   web applications, including those that might use device
   APIs.Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-app-privacy-bp-20110804/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

W3C Invites Implementations of W3C XML Schema Definition Language 1.1
(Parts 1 and 2)

   22 July 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9160

   The XML Schema Working Group invites implementation of the
   Candidate Recommendation s "XML Schema Definition Language
   (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures" and "XML Schema Definition
   Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes." The first document
   specifies the XML Schema Definition Language, which offers
   facilities for describing the structure and constraining the
   contents of XML documents, including those which exploit the
   XML Namespace facility. The schema language, which is itself
   represented in an XML vocabulary and uses namespaces,
   substantially reconstructs and considerably extends the
   capabilities found in XML document type definitions (DTDs).
   This specification depends on XML Schema Definition Language
   1.1 Part 2: Datatypes, which defines facilities for defining
   datatypes to be used in XML Schemas as well as other XML
   specifications. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language
   (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmlschema11-1-20110721/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmlschema11-2-20110721/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: Page Visibility

   22 July 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9159

   The Web Performance Working Group has published a Last Call
   Working Draft of "Page Visibility." This specification defines
   a means for site developers to programmatically determine the
   current visibility state of the page in order to develop power
   and CPU efficient web applications. Comments are welcome
   through 18 August. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-page-visibility-20110721/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

First Draft of The From-Origin Header Published

   22 July 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9158

   The Web Applications Working Group has published the First
   Public Working Draft of "The From-Origin Header." The Web
   platform currently has no limitations on embedding resources
   from different origins. This specification defines a way for
   resources to declare they are unavailable within an embedding
   context. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-from-origin-20110721/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and Implementing
ATAG 2.0 Working Drafts Updated

   22 July 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9157

   The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has
   published updated Working Drafts of "Authoring Tool
   Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0" and the companion document
   "Implementing ATAG 2.0." ATAG defines how authoring tools
   should help developers produce accessible web content that
   conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. It
   also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that
   people with disabilities can use them. Comments are welcome
   through 15 September 2011. Please see the invitation to review
   the ATAG 2.0 Working Draft for more information. Learn more
   about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-ATAG20-20110721/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20-20110721/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php#for
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2011JulSep/0037
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

User Agent Accesibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Draft Published

   20 July 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9155

   The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has
   published an updated Working Draft of the "User Agent
   Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0." UAAG defines how
   browsers, media players, and other "user agents" should support
   accessibility for people with disabilities and work with
   assistive technologies. The Working Group also published an
   updated Working Draft of "Implementing UAAG 2.0." Read the
   invitation to review the UAAG 2.0 Working Draft and about the
   Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-UAAG20-20110719/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-IMPLEMENTING-UAAG20-20110719/
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2011JulSep/0019
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Internationalization Checker Updated

   19 July 2011 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9153

   The i18n checker is a free service from W3C that provides
   information about internationalization-related aspects of your
   HTML page and advice on creating markup that supports the
   multilingual Web. This latest release uses a new user interface
   and redesigned source code. It also adds a number of new tests,
   a file upload facility, and support for HTML5. This is still a
   'pre-final' release and development continues. There are
   already plans to add further tests and features, to translate
   the user interface, to add support for XHTML5 and polyglot
   documents, to integrate with the W3C Unicorn checker, and to
   add various other features. At this stage we are particularly
   interested in receiving user feedback. Learn more about Web
   Internationalization.

   http://validator.w3.org/i18n-checker/
   http://www.w3.org/International/

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

Workshops

     * 2011-09-19 (19 SEP) – 2011-09-20 (20 SEP)
       (Third) W3C Web and TV Workshop
       http://www.w3.org/2011/09/webtv/
       Hollywood, California
       Hosted and Sponsored by Comcast
       Following the success of its regional workshops in Tokyo,
       Japan and Berlin, Germany, the W3C will host a third
       workshop on Web and TV convergence in Hollywood, California
       on 19-20 September, 2011. In the previous two workshops,
       participants identified opportunities for convergence of
       Web and TV infrastructure and began identifying technical
       challenges. This third workshop will continue these
       efforts, with a particular focus on the needs of content
       creators and distributors.
     * 2011-09-21 (21 SEP) – 2011-09-22 (22 SEP)
       A Local Focus for the Multilingual Web
       http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/limerick-workshop/l
       imerick-cfp
       Limerick, Ireland
       Co-located with the 16th LRC Conference and hosted by the
       University of Limerick
     * 2011-10-20 (20 OCT) – 2011-10-21 (21 OCT)
       W3C Workshop on Data and Services Integration
       http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop/
       Bedford, MA, USA
       Hosted by MITRE
       Integration of heterogeneous data and services has always
       been a concern for creators and managers of services. With
       the emergence of the Web, the need for reusing data and
       services has become even stronger as the number of
       available services has grown. Different services stacks now
       exist from Web Services to Cloud-based services.
       The goal of this Workshop is to bring together people with
       different ways of looking at the issues left unsolved by
       the existing stacks, to investigate the possible paths to
       help bridging services built using different paradigms, and
       to identify points where standardization would help
       integration of services and data.

W3C Blog

     * "Great course, money well invested. Thank you."
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/08/great_course_money_well_invest
       5 August 2011 by Marie-Claire Forgue
       http://www.w3.org/People/mcf/
     * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-07-13 - 2011-07-28
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/07/openweb-weekly-15
       29 July 2011 by Karl Dubost
       http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/
     * Extensions to the CSS Object Model
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/07/extensions_to_the_css_object_m
       25 July 2011 by Daniel Glazman
       http://www.glazman.org/weblog/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2011-08-11 (11 AUG)
       Designing and Building Multimodal Applications
       by Deborah Dahl
       SpeechTEK
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/2011/www.speechtek.com
       New York, USA
     * 2011-09-14 (14 SEP)
       CSS3 - nytt utseende på den moderna webben
       http://www.w3c.se/resources/office/talks/20110914/
       by Olle Olsson
       SUNIWEB 2011
       http://www.suniweb.se/suniweb-2011/
       Linköping, Sweden
     * 2011-09-26 (26 SEP)
       The Computer as Extended Phenotype
       http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2011/09-26-steven-phenotype
       /
       by Steven Pemberton
       UX Week
       http://uxweek.com/2011/
       San Francisco, USA

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