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- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:10:51 -0400
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2011-09-12 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20110912
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Launches Work on “Do Not Track” Standards for the Web
08 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9196
Today, the World Wide Web Consortium announced a new
standardization effort to improve user privacy on the Web. The
Tracking Protection Working Group will create standards for "Do
Not Track" technology by building consensus among a broad set
of stakeholders, including browser vendors, content providers,
advertisement networks, search engines, and experts in policy,
privacy, and consumer protection. The Working Group, which
first meets in two weeks, is charted to publish Do Not Track
standards by mid-2012. The standards will let users express
their tracking preferences and select which parties can track
them online. Learn more about W3C's Privacy Activity and read
the April 2011 Report from the W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and
User Privacy, which was sponsored by Adobe, Yahoo!, Google,
Mozilla, and Microsoft.
http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/
http://www.w3.org/Privacy/
http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/report
http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/report
W3C Organizes Workshop on the Future of Offline Web Applications
09 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9198
The Web has rapidly evolved into a platform suitable for rich
applications, but off-line use has remained one of the key
missing elements that application developers require. To
strengthen support for offline Web apps in the Open Web
Platform, W3C is organizing a Workshop on the Future of Offline
Web Applications on 5 November, hosted by Vodafone in Redwood
City, CA. The Workshop is open to all at no cost, space
permitting. Participants must submit a position paper by 30
September 2011. Learn more about the Workshop.
http://www.w3.org/2011/web-apps-ws/
http://www.w3.org/2011/web-apps-ws/
CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3 Draft Updated
08 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9195
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module
Level 3." This CSS Image Values and Replaced Content module
has two parts: First, it defines the syntax for image values in
CSS. Second, it defines properties used to control the
interaction of replaced content and the CSS layout algorithms.
These properties can affect the used image resolution for
bitmaps, the replaced object's orientation, and whether and how
to preserve the object's aspect ratio. Learn more about the
Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-images-20110908/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
W3C Launches New Web Application Security Working Group
07 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9194
Modern Web Applications may be governed by numerous security
policies. Because there is no standard and shared mechanism for
declaring and enforcing policies, it is not possible for sites
to selectively declare the need to escape from some
restrictions or to request enforcement of additional
restrictions. W3C today launched the new Web Application
Security Working Group, with a mission is to address security
issues in modern web applications and mash-ups. The group will
define lightweight policy expression mechanisms to tune the
browser security model. The group will take up work based on
the Content Security Policy specification, and will work on
secure mash-up technologies including Cross-Domain Resource
Sharing and UMP. W3C also launched today the Web Security
Interest Group, a forum for discussions on improving standards
and implementations to advance the security of the Web. Learn
more about W3C's Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/
http://www.w3.org/2011/08/appsecwg-charter
http://www.w3.org/2011/07/security-ig-charter
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Last Call: Web Storage; Web Workers
06 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9193
The Web Applications Working Group has published Last Call
Working Drafts of "Web Storage" and "Web Workers." The former
defines an API for persistent data storage of key-value pair
data in Web clients. The latter defines an API that allows Web
application authors to spawn background workers running scripts
in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like
operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism.
Comments are welcome through 27 September. Learn more about the
Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-webstorage-20110901/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-workers-20110901/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces
06 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9192
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Last
Call Working Draft of "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces"
. This document describes a loosely coupled architecture for
multimodal user interfaces, which allows for co-resident and
distributed implementations, and focuses on the role of markup
and scripting, and the use of well defined interfaces between
its constituents. Comments are welcome through 27 September.
Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-mmi-arch-20110906/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
CSS Values and Units Module Level 3 Draft Updated
06 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9191
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS Values and Units Module Level 3." This
CSS3 module describes the various values and units that CSS
properties accept. Also, it describes how values are computed
from "specified" through "computed" and "used" into "actual"
values. The main purpose of this module is to define common
values and units in one specification which can be referred to
by other modules. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-values-20110906/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
W3C Web Services Standards Approved as ISO/IEC International
Standards
06 September 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9190
Today W3C and JTC1, a joint technical committee of ISO and IEC,
announced formal approval of a package of W3C Web Services
technologies as ISO/IEC International Standards. As ISO/IEC JTC
1 Standards, these widely deployed technologies now benefit
from formal recognition from national bodies, which will
promote interoperability and reduce market fragmentation, thus
benefiting all users. "This is good news for ensuring that
people can use the Web anywhere, on any device," said Jeff
Jaffe, W3C CEO. The package included eight specifications,
including SOAP 1.2, MTOM, Addressing 1.0 and Policy 1.5, which
are foundation specifications for message-based service
technology that has been adopted by industry worldwide. Read
the full press release and testimonials, and learn more about
W3C's PAS Submitter status in the W3C PAS FAQ.
http://www.w3.org/
http://www.w3.org/2010/08/ws-pas
http://www.w3.org/2011/07/wspas-pr
http://www.w3.org/2011/07/wspas-testimonials
http://www.w3.org/2010/04/pasfaq
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.
* 2011-11-05 ( 5 NOV)
W3C Workshop on The Future of Off-line Web Applications
http://www.w3.org/2011/web-apps-ws/
Redwood City, CA, USA
Hosted by Vodafone
Off-line use of Web applications is one of the key missing
elements from the Web platform that application developers
require. The current fragmentation in this solution space
is creating confusion among would-be WebApp developers and
organizations who would otherwise invest in the Open Web
Platform. This workshop will examine requirements that can
be derived from the implementor and developer experiences,
with the goal of informing future standardization efforts.
W3C Blog
* "Do Not Track" standards for the Web: The work is starting.
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/09/do_not_track_standards_for_the
8 September 2011 by Thomas Roessler
http://log.does-not-exist.info/
Upcoming Talks
* 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
* 2011-09-19 (19 SEP)
The Business Case for Accessibility and Evaluating
Accsesibility
by Shawn Henry
NFB Web Accessibility Training Day
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/web_accessibility_day.asp
Baltimore, MD, USA
* 2011-09-23 (23 SEP)
Best practices in developping Mobile Web Apps
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Open World Forum
http://www.openworldforum.org/
Paris, France
* 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
* 2011-10-14 (14 OCT)
Table ronde des navigateurs
panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Paris Web 2011
http://www.paris-web.fr/
Paris, France
* 2011-10-24 (24 OCT)
Embracing Accessibility - Go for the Carrots
keynote by Shawn Henry
HighEdWeb 2011 conference
http://2011.highedweb.org/
Austin, TX, USA
* 2011-11-10 (10 NOV)
Web content vs Web applications - do we want information or
programs?
http://www.w3c.se/resources/office/talks/20111110/
by Olle Olsson
J. Boye Aarhus 11
http://aarhus11.jboye.com/
Aarhus, Denmark
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