W3C Public Newsletter, 2012-06-18

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Web Notifications Draft Published

   14 June 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9477

   The Web Notification Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "Web Notifications." Web notifications defines an API
   for end-user notifications. A notification allows alerting the
   user outside the context of a web page of an occurrence, such
   as the delivery of email. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2010/web-notifications/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-notifications-20120614/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification Draft
Published

   14 June 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9476

   The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events
   Specification." This specification defines the Document Object
   Model Events Level 3, a generic platform- and language-neutral
   event system which allows registration of event handlers,
   describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides
   basic contextual information for each event. The Document
   Object Model Events Level 3 builds on the Document Object Model
   Events Level 2. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20120614/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Two Drafts Published by the CSS Working Group

   13 June 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9474

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
   two Working Drafts:

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
     * A Last Call Working Draft of CSS Flexible Box Layout
       Module. The specification describes a CSS box model
       optimized for user interface design. In the flex layout
       model, the children of a flex container can be laid out in
       any direction, and can "flex" their sizes, either growing
       to fill unused space or shrinking to avoid overflowing the
       parent. Both horizontal and vertical alignment of the
       children can be easily manipulated. Nesting of these boxes
       (horizontal inside vertical, or vertical inside horizontal)
       can be used to build layouts in two dimensions Comments are
       welcome through 03 July.
     * The First Public Working Draft of CSS Box Alignment Module
       Level 3. This module contains the features of CSS relating
       to the alignment of boxes within their containers in the
       various CSS box layout models: block layout, table layout,
       flex layout, and grid layout. (The alignment of text and
       inline-level content is defined in CSS3TEXT and
       CSS3LINEBOX.) CSS is a language for describing the
       rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on
       screen, on paper, in speech, etc.

   Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/

Online Symposium: Mobile Accessibility

   11 June 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9473

   Registration is now open for the online symposium on mobile
   accessibility to be held on 25 June 2012. The symposium is
   intended for researchers and practitioners who want to explore
   mobile accessibility challenges and solutions, and help develop
   a roadmap for future research and development. For details and
   registration, see Mobile Accessibility - Online Symposium.
   Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/mobile
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

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

Workshops

     * 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) – 2012-06-13 (13 JUN)
       Multilingual Web - Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT
       Requirements
       http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dub
       lin-cfp
       Dublin, Ireland
       Hosted by Trinity College Dublin, with funding by the
       European Commission
     * 2012-06-14 (14 JUN) – 2012-06-15 (15 JUN)
       All Signs Point to the Web: W3C Workshop on Web-Based
       Signage
       http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/cfp
       Tokyo (Chiba), Japan
       Hosted by NTT
       The Web is at a turning point with the emergence of the
       Open Web Platform, the set of technologies used to create
       highly interactive experiences and social apps on a broad
       range of devices. W3C has helped foster the deployment of
       Web technology on mobile devices and, for the past two
       years, has made the convergence of Web and TV a priority
       (see the Web and TV Interest Group). We now see an
       opportunity to extend the Web to a new class of devices:
       very large digital displays. We invite operators of
       consumer electronics companies, digital signage platforms,
       advertisers, browser vendors, sign owners, and others to
       participate in this discussion.
     * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN)
       Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data
       journalism
       http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/
       Brussels, Belgium
       Hosted by the European Commission
       For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data,
       fostering a culture in which public administrations make
       their data available, ideally in machine-processable
       formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with
       enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of
       the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European
       Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of
       the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what
       is all the 'new' government open data being used for?

W3C Blog

     * Interview: Huawei, Maxthon, Qihoo 360, UC Web, and the
       Chinese Browser Perspective
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/06/interview_huawei_maxthon_qihoo
       14 June 2012 by Ian Jacobs
       http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2012-07-09 (9 JUL)
       Semantic Web @ W3C
       by Ivan Herman
       SSSW'12 The 9th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and
       the Semantic Web
       http://sssw.org/2012/
       Cercedilla, Spain
     * 2012-07-17 (17 JUL)
       Embracing Accessibility – Go for the Carrots
       keynote by Shawn Henry
       PSEWEB Canada's University & College Digital Marketing
       Conference
       http://pseweb.ca/
       Halifax, Canada

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