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- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:09:46 -0400
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The 2012-03-19 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Call for Review: Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic) Proposed
Recommendation Published
15 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9391
The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Proposed
Recommendation of "Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic)." This
document describes the Media Fragments 1.0 (basic)
specification. It specifies the syntax for constructing media
fragment URIs and explains how to handle them when used over
the HTTP protocol. The syntax is based on the specification of
particular name-value pairs that can be used in URI fragment
and URI query requests to restrict a media resource to a
certain fragment. The Media Fragment WG has no authority to
update registries of all targeted media types. We recommend
media type owners to harmonize their existing schemes with the
ones proposed in this document and update or add the fragment
semantics specification to their media type registration.
Comments are welcome through 26 April. Learn more about the
Video in the Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-media-frags-20120315/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
Web Audio API Draft Published
15 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9390
The Audio Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Web
Audio API." This specification describes a high-level
JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web
applications. The primary paradigm is of an audio routing
graph, where a number of AudioNode objects are connected
together to define the overall audio rendering. The actual
processing will primarily take place in the underlying
implementation (typically optimized Assembly / C / C++ code),
but direct JavaScript processing and synthesis is also
supported. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webaudio-20120315/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Two Drafts Published by the Tracking Protection Working Group
13 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9389
The Tracking Protection Working Group has published two
documents today.
http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/
* A First Public Working Draft of Tracking Compliance and
Scope which defines the meaning of a Do Not Track (DNT)
preference and sets out practices for websites to comply
with this preference.
* A First Public Working Draft of Tracking Preference
Expression (DNT) which defines the technical mechanisms for
expressing a tracking preference via the DNT request header
field in HTTP, via an HTML DOM property readable by
embedded scripts, and via properties accessible to various
user agent plug-in or extension APIs. It also defines
mechanisms for sites to signal whether and how they honor
this preference, both in the form of a machine-readable
tracking status resource at a well-known location and via a
"Tk" response header field, and a mechanism for allowing
the user to approve site-specific exceptions to DNT as
desired.
Learn more about the Privacy Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Privacy/
Three Web Applications Working Group specifications published
13 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9388
The Web Applications Working Group has published three
documents today.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* A Last Call Working Draft of HTML5 Web Messaging which
defines two mechanisms for communicating between browsing
contexts in HTML documents. Comments are welcome through 03
April.
* A Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers that 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
03 April.
* A Group Note of Widget URI scheme that defines the widget
URI scheme and rules for dereferencing a widget URI, which
can be used to address resources inside a package. The
dereferencing model relies on HTTP semantics to return
resources in a manner akin to a HTTP GET request. Doing so
allows this URI scheme to be used with other technologies
that rely on HTTP responses to function as intended, such
as XMLHTTPRequest.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Invites Implementations of Navigation Timing
13 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9387
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.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-navigation-timing-20120313/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: High Resolution Time
13 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9386
The Web Performance Working Group has published a First Public
and Last Call Working Draft of "High Resolution Time." This
document defines a Javascript interface that provides the
current time in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is
not subject to system clock skew or adjustments. Comments are
welcome through 10 April. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-hr-time-20120313/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Invites Implementations of RDFa Core 1.1, RDFa Lite 1.1 and
XHTML+RDFa 1.1
13 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9385
The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three
Candidate Recommendation documents for "RDFa Core 1.1," "RDFa
Lite 1.1" and "XHTML+RDFa 1.1."
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-rdfa-core-20120313/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-rdfa-lite-20120313/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xhtml-rdfa-20120313/
Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a
variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa Core
1.1 specifies the core syntax and processing rules for RDFa 1.1
and how the language is intended to be used in XML documents.
RDFa Lite 1.1 provides a simple subset of RDFa for novice web
authors. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 specifies the usage of RDFa in the
XHTML markup language.
A number of improvements have been made to RDFa 1.1 over the
past year by working closely with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and
the other search engine developers. Public review and comments
have resulted in a number of further refinements to the
language that eases the learning curve for beginner Web
authors.
The release of these Candidate Recommendation documents is a
signal to developers that the Working Group believes that each
specification is ready for implementation. The RDF Web
Applications Working Group thus kindly asks for developers
across the Web to implement the specification and provide
implementation feedback via the RDF Web Applications Working
Group mailing list.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/
You can learn more about similar projects to RDFa via the W3C's
Semantic Web Activity homepage.
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
XML Security WG publishes Candidate Recommendation Drafts for XML
Encryption 1.1
13 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9384
The XML Security Working Group has published the " "XML
Encryption 1.1" " Candidate Recommendation. This is a new CR
publication which reflects changes since the previous CR
publication to address newly publicized chosen-ciphertext
attacks against the CBC class of algorithms. Changes include
making an authenticated encryption algorithm mandatory to
implement (AES-128-GCM), updating the security considerations
and adding additional algorithm choices to the RSA-OAEP key
transport algorithm set to provide algorithm agility.
Additional changes include various editorial improvements.
Details of all changes are noted in the status section of the
document.
http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xmlenc-core1-20120313/
The Working Group also has published a CR draft outlining the
use of XML Signature 2.0 transforms in XML Encryption 1.1 - the
" "XML Encryption 1.1 CipherReference Processing using 2.0
Transforms" " Candidate Recommendation.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xmlenc-transform20-20120313/
To address patent disclosures related to the XML Signature 1.1
and XML Encryption 1.1 specifications, the W3C has chartered a
Patent Advisory Group.
http://www.w3.org/2011/xmlsec-pag/
Learn more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR)
The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop
/luxembourg-cfp
Luxembourg
Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of
the European Commission.
Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid,
Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring
together speakers and participants with an interest in best
practices and standards aimed at helping content creators,
localizers, tools developers, and others meet the
challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further
opportunities for networking across communities that span
the various aspects involved.
http://multilingualweb.eu/
* 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
* Interoperable Governments?
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/interoperable_governments
13 March 2012 by Phil Archer
* Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-02-06 - 2012-03-11
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/openweb-weekly-28
12 March 2012 by Karl Dubost
http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/
Upcoming Talks
* 2012-03-19 (19 MAR)
Report on the "Future of Research Communications" Workshop
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0319-Dagstuhl-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
Dagstuhl, Germany
* 2012-03-22 (22 MAR)
The Mobile Web - what I've learned from my 'Students'
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0322_phila_openMIC/
panel features Phil Archer
openMIC #13
http://open-mic.org.uk/
Bath, United Kingdom
* 2012-03-26 (26 MAR)
Managing Website Accessibility Conformance
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
European Accessibility Forum
http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/
76_index_en
Paris, France
* 2012-03-26 (26 MAR)
What paths to WCAG2.0 compliance?
panel features Shadi Abou-Zahra
European Accessibility Forum
http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/
76_index_en
Paris, France
* 2012-03-27 (27 MAR)
Bonnes pratiques pour le Web mobile
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Rencontres Experts Eyrolles, Sites web : les meilleures
pratiques
http://eyrolles-serveur.com/formulaire/
Paris, France
* 2012-04-17 (17 APR)
Developing Mobile Web Applications
W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2012)
http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track
Lyon, France
* 2012-04-17 (17 APR)
Open Data in Practice
W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2012)
http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track
Lyon, France
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