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- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:44:05 -0400
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2012-03-26 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120326
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Last Call: Widget Updates
22 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9396
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "Widget Updates." This specification defines
a process and a document format to allow a user agent to update
an installed widget package with a different version of a
widget package. A widget cannot automatically update itself;
instead, a widget relies on the user agent to manage the update
process. Comments are welcome through 19 April. Learn more
about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-widgets-updates-20120322/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
CSS Specifications Updated: Flexible Box Layout, Grid Layout
22 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9395
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
two Working Drafts:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
* CSS Flexible Box Layout Module describes a CSS box model
optimized for user interface design. In the flexbox layout
model, the children of a flexbox 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.
* CSS Grid Layout which allows designers to define invisible
grids of horizontal and vertical lines. Elements from a
document can then be anchored to points in the grid, which
aligns them visually to each other, even if they are not
next to each other in the source.
Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/
The Media Capture API Note Published
22 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9394
The Device APIs Working Group has published a Group Note of
"The Media Capture API." This specification defined an
Application Programming Interface (API) that provided access to
the audio, image and video capture capabilities of the device.
Development on it has stopped, and further work is taking place
as part of “getusermedia: Getting access to local devices that
can generate multimedia streams”. Learn more about the
Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-media-capture-api-20120322/
http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Speech Module
20 March 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9392
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites
implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "CSS Speech
Module." CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language that
describes the rendering of markup documents (e.g. HTML, XML) on
various supports, such as screen, paper, speech, etc. The
Speech module defines aural CSS properties that enable authors
to declaratively control the rendering of documents via speech
synthesis, and using optional audio cues. Note that this
standard was developed in cooperation with the Voice Browser
Activity. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-css3-speech-20120320/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 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
* Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2012-03-12 - 2012-03-18
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/openweb-weekly-29
26 March 2012 by Karl Dubost
http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/
* W3C Day in Spain: HTML5 and Government Linked Data
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/03/w3c_day_in_spain
23 March 2012 by Martin Alvarez-Espinar
http://www.w3c.es/Personal/Martin
Upcoming Talks
* 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
* 2012-03-26 (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
* 2012-03-27 (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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