W3C Public Newsletter, 2012-08-06

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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This is for Everyone: the Tweet Heard Around the World

   30 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9518

   [] Tim Berners-Lee, London native, inventor of the World Wide
   Web and Founder and Director of the W3C was celebrated on stage
   during the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony on July 27
   where he live tweeted 'This is for everyone.' What better venue
   than the Olympic Games, which inspire young people and bring
   competitors together, to recognize Berners-Lee's role in
   history and his continued advocacy that the Web, built on open
   standards, remains available to everyone, everywhere.
   Congratulations to Sir Tim! Learn more about Tim Berners-Lee
   and about W3C.

   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

   []

   https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/228960085672599552

Ambient Light Events Draft Published

   02 August 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9527

   The Device APIs Working Group has published the First Public
   Working Draft of "Ambient Light Events." This specification
   defines a means to receive events that correspond to a light
   sensor detecting the presence of a light. Learn more about the
   Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-ambient-light-20120802/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

MBUI - Task Models Draft Published

   02 August 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9528

   The Model-Based User Interfaces Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "MBUI - Task Models." Task
   models are useful when designing and developing interactive
   systems. They describe the logical activities that have to be
   carried out in order to reach the user’s goals. This document
   covers the specification of Task Models, with a meta-model
   expressed in UML, and an XML Schema that can be used as the
   basis for interchange of Task Models between different user
   interface development tools. Learn more about the Ubiquitous
   Web Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/mbui/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-task-models-20120802/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Web Audio API Draft Published

   02 August 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9526

   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. This API is designed to be used in conjunction with
   other APIs and elements on the web platform, notably:
   XMLHttpRequest (using the responseType and response
   attributes). For games and interactive applications, it is
   anticipated to be used with the canvas 2D and WebGL 3D graphics
   APIs. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webaudio-20120802/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Launches Patent Advisory Group for Tracking Preference Expression

   01 August 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9523

   In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a
   Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to a disclosure related
   to the "Tracking Preference Expression" specification published
   by the Tracking Protection Working Group; see the PAG charter.

   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
   http://www.w3.org/2012/dnt-pag/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/
   http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/
   http://www.w3.org/2012/06/dnt-pag-charter

   W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has
   been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available
   under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements. Public
   comments regarding this disclosure may be sent to
   public-tracking-comments@w3.org (with public archive). Learn
   more about Patent Advisory Groups.

   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
   ion
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tracking-comments/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
   ion

Patent Advisory Group Recommends Continuing Work on Touch Events
Version 1

   31 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9522

   The Touch Events Patent Advisory Group (PAG) has published a
   report recommending that W3C continue work on the "Touch Events
   version 1 specification" without changes. W3C launches a PAG to
   resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that
   may be essential, but is not available under the W3C
   Royalty-Free licensing requirements. See the original
   announcement of the PAG.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/te-pag/
   http://www.w3.org/2012/te-pag/pagreport
   http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
   ion
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF
   http://www.w3.org/News/2012.html#entry-9339

Last Call: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile

   31 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9520

   The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a
   Last Call Working Draft of "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI)
   Profile." This document describes a profile of the EXI 1.0
   specification for devices with limited memory capacities.
   Comments are welcome through 14 September. Learn more about the
   Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-exi-profile-20120731/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0 Draft Published

   31 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9519

   The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0."
   This document defines data categories and their implementation
   as a set of elements and attributes called the
   Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. ITS 2.0 is the
   successor of ITS 1.0; it is designed to foster the creation of
   multilingual Web content, focusing on HTML5, XML based formats
   in general, and to leverage localization workflows based on the
   XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF). In addition
   to HTML5 and XML, algorithms to convert ITS attributes to RDFa
   and NIF are provided. Learn more about the Internationalization
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-its20-20120731/
   http://www.w3.org/International/

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

Workshops

W3C Blog

     * A Time for Compromise on Do Not Track
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/08/post_1
       1 August 2012 by Nick Doty
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     * Community and Business Groups: The First Year
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/08/community_and_business_groups
       1 August 2012 by Coralie Mercier
       http://my.opera.com/koalie/
     * Interview: Ora Lassila on Web Apps Powered by Linked Data
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/07/interview_ora_lassila
       31 July 2012 by Ian Jacobs
       http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/

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