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The 2012-10-08 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Announcing Web Platform Docs
08 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9589
[] W3C, in collaboration with Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP,
Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and others, announced today
the alpha release of Web Platform Docs (docs.webplatform.org).
This is a new community-driven site that aims to become a
comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer
documentation. With Web Platform Docs, web professionals will
save time and resources by consulting with confidence a single
site for current, cross-browser and cross-device coding best
practices.
http://webplatform.org/docs
http://webplatform.org/stewards/
http://docs.webplatform.org/
"People in the web community — including browser makers,
authoring tool makers, and leading edge developers and
designers — have tremendous experience and practical knowledge
about the web," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "Web
Platform Docs is an ambitious project where all of us who are
passionate about the web can share knowledge and help one
another."
Watch the welcome video, read the press release and W3C Member
testimonials, blog post from Doug Schepers, and get started on
Web Platform Docs.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ug6XAw6hzaw
http://www.w3.org/2012/10/webplatform.html.en
http://www.w3.org/2012/10/webplatform-testimonials
http://blog.webplatform.org/2012/10/one-small-step/
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Getting_Started
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Drafts Published
04 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9588
The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG)
today published updated Working Drafts of "User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0" and "Implementing UAAG
2.0." UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other
"user agents" should support accessibility for people with
disabilities and work with assistive technologies. UAAG 2.0 is
updated to better address mobile devices and input by speech,
touch, and gesture. See the call for review e-mail for a
summary of changes. Comments are welcome through 9 November
2012. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-UAAG20-20121004/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-IMPLEMENTING-UAAG20-20121004/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012OctDec/0003
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Web Audio Processing: Use Cases and Requirements Draft Published
04 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9587
The Audio Working Group has published the First Public Working
Draft of "Web Audio Processing: Use Cases and Requirements."
This document introduces a series of scenarios and a list of
requirements guiding the work of the W3C Audio Working Group in
its development of a web API for processing and synthesis of
audio on the web. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webaudio-usecases-20121004/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Web Intents Addendum - Local Services Draft Published
04 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9586
The Device APIs Working Group and Web Applications (WebApps)
Working Group have jointly published a Working Draft of "Web
Intents Addendum - Local Services." This specification is an
addendum to Web Intents, that defines how Web Intents enabled
User Agents can discover and communicate with local Web Intents
Services. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications
Activity, and the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webintents-local-services-20121004
/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity
Network Service Discovery Draft Published
04 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9585
The Device APIs Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Network Service Discovery." This specification defines a
mechanism for an HTML document to discover and subsequently
communicate with HTTP-based services advertised via common
discovery protocols within the current network. Learn more
about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-discovery-api-20121004/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
W3C Workshop: Making the Multilingual Web work
02 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9584
W3C announced today the sixth MultilingualWeb workshop in a
series of events exploring the mechanisms and processes needed
to ensure that the World Wide Web lives up to its potential
around the world and across barriers of language and culture.
To be held 12–13 March 2013 in Rome, this workshop is made
possible by the generous support of the Food and Agriculture
Organisation of the United Nations. Anyone may attend at no
charge and the W3C welcomes participation by both speakers and
non-speaking attendees. Early registration is encouraged due to
limited space.
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/rome-workshop/rome-c
fp
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents
http://www.fao.org/
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/register
Building on the success of five highly regarded previous
workshops in Madrid, Pisa, Limerick, Luxembourg, and Dublin,
this workshop will emphasize the application of theory and
technology to meet practical needs. The workshop brings
together participants interested in the best practices and
standards needed to help content creators, localizers, language
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. We are particularly interested in speakers who can
demonstrate novel solutions for reaching out to a global,
multilingual audience. Registration is available online.
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/register
Two Drafts Published by the Tracking Protection Working Group
02 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9583
The Tracking Protection Working Group has published two Working
Drafts today.
http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/
* Tracking Preference Expression (DNT).This specification
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.
* Tracking Compliance and Scope. This specification defines
the meaning of a Do Not Track (DNT) preference and sets out
practices for websites to comply with this preference.
Learn more about the Privacy Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Privacy/
Web API Design Cookbook Note Published
02 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9582
The Device APIs Working Group has published a Group Note of
"Web API Design Cookbook." This document captures common
practices in designing APIs that fit well into the Web platform
as a whole, using WebIDL. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-api-design-20121002/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
W3C launches System Applications Working Group
02 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9580
W3C announced today the launch of the System Applications
Working Group, whose mission is to define a runtime
environment, security model, and associated APIs for building
Web applications with comparable capabilities to native
applications. See the System Applications Working Group Charter
for more information, and read more about the Ubiquitous Web
Domain.
http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/
http://www.w3.org/2012/09/sysapps-wg-charter
http://www.w3.org/UbiWeb/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2012-11-08 ( 8 NOV)
W3C Workshop on Web Performance
http://www.w3.org/2012/11/performance-workshop/
Mountain View, California
Google
There is a an industry-wide momentum towards adopting HTML5
and its series of companion specifications to deploy
applications based on the Open Web Platform. Some of those
applications are facing however challenges with regards to
their performances. While Web browsers are improving their
implementations on an ongoing basis, not all of those
performance issues are due to the speed of the
implementations. Participants will look at a broad range of
performance issues and how to address them.
* 2012-11-14 (14 NOV) – 2012-11-15 (15 NOV)
Shift into High Gear on the Web: W3C Workshop on Web and
Automotive
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/
Rome, Italy
Hosted by Intel and Sponsored by Webinos
W3C’s Open Web Platform (OWP) is driving this and other
industry transformations. The promise of the early
information superhighway is being fulfilled. Whether
tethering a driver’s smartphone or tablet to work with a
car--or embedding technology into the car itself--there’s
no need to reinvent the wheel. The Web can take you there.
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to
share their own perspectives, requirements, and ideas to
ensure that emerging global technology standards meet the
needs of the Web and Automotive industries.
* 2012-11-26 (26 NOV) – 2012-11-27 (27 NOV)
Do Not Track and Beyond
http://www.w3.org/2012/dnt-ws/
Berkeley, California
Hosted by UC Berkeley and TRUST Science and Technology
Center
This workshop serves as a forum for the W3C membership and
the public to discuss the Consortium's next steps in the
area of tracking protection and Web privacy. What have we
learned from Do Not Track standardization and real-world
implementations? Furthermore, undoubtedly support for
privacy on the Web platform cannot end with Do Not Track:
what should we look at next and beyond DNT?
* 2013-03-12 (12 MAR) – 2013-03-13 (13 MAR)
Making the Multilingual Web Work
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/rome-workshop/ro
me-cfp
Rome, Italy
Hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO).
The MultilingualWeb community develops and promotes best
practices and standards related to all aspects of creating,
localizing, and deploying the Web across boundaries of
language. It aims to raise the visibility of existing best
practices and standards for dealing with language on the
Internet and on identifying and resolving gaps that keep
the Internet from living up to its global potential.
W3C Blog
* DNT is Good For the Whole Web
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/10/dnt_is_good_for_the_whole_web
2 October 2012 by Thomas Roessler
http://log.does-not-exist.info/
* Test The Web Forward
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/10/test_the_web_forward
1 October 2012 by Robin Berjon
http://berjon.com/
Upcoming Talks
* 2012-10-09 (9 OCT)
Les technologies Web de demain au service du multi-device
by Philipp Hoschka
Interfaces 2012
http://www.ccmbenchmark.com/conference/671-interfaces-2012
Paris, France
* 2012-10-09 (9 OCT)
W3C Prov Ontology
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/1009-MIT-IH/
by Ivan Herman
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup
Cambridge, MA, USA
* 2012-10-17 (17 OCT)
Introduction to Internationalization and Unicode
http://inter-locale.com/demos/LW2012-seattle
by Addison Phillips
Localization World
https://www.localizationworld.com/
Seattle, USA
* 2012-10-19 (19 OCT)
More CSS secrets: Another 10 things you may not know about
CSS
by Lea Verou
Web Directions South
http://south12.webdirections.org/
Sydney, Australia
* 2012-10-22 (22 OCT)
Internationalization: An Introduction
http://inter-locale.com/demos/iuc36
by Addison Phillips
36th Internationalization and Unicode Conference
http://unicodeconference.org
Santa Clara, CA, USA
* 2012-10-22 (22 OCT)
Internationalizing the Kindle Paperwhite
http://inter-locale.com/demos/iuc36
by Addison Phillips
36th Internationalization and Unicode Conference
http://unicodeconference.org
Santa Clara, CA, USA
* 2012-11-20 (20 NOV)
Why HTML5?
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/1120-owp-plh/
by Philippe Le Hégaret
HTML5FEST 2012
http://www.w3c.org.il/HTML5fest/2012/
Kfar maccabiah, Ramat Gan, Israel
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