W3C Public Newsletter, 2013-06-24

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The 2013-06-24 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Three CSS Drafts Published

   20 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9868

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
   Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Custom Properties for Cascading
   Variables Module Level 1." This module introduces cascading
   variables as a new primitive value type that is accepted by all
   CSS properties, and custom properties for defining them.
   Comments are welcome through 18 July.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-variables-1-20130620/

   The group also published a First Public Working Draft of "CSS
   Shapes Module Level 1." CSS Shapes control the geometric
   shapes used for wrapping inline flow content outside an
   element. For Level 1, CSS Shapes can be applied to floats. A
   circle shape on a float will cause inline content to wrap
   around the circle shape instead of the float's bounding box.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-shapes-1-20130620/

   In addition, the group updated "CSS Masking Level 1." CSS
   Masking provides two means for partially or fully hiding
   portions of visual elements: masking and clipping.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-masking-20130620/

   Learn more about the Style Activity.

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

Web Telephony API Draft Published

   20 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9867

   The System Applications Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "Web Telephony API." This specification defines an
   API to manage telephone calls. A typical use case of the Web
   Telephony API is the implementation of a 'Dialer' application
   supporting multiparty calls and multiple telephony services.
   Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-telephony-20130620/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 Draft Published

   18 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9866

   The SVG Working Group has published a Working Draft of
   "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2." This specification defines
   the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
   Version 2, a language for describing two-dimensional vector and
   mixed vector/raster graphics. Changes in this working draft
   include introduction of a new "‘hatch’" element as a refinement
   on patterns, improved accessibility and integration with HTML
   through the addition of the "‘tabindex’" attribute and changes
   to the "‘foreignObject’" element, addition of a new
   'auto-start-reverse' attribute value for markers, clarification
   of CSS transforms on SVG content, and various updates to bring
   SVG closer in line with CSS best practices. See the "full list
   of modifications" in the SVG changes appendix. Learn more about
   the Graphics Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-SVG2-20130409/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/pservers.html#Hatches
   http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/interact.html#SVGElementTabindexAttri
   bute
   http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/extend.html#ForeignObjectElement
   http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/changes
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

Test cases for Canonical XML 2.0 Note Published

   18 June 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9865

   The XML Security Working Group has published a Group Note of
   "Test cases for Canonical XML 2.0." This document outlines
   test cases for Canonical XML 2.0. Learn more about the Security
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-xml-c14n2-testcases-20130618/
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

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

Workshops

     * 2013-07-22 (22 JUL) – 2013-07-23 (23 JUL)
       Get Smart: Smart Homes, Cars, Devices and the Web -
       Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development
       http://www.w3.org/2013/07/mmi/
       New York Metropolitan Area, US
       Hosted by Openstream
       HTML5 has paved the way for development of rich web
       applications and has been widely adopted by application
       developers. Ease of user-interaction (user experience) with
       applications has become a prime focus world-wide, thanks to
       the proliferation of new devices and platforms including
       mobile phones, tablet devices, eBook readers, and gaming
       platforms. In addition, traditional platforms such as TV's,
       sudio systems, and automobiles are rapidly becoming capable
       of much more intelligent interaction than in the past.
       User-interaction through speech, touch, gesture and swipe
       has become the key differentiator in the success of popular
       applications today. One of the key advantages of the W3C
       Multimodal Architecture (MMI) is its suitability for simple
       to sophisticated applications across devices in creating
       compelling user experiences, leveraging advances in i/o
       methodologies, and supporting inter-operability among
       multiple vendors' products.
     * 2013-08-07 ( 7 AUG) – 2013-08-08 ( 8 AUG)
       Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business
       http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/
       San Francisco, United States
       Hosted by AppFusions and sponsored by IBM
     * 2013-09-10 (10 SEP) – 2013-09-11 (11 SEP)
       RDF Validation Workshop - Practical Assurances for Quality
       RDF Data
       https://www.w3.org/2012/12/rdf-val/
       Cambridge, MA
       Hosted by MIT
     * 2013-09-16 (16 SEP) – 2013-09-17 (17 SEP)
       Publishing and the Open Web Platform
       http://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/
       Paris, France
       Hosted by the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation (IRI)

W3C Blog

     * Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/06/post_2
       21 June 2013 by Deborah Dahl

Upcoming Talks

     * 2013-06-26 (26 JUN)
       Standardizing for Open Data
       http://www.w3.org/2013/Talks/0626-Marseille-IH/#talk
       by Ivan Herman
       The Open Data Week
       http://opendataweek.org/presentation-en/
       Marseille, France
     * 2013-06-28 (28 JUN)
       CSS pour des livres (numériques)
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/2013/0628-CSS-Strasbourg/
       by Bert Bos
       Kiwi Party
       http://kiwiparty.fr/
       Strasbourg, France
     * 2013-07-31 (31 JUL)
       What do we want from the web?
       http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/07-xx-web/
       by Steven Pemberton
       OHM 2013
       https://ohm2013.org/
       Geestmerambacht, The Netherlands
     * 2013-08-05 (5 AUG)
       Using XForms for interfaces to XML data
       http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/08-05-xml-interfaces/
       by Steven Pemberton
       International Symposium on Native XML user interfaces
       http://www.balisage.net/XML-Interfaces/
       Montréal, Canada
     * 2013-08-07 (7 AUG)
       Invisible XML
       http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/08-07-invisible-xml/
       by Steven Pemberton
       Balisage 2013
       http://www.balisage.net/2013/Program
       Montréal, Canada

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