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W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive
Monitoring (STRINT)
2 December 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3449
The Internet Architecture Board and W3C just announced a
Workshop, Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive
Monitoring, 28 February – 01 March 2014, in London (UK). The
event is co-located with the 89th IETF Conference that will
take place from 02 – 07 March at the Hilton Metropole in
central London (UK).
https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/
The Vancouver IETF plenary concluded that pervasive monitoring
represents an attack on the Internet. Pervasive monitoring
targets protocol data that we also need for network
manageability and security. This data is captured and
correlated with other data. There is an open problem as to how
to enhance protocols so as to maintain network manageability
and security but still limit data capture and correlation.
The overall goal of the workshop is to steer IETF and W3C work
so as to be able to improve or "strengthen" the Internet in the
face of pervasive monitoring. A workshop report in the form of
an IAB RFC will be produced after the event.
Participants are required to submit a position paper or an
Internet Draft by 15 January 2014.
W3C Highlights, November 2013
27 November 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3445
Today, W3C published W3C Highlights – November 2013, a survey
of select recent work and upcoming priorities. In this report
we examine the forces of Web innovation through the lens of
industry, and how the Open Web Platform is transforming digital
publishing, automotive, television, entertainment. This report
was prepared for discussion during TPAC 2013.
http://www.w3.org/2013/11/w3c-highlights/
http://www.w3.org/2013/11/TPAC/
Upcoming Workshop: Linking Geospatial Data
27 November 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3443
W3C announced today a Workshop, Linking Geospatial Data, 5-6
March 2014, in London (UK). The event is hosted by Google.
http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/
Many of the best data-driven Web applications have geospatial
information at their core. Very often the common factor across
multiple data sets is the location data, and maps are crucial
in visualizing correlations between data sets that may
otherwise be hidden. It’s this desire to work with multiple
data sets in different formats about different topics and link
those with the powerful technologies used in geospatial
information systems that is behind the linking geospatial data
workshop.
How can geographic information best be integrated with other
data on the Web? How can we discover that different facts in
different data sets relate to the same place, especially when
‘place’ can be expressed in different ways and at different
levels of granularity? W3C membership is not required to
participate. The event is open to all. All participants are
required to submit a position paper by 19 January 2014.
Filter Effects, and CSS Transforms Drafts Published
26 November 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3438
The CSS Working Group and the SVG Working Group have published
two Working Drafts today.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/
* A Working Draft of Filter Effects Module Level 1. Filter
effects are a way of processing an element’s rendering
before it is displayed in the document. Typically,
rendering an element via CSS or SVG can be conceptually
described as if the element, including its children, are
drawn into a buffer (such as a raster image) and then that
buffer is composited into the elements parent. Filters
apply an effect before the compositing stage. Examples of
such effects are blurring, changing color intensity and
warping the image. Although originally designed for use in
SVG, filter effects are a set a set of operations to apply
on an image buffer and therefore can be applied to nearly
any presentational environment, including CSS. They are
triggered by a style instruction (the filter property).
This specification describes filters in a manner that
allows them to be used in content styled by CSS, such as
HTML and SVG. It also defines a CSS property value function
that produces a CSS <image> value. CSS is a language for
describing the rendering of structured documents (such as
HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.
* A Working Draft of CSS Transforms Module Level 1. CSS
transforms allows elements styled with CSS to be
transformed in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space.
This specification is the convergence of the CSS 2D
transforms, CSS 3D transforms and SVG transforms
specifications. CSS is a language for describing the
rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on
screen, on paper, in speech, etc.
Learn more about the Style Activity, and the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Web MIDI API Draft Published
26 November 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3436
The Audio Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Web
MIDI API." This specification defines an API supporting the
MIDI protocol, enabling web applications to enumerate and
select MIDI input and output devices on the client system and
send and receive MIDI messages. It is intended to enable
non-music MIDI applications as well as music ones, by providing
low-level access to the MIDI devices available on the users’
systems. The Web MIDI API is not intended to describe music or
controller inputs semantically; it is designed to expose the
mechanics of MIDI input and output interfaces, and the
practical aspects of sending and receiving MIDI messages,
without identifying what those actions might mean semantically.
The Web MIDI API is also expected to be used in conjunction
with other APIs and elements of the web platform, notably the
Web Audio API. This API is also intended to be familiar to
users of MIDI APIs on other systems, such as Apple’s CoreMIDI
and Microsoft’s Windows MIDI API. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-webmidi-20131126/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity
Last Call: CSS Writing Modes Level 3
26 November 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3434
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Writing Modes Level 3." This
specification defines CSS support for various international
writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic),
right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g.
mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g. Asian scripts). CSS
is a language for describing the rendering of structured
documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in
speech, etc. Comments are welcome through 24 December. Learn
more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-writing-modes-3-20131126/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/
Workshops
* 2014-02-28 (28 FEB) – 2014-03-01 ( 1 MAR)
W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against
Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)
http://www.w3.org/2014/strint/
London, England
The Vancouver IETF plenary concluded that pervasive
monitoring represents an attack on the Internet. Pervasive
monitoring targets protocol data that we also need for
network manageability and security. This data is captured
and correlated with other data. There is an open problem as
to how to enhance protocols so as to maintain network
manageability and security but still limit data capture and
correlation.
The overall goal of the workshop is to steer IETF and W3C
work so as to be able to improve or "strengthen" the
Internet in the face of pervasive monitoring. A workshop
report in the form of an IAB RFC will be produced after the
event.
* 2014-03-05 ( 5 MAR) – 2014-03-06 ( 6 MAR)
Linking Geospatial Data
http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/
London
Co-organized by the UK Government, Ordnance Survey, the OGC
and Google.
Many data-driven applications have geospatial information
at their core. Very often the common factor across multiple
data sets is the location data, and maps are crucial in
visualizing correlations between data sets that may
otherwise be hidden. How can geographic information best be
integrated with other data on the Web? How can we discover
that different facts in different data sets relate to the
same place, especially when 'place' can be expressed in
different ways and at different levels of granularity? It's
this desire to work with multiple data sets in different
formats about different topics and link those with the
powerful technologies used in geospatial information
systems that is behind the linking geospatial data
workshop.
W3C Blog
* This week at W3C: Faces of our Team, Tomorrow is #bbd13,
HTML5 Games to Nickelodeon Android App, etc.
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/11/this-week-at-w3c-faces-of-ou
r-team-tomorrow-is-bbd13-html5-games-to-nickelodeon-android
-app-etc/
29 November 2013 by Coralie Mercier
http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
* On TPAC 2013
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/11/on-tpac-2013/
27 November 2013 by Jeff Jaffe
http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
* TPAC Update on Accessibility in Digital Publishing
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/11/tpac-update-on-accessibility
-in-digital-publishing/
27 November 2013 by Gerardo Capiel
Upcoming Talks
* 2013-12-03 (3 DEC)
Documenten, Semantiek en Linked Data
http://www.w3.org/2013/Talks/1203_phila_odl/
keynote by Phil Archer
The Open Document Lifecycle
http://ecp.nl/events//3929/seminar-a-open-document-lifecycl
ea
The Hague, The Netherlands
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