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- Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 18:38:48 -0400
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Last Call: HTML Canvas 2D Context
14 May 2015
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4692>
The HTML Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
of "HTML Canvas 2D Context." This specification defines the 2D
Context for the HTML canvas element. The 2D Context provides
objects, methods, and properties to draw and manipulate
graphics on a canvas drawing surface. Comments are welcome
through 11 June. Learn more about the HTML Activity.
<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-2dcontext-20150514/>
<http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity>
Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Community Profile Note Published
14 May 2015
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4681>
The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
has published a Group Note of "Dataset Descriptions: HCLS
Community Profile." Access to consistent, high-quality
metadata is critical to finding, understanding, and reusing
scientific data. This document describes a consensus among
participating stakeholders in the Health Care and the Life
Sciences domain on the description of datasets using the
Resource Description Framework (RDF). This specification meets
key functional requirements, reuses existing vocabularies to
the extent that it is possible, and addresses elements of data
description, versioning, provenance, discovery, exchange,
query, and retrieval. Learn more about the Data Activity.
<http://www.w3.org/2011/sw/hcls/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/NOTE-hcls-dataset-20150514/>
<http://www.w3.org/2013/data/>
Last Call: CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1
14 May 2015
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4685>
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Flexible Box Layout Module
Level 1." This specification describes a CSS box model
optimized for user interface design. In the flex layout model,
the children of a flex container 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 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
11 June. Learn more about the Style Activity.
<http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-css-flexbox-1-20150514/>
<http://www.w3.org/Style/>
New version of WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices; Updates to WAI-ARIA 1.1
and Core Accessibility API Mappings
14 May 2015
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4683>
The Protocols and Formats Working Group has published a First
Public Working Draft of "WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1" and
updated Working Drafts of "Accessible Rich Internet
Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1" and "Core Accessibility API
Mappings (Core-AAM) 1.1."
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-wai-aria-practices-1.1-20150514/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-wai-aria-1.1-20150514/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-core-aam-1.1-20150514/>
WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices recommends approaches to help web
application developers make widgets, navigation, and behaviors
accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. This
new version has been substantially reworked in order to provide
guidance specific to WAI-ARIA 1.1. WAI-ARIA provides an
ontology of roles, states, and properties that define
accessible user interface elements. It is designed to improve
the accessibility and interoperability of web content,
particularly web applications. Core-AAM describes how user
agents should expose semantics of content languages to
accessibility APIs across multiple content technologies
(including much of WAI-ARIA) and serves as the basis for other
specifications to extend the mappings to specific technologies.
Learn more from the call for review e-mail and read about the
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2015AprJun/011
1>
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/>
More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>
Workshops
W3C Blog
* Job: Web Standards Technology Expert
<http://www.w3.org/blog/2015/05/job-web-standards-technolog
y-expert/>
15 May 2015 by Coralie Mercier
<http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/>
Upcoming Talks
* 2015-05-20 (20 MAY)
An introduction to the Presentation API
<http://www.w3.org/2015/Talks/fd-secondscreen-mws/>
by Francois Daoust
5th FOKUS Media Web Symposium
<https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/mws>
Berlin, Germany
* 2015-05-27 (27 MAY)
Spatial Data on the Web
<http://www.w3.org/2015/Talks/0527_phila_gwf/>
by Phil Archer
INSPIRE ‐ Geospatial World Forum 2015
<http://geospatialworldforum.org/workshop.asp?Sp_Department
=OGC/W3C%20Spatial%20Data%20on%20the%20Web>
Lisbon, Portugal
* 2015-05-28 (28 MAY)
The Convergence of EPUB and the Web
<http://w3c.github.io/dpub/idpf-digital-book-2015/index>
IDPF Digital Book Conference
<http://idpf.org/digital-book-2015>
New York, NY, USA
* 2015-06-07 (7 JUN)
XML Interfaces to the Internet of Things with XForms
<http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2015/06-07-iot/>
by Steven Pemberton
XML London
<http://xmllondon.com/>
London, United Kingdom
* 2015-06-12 (12 JUN)
GIS and the Web – what's the problem?
<http://www.w3.org/2015/Talks/0612_phila_agile/>
keynote by Phil Archer
AGILE 2015
<http://www.agile-online.org/index.php/conference/conferenc
e-2015?layout=edit&id=249>
Lisbon, Portugal
* 2015-06-18 (18 JUN)
The convergence of EPUB and the Web
by Ivan Herman
Buchtage Berlin 2015
<http://www.boersenverein.de/buchtage>
Berlin, Germany
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