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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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OpenSocial Foundation Moving Standards Work to W3C
16 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4265
Building on the 31 July 2014 announcement of the W3C Social Web
Working Group, the OpenSocial Foundation and W3C today announce
the transfer of OpenSocial specifications and assets to the
W3C. As of 1 January 2015, OpenSocial Foundation will close and
future work will take place within the W3C Social Web Activity,
chartered to make it easier to build and integrate social
applications into the Open Web Platform.
http://www.w3.org/2014/06/social.html.en
http://www.w3.org/Social/
“The consensus of the OpenSocial Board is that the next phase
of Social Web Standards, built in large part on the success of
OpenSocial standards and projects like Apache Shindig and Rave,
should occur under the auspices of the W3C Social Web Working
Group, of which OpenSocial is a founding member,” said John
Mertic, OpenSocial Foundation President.”
Read more in the press release and blog post with details and
FAQ, and learn more about W3C’s Social Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2014/12/opensocial.html.en
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/12/opensocial-foundation-moves-stan
dards-work-to-w3c-social-web-activity/
http://www.w3.org/Social/
Registration Open for W3C Training in JavaScript, Responsive Web
Design, HTML5
23 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4284
Registration is open for new editions of three W3C online
courses that begin in early 2015:
* JavaScript [Register]. This course runs for 4 weeks
starting 26 January 2015. This course provides instruction
about JavaScript good practices, tricks, and tools,
illustrated through examples and assignments.
* HTML5 [Register]. This course runs for 6 weeks, starting 2
February 2015. This course covers video, time based
animation, 2D geometric transformations, Web Audio API, Web
components and much more.
* Responsive Web Design [Register]. This course runs for 5
weeks, starting 6 February 2015. This course leads you step
by step through an approach that focuses on HTML and CSS to
make your Web site fit in all viewport sizes.
An early bird rate is available to all above courses. Learn
more about W3DevCampus, the official W3C online training for
Web developers. See also our self-explanatory fun video.
http://w3devcampus.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgyKbjOGCYA
W3C Invites Implementations of XPath 3.1, XQuery 3.1, XQueryX 3.1
18 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4278
Today the XSLT Working Group and the XQuery Working Group
jointly published Candidate Recommendations and invite
implementation of "XPath 3.1" and supporting documents. The
XQuery Working Group published Candidate Recommendations and
invites implementation of "XQuery 3.1" and "XQueryX 3.1." The
supporting documents are "XPath Functions and Operators" ;
"XQuery and XPath Data Model." XQuery 3.1 and XPath 3.1
introduce improved support for working with JSON data with map
and array data structures as well as loading and serializing
JSON; additional support for HTML class attributes, HTTP dates,
scientific notation, cross-calling between XSLT and XQuery and
more. The Serialization specification remains a Last Call
Working Draft and was not republished, in order to improve
JSON, map and array support in response to a Last Call Comment;
it is expected to follow the other documents in the New Year.
Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-xpath-31-20141218/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-xquery-31-20141218/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-xqueryx-31-20141218/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-xpath-functions-31-20141218/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-xpath-datamodel-31-20141218/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
First Public Working Draft: CSS Inline Layout; CSS Box Alignment
Draft Published
18 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4276
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
two documents today:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
* A First Public Working Draft of CSS Inline Layout Module
Level 3. The CSS formatting model provides for a flow of
elements and text inside of a container to be wrapped into
lines. The formatting of elements and text within a line,
its positioning in the inline progression direction, and
the breaking of lines are described in CSS Text Module
Level 3. This module describes the positioning in the block
progression direction both of elements and text within
lines and of the lines themselves. This positioning is
often relative to a baseline. It also describes special
features for formatting of first lines and drop caps. It
extends on the model in CSS 2.1.
* A Working Draft of CSS Box Alignment Module Level 3. This
module contains the features of CSS relating to the
alignment of boxes within their containers in the various
CSS box layout models: block layout, table layout, flex
layout, and grid layout.
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.
http://www.w3.org/Style/
First Public Working Drafts: XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language;
XProc 2.0: Standard Step Library
18 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4274
The XML Processing Working Group has published a First Public
Working Draft of XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language, together
with a Standard Step Library. XProc is an XML pipeline
language; that is, a declarative dataflow language used to
express steps required to process XML documents, coordinating
operations such as querying, validation, inclusion,
transformation and sorting. The XProc step library defines
names and characteristics for a set of pipeline steps that
every XProc processor is expected to support, as well as
additional optional steps. Lean more about the XML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/staging/WD-xproc20-20141218/
http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/staging/WD-xproc20-steps-20141218/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool List: Call for Tool Information
18 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4272
An updated version of the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
List is now available. Web accessibility evaluation tools are
software programs or online services that help determine if web
content meets accessibility guidelines. Information about
features of evaluation tools that help with evaluation is in
Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools. Web accessibility
evaluation tool vendors are encouraged to submit information
about their tool to the list. Learn more about the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/selectingtools
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Upcoming Workshop: Data, content and services for the Multilingual
Web
18 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4268
W3C announced today the eighth 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 29 April 2015 in Riga, this workshop is made
possible by the generous support of the LIDER project. The
workshop is part of the Riga Summit 2015 on the Multilingual
Digital Single Market (27-29 April). Anyone may attend the
workshop and the summit 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/documents/2015-riga-workshop/2015
-riga-cfp
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents
http://lider-project.eu/
http://rigasummit2015.com/
Building on the success of seven highly regarded previous
workshops, this workshop will emphasize new technology
developments that may lead to new opportunities for the
Multilingual Web. 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.
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/2015mlw/
Call for Review: Pointer Events Proposed Recommendation Published
16 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4259
The Pointer Events Working Group has published a Proposed
Recommendation of "Pointer Events." This document defines
events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic
pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, touchscreen,
etc.. For compatibility with existing mouse based content, this
specification also describes a mapping to fire Mouse Events for
other pointer device types. Comments are welcome through 16
January 2015. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2012/pointerevents/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/PR-pointerevents-20141216/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Call for Review: RDFa 1.1 is a Proposed Edited Recommendation
16 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4256
The RDFa Working Group is advancing four RDFa 1.1 documents to
Proposed Edited Recommendations today:
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/
* HTML+RDFa 1.1 – Second Edition. This specification defines
rules and guidelines for adapting the RDFa Core 1.1 and
RDFa Lite 1.1 specifications for use in HTML5 and XHTML5.
The rules defined in this specification not only apply to
HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4
and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing
rules.
* RDFa Core 1.1 – Third Edition. RDFa Core is a specification
for attributes to express structured data in any markup
language. The embedded data already available in the markup
language (e.g., HTML) can often be reused by the RDFa
markup, so that publishers don’t need to repeat significant
data in the document content. The underlying abstract
representation is RDF, which lets publishers build their
own vocabulary, extend others, and evolve their vocabulary
with maximal interoperability over time. The expressed
structure is closely tied to the data, so that rendered
data can be copied and pasted along with its relevant
structure.
* RDFa Lite 1.1 – Second Edition. RDFa Lite is a minimal
subset of RDFa, the Resource Description Framework in
attributes, consisting of a few attributes that may be used
to express machine-readable data in Web documents like
HTML, SVG, and XML. While it is not a complete solution for
advanced data markup tasks, it does work for most
day-to-day needs and can be learned by most Web authors in
a day.
* XHTML+RDFa 1.1 – Third Edition. RDFa Core 1.1 defines
attributes and syntax for embedding semantic markup in Host
Languages. This document defines one such Host Language.
This language is a superset of XHTML 1.1, integrating the
attributes as defined in RDFa Core 1.1. This document is
intended for authors who want to create XHTML Family
documents that embed rich semantic markup.
Comments are welcome through 1 February 2015. Learn more about
the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Linked Data Platform (LDP) 1.0 Documents for Review, Implementation
16 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4261
The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published a
Proposed Recommendation of "Linked Data Platform 1.0." Linked
Data Platform (LDP) defines a set of rules for HTTP operations
on web resources, some based on RDF, to provide an architecture
for read-write Linked Data on the web. Comments are welcome
through 8 January 2015.
http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/PR-ldp-20141216/
The group also invites implementation of the Candidate
Recommendation of "Linked Data Platform Paging 1.0." This
document describes a HTTP-based protocol for clients and
servers to be able to efficiently retrieve large Linked Data
Platform Resource representations by splitting up the responses
into separate URL-addressable page resources.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-ldp-paging-20141216/
Learn more about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Last Call: XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.1
16 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4254
The XML Core Working Group has published a Last Call Working
Draft of "XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.1." This
document specifies a processing model and syntax for general
purpose inclusion. Inclusion is accomplished by merging a
number of XML information sets into a single composite infoset.
Specification of the XML documents (infosets) to be merged and
control over the merging process is expressed in XML-friendly
syntax (elements, attributes, URI references). Comments are
welcome through 17 January 2015. Learn more about the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-xinclude-11-20141216/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Custom Elements Draft Published
16 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4252
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Custom Elements." This specification describes the
method for enabling the author to define and use new types of
DOM elements in a document. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-custom-elements-20141216/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Microdata to RDF (Second Edition) Group Note Published
16 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4250
The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a new version of
the Group Note on "Microdata to RDF." HTML microdata is an
extension to HTML used to embed machine-readable data into HTML
documents. Whereas the microdata specification describes a
means of markup, this specification describes processing rules
that may be used to extract RDF from an HTML document
containing microdata. The new version adds some HTML5 specific
features that were finalized recently and were missing from the
"previous version" of the Note, simplifies the RDF output as
well as the processing rules to be in line with the usage
practices of microdata, and updates the references to the
latest version of RDF. Learn more about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-microdata-rdf-20141216/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-microdata-rdf-20121009/
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Resource Timing Draft Published
16 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4248
The Web Performance Working Group has published a Working Draft
of "Resource Timing." This specification defines an interface
for web applications to access the complete timing information
for resources in a document. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-resource-timing-20141216/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
First Public Working Draft: Indic Layout Requirements
16 December 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4246
The Indic Layout Task Force, part of the W3C
Internationalization Interest Group has published a First
Public Working Draft of "Indic Layout Requirements." This
document describes the basic requirements for Indian Languages
layout for display purpose. It discusses some of the major
layout requirements in first letter pseudo-element, vertical
arrangements of characters, letter spacing, text segmentation,
line breaking and collation rules in Indic languages. The
minimal requirements presented in this document for Indian
languages text layout will also be used in E-publishing and CSS
Standard. This documents covers major issues of e-content in
Indian languages in order to create standardize format of text
layout to address storage, rendering problems, vertical
writing, letter spacing, collation, line breaking, etc. It also
describes the definition of ABNF (Augmented Backus–Naur Form)
based valid segmentation-Indic syllable in order to get the
proper display in the browsers. Learn more about the
Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/groups/indic-layout/
http://www.w3.org/International/ig/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-ilreq-20141216/
http://www.w3.org/International/
More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/
Workshops
* 2015-04-29 (29 APR)
Eighth MultilingualWeb Workshop: Data, content and services
for the Multilingual Web
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/2015-riga-workshop/
2015-riga-cfp
Riga, Latvia
In this workshop we wish to consider a wide spectrum of
issues, ranging from blogs and social networking sites, to
localization of large corporate or organizational
enterprises. We are particularly interested in speakers who
can identify gaps in standards and best practices related
to the mutilingual Web, and propose opportunities for
addressing those.
W3C Blog
* I would like to teach the web to sing
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/12/teach-the-web-to-sing/
24 December 2014 by Daniel Davis
* This week: CSP for Gmail, CSS1 is 18 years old, W3C CEO on
after HTML5, etc.
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/12/this-week-csp-for-gmail-css1
-is-18-years-old-w3c-ceo-on-after-html5-etc/
19 December 2014 by Coralie Mercier
http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
* OpenSocial Foundation Moves Standards Work to W3C Social
Web Activity
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/12/opensocial-foundation-moves-
standards-work-to-w3c-social-web-activity/
16 December 2014 by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Upcoming Talks
* 2015-01-20 (20 JAN)
Putting data at the heart of the Open Web Platform
http://www.w3.org/2015/Talks/0120_phila_ape/
keynote by Phil Archer
Academic Publishing in Europe
http://www.ape2015.eu/
Berlin, Germany
* 2015-01-22 (22 JAN)
Introduction to WebRTC
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
WebRTC Info day
http://www.pole-scs.org/article/session-d%E2%80%99informati
on-sur-webrtc
Sophia-Antipolis, France
* 2015-01-22 (22 JAN)
Accessibility for the Win: Orchestrating Organizational
Buy-In
keynote by Shawn Henry
ConveyUX
http://conveyux.com/
Seattle, WA, USA
* 2015-01-22 (22 JAN)
Easy Checks for Web Accessibility - Get the Gist (No
Experience Needed)
by Shawn Henry
ConveyUX
http://conveyux.com/
Seattle, WA, USA
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