Advanced courses for Web developers, by the Dutch W3C Office

The Dutch office of the World Wide Web consortium (http://www.w3c.nl)
is organize the following one day courses in the course of October:

              Course on SMIL and SVG (October 17, 2000)

SMIL 1.0 is a W3C recommendation, approved in June 1998 and now a
strong presence on the Web, which provides a vendor-independent,
declarative language for hypermedia presentations on the Web. With at
least three players currently available, and with more and more
presentations being posted on the Web, SMIL promises to do for
interactive multimedia what HTML did for hypertext: bring it into
every living room with an easy-to-author, readily implementable format
and easily accessible players for it. Its official specification is
available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil.  Version 2.0 of SMIL is
nearing completion and is expected to be released by the W3C in the
coming months. The specification document is 10 times the size of SMIL
1.0, offering many new, rich features and constructs. SMIL 2.0 also
has the backing of major industrial players, such as Microsoft,
RealNetworks and Macromedia.

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an exciting new development in W3C
to define vector graphics and simple image transformation in XML
terms. The SVG specification allows web page designers to add graphics
to their web page directly, without using images. This saves
bandwidth, but also ensures that the images will appear properly
scaled on various devices. The specification of SVG is will be backed
up by a browser plug-in from Adobe, which means that clients will be
able to browse web pages with included SVG figures easily.

Lecturers: F.R.A. Hopgood (W3C) for SVG, and L. Rutledge (CWI) for SMIL.
The separate instruction page for course registration and payments:

http://www.w3c.nl/English/payments.shtml

and, for possible further information:

http://www.w3c.nl/English/events.shtml

Received on Friday, 15 September 2000 10:27:03 UTC