- From: Eva Tam <etam@cs.ust.hk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:26:01 +0800
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****** W3C Newsletter: August/September 2005 ****** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Event: 28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference, 7-9 September, Orlando, Florida, USA http://www.global-conference.com/iuc28/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical News: Specification Guidelines are a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium today released Specification <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-qaframe-spec-20050817/> Guidelines as a W3C Recommendation. Written for editors of W3C technical reports, the guidelines explain how to define and specify conformance. The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has completed its work and will close. The QA Interest Group will continue W3C's four-year QA effort through mailing lists and online tools. "QA's products will be integral resources that ensure the work of W3C's Working Groups is of high quality," said Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Operating Officer. Web Services Addressing is a W3C Candidate Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-ws-addr-core-20050817/> Services Addressing - Core and its SOAP <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-ws-addr-soap-20050817/> Binding to Candidate Recommendation. The core specification defines properties that allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines the core properties' association to SOAP <http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/> messages. Web Accessibility Business Case Documents Published The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has published "Developing <http://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/> a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization." The 5-page resource suite describes social, technical, financial, legal and policy aspects of Web accessibility. It is designed to help organizations develop their own customized business case for Web accessibility. It provides text that can be used as is, as well as guidance on identifying the most relevant factors for a specific organization. Internationalization Articles Published The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to help people understand and use international aspects of W3C technologies. In the past month, the group published Using <http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes.html> Character Entities and NCRs, Using <http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-navigation-select> <select> to Link to Localized Content and Ruby Markup and Styling <http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/ruby/> , as well as numerous updates <http://www.w3.org/International/#qa> and translations <http://www.w3.org/International/#newtrans> . Working Group Note: Schema Languages and Type System Support in WSDL 2.0 The Web Services Description Working Group has published Discussion of Alternative Schema Languages and Type System Support <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-wsdl20-altschemalangs-20050817/> in WSDL 2.0 as a Working Group Note. The note discusses WSDL 2.0 type system extensibility, defines the use of XML Schema 1.0 as a type system in the WSDL 2.0 core specification, and includes the basics of extensions for DTDs and Relax NG. Working Draft: SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL) The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of SVG's <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-sXBL-20050815/> XML Binding Language (sXBL). The sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behavior of elements outside the SVG namespace. Comments are welcome. Working Draft: CSS3 Values and Units The CSS Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of CSS3 Values and Units <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-values-20050726/> . The draft explains specified, computed, and actual values and defines common values and units in one specification which can be referred to by other CSS3 modules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More news and reports are available at http://www.w3.org <http://www.w3.org/> (and http://www.w3c.org.hk <http://www.w3c.org.hk/> ). If you are interested in joining W3C, please e-mail to w3c-hongkong@w3.org for enquiry. Also, e-mail to w3c-hongkong@w3.org if you want to unsubscribe. Chinese mailing-list mail archives http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-talk-china/ to subscribe, send e-mail to w3c-hongkong@w3.org (note: an email will be sent to you asking for your authorization for archive listing of the message you sent to the list) Eva Tam Administrator, W3C Office in Hong Kong c/o Department of Computer Science HKUST, Clear Water Bay Kowloon Tel: +852 2358-7001 Fax: +852 2358-1477
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