- From: Eva Tam <etam@cs.ust.hk>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:14:33 +0800
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****** W3C Newsletter: December 2005/January 2006 ****** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upcoming Events: Bert Bos gives a talk entitled "The Web According to W3C - How to turn your idea into a standard" at the " <http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/> 22C3", 27 December, Berlin, Germany http://www.w3.org/Talks/2005/1227-W3C-22C3/ W3C Web Services Addressing Interoperability Event, 17-18 January 2006, Vancouver, BC Canada http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical News: SMIL 2.1 is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium today released Synchronized <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/> Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) as a W3C Recommendation. With SMIL (pronounced "smile"), authors create multimedia presentations and animations integrating streaming audio and video with graphics and text. Version 2.1 features include a new Mobile Profile and an Extended Mobile Profile with enhanced timing, layout and animation capabilities. W3C to Internationalize and Secure Voice Browsing Following the Workshop on <http://www.w3.org/2005/08/SSML/ssml-workshop-cfp> Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), W3C announces new work to extend SSML <http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/> to Asian and other languages and to add speaker verification. Speaker verification is "the best biometric for securing telephone transactions and communications," said Ken Rehor (Vocalocity) Chairman of the VoiceXML Forum and participant in the W3C Voice Browser Working Group. W3C Renews Quality Assurance Interest Group W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity <http://www.w3.org/QA/> and the QA Interest Group <http://www.w3.org/QA/IG/> , chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web community to share their experiences and involvement with QA. Participation is open to W3C Members <http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List> and the public. W3C Host Feed Validation Service W3C is pleased to launch the W3C Feed Validation Service <http://validator.w3.org/feed/> , a free online tool open to creators of syndication feeds in formats such as RSS and Atom. Based on 'feedvalidator', and adding a SOAP Web service interface for interactive programming, the tool is useful for automatic or batch syntax checking. This service joins the existing pool of free, open source tools offered by W3C to the Web development community to help build a better World Wide Web. Last Call: SVG Tiny 1.2 The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of the Scalable Vector <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20051207/> Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification. The draft allows reviewers to verify that their comments have been included. Comments will be accepted through 28 December. The SVG language delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a complete language specification and is implementable on devices large and small, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers. Working Drafts: Internationalization Tag Set The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-its-20051122/> (ITS) and an updated Working Draft of its requirements <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-itsreq-20051122/> . Organized by data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Working Draft: Device Description Ecosystem The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group released a First Public Working Draft of Device Description <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-dd-ecosystem-20051121/> Ecosystem, a future Working Group Note. Serving as input for the group's requirements document, this draft outlines business models and participants in the field of device descriptions, and postulates a common repository. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/> ). 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