W3C Newsletter: July/August 2005

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News Announcement: 

 

Chinese Academy of Sciences has joined W3C as new member

 <http://www.cas.cn/> http://www.cas.cn/

 

W3C Offices Expand to India

W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Indian Office
<http://www.w3cindia.in/>  in Noida, India, hosted by the Centre for
Development of Advanced <http://www.cdacnoida.in/>  Computing (C-DAC).

 

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Technical News: 

 

QA Specification Guidelines Are a W3C Proposed Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of QA Framework:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-qaframe-spec-20050629/>  Specification
Guidelines to Proposed Recommendation. Designed to help make technical
reports easy to interpret without ambiguity, the guidelines explain how to
define and specify conformance and how a specification might allow
variation. Published as an updated Working Draft, Variability in
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-spec-variability-20050629/>  Specifications
contains advanced design considerations and conformance-related techniques.

 

Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity

The XML Core Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML
Linking Language <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/>  (XLink)
Version 1.1. Comments are welcome through 26 August. The XLink 1.1 language
allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and
describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures
that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of
today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links.

 

Working Draft: Requirements for the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL)
1.0

The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has released the First Public
Working Draft of
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-EARL10-Requirements-20050711/> Requirements
for the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0. EARL expresses test
results in a vendor-neutral and platform-independent format and is used to
exchange test results between Web accessibility evaluation tools. EARL also
provides a reusable vocabulary for Web quality assurance and validation. 

 

Working Draft: State Chart XML (SCXML)

The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft
of State Chart XML (SCXML): <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-scxml-20050705/>
State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction 1.0. SCXML is an execution
environment based on  <http://www.uml.org/#UML1.5> UML Harel State Tables
and  <http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/> CCXML. SCXML is a candidate for the
control language within VoiceXML 3.0, CCXML 2.0, and the authoring language
under development by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group.

 

Working Draft: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) 1.1

2005-07-05: The P3P Specification Working Group has released an updated
Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-P3P11-20050701/>  1.1 (P3P 1.1). P3P
simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies,
promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has new extension and
binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C workshops and the privacy
community. The draft also includes all errata for P3P 1.0. 

 

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