W3C Weekly News - 26 February 2001

                             W3C Weekly News

                     20 February - 26 February 2001

W3C Team Presentations in March

   25 February 2001: Among upcoming W3C Team presentations, Ian Jacobs
   presents Authoring Accessible Help for the Web at the WinWriters
   Online Help Conference on 5 March, in Santa Clara, California, USA.
   Henry Thompson attends XML World Euro Edition, held 26-28 March in
   Amsterdam, giving a keynote, XML - Knitting the Web Together, and a
   tutorial, Overview of the XML family of W3C Recommendations.

   http://www.w3.org/People/
   http://www.winwriters.com/ohc/track2.htm#session25
   http://www.xmlworld.org/day1.htm#hthompson
   http://www.xmlworld.org/tutorials.htm#hthompson

Modularization of XHTML Becomes a W3C Proposed Recommendation

   23 February 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of
   Modularization of XHTML to Proposed Recommendation. The specification
   subsets XHTML and extends XHTML's reach onto emerging platforms like
   mobile devices, television, and appliances. Comments are invited
   through 22 March. Read more on the HTML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/PR-xhtml-modularization-20010222/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

CC/PP Structure and Vocabularies Working Draft Published

   23 February 2001: The CC/PP Working Group has released a Working
   Draft of Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure
   and Vocabularies. CC/PP is a user-side hardware, software and
   preferences profile written in Resource Description Framework (RDF),
   W3C's language for modeling metadata. Comments are welcome. Read
   about the W3C Device Independence Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab-20010129/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Activity

MathML 2.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation

   21 February 2001: W3C today released Mathematical Markup Language
   (MathML) Version 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. The specification is
   stable, and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favors its
   adoption by academic, industry, and research communities. An XML
   application built on MathML 1.01, MathML 2.0 allows mathematical
   notation and content to be served, received, and processed on the
   Web. Read the press release and testimonials, and learn about the
   17 implementations of MathML 2.0 already available.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-MathML2-20010221/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/02/mathml2-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2001/02/mathml2-testimonial
   http://www.w3.org/Math/iandi/

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