W3C Weekly News - 23 July 2001

                             W3C Weekly News

                      Week of 17 July - 23 July 2001

W3C Adopts Technical Architecture Group Charter (TAG)

   19 July 2001: W3C has published the Technical Architecture Group
   charter and revised the Process Document. The TAG will document
   cross-technology Web architecture principles, and resolve
   architectural issues. Chaired by the W3C Director, the TAG will
   consist of five elected and three appointed participants. Like other
   W3C Working Groups, the TAG will use the Recommendation track to
   build consensus around its documents. The TAG will conduct most of
   its work on a public mailing list. The nomination period is expected
   to begin in a few weeks. Visit the TAG home page.

    http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Becomes a W3C Proposed Recommendation

   19 July 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the
   Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG 1.0) Specification to Proposed
   Recommendation. SVG delivers two-dimensional vector graphics and
   mixed vector and raster graphics to the Web in XML, ensuring
   accessibility, dynamism, reusability, and extensibility. Read the SVG
   overview. Comments are welcome through 16 August.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/PR-SVG-20010719/
    http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

SMIL Animation Becomes a W3C Proposed Recommendation

   19 July 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SMIL
   Animation to Proposed Recommendation. This subset of the Synchronized
   Multimedia Integration Language 2.0 (SMIL, pronounced "smile") puts
   animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations,
   and describes animation elements for any XML-based host language.
   Comments are welcome through 16 August. Learn about W3C work on
   synchronized multimedia.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/PR-smil-animation-20010719/
    http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

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