- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:05:53 -0800
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W3C Weekly News Week of 23 October - 29 October 2001 XML Information Set Becomes a W3C Recommendation 24 October 2001: The World Wide Web Consortium released the "XML Information Set" (Infoset) as a W3C Recommendation. Produced by the XML Core Working Group as part of the XML Activity, the specification has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. The Infoset defines a set of eleven types of information items in XML documents. Read the press release and visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-infoset-20011024/ http://www.w3.org/2001/10/infoset-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/XML/ Amaya 5.2 Released 29 October 2001: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 5.2 supports generic-xml documents in browser mode, the embed element for SVG and MathML, Export CR/LF from Windows, a DOS file format, the HTTP Content-Location header, and other new features. Download Amaya binaries for Linux and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ W3C Team Presentations in November 29 October 2001: On 1 November, Martin J. Duerst presents "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): An Overview" and "Web Architecture: From URI to the Semantic Web" at the 2001 Web-based Technology Standard Conference in Seoul, Korea. On 15 November, Bert Bos gives the closing keynote at the annual congress of the Dutch SGML/XML Users Group in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. On 15 and 16 November, Wendy Chisholm and Charles McCathieNevile speak at OZeWAI 2001 in Melbourne, Australia. On 22 November, Ivan Herman presents "W3C Architectural Recommendations" at the XML Belux conference in Mechelen, Belgium. http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/ http://www.w3.org/People/ EuroWeb 2001 Conference Registration Open 29 October 2001: Registration is open for EuroWeb 2001, the first of a new series of regional conferences endorsed by IW3C2. Supported by the W3C Italian Office, EuroWeb is to be held 18-20 December in Venice, Italy. Representing the W3C Team, Steven Pemberton, Rigo Wenning, and Massimo Marchiori give tutorials and Yasuyuki Hirakawa and Tatsuya Hagino present a paper. The conference focus is "The Web in Public Administration." http://euroweb.w3c.it/ http://www.w3c.it/ XML Events Last Call Working Draft Published 26 October 2001: The HTML Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "XML Events." The specification defines a module used to associate behaviors with document-level markup for XML languages, and supports the DOM Level 2 event model. Comments are welcome through 30 November. Visit the HTML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xml-events-20011026/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ DOM Level 2 and 3 Working Drafts Published 25 October 2001: The DOM Working Group has updated the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML" and the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save" Working Drafts. The DOM is a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of documents. Comments are invited. Read about the W3C DOM Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20011025/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-DOM-Level-3-ASLS-20011025/ http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity CSS Mobile Profile Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation 24 October 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "CSS Mobile Profile 1.0" to Candidate Recommendation. The specification defines a subset of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 2 tailored for mobile devices such as wireless phones. Comments are welcome through April 2002. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-css-mobile-20011024/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ VoiceXML 2.0 Promises Speech and Phone Services for the Web 23 October 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the first public Working Draft of the "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0" and a Memorandum of Understanding issued jointly with the VoiceXML Forum. VoiceXML uses XML to bring synthesized speech, spoken and touch-tone input, digitized audio, recording, telephony, and computer-human conversations to the Web. Read the press release, testimonials, and visit the Voice Browser home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-voicexml20-20011023/ http://www.w3.org/2001/10/voicexml-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/Voice/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 515 Member organizations and 68 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. 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