- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:45:16 -0700
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W3C Weekly News 13 May - 21 May 2003 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ W3C Approves Patent Policy The World Wide Web Consortium has approved the "W3C Patent Policy" based on review by the W3C Advisory Committee and the public. Written by the Patent Policy Working Group, the policy received more support from the Membership than any Recommendation in recent history. The policy encourages royalty-free Web standards. It governs the handling of patents in the process of producing and implementing W3C Recommendations. Read the public Director's decision and the press release and visit the patent policy home page. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20030520.html http://www.w3.org/2003/05/12-director-patent-decision-public.html http://www.w3.org/2003/05/patentpolicy-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2001/ppwg/ W3C Track, Demos Featured at WWW2003 The W3C Track chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue runs from 21-23 May at the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003) in Budapest, Hungary. Conference attendees are also invited to the W3C booth run in coordination with the W3C Hungarian Office, to live demos, and to Developers Day presentations on 24 May. http://www.w3.org/2003/03/w3c-track03.html http://www2003.org/ CSS3 Modules Become W3C Candidate Recommendations W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of three CSS3 modules to Candidate Recommendation: "Color," "Ruby," and "Text." A second Candidate Recommendation of the "CSS TV Profile 1.0" incorporates editorial suggestions. The CSS Working Group also released first public Working Drafts of the "CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content" and "Speech" modules. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. Comments are welcome. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-color-20030514/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-ruby-20030514/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css-tv-20030514 http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-content-20030514/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-speech-20030514/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ W3C/WAI Participates in EuroAccessibility Launch W3C/WAI has joined in a Memorandum of Understanding with twenty-four European organizations to establish a harmonized set of support services throughout Europe, which would include a common evaluation methodology, technical assistance, and a European certification authority for Web accessibility based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Read more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.euroaccessibility.org/press.php http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Web Services Architecture Working Drafts Published The Web Services Architecture Working Group has updated three Working Drafts: "Web Services Architecture," "Usage Scenarios" and the "Web Services Glossary." Software applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines their relationships, and establishes constraints. Visit the Web Services home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ws-arch-20030514/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ws-arch-scenarios-20030514/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ws-gloss-20030514/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios Updated The Web Services Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios." The document examines how language, culture, and related issues interact with Web services architecture and technology. The task force invites comments. Visit the Internationalization home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ws-i18n-scenarios-20030516/ http://www.w3.org/International/ QA Framework: Test Guidelines Updated The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the "QA Framework: Test Guidelines." One in a family of QA Framework documents, the draft defines a set of common guidelines for conformance test materials for W3C specifications. The group welcomes comments. Visit the QA home page and read about the QA Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-qaframe-test-20030516/ http://www.w3.org/QA/ Timed Text: Use Cases and Requirements Working Draft Published The Timed Text Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Use Cases and Requirements." The group is developing an XML-based, portable format used to represent streamable text synchronized with timed media like audio or video. This content type can be interchanged among authoring systems. Visit the Timed Text home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-tt-af-1-0-req-20030515/ http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/ Core Presentation Characteristics Working Draft Published The Device Independence Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "Core Presentation Characteristics: Requirements and Use Cases." The group is building a basis for adapting content to device presentation capabilities. This draft provides a common set of property or attribute definitions that may be reused in future vocabularies. Visit the Device Independence home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-cpc-req-20030510/ http://www.w3.org/2001/di/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 410 Member organizations and 74 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 European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered 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. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________
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