W3C Weekly News - 4 March 2003

                             W3C Weekly News

                       25 February - 4 March 2003

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W3C Hosts Technical Plenary and All-Group Meeting

   W3C holds its third annual Technical Plenary and All Working Group
   Meeting from 3-7 March in Cambridge, MA, USA. 30 W3C Working Groups
   and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Mid-week, many of the
   more than 400 participants attend the all day public plenary, by far
   the largest group in the event's history. If your organization would
   like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page.

    http://www.w3.org/2002/10/allgroupoverview/
    http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining

Call for Participation: W3C Teleconference on Collaboration

   W3C is pleased to announce the first in a series of teleconferences
   on Web accessibility research. Researchers and practitioners in
   document collaboration, human-computer interaction, assistive
   technologies, disability studies, Web accessibility, and related
   fields are invited. The event is sponsored by the Web Accessibility
   Initiative's Research and Development Interest Group. The first
   telecon is tentatively 14 April. Position papers are due 21 March.
   Please refer to the call for papers.

    http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2003/03/call-collaboration.html

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2 Working Draft Published

   The Web Services Description Working Group has released an updated
   Working Draft of the "Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
   Version 1.2." WSDL is a model and an XML format for describing Web
   services that allows separation of abstract functionality from
   concrete details. Read about Web Services.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-20030303/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

W3C Team Talks in March

   * Kazuhiro Kitagawa participates in a panel at the workshop on
     Rethinking Media Policy in the Internet Age in Singapore on
     10-12 March.

   * Karl Dubost speaks at ConstellationW3 in Montreal, Quebec,
     Canada on 15 March.

   * Philippe Le Hegaret speaks at Web Services and XML in Johannesburg,
     South Africa on 17-18 March.

   * Marja-Riitta Koivunen and Matt May present at the CSUN 18th
     Annual International Conference in Northridge, CA, USA held
     on 17-22 March.

   * David Booth participates in a panel at Web Services Edge in
     Boston, MA, USA on 19 March.

   * Daniel Dardailler speaks and Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at
     Fete de l'Internet in Paris, France on 22 March.

   * Martin Duerst, Richard Ishida and Chris Lilley present papers and
     give tutorials at the 23rd Internationalization & Unicode
     Conference in Prague, Czech Republic on 24-26 March.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

    http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/

W3C Co-Sponsors 23rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference

   Registration is open for the 23rd Internationalization & Unicode
   Conference to be held 24-26 March in Prague, Czech Republic, near
   most major cities in Europe. Come and meet W3C Team members Martin
   Duerst, Richard Ishida, and Chris Lilley who are presenting.
   The event is the premier technical conference worldwide for software
   and Web internationalization. Read about Unicode and the W3C
   Internationalization Activity.

    http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc23/
    http://www.unicode.org/
    http://www.w3.org/International/

XForms Workshop Held 27-28 February

   The XForms Implementation Workshop was held 27-28 February at Novell
   in Waltham, MA, USA. Participants in the XForms Working Group and
   XForms implementers exchanged experiences and techniques and compared
   functionality. Comments on the XForms 1.0 Candidate Recommendation
   are invited through 5 March. Visit the XForms home page.

    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xforms-20021112/

CSS3 Text Last Call Working Draft Published

   The CSS Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft
   of the "CSS3 module: Text," incorporating all comments from the first
   Last Call. The group welcomes feedback through 5 March. The document
   is a set of text formatting properties. Many address international
   contexts, particularly East Asian and bidirectional text. Visit the
   CSS home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-text-20030226/
    http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

DOM Level 3 Core, Load and Save Working Drafts Published

   The DOM Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of the DOM
   Level 3 "Core" and "Load and Save" specifications. The Document
   Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content
   and style of documents dynamically. Comments are welcome. Visit the
   DOM home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20030226/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-LS-20030226/
   http://www.w3.org/DOM/

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Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:45:14 UTC