- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:20:41 -0500
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W3C Weekly News 11 May - 4 June 2004 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ CSS3 Basic User Interface Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "CSS3 Basic User Interface Module" to Candidate Recommendation. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. This module addresses user interface states and features, element fragments, forms, stylistic attributes in HTML, focus navigation, and styling elements as icons for accessibility. Comments are invited through 11 November. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ Call for Participation: Workshop on Multimodal Interaction Position papers are due 11 June for the W3C Workshop on Multimodal Interaction to be held in Sophia Antipolis, France on 19-20 July. Attendees from user and research communities will discuss current plans, and provide feedback and suggestions for future multimodal work. Read about Workshops and visit the Multimodal Interaction home page at W3C. http://www.w3.org/2004/02/mmi-workshop-cfp.html http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements Published The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements." The document outlines use cases for RDF query languages and access protocols and their requirements, and examines design objectives. Comments are welcome. Visit the Semantic Web home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-dawg-uc-20040602/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Working Draft: QA Specification Guidelines The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released "QA Specification Guidelines" as a Working Draft. The document is designed to help W3C Working Groups write technical reports. Reflecting major changes in the W3C QA Framework, these newly rewritten guidelines are lightweight and more user-friendly. Comments are welcome. Learn more about Quality Assurance (QA) at W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-spec-20040602/ http://www.w3.org/QA/ Working Draft: Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios The Web Services Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios" with additional guidance for implementers of Web service technologies. The document examines how language, culture and related issues interact with Web services architecture and technology. Comments are welcome on this draft. Visit the Internationalization home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ws-i18n-scenarios-20040512/ http://www.w3.org/International/ Upcoming W3C Talks * Daniel Dardailler presents at DeViNT'2004 in Sophia Antipolis, France on 4 June. * Ivan Herman presents at the W3C Office for Germany and Austria in Sankt Augustin, Germany on 8 June. * Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at the IANIS Conference in Budapest, Hungary on 11 June. * Steve Bratt presents at the 16th Annual IRIS Workshop in Tucson, AZ, USA on 11 and 12 June. * Ivan Herman presents at the KRNet 2004 conference in Seoul, South Korea on 24 June. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS channel. http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 366 Member organizations and 68 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) 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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