W3C Weekly News - 9 February 2005

                            W3C Weekly News

                     27 January - 9 February 2005

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W3C Presents at 3GSM World Congress

  Bert Bos, Stéphane Boyera, Marie-Claire Forgue, Maxime Froumentin and
  Philipp Hoschka present at Hall 1, stand A24 at the 3GSM World Congress
  held 14 to 17 February in Cannes, France. "Our goal is to make Web
  access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as it is
  from a desktop device," said Philipp Hoschka. Over 28,000 visitors will
  have a chance to see W3C efforts for the mobile Web in markup, style,
  graphics, multimodal interaction, device independence, voice browsing
  and multimedia messaging. Read about W3C at 3GSM and read the press
  release.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/02/3gsm-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2005/02/3GSM-2005.html

xml:id Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "xml:id Version 1.0" to
  Candidate Recommendation. The specification introduces a predefined
  attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence can always
  be recognized. Comments are invited through 10 March. Visit the XML
  home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xml-id-20050208/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: SMIL 2.1

  The SYMM Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of
  "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1)" as a Last
  Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 25 February. SMIL
  (pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition
  of multiple animations, and describes animation elements for any
  XML-based host language. Version 2.1 extends SMIL 2.0 and supports
  enhanced interactive multimedia presentations, reuse of SMIL syntax and
  semantics, and new mobile profiles. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia
  home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SMIL2-20050201/
   http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

Working Group Note: Extending XLink 1.0

  The XML Core Working Group has released "Extending XLink 1.0" as a
  Working Group Note. The document describes changes that could be
  incorporated into an XLink Version 1.1 specification to address
  usability, dependence on annotations provided by external grammars,
  and interoperability. The Working Group plans no updates to this
  Note. Visit the XML home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xlink10-ext-20050127/
  http://www.w3.org/XML/

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