W3C Weekly News - 7 September 2005

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                     28 August - 7 September 2005

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Scope for Mobile Web Best Practices Published

  The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the First
  Public Working Draft of "Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices."
  This document outlines deliverables such as guidelines for content
  delivery and display on mobile and small-screen devices, sets out
  requirements for the "mobileOK" trustmark, and identifies the goal of
  one Web. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort
  by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers,
  browser vendors and mobile operators.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-mobile-bp-scope-20050901/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/

Working Group Note: The QA Handbook

  The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has published an update to
  "The QA Handbook" Working Group Note. Written for W3C Working Group
  Chairs and Team Contacts, the document records group experiences and
  provides techniques, tools, and templates. Focused on testability and
  test topics, it is designed to facilitate and accelerate the work of
  W3C Working Groups. Visit the QA home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-qa-handbook-20050906/
   http://www.w3.org/QA/

Working Group Note: Variability in Specifications

  The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has published "Variability in
  Specifications" as a Working Group Note. A companion to the QA
  Specification Guidelines W3C Recommendation, the note contains advanced
  specification design considerations and conformance-related techniques.
  It describes how design of a specification's conformance model affects
  implementability and interoperability. Visit the QA home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-spec-variability-20050831/
   http://www.w3.org/QA/

Upcoming W3C Talks (continued)

    * Richard Ishida and Felix Sasaki present at the 28th
      Internationalization & Unicode Conference on 7-8 September
      in Orlando, Florida, USA.
    * Eric Miller gives a keynote at the Primeras Jornadas
      Científico-Técnicas en Servicios Web on 14 September in
      Granada, Spain.
    * Philipp Hoschka presents at W3C-Tag 2005 - Das Mobile Web on
      14 September in Berlin, Germany.
    * Eric Miller and Shadi Abou-Zahra present at the International
      Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2005)
      on 14-15 September in Madrid, Spain.
    * Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at Interact 2005 on 16 September
      in Rome, Italy.
    * Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at Hagenberger Web Entwicklertag on
      29 September in Hagenberg, Austria.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
   an RSS channel.

   http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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