W3C Weekly News - 18 April 2006

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Last Call: Mobile Web Best Practices

  The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a second Last
  Call Working Draft of "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0." The draft
  describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for
  delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Written for all
  participants in the mobile value chain, the document is designed to
  improve user experience. Comments are welcome through 3 May. 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/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060412/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Advance Notice: Workshop on Device Description Repository

  W3C plans an International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device
  Description Repository on 12-13 July in Madrid, Spain, hosted by
  Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo. Participants will discuss the
  design, implementation and use of a Device Description Repository (DDR)
  being proposed by the Device Description Working Group. The proposed
  DDR will provide device information to content and service providers
  for adapting content to suit client devices. A Call for Participation
  for this Workshop is expected in April. Read about W3C Workshops and
  the Mobile Web Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Note: Multimodal Developer Feedback

  The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released "Multimodal
  Application Developer Feedback" as a Working Group Note. The Note
  documents feedback for the W3C Multimodal Interaction and Voice Browser
  Working Groups to consider when specifying future multimodal and voice
  authoring capabilities. It includes features developers liked about
  their development environments as well as features they thought were
  lacking. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-mmi-dev-feedback-20060414/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Working Draft: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces

  The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released an updated
  Working Draft of "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces." The draft
  is a framework and platform for the creation and development of user
  interfaces that allow multiple ways to interact with the Web. With
  multimodal interaction users choose the way or "mode" of access that
  suits their current needs. Developers can provide user interfaces and
  output for each mode, including displays, tactile mechanisms, speech
  and audio.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mmi-arch-20060414/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Note: Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web

  The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group
  has published "Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web" as a
  Working Group Note. In Semantic Web languages like RDF and OWL, a
  property links two individuals or an individual and a value. The Note
  presents patterns and considerations for representing relations between
  more than two individuals or values. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-n-aryRelations-20060412/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft for XML Processing Model

  The XML Processing Model Working Group has released the First Public
  Working Draft of "XML Processing Model Requirements and Use Cases." The
  draft describes the conceptual model of XML process interactions, the
  XML Pipeline Language to describe these interactions, and the inputs
  and outputs of the overall process. The group is chartered to
  standardize the order, parameters, and expected results for
  transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML
  Schema, XInclude and XML Canonicalization that operate on and produce
  XML documents. Visit the XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xproc-requirements-20060411/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Working Draft: CSS 2.1

  Addressing many of the comments received during Last Call, the CSS
  Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Cascading Style Sheets,
  level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1)." CSS 2.1 is derived from and is intended
  to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS language usage, the specification
  adds a few highly requested features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in
  line with implementations. Visit the CSS home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CSS21-20060411/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Working Draft: DOM Level 3 Events

  The Web API Working Group has released a Working Draft of "Document
  Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events." Language and platform neutral,
  the system allows registration of event handlers, describes event
  flow through a tree structure, and provides context for each event.
  The previous version of this document was a Working Group Note from
  the Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group. Read about the Rich
  Web Clients Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20060413/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Working Draft: Internationalization Tag Set

  The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published an updated
  Working Draft of the "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS)." Organized by
  data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the
  internationalization and localization of schemas and documents.
  Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for
  existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the
  Internationalization home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060414/
   http://www.w3.org/International/

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