W3C Weekly News - 30 June 2006

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Mobile Web Best Practices: Call for Implementations

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Mobile Web Best
  Practices 1.0" to Candidate Recommendation. Written for designers of
  Web sites and content management systems, these guidelines describe how
  to author Web content that works well on mobile devices. Thirty
  organizations participating in the Mobile Web Initiative achieved
  consensus and encourage adoption and implementation of these guidelines
  to improve user experience and to achieve the goal of "One Web."
  Read the press release and testimonials.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-mobile-bp-20060627/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/06/mwbp-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2006/06/mwbp-testimonial
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

W3C Names Jérôme Chailloux Site Manager of W3C/ERCIM

  Jérôme Chailloux has joined the W3C staff and management team as the
  new Site Manager for W3C/ERCIM. Based in France, Jérôme brings a wealth
  of experience to W3C in both technology development and management.
  Jérôme was the main inventor and developer of the programming language
  Le-Lisp. He served on an information technology committee for the
  French National Ministry for Education, Research and Technology. Jérôme
  also held the position of Chief Information Officer of the genomics
  company GENSET. Please join us in welcoming Jérôme to W3C.

   http://www.w3.org/People/all#jerome
   http://www.w3.org/People/domain?domain=Management

Last Call: WebCGM 2.0

  The WebCGM Working Group has released a First Public and Last Call
  Working Draft of "WebCGM 2.0." WebCGM is a vector and composite
  vector/raster picture definition used in technical illustration,
  documentation and data visualization. Version 2.0 adds DOM access to
  WebCGM objects and an XML Companion File (XCF) for external data, and
  extends graphical and intelligent content. The draft incorporates
  discussion and feedback on the OASIS Committee Specification submitted
  to W3C. Comments are welcome through 30 July. Read more about WebCGM.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-webcgm20-20060623/
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/

W3C Launches Math Working Group for MathML 3.0

  W3C is pleased to announce the launch of a new Math Working Group
  to replace the Math Interest Group. Patrick Ion (Invited Expert,
  representing the American Mathematical Society) and Robert Miner
  (Design Science) will co-Chair. The group is chartered through 29
  February 2008 to produce a new MathML 3.0 Recommendation, to improve
  and expand MathML in the areas of internationalization, accessibility,
  and mathematical richness. Visit the Math home page.

   W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
   http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/35549/join

   http://www.w3.org/Math/Group/Documents/Charter2006.html
   http://www.w3.org/Math/

W3C Renews CSS Working Group

  W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Cascading Style Sheets
  (CSS) Working Group. Bert Bos (W3C) is Chair. The group is chartered
  through 1 July 2008 to develop and maintain CSS specifications,
  profiles and test suites. CSS is the most common style sheet language
  for HTML documents and can be used with textual XML documents. Visit
  the CSS home page.

   W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group:
   http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/32061/join

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/2004/css-charter-long

W3C Talks in July

  * On behalf of the W3C Australian Office, Ivan Herman gives a keynote
    at AusWeb06 on 3 July in Australis Noosa Lakes, Queensland,
    Australia.
  * Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at The Next Web on 7 July in
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  * Shawn Henry presents on 10 and 11 July at Web Design World 2006 in
    Seattle, WA, USA.
  * Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at the Twenty-First National
    Conference on Artificial Intelligence on 18 July in Boston, MA, USA.
  * Chris Lilley gives a state of the art report at XML Summer School
    on 26 July in Oxford, UK.

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

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

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