W3C Weekly News - 4 January 2006

                            W3C Weekly News

                   20 December 2005 - 4 January 2006

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Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web

  Position papers are due 10 February for the W3C Workshop on the
  Ubiquitous Web to be held 9-10 March 2006, hosted by Keio University
  in Tokyo, Japan. The "Ubiquitous Web" seeks to fulfill the potential
  of the Web for distributed applications that adapt to the user's needs,
  device capabilities and environmental conditions. Attendees will
  examine enabling technologies and consider what remains to be done
  to fulfill this vision. Read possible topics and about W3C Workshops.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/10/ubiweb-workshop-cfp.html
   http://www.w3.org/2005/10/ubiweb-workshop-cfp.html#topics
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

Mobile Web Best Practices Updated

  The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released an updated
  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. "Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices"
  was published as a Working Group Note. 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-20051220/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-mobile-bp-scope-20051220/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Best Wishes for the New Year from W3C

  On this fifteenth birthday of the World Wide Web, W3C wishes a happy
  and successful 2006 to our visitors. Following through on its mission
  to lead the Web to its full potential, in 2005, W3C published six sets
  of new Web standards, opened the Indian Office, reduced Membership fees
  in developing countries, founded the Mobile Web Initiative, and
  launched eleven new groups including Rich Web Clients, Efficient XML
  Interchange, Rule Interchange Format and Health Care and Life Sciences.
  W3C thanks our Members, participants and contributors for their part in
  these achievements. Read "About W3C."

   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

Upcoming W3C Talks

  * José Manuel Alonso presents at Jornadas Técnicas sobre
    Administración Electrónica "Abrimos 24 horas" on 20 January
    in Gijón, Spain.
  * Masayasu Ishikawa participates in the panel
    XML複合文書技術の動向 at PAGE2006
    on 3 February in Tokyo, Japan.
  * Richard Ishida presents "Introduction to Internationalization" at
    the Open Road Conference on 7 February in Melbourne, Australia.
  * On behalf of the W3C Hungarian Office, Ivan Herman presents
    "Szemantikus háló: egy rövid bevezetés" at the Magyarországi Web
    Konferencia on 18 March in Budapest, Hungary.

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

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

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