W3C Weekly News - 3 February 2006

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XHTML-Print Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "XHTML-Print" to Proposed
  Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 28 February. XHTML-Print
  is designed for printing from mobile devices, low-cost printers and in
  environments without a printer-specific driver. The work is based on
  XHTML-Print written by the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of
  the IEEE-ISTO. Visit the HTML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xhtml-print-20060131/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

W3C Highlights Mobile Web at 3GSM World Congress

  Mobile industry leaders have reached a preliminary agreement on best
  practices for mobile Web content. Written to improve user experience,
  the Last Call Working Draft of "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0"
  describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for
  delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Please send review
  comments before 17 February. Read the press release and about the
  W3C Mobile Web Initiative. Visit the W3C booth at 3GSM 13-16 February
  in Barcelona, Spain.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/01/mbp-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/02/3GSM.html

Last Call: Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS)

  The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft
  of "Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0." Comments
  are welcome through 15 March. Designed for ease of use by developers
  and internationally, PLS allows pronunciation information to be
  specified for speech recognition and speech synthesis engines in voice
  browsing applications. Pronunciations grouped together in a PLS
  document may be referenced from other markup languages such as SRGS and
  SSML. Visit the Voice Browser home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-pronunciation-lexicon-20060131/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Note: Arabic Mathematical Notation

  The Math Interest Group has released "Arabic mathematical notation" as
  an Interest Group Note. The Note analyzes the handling of mathematical
  presentation in Arabic and related languages using the Mathematical
  Markup Language (MathML) 2.0. Its goals are to clarify implementation
  details and to uncover genuine specification limitations that may
  require extensions. Read about the W3C Math Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-arabic-math-20060131/
   http://www.w3.org/Math/Activity

Internationalization Articles Published

  The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working
  Group publishes information to help people understand and use
  international aspects of W3C technologies. Recently the group published
  "Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8," "xml:lang in XML document
  schemas" and "Localization vs. Internationalization," as well as
  numerous updates and translations. For details and I18n news and RSS
  feeds, visit the Internationalization home page.

   http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-changing-encoding
   http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-when-xmllang
   http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-i18n
   http://www.w3.org/International/log/description
   http://www.w3.org/International/

W3C Talks in February

  * Tim Berners-Lee gave a keynote at the MIT Information Technology
    Conference on 2 February in Cambridge, MA, USA.
  * Olle Olsson presented at the SITI-konferensen 2006 on
    2 February in Stockholm, Sweden.
  * Masayasu Ishikawa participates in a panel at PAGE2006 on
    3 February in Tokyo, Japan.
  * Richard Ishida presents at the Open Road Conference on
    7 February in Melbourne, Australia.
  * Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at the Euro American
    Conference on Telematics and Information Systems (EATIS 2006) on
    7 February in Santa Marta, Colombia.
  * Richard Ishida presents at the Victoria Online Seminar Series on
    8 February in Melbourne, Australia.
  * Ivan Herman presents at the Delhi Chapter of the IEEE on 8 February
    in Delhi, India.
  * Richard Ishida presents at the WSG Meeting on 9 February in
    Melbourne, Australia.
  * Olle Olsson presents at Aktuella utmaningar on 10 February in
    Stockholm, Sweden.
  * Ivan Herman presents at the LinuxAsia Conference & Expo on
    10 February in Delhi, India.
  * Richard Ishida presents at the W3C/WSG Meeting on 10
    February in Canberra, Australia.
  * Marie-Claire Forgue, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux and Philipp Hoschka
    run a booth at the 3GSM World Congress on 13 February in Barcelona,
    Spain.
  * Eric Miller presents at the Bioinformatics Summit on 16 February
    in Bethesda, MD, USA.

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

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

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