W3C Weekly News - 18 October 2006

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Secure Browsing Initiative Launched

  W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Web Security
  Context Working Group whose mission is to enable a secure and usable
  interface so Web users can make safe trust decisions on the Web.
  "There is much deployed and proven security technology, but we now
  need to connect it all the way through to the Web user," said
  Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). Mary Ellen Zurko (IBM) chairs the group which
  is chartered to establish requirements and deliver standards for
  presenting essential security information to users and for ensuring
  the integrity of that information. Read the press release and more
  about the Security Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/10/security-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

WebCGM 2.0 Is a Proposed Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "WebCGM 2.0" to Proposed
  Recommendation. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard for
  the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM
  is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web
  applications in technical illustration, documentation, data
  visualization and similar fields. Version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM
  objects, adds an XML Companion File (XCF) for external data, and
  extends graphical and intelligent content. Comments are welcome through
  30 November. Implementations of WebCGM 2.0 are already available. Read
  about WebCGM.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-webcgm20-20061017/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/Graphics/WebCGM/implementation-report.html
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/

W3C Renews Commitment to XML

  W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Extensible Markup
  Language (XML) Activity. "W3C created, developed and continues to
  maintain the enormously successful XML family of specifications
  for supporting and interchanging text, graphics, protocols, voice,
  music, math, programming, user interfaces, Web services and more,"
  said Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead. The XML Activity's nine groups
  maintain stability and backwards compatibility, make improvements to
  encourage interoperability, and bring new communities to XML. Join
  W3C and visit the XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: CSS Print Profile

  The CSS Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of
  "CSS Print Profile." This subset of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  language works with the XHTML-Print Recommendation for printing to
  low-cost devices. It satisfies print and display needs in the absence
  of a printer-specific driver and where variability in the formatting
  of the output is acceptable. An extension set provides stronger layout
  control for the printing of mixed text and images, tables and image
  collections. Comments are welcome through 20 November. Visit the CSS
  home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css-print-20061013/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Media Access Events: Working Draft

  The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has published the
  First Public Working Draft of "Media Access Events." This set of events
  and DOM APIs enable detailed monitoring of media stream buffering and
  initialization. The group invites review from Web content and browser
  developers to determine whether the specification meets the community's
  needs for event-driven access to streaming media. Visit the SVG
  home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-MediaAccessEvents-20061013/
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

Remote Events for XML (REX): Working Draft

  A joint effort of the SVG and Web API Working Groups, the REX Task
  Force has released an updated Working Draft of "Remote Events for XML
  (REX) 1.0." Using the REX grammar, endpoints can interact with DOM
  Events remotely as if they were at the same location. Read more about
  Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Web APIs.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rex-20061013/
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/

Upcoming W3C Talks

   * José Manuel Alonso presents at the Sixth Internet Next Generation
     Workshop on 18 October in Madrid, Spain.
   * Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial at Carson
     Workshops: CSS for Developers on 19 October in London, UK.
   * Richard Ishida gives a keynote at LRC XI on 26 October in Dublin,
     Ireland.
   * Marie-Claire Forgue presents at EuroBio on 27 October in Paris,
     France.
   * Ivan Herman gives a keynote at the Workshop on Uncertainty
     Reasoning on the Semantic Web on 5 November in Athens, GA, USA.
   * Christian de Sainte Marie presents at the 9th International
     Business Rules Forum on 9 November in Washington, DC, USA.
   * Olle Olsson gives a keynote at Beyond IT on 21 November in
     Stockholm, Sweden.
   * Eric Prud'hommeaux and Philippe Le Hégaret present at XML 2006 on
     6 December in Boston, MA, USA.

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

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

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