W3C Weekly News - 3 November 2006

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Mobile Web Best Practices Is a Proposed Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Mobile Web Best
  Practices 1.0" to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through
  11 December. 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 about the Mobile Web Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-mobile-bp-20061102/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Internationalization Tag Set Is a Candidate Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Internationalization
  Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0" to Candidate Recommendation. Organized by
  data categories, the ITS 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
  can be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and
  OpenDocument. Comments are welcome through 10 December. Visit the
  Internationalization home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-its-20061102/
   http://www.w3.org/International/

Last Call: Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0

  The Voice Browser Working Group has released the second Last Call
  Working Draft of "Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version
  1.0." Comments are welcome through 26 November. Designed for ease of
  use by developers and internationally, PLS allows pronunciation
  information to be specified for both 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-20061026/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Web Services Policy 1.5: Working Drafts

  The Web Services Policy Working Group has released updated Working
  Drafts of Web Services Policy 1.5. The Policy "Framework" defines a
  model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey
  conditions for their interaction. "Attachment" defines how to associate
  policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they
  apply. Read about Web services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20061102/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-attach-20061102/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

W3C Talks in November

  * Shadi Abou-Zahra and Daniel Dardailler participated in panels
    on 1-2 November at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in
    Athens, Greece.
  * Ivan Herman gives a keynote at the Workshop on Uncertainty
    Reasoning on the Semantic Web on 5 November in Athens, Georgia,
    USA.
  * Molly E. Holzschlag gives a tutorial at An Event Apart on 6
    November in Austin, Texas, USA.
  * Steve Bratt gives a keynote at mobile2.0 on 6 November in
    San Francisco, California, USA.
  * Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at the Konference WebTop100 on 7
    November in Prague, Czech Republic.
  * Christian de Sainte Marie presents at the 9th International
    Business Rules Forum on 9 November in Washington, DC, USA.
  * Ivan Herman presents at the Industrial Track of the 5th
    International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006) on 9 November
    in Athens, Georgia, USA.
  * José Manuel Alonso and Jesús García give keynotes organized by
    the Escuela de Ingenierías Industrial e Informática,
    Universidad de León, on 10 November in León, Spain.
  * Shawn Henry presents via Webcast at World Usability Day on
    14 November.
  * Olle Olsson gives a keynote at Beyond IT on 21 November in
    Stockholm, Sweden.
  * Olle Olsson presents at the DFS-seminarium on 23 November in
    Stockholm, Sweden.
  * Judy Brewer, Michael Cooper and Shawn Henry present at the
    Information Accessibility International Standardization Seminar
    2006 - Harmonization of JIS X8341-3 (Web Contents) and W3C WCAG
    2.0 on 27 November in Tokyo, Japan.

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

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

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