W3C Weekly News - 20 December 2006

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W3C Celebrates Ten Years with Style

  Ten years ago, on 17 December 1996, W3C published the first standard
  for style on the Web: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), level 1. CSS Web
  designers have since enjoyed fine-grain control of page appearance
  (fonts, colors, layout, margins, etc.) and easier page design and
  maintenance. CSS can also help make pages more adaptable to more users,
  including users with mobile devices and some users with disabilities.
  To celebrate this tenth anniversary, W3C invites developers to propose
  their favorite CSS designs for the CSS10 Gallery. Learn more about CSS
  from the CSS10 pages, the press release, and the CSS home page.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS10/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/12/css10-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Keeping Privacy Promises: Privacy Workshop Report

  A W3C Privacy Workshop Report recommending next steps for keeping
  privacy promises when exchanging sensitive information on the Web is
  now available. In October 2006, privacy and access control experts from
  America, Australia, Asia and Europe met to study Web privacy issues and
  solutions. Please read the press release about the results of the W3C
  Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and
  Semantics-Driven Enforcement, hosted by the Joint Research Center
  of the European Commission.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/07/privacy-ws/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/07/privacy-ws/report
   http://www.w3.org/2006/12/privacy-workshop-pressrelease

SOAP 1.2 Proposed Edited Recommendations: Call for Review

  The XML Protocol Working Group has published four Proposed Edited
  Recommendations of SOAP 1.2, all Second Editions: "Part 0: Primer,"
  "Part 1: Messaging Framework," "Part 2: Adjuncts," and "Specification
  Assertions and Test Collection." SOAP Version 1.2 provides the
  definition of the XML-based information that can be used for exchanging
  structured and typed information between peers in a decentralized,
  distributed environment. Comments are welcome through 2 February 2007.
  Visit the XML Protocol home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-soap12-part0-20061219/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-soap12-part1-20061219/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-soap12-part2-20061219/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-soap12-testcollection-20061219/
   http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/

SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP

  The XML Protocol Working Group has released the First Public Working
  Draft of "SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP." Where SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2
  provides a request-response Message Exchange Pattern (MEP) and a
  response-only MEP, the new Part 3 Working Draft provides a one-way MEP.
  Visit the XML Protocol home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-soap12-part3-20061219/
   http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.1 Requirements

  The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working
  Draft of "Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.1 Requirements,"
  which proposes a prioritized list of requirements for extending SSML
  1.0 to accommodate a wider range of Asian, Eastern European, and Middle
  Eastern languages. This document follows discussions pursuant to W3C
  Workshops (first, second) on extending SSML; see the August 2006 press
  release and visit the Voice home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ssml11reqs-20061219/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/08/ssml-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Working Draft: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0

  The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the second
  Working Draft of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. This document defines
  the tests that provide the basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK
  Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices.
  Read about the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20061219/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/

Upcoming W3C Talks

  * Erik Bruchez presents at Solutions Linux - Solutions Open Source on
    1 February in Paris, France.
  * On behalf of the W3C Spain Office, Ivan Herman presents at the
    European W3C Symposium on eGovernment on 2 February in Gijón, Spain.
  * Marie-Claire Forgue, Philipp Hoschka, and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
    run a booth at the 3GSM World Congress (booth 7D56 in Hall 7) on
    12-15 February in Barcelona, Spain.
  * On behalf of the W3C India Office, Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at
    the International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries on
    21 February 2in Bangalore, India.
  * Ivan Herman presents at Infotech for Pharma & Biotech Europe on
    14 March in London, UK.
  * Olle Olsson presents at the Software Innovation Annual Conference
    on 18 March in Lisboa, Portugal.
  * Olle Olsson presents at the GIT 2007 Forum för Geografisk IT on
    22 March in Jönköping, Sweden.

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

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

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