W3C Weekly News - 17 February 2007

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                      9 February - 17 February 2007

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Tim Berners-Lee Keynotes 3GSM World Congress

   Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web, opened the 3GSM
   World Congress on Monday 12 February in Barcelona, Spain with a
   keynote address at the Mobile Innovation Forum. Berners-Lee spoke on
   the role of innovation and openness in the Web's success, and how the
   W3C Mobile Web Initiative brings mobile telephony into convergence
   with the Web and aids in bridging the digital divide.

    http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
    http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/0222-3gsm-tbl/text.html
    http://3gsmworldcongress.com/innovationforum.asp?page=aboutcongress
    http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

XHTML 1.1 Second Edition: Working Draft

   The HTML Working Group released the second edition of "XHTML 1.1 -
   Module-based XHTML" as a Working Draft in preparation for Proposed
   Edited Recommendation. XHTML 1.1 is a reformulation of XHTML 1.0
   Strict based on XHTML modules. Not a new version, the second edition
   incorporates all known corrections and adds a new description in XML
   schemas. Visit the HTML home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml11-20070216/
    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

XML Events 2: Working Draft

   The HTML Working Group released a Working Draft of "XML Events 2: An
   Events Syntax for XML." To associate behaviors with markup, language
   designers can incorporate the module in this specification to
   integrate event listeners and handlers with DOM Level 2 event
   interfaces. Version 2.0 adds new functionality for conditional
   handling of events, and adds explicit elements for handlers. It also
   has an updated XML schema and DTD and incorporates all known errors in
   the XML Events Recommendation of 2003. Visit the HTML home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-events-20070216/
    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

Enabling Read Access: Working Draft

   The Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Group released an updated
   Working Draft of "Enabling Read Access for Web Resources." Sandbox
   restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed with this
   mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or both can
   indicate read access is allowed. The document was formerly titled
   Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the <?access-control?>
   Processing Instruction 1.0. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20070215/
    http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Distributed Web Applications: Advance Notice of Workshop

   W3C plans a Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
   Applications on 5-6 June 2007, hosted by MobileAware with the support
   of the Irish State Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Attendees
   will discuss application modeling, security and usability for
   distributed applications running on network devices. A Call for
   Participation and more information is expected in March. Read about
   W3C Workshops.

    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

Upcoming W3C Talks

     * Martín Álvarez gives a talk entitled "La Web de los Servicios
       y los Datos (The Web of Services and Data)" at the "III Congreso
       Nacional de BPMS (Business Process Management Systems) on
       Tuesday, 20 February in Madrid, Spain.

     * Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the
       Semantic Web" on Wednesday, 21 February and gives a keynote
       entitled "State of the Semantic Web" on Friday, 23 February at
       the "International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital
       Libraries" in Bangalore, India.

   Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel.

     http://www.w3.org/Talks/
     http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss

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