W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-07-30

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Open Mobile Web Test Suite: Call for Contributions

   The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group is launching an Open Mobile
   Web Test Suite built by the community for the community to describe
   support for technologies in mobile Web browsers available today.
   Mobile Web developers can submit test cases (as described in the
   submissions guidelines) illustrating authoring practices.
   Submissions will contribute to a better understanding of the current
   limitations of user agents, which helps pave the way to better
   mobile Web browsers tomorrow. Read the Call for Contributions and
   about the Mobile Web Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/Open/submit
   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/Open/submission
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mwts/2007Jul/0020
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

ElementTraversal for DOM Navigation: Working Draft

   The Web API Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of
   "ElementTraversal Specification." The ElementTraversal interface
   defines four properties that scripts can use to navigate DOM
   Elements and also provides the property childElementCount for
   preprocessing. The specification was originally part of "SVG Tiny
   1.2." Read about rich Web clients.

   org/2006/webapi/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ElementTraversal-20070727/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL): Working Draft

   The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group has published an
   updated Working Draft of "Device Independent Authoring Language
   (DIAL)." DIAL describes data, styling, layout, and interaction
   independently, making Web content adaptable for a wide variety of
   platforms including the thousands of mobile devices in use and
   devices to come. Read more about the Working Group and the
   Ubiquitous Web.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-dial-20070727/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Incubator Group Report: Multimedia Semantics

   The W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group, which includes thirty
   seven representatives from organizations in Europe and North
   America, published its final report. The report describes multimedia
   metadata formats and relevant vocabularies for developers of
   Semantic Web applications. This publication is part of the W3C
   experimental Incubator Activity that develops new, potentially
   foundational technologies and Web-based applications in a rapid time
   frame.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-vocabularies/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

XForms 1.0 Third Edition Is a Proposed Edited Recommendation

   The Forms Working Group published a Proposed Edited Recommendation
   for "XForms 1.0 Third Edition." The document responds to
   implementor feedback, brings the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to
   date with second edition errata and reflects clarifications already
   implemented in XForms processors. Comments are welcome through 31
   August. XForms separates presentation and content, minimizes the
   need for scripting and round-trips to the server, and offers device
   independence. Visit the forms home page.

   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PER-xforms-20070725/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/03/REC-xforms-20060314-errata-diff-20070719.h
   tml
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_Implementations
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect): Call for
Implementations

   W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Content Selection for
   Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0" and "Delivery Context: XPath
   Access Functions 1.0" to Candidate Recommendations. Implementation
   feedback is welcome. DISelect supports the creation of Web sites
   that can be used from diverse devices. Based on the evaluation and
   conditional processing of XML information sets, DISelect is used for
   Web content selection and filtering. The XPath functions are used to
   access the > Delivery Context associated with a request for content.
   Read about Ubiquitous Web applications.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-cselection-20070725/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-cselection-xaf-20070725/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Efficient XML Interchange Measurements: Working Draft

   The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group released an updated
   Working Draft of "Efficient XML Interchange Measurements Note." An
   analysis of the expected performance characteristics of a potential
   Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) encoding format, the draft covers
   the "compactness," "processing efficiency" and "roundtrip support"
   properties and outlines plans for future updates. Visit the XML home
   page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-exi-measurements-20070725/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

Upcoming Meetings

     * W3C Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML Encryption,
       25-26 September
     * W3C/OpenAjax Alliance Workshop on Mobile Ajax, 28 September
     * W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
       October
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 7 August, Montréal, Canada: Representation of overlapping
       structures. Michael Sperberg-McQueen presents at Extreme Markup
       Languages.
     * 7 August, Montréal, Canada: Advanced approaches to XML document
       validation. Jirka Kosek, Petr Nalevka present at Extreme Markup
       Languages.
     * 7 August, Montréal, Canada: Writing an XSLT optimizer in XSLT.
       Michael Kay presents at Extreme Markup Languages.
     * 8 August, Montréal, Canada: Localization of schema languages.
       Felix Sasaki presents at Extreme Markup Languages.
     * 8 August, Montréal, Canada: Localization of schema
       languagesCharacterizing XQuery implementations: Categories and
       key features. Liam Quin presents at Extreme Markup Languages.
     * 8 August, Montréal, Canada: Streaming validation of schemata:
       The lazy typing discipline. Paolo Marinelli, Fabio Vitali
       present at Extreme Markup Languages.
     * 9 August, Montréal, Canada: Mind the Gap: Seeking holes in the
       markup-related standards suite. Chris Lilley, James David Mason
       participate in a panel at Extreme Markup Languages.
     * 9 August, Montréal, Canada: Converting into pattern-based
       schemas: A formal approach. Fabio Vitali, Antonina Dattolo
       present at Extreme Markup Languages.
     * 10 August, Montréal, Canada: Declarative specification of XML
       document fixup. Henry Thompson participates in a panel at
       Extreme Markup Languages.
     * 31 August, Singapore, Singapore: Introduction to the Semantic
       Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at International Conference on
       Dublin Core and Metadata Applications.
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for
       Pen-Based Computing. Stephen M. Watt presents at International
       Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML
       Conversion. Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at
       International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
       (ICDAR).
     * 26 September, Berlin, Germany: Mobile Web 2.0. Philipp Hoschka
       presents at W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet Applications.
     * 26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSS. Bert Bos gives a lecture
       at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day.
     * 27 September, Sydney, Australia: Web Directions breakfast. Bert
       Bos presents at Web Directions South.
     * 27 September, Sydney, Australia: A new life for old standards.
       Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
     * 3 October, Gijón, Spain: Browser panel. Bert Bos participates in
       a panel at Fundamentos Web 2007.
     * 18 October, Darmstadt, Germany: Wege zum Semantischen Web. Klaus
       Birkenbihl presents at 4. Kongress Semantic Web und
       Wissenstechnologien.
     * 19 October, Orlando, FL, USA: Making the Future Web Accessible
       to People with Disabilities. Shawn Henry presents at "I Invent
       the Future" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007.
     * View upcoming talks by country
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
       tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
     * More talks...
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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