W3C Public Newsletter, 2008-02-18

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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XML is Ten!

   Ten years ago, on 10 February 1998, W3C published "Extensible Markup
   Language (XML) 1.0" as a W3C Recommendation. W3C is marking the
   ten-year anniversary of XML by celebrating "XML10" and extending
   thanks to the dedicated communities -- including people who have
   participated in W3C's XML groups and mailing lists, the SGML
   community, and xml-dev -- whose efforts have created a successful
   family of technologies based on the solid XML 1.0 foundation. The
   success of XML is a strong indicator of how dedicated individuals,
   working within the W3C Process, can engage with a larger community
   to produce industry-changing results. "Today we celebrate the
   success of open standards in preserving Web data from proprietary
   ownership," said Jon Bosak, who led the W3C Working Group that
   produced XML 1.0. Read the press release and testimonials. Send W3C
   a greeting and learn more about XML at W3C.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210
   http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/
   http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/xml10-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/xml10-testimonial
   http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/card/greeting-form
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: CSS Namespaces Module

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
   Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Namespaces Module." The CSS
   Namespaces module defines the syntax for using namespaces in CSS. It
   defines the @namespace rule for declaring the default namespace and
   binding namespaces to namespace prefixes, and it also defines a
   syntax that other specifications can adopt for using those prefixes
   in namespace-qualified names. Comments are welcome through 7 March.
   Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-namespace-20080215/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

Access Control for Cross-site Requests

   The Web Application Formats Working Group has published the Working
   Draft of "Access Control for Cross-site Requests." Web application
   technologies commonly apply same-origin restrictions to network
   requests. These restrictions prevent a Web application running from
   one origin from obtaining data retrieved from another origin, and
   also limit the amount of unsafe HTTP requests that can be
   automatically launched toward destinations that differ from the
   running application's origin. This document defines a mechanism to
   enable client-side cross-site requests. Learn more about the Rich
   Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-access-control-20080214/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Note: Best Practices for XML Internationalization

   The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group has published a
   Group Note of "Best Practices for XML Internationalization." This
   document provides a set of guidelines for developing XML documents
   and schemas that are internationalized properly. Following the best
   practices describes here allow both the developer of XML
   applications, as well as the author of XML content to create
   material in different languages. Learn more about the
   Internationalization Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/International/its/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xml-i18n-bp-20080213/
   http://www.w3.org/International/
   Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog 
     * SVG Valentine's day by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/svg_valentines_day.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * l10n and i18n your XML! by Felix Sasaki
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/l10n_and_i18n_your_xml.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/fsasaki/
     * XML 10 has been launched by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/xml_10_has_been_launched.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Authoring HTML 5 by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/authoring-html5.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Past Q&A Blog ...
       http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 18 February, Phoenix Park, Korea: Mobile Web 2.0 Technologies.
       Seungyun Lee presents at The 10th International Conference On
       Advanced Communication Technology.
     * 20 February, Madrid, Spain: Interoperabilidad Semántica en la
       Web. Martín Álvarez presents at IV Congreso Nacional de BPMS.
     * 21 February, Vienna, Austria: Web Accessibility - Hochglanz und
       Qualität. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at SAE Workshop.
     * 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Karl Dubost,
       Ivan Herman present at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
     * 8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The
       Basics Quickly. Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008
       Conference.
     * 10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER
       (tentative). Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at
       Web 2.0 Telecoms.
     * 10 March, San Diego, CA, USA: New W3C Standards For Speech and
       Multimodal Applications. Deborah Dahl presents at Voice Search
       Conference.
     * 15 March, Los Angeles, USA: How Web Accessibility Guidelines
       Apply to Design for the Ageing Population. Shadi Abou-Zahra,
       Andrew Arch present at CSUN 2008.
     * 17 March, Geneva, Switzerland: Video on the Web at W3C. Philippe
       Le Hégaret presents at Media Distribution over Open Internet.
     * 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
       Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
       Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
     * 21 April, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
       (through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
       World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
       internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
       17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 21 April, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in
       HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
       17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 17 June, New York, NY, USA: (not yet determined). Tim
       Berners-Lee presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring
       the new web of connected data.
     * 18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
       gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des
       Connaissances (IC2008).
     * 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
       Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
       Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
       2008.
     * 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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