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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2008-08-11 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20080811 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Standards Make Mobile Web Experience More Inviting W3C today announced new standards that will make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices. "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0," published as a W3C Recommendation by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating mobile-friendly content. These guidelines will help to improve the experience of people browsing the Web on a wide array of mobile handsets. W3C published a second standard today: "XHTML Basic 1.1 Recommendation," the preferred format specification of the Best Practices. With this, there is now a full convergence in mobile markup languages, including those developed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). The Working Group also published today the first draft of a next generation of guidelines, "Mobile Web Application Best Practices," aimed at mobile Web applications. Read the press release and testimonials, try the W3C mobileOK checker (beta), and learn more about W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI). http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-mobile-bp-20080729 http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xhtml-basic-20080729/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-mwabp-20080729/ http://www.w3.org/2008/07/mwbp-pressrelease.html.en http://www.w3.org/2008/07/mwbp-testimonial http://validator.w3.org/mobile/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Requirements The Voice Browser Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Requirements." "VoiceXML 2.0" is designed for creating audio dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, recording of spoken input, telephony, and mixed initiative conversations. VoiceXML 3.0 is the next major release of VoiceXML. Its purpose is to provide even more powerful dialog capabilities that can be used to build advanced speech applications and to provide these capabilities in a form that can be easily and cleanly integrated with other W3C languages. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity. http://www.w3.org/Voice/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-vxml30reqs-20080808/ http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Working Draft Published The Protocols and Formats Working Group published an updated Working Draft of "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)." WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. WAI-ARIA is introduced in the WAI-ARIA Overview and the WAI-ARIA FAQ. Read the updated WAI-ARIA Specification announcement that requests feedback on host language embedding, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-20080806/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2008JulSep/0034 http://www.w3.org/WAI/ W3C Invites Implementations of XQuery Update Facility 1.0 (Candidate Recommendation) The XML Query Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of "XQuery Update Facility 1.0." This document defines an update facility that extends the XML Query language, XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility provides expressions that can be used to make persistent changes to instances of the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model. This document incorporates changes made against the Candidate Recommendation of 14 March 2008. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-xquery-update-10-20080801/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Mobile Profile 2.0 (Candidate Recommendation) The CSS Working Group has published a Candidate Recommendation for "CSS Mobile Profile 2.0.," which defines a common baseline of CSS support that even constrained mobile devices can provide. This effort is part of W3C's ongoing efforts to make the Web easier to use from a mobile devices (see related news). For the CSS Mobile Profile 2.0, W3C has worked closely together with OMA to remove the differences between W3C's and OMA's previous CSS-mobile profiles. An "alpha" quality test suite is available for the mobile profile. The Working Group will track implementations during the Candidate Recommendation phase. Implementers are invited to send feedback before February 2009. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-css-mobile-20080801 http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ http://www.w3.org/News/2008/News/2008#item129 http://www.openmobilealliance.org http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/Mobile/2.0/css-mobile-implementatio ns.html http://www.w3.org/Style/ Last Call: CSS Marquee Module Level 3 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Marquee Module Level 3." CSS describes the rendering of documents on various media. When documents (e.g., HTML) are laid out on visual media (e.g., screen or print) and the contents of some element are too large for a given area, CSS allows the designer to specify whether and how the overflow is displayed. One way, available on certain devices, is the "marquee" effect: the content is animated and moves automatically back and forth. This module defines the properties to control that effect. Comments are welcome through 01 September. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-marquee-20080801/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ Last Call: Content Transformation Guidelines 1.0 The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Content Transformation Guidelines 1.0." Content Transformation is the manipulation in various ways, by proxies, of requests made to and content delivered by an origin server with a view to making it more suitable for mobile presentation. The overall objective of this document is to provide a means, as far as is practical, for users to be provided with at least a "functional user experience" when accessing the Web with a mobile device. Comments are welcome through 16 September. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-ct-guidelines-20080801/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ Six RIF Working Drafts Published; Last Call for Basic Logic Dialect and RDF-OWL The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group published six documents yesterday: * "RIF Basic Logic Dialect" (Last Call) * "RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility" (Last Call) * "RIF Framework for Logic Dialects" * "RIF Use Cases and Requirements" * "RIF Production Rule Dialect" (First Public Draft) * "RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0" "RIF Basic Logic Dialect" (BLD) specifies an XML format for rules at an intermediate expressive power. The language is roughly Horn rules with URIs, datatypes, and builtins. This goes beyond datalog (it has function terms), but does not provide any kind of negation. "RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility" explains and specifies how RIF rulesets are to be used in combination with RDF and OWL. Comments on these documents welcome until 19 September. In addition, RIF Production Rule Dialect (PRD) specifies an XML format for the exchange of production rules. PRD and BLD are expected to be the basis of the two main dialect-branches, with RIF Core being the things in common between the two. RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (FLD) and RIF Datatypes and Builtins (DTB) provide common elements for specific dialects to use. RIF Uses Cases and Requirements (UCR), last published about two years ago, has been simplified and now has examples written in the PRD and BLD presentation syntaxes. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg.html http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-bld-20080730/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-rdf-owl-20080730/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-fld-20080730/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-ucr-20080730/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-prd-20080730/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-dtb-20080730/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ W3C Organizes Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I to Focus on Oil and Gas W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil & Gas to be hosted by Chevron in Houston, Texas, USA on 9-10 December 2008. Participants will explore how Semantic Web technologies can play a role in the management and analysis of the huge amounts of data gathered from highly diverse sources in this sector of the energy industry. Position papers are due 19 September. W3C invites you to read more about the Workshop goals and learn about the W3C Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/07/ogws-cfp http://www.w3.org/2008/07/ogws-cfp#section1.5 http://www.w3.org/2008/07/ogws-cfp#section1.1 http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Stable Version of Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers Released The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has released a new and stable version of its Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers, featuring more technologies and several improvements over the previous version. Read more about the design of the test and learn more about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests http://www.w3.org/2008/06/mobile-test/ http://www.w3.org/blog/MWITeam/2008/07/30/new_release_of_web_compati bility_test_fo http://www.w3.org/2008/06/mobile-test/doc http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ Two Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Drafts Published: Format 1.0; Evaluation The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group published two Working Drafts today: "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0" and "Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation." The former specifies the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format. EXI is a very compact representation for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of computational resources. The EXI format uses a hybrid approach drawn from the information and formal language theories, plus practical techniques verified by measurements, for entropy encoding XML information. Using a relatively simple algorithm, which is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a small set of data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of XML event streams. The latter document, a first public draft, is an evaluation of the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 with reference to the Properties identified by the (now closed) XML Binary Characterization (XBC) Working Group, relative to XML, gzipped XML and ASN.1 PER. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-20080728/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-evaluation-20080728/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ Past home page news... http://www.w3.org/News/ W3C Questions and Answers Blog * Markup Validator Updated by olivier Théreaux http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/markup_validator_updated.html http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/ * Towards better Web professionals by olivier Théreaux http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/07/better_web_education.html http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/ * Past Q&A Blog ... http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/ Upcoming Meetings * W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil & Gas, 9-10 December * More About Workshops... http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar... http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings Upcoming Talks * 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS. Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with CSS. * 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications. Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK. * 22 August, Ghent, Belgium: Detailed introduction into RDF and the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 4th Search & Find Workshop. * 1 September, Liverpool, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility and the Older Population. Andrew Arch presents at HCI and the Older Population 2008. * 2 September, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: From pages to applications: Mobile Web Best Practices. François Daoust presents at Mobile Internet User eXperience (MIUX'08). * 16 September, Yahoo!'s Mission College Campus, Santa Clara, California, USA: Introduction to the Protocol for Web Description Resources. Phil Archer, Matt Womer are at POWDER: More of what you want, when you want it. * 23 September, York, United Kingdom: How web accessibility guidelines apply to design for the ageing population. Andrew Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at Accessible Design in the Digital World. * 23 September, London, United Kingdom: Standardisation vs. Openness vs. Proprietary Systems - Examining in which Direction the Mobile Web Industry is heading and why this really Matters. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at Mobile Web Europe 2008. * 24 September, Vienna, Austria: Introduction to the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2nd European Semantic Technology Conference. * 13 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World. Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0. * 14 October, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Getting Real with Accesibility. Shawn Henry presents at Web Builder 2.0. * 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods. * 26 October, Karlsruhe, Germany: RDFa—Bridging the Web of Documents and the Web of Data. Michael Hausenblas, Ivan Herman, Ben Adida give a tutorial at 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008). * 5 December, Turn, Italy: Overlapping User Experiences: Mobile Web Usability and Accessibility for People with Disabilities. Shawn Henry presents at UPA Europe 2008, Usability and design: cultivating diversity. * 6 December, Turin, Italy: How New Web Accessibility Standards Impact User Experience Design . Shawn Henry presents at UPA Europe 2008, Usability and design: cultivating diversity. * 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/ W3C Membership W3C Members receive the W3C Member Newsletter, a weekly digest of Member-only announcements and other benefits. 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