W3C Public Newsletter, 2008-08-11

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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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/

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