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- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:09:05 -0500
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2008-12-22 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20081222
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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SVG Tiny 1.2 Advances State of the Art for Web Graphics
Creating beautiful and accessible interactive content was made
easier today with the release of the "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Tiny 1.2" Recommendation. Already implemented and deployed in mobile
phones, media centers, and browsers around the world, this open
standard allows authors to build documents and interfaces for the
Web, with open-source and commercial authoring tools that output
open, reusable content. Searchable, internationalized text and
user-created metadata bring the Semantic Web to graphics, and
improve the experience of users everywhere, while easier programming
interfaces put the power in the hands of developers. A test suite
helps to ensure interoperable SVG content in modern Web browsers,
making it easier than ever to develop and deploy the right look and
feel. Read the testimonials and start creating content today. Learn
more about the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SVGTiny12-20081222/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Test_Suite_Overview
http://www.w3.org/2008/12/svg-testimonial.html
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Element Traversal Specification Is a W3C Recommendation
The Web Applications Working Group has published the W3C
Recommendation of "Element Traversal Specification." This
specification defines the ElementTraversal interface, which allows
script navigation of the elements of a DOM tree, excluding all other
nodes in the DOM, such as text nodes. It also provides an attribute
to expose the number of child elements of an element. It is intended
to provide a more convenient alternative to existing DOM navigation
interfaces, with a low implementation footprint. Learn more about
the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-ElementTraversal-20081222/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Web IDL Draft Published
The Web Applications Working Group has published the Working Draft
of "Web IDL." This document defines an interface definition
language, Web IDL, that can be used to describe interfaces that are
intended to be implemented in web browsers. Web IDL is an IDL
variant with a number of features that allow the behavior of common
script objects in the web platform to be specified more readily. How
interfaces described with Web IDL correspond to constructs within
ECMAScript and Java execution environments is also detailed. Learn
more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-WebIDL-20081219/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration
The Web Applications Working Group has published the Last Call
Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration." This
document standardizes a Zip-based packaging format, an XML-based
configuration document format and a series of steps that user agents
follow when processing and verifying various aspects of widgets. The
packaging format acts as a container for files used by a widget. The
configuration document is an XML vocabulary that authors can use to
declare metadata and configuration parameters for a widget. The
steps for processing a widget resource describe the expected
behavior and means of error handling for widget user agents while
processing the packaging format, configuration document, and other
relevant files. Comments are welcome through 31 January. Learn more
about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-widgets-20081222/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Mobile Web Application Best Practices Published Draft Published
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Mobile Web Application Best Practices." This document
specifies Best Practices for the development and delivery of Web
applications on mobile devices. The recommendations expand upon
statements made in the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (BP1),
especially concerning statements that relate to the exploitation of
device capabilities and awareness of the delivery context.
Furthermore, since BP1 was written, networks and devices have
continued to evolve, with the result that a number of Best Practices
that were omitted from BP1 can now be included. Learn more about the
Mobile Web Initiative Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-mwabp-20081222/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
First Draft of Geolocation API Specification Published
The Geolocation Working Group has published the First Public Working
Draft of "Geolocation API Specification." This specification
defines an API that provides scripted access to geographical
location information associated with the hosting device. The API
defines a high-level interface to location information associated
with the hosting device, such as latitude and longitude. The API
itself is agnostic of the underlying location information sources.
Common sources of location information include Global Positioning
System (GPS) and location inferred from network signals such as IP
address, RFID, WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses, and GSM/CDMA cell
IDs. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-geolocation-API-20081222/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
First Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0
Published
The Voice Browser Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0."
This document specifies VoiceXML 3.0, a modular XML language for
creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech,
recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, telephony, mixed
initiative conversations, and recording and presentation of a
variety of media formats including digitized audio, and digitized
video. The primary goal of this version is to bring the advantages
of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice
response applications. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-voicexml30-20081219/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
XForms for HTML, First Public Draft
The Forms Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft
of "XForms for HTML." XForms for HTML provides a set of attributes
and script methods that can be used by the tags or elements of an
HTML or XHTML web page to simplify the integration of data-intensive
interactive processing capabilities from XForms. The semantics of
the attributes are mapped to the rich XForms
model-view-controller-connector architecture, thereby allowing web
application authors a smoother, selective migration path to the
higher-order behaviors available from the full element markup
available in modules of XForms. Learn more about the XForms
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-XForms-for-HTML-20081219/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
Five Publications from RIF-WG
The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group published five new
Working Drafts today. Since the Last Call Working Draft of "RIF
Basic Logic Dialect (BLD)," the group has been developing other key
dialects, components, and test cases. The new publications are:
1. "RIF Use Cases and Requirements" : minor changes
2. "RIF Core" : new design to support both BLD and PRD
3. "RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0" : various improvements
4. "RIF Production Rule Dialect (PRD)" : operational semantics are
complete
5. "RIF Test Cases" : early stages of test suite
The Working Group is nearing Last Call on these remaining elements
of RIF, and welcomes feedback from rulesystem users and designers.
Please send comments by 23 January. Learn more about the Semantic
Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-bld-20080730/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-ucr-20081218/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-core-20081218/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-dtb-20081218/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-prd-20081218/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-test-20081218/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Report Announced from Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries
Part I: Oil & Gas
Today W3C published a report on the W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in
Oil & Gas Industry. 54 experts from 33 organizations discussed how
Semantic Web technologies can help to handle the staggering amount
of new data that is produced every day as well as the challenges of
interfacing to service companies and managing joint ventures between
operators that are very important in this industry. Participants
discussed issues related to data integration, ontology management
and creation, presented applications and tool developments in the
oil & gas area. The Workshop concluded with a panel that explored
the next steps that this community may take, possibly in conjunction
with W3C, to explore this area further. W3C thanks Chevron for
hosting the Workshop, which took place in Houston, Texas, USA, on
the 9 and 10 December, 2008. Read the 17 position papers and learn
more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2008/12/ogws-report.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/12/ogws-report.html
http://www.w3.org/2008/11/ogws-agenda
http://www.w3.org/2008/12/ogws-report.html#participants
http://www.w3.org/2008/11/ogws-agenda.html#panel2
http://www.w3.org/2008/11/ogws-agenda.html#papers
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Past home page news...
http://www.w3.org/News/
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Small update of the RDFa distiller sofware by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/12/small_update_of_the_rdfa_disti.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
* Amaya Also for RDFa by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/12/amaya_also_for_rdfa.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
* Past Q&A Blog ...
http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/
Upcoming Talks
* 9 January 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Never is a long time
- Disruptive technology and the Web. Steven Pemberton presents
at Freelance Factory.
* 12 February 2009, Gijón, Spain: Innovative Uses of Mobile ICTs
for Development. José Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at
II International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation.
* 21 March 2009, Prague, Czech Republic: XML Processing and
Choreography. Mohamed Zergaoui is at XML Prague 2009.
* 29 April 2009, Madrid, Spain: [web accessibility and older users
- we are there]. Andrew Arch gives a keynote at 3d European
eAccessibility Forum.
* 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/
Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, 15-16 January
2009
* W3C Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 , 5-6 March
2009
* Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in
Fostering Social and Economic Development, 1-2 April 2009
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
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