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- Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:20:25 -0500
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The 2009-12-07 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementation of Widget Packaging and Configuration
01 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8665
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
the Candidate Recommendation of "Widget Packaging and
Configuration." This specification standardizes a packaging
format for software known as widgets. Widgets are client-side
applications that are authored using Web standards, but whose
content can also be embedded into Web documents. The packaging
format acts as a container for files used by a widget. The
configuration document is an XML vocabulary that declares
metadata and configuration parameters for a widget. The steps
for processing a widget package describe the expected behavior
and means of error handling for runtimes while processing the
packaging format, configuration document, and other relevant
files. The group plans to track implementations in an
implementation report. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-widgets-20091201/
http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/imp-report/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published
03 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8667
The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft
of "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0." The
primary goal of this document is to bring the advantages of
Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice
response applications. VoiceXML 3.0 is 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. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-voicexml30-20091203/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Last Call: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1
03 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8666
The XML Schema Working Group has published Last Call Working
Draft of "W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1:
Structures" and "Part 2: Datatypes." The former specifies the
XML Schema Definition Language, which offers facilities for
describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML
documents, including those which exploit the XML Namespace
facility. The schema language, which is itself represented in
an XML vocabulary and uses namespaces, substantially
reconstructs and considerably extends the capabilities found in
XML document type definitions (DTDs). The second publication
defines facilities for defining datatypes to be used in XML
Schemas as well as other XML specifications. Comments are
welcome through 31 December. Learn more about the Extensible
Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlschema11-1-20091203/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmlschema11-2-20091203/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
CSS 2D Transforms, Transitions Modules Updated
01 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8664
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
Working Drafts of "CSS 2D Transforms Module Level 3" and "CSS
Transitions Module Level 3." CSS 2D Transforms allows elements
rendered by CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional space. CSS
Transitions allows property changes in CSS values to occur
smoothly over a specified duration. Learn more about the Style
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-2d-transforms-20091201/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-transitions-20091201/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI Architecture) Working
Draft Published
01 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8663
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published an
updated Working Draft of "Multimodal Architecture and
Interfaces (MMI Architecture)," which defines a general and
flexible framework providing interoperability among
modality-specific components from different vendors - for
example, speech recognition from one vendor and handwriting
recognition from another. The document as a whole has changed
significantly and the group welcomes review. The main changes
from the previous draft are (1) clarifying the relationship to
EMMA, (2) simplifying the architecture constituents, (3) adding
a description on HTTP transport of lifecycle events and (4)
adding an example of handwriting recognition modality
component. A "diff-marked version" of this document is
available. Learn more about the W3C Multimodal Interaction
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mmi-arch-20091201/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mmi-arch-20091201/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity
Patent Advisory Group Launched for Widgets 1.0: Access Requests
Policy
01 December 2009 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8662
In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a
Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to a disclosure related
to the "Widgets 1.0: Access Requests Policy" specification; see
the PAG charter. The WebApps Working Group develops this
specification. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the
event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is
not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing
requirements. Learn more about Patent Advisory Groups.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/p72
http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-access/
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/widgets-pag-charter
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
ion
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
ion
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