W3C Public Newsletter, 2010-04-12

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 Draft Published

   09 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8763

   The XML Query Working Group has published a Working Draft of
   "XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0." This specification defines
   an extension to XQuery 1.0 and XQuery Update Facility.
   Expressions can be evaluated in a specific order, with later
   expressions seeing the effects of the expressions that came
   before them. This specification introduces several new kinds of
   expression, including the apply, assignment, while, and exit
   expression, and a block expression with local variable
   declarations. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language
   (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xquery-sx-10-20100408/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

W3C Invites Comments on First Draft of File API: Writer

   06 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8762

   The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "File API: Writer." Web
   applications are currently fairly limited in how they can write
   to files. One can present a link for download, but creating and
   writing files of arbitrary type, or modifying downloaded files
   on their way to the disk, is difficult or impossible. This
   specification defines an API through which user agents can
   permit applications to write generated or downloaded files.
   Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-file-writer-api-20100406/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

   More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

Workshops

     * 2010-05-13 (13 MAY) – 2010-05-14 (14 MAY)
       Workshop on Future Standards for Model-Based User
       Interfaces
       http://www.w3.org/2010/02/mbui/cfp
       Rome, Italy
       Hosted by CNR/ISTI
       Web application developers face increasing difficulties due
       to wide variations in device capabilities, in the details
       of the standards they support, the need to support
       assistive technologies for accessibility, the demand for
       richer user interfaces, the suites of programming languages
       and libraries, and the need to contain costs and meet
       challenging schedules during the development and
       maintenance of applications. Research work on model-based
       design of context-sensitive user interfaces has sought to
       address the challenge of reducing the costs for developing
       and maintaining multi-target user interfaces through a
       layered architecture that separates out different concerns.
       Workshop participants will collectively help to identify
       opportunities and challenges for new open standards in the
       area, particularly concerning the semantics and syntaxes of
       task, abstract and concrete user interface models. In
       addition, workshop participants will have the opportunity
       to discuss the role of model-based approaches in relation
       to other standards, for instance, XForms, ANSI/CEA-2018 and
       MDA, and the relationship to work on standards for Web
       delivery including HTML5 and browser scripting APIs.
     * 2010-06-18 (18 JUN) – 2010-06-19 (19 JUN)
       W3C Workshop on Conversational Applications
       http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/cfp
       Somerset, NJ, USA
       Openstream
       The goal of the workshop is to understand the limitations
       of the current W3C language model in order to develop a
       more comprehensive model. We plan to collect and analyze
       use cases and prioritize requirements that ultimately will
       be used to identify improvements to the W3C language model.
       Just as W3C developed SSML 1.1 to broaden the languages for
       which SSML is useful, this effort will result in improved
       support for language capabilities that are unsupported
       today.
     * 2010-06-26 (26 JUN) – 2010-06-27 (27 JUN)
       RDF Next Steps
       http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/
       Palo Alto, CA
       Hosted by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
       (NCBO), at Stanford University
       The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Web
       community on whether and, if yes, in which direction "RDF"
       should evolve. One of the main issues the Workshop should
       help deciding is whether it is timely for W3C to start a
       new RDF Working Group to define and standardize a next
       version of RDF.
       http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/

W3C Blog

     * None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
       http://www.w3.org/QA/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2010-04-19 (19 APR)
       Unleashing Opportunities through Accessibility
       keynote by Shawn Henry
       2010 UIC Digital Accessibility Expo
       http://uicweb.net/dae2010
       Chicago, IL, USA
     * 2010-04-22 (22 APR)
       CSS Based Web Design
       by Eyal Sela
       The third meetup of the Israeli W3C developers forum
       (W3CDF) - CSS Based Web Design
       http://www.w3c.org.il/article/meetup3
       Tel-Aviv, Israel
     * 2010-04-23 (23 APR)
       Distributed Multimodality in the Multimodal Architecture
       by Deborah Dahl
       Mobile Voice Conference
       http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/
       San Francisco, USA
     * 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
       Accessibility Now
       keynote by Shawn Henry
       AccessU
       http://www.knowbility.org/conference/
       Austin, TX, USA
     * 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
       Web Accessibility from the Usability and UX Perspectives
       by Shawn Henry
       AccessU, Usability Track
       http://www.knowbility.org/conference/?content=usabilitytrac
       k
       Austin, TX, USA
     * 2010-05-24 (24 MAY)
       Develop a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your
       Organization
       by Shawn Henry
       UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
       Design for the World
       https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
       x.new
       Munich, Germany
     * 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
       How Does Accessibility Fit into Today’s Usability Practice?
       panel features Shawn Henry
       UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
       Design for the World
       https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
       x.new
       Munich, Germany
     * 2010-06-09 (9 JUN)
       Standards and Best Practices for the Multilingual Web
       by Richard Ishida
       Localization World
       http://www.localizationworld.com/
       Berlin, Germany

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