W3C Public Newsletter, 2010-04-19

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Last Call: Digital Signatures for Widgets

   16 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8768

   The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
   Working Draft of "Digital Signatures for Widgets." This
   document defines a profile of the XML Signature Syntax and
   Processing 1.1 specification to allow a widget package to be
   digitally signed. Widget authors and distributors can digitally
   sign widgets as a mechanism to ensure continuity of authorship
   and distributorship. Comments are welcome through 6 May. Learn
   more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-widgets-digsig-20100415/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0 (First Edition) Note
Published

   16 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8767

   The XML Core Working Group has published a Group Note of
   "Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0 (First Edition)."
   There are several document schema definition languages in
   common use today that can be used to specify one or more
   validation processes performed against Extensible Markup
   Language (XML) documents. Some schema languages provide their
   own syntax for associating schemas with documents (DTD, W3C XML
   Schema) and some languages (RELAX NG, Schematron) do not
   provide schema association mechanisms at all. The purpose of
   this specification is to define a common, schema-agnostic
   syntax for associating schema documents written in any schema
   definition language with a given XML document. Learn more about
   the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-xml-model-20100415/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Call for Review: XHTML Modularization 1.1 - Second Edition Proposed
Edited Recommendation Published

   15 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8766

   The XHTML2 Working Group has published a Proposed Edited
   Recommendation of "XHTML Modularization 1.1 - Second Edition."
   This document is the second edition of version 1.1 of XHTML
   Modularization, an abstract modularization of XHTML and
   implementations of the abstraction using XML Document Type
   Definitions (DTDs) and XML Schemas. This modularization
   provides a means for subsetting and extending XHTML, a feature
   needed for extending XHTML's reach onto emerging platforms.
   This specification is intended for use by language designers as
   they construct new XHTML Family Markup Languages. This
   specification does not define the semantics of elements and
   attributes, only how those elements and attributes are
   assembled into modules, and from those modules into markup
   languages. This update includes several minor updates to
   provide clarifications and address errors found in version 1.1.
   Comments are welcome through 12 May. Learn more about the HTML
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PER-xhtml-modularization-20100414/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

Widget Updates Draft Published

   13 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8765

   The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "Widget Updates." This specification defines a
   process and a document format to allow a user agent to update
   an installed widget package with different version of a widget
   package. A widget cannot update itself; instead, a widget
   relies on the user agent to manage the update process. A user
   agent can perform an update over HTTP and from non-HTTP sources
   (e.g., directly from a device's memory card or hard disk).
   Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-widgets-updates-20100413/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Media Fragments URI 1.0 Draft Published

   13 April 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8764

   The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Working Draft
   of "Media Fragments URI 1.0." This specification provides for
   a media-format independent, standard means of addressing media
   fragments on the Web using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI).
   In the context of this document, media fragments are regarded
   along three different dimensions: temporal, spatial, and
   tracks. Further, a fragment can be marked with a name and then
   addressed through a URI using that name. The specified
   addressing schemes apply mainly to audio and video resources -
   the spatial fragment addressing may also be used on images.
   Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-media-frags-20100413/
   http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

   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

     * Volcanic ash, Europe, and W3C
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/04/volcanic_ash_europe_and_w3c
       19 April 2010 by Jeff Jaffe
       http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
     * Why does the address bar show the tempolink instead of the
       permalink?
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/04/why_does_the_address_bar_show
       19 April 2010 by Jonathan Rees

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
     * 2010-04-23 (23 APR)
       Voice and the Mobile Web
       by Matt Womer
       Mobile Voice Conference
       http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/
       San Francisco, California, 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
     * 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
       Semantically-Enabled Standard development
       by Laurent Lefort
       Metadata Australia 2010 Conference - Sharing Data, Sharing
       Ideas
       http://www.metadataaustralia2010.com/
       Canberra, Australia
     * 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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