W3C Public Newsletter, 2010-03-08

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Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe Named W3C CEO

   08 March 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8738

   [] W3C today named Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe its new Chief Executive
   Officer. "Web technologies continue to be the vehicle for every
   industry to incorporate the rapid pace of change into their way
   of doing business," said Dr. Jaffe. "I'm excited to join W3C at
   this time of increased innovation, since W3C is the place where
   the industry comes together to set standards for the Web in an
   open and collaborative fashion." As W3C CEO, Dr. Jaffe will
   work with Director Tim Berners-Lee, staff, Membership, and the
   public to evolve and communicate W3C's organizational vision.
   The CEO is responsible for W3C's global operations, for
   maintaining the interests of all of the W3C’s stakeholders, and
   for sustaining a culture of cooperation and transparency, so
   that W3C continues to be the leading forum for the technical
   development and stewardship of the Web. Read the CEO Blog and
   learn more in the press release.

   http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
   http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
   http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/03/w3c_ceo_blog_first_posting_mar
   http://www.w3.org/2010/03/ceo-pr

Seven Documents Related to HTML Published

   05 March 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8735

   W3C published today seven documents related to HTML:

     * HTML 5 and HTML5 differences from HTML4. In addition, some
       content that was part of the HTML 5 specification has been
       published in two new standalone drafts: HTML Canvas 2D
       Context and HTML Microdata.
     * HTML: The Markup Language, a first draft. This document
       describes the HTML markup language and provides details
       necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents
       that conform to the language. By design, it does not define
       related APIs, nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML
       content are meant to process documents, nor attempt to be a
       tutorial or "how to" authoring guide.
     * HTML+RDFa, which defines rules and guidelines for adapting
       the RDF in XHTML: Syntax and Processing (RDFa)
       specification for use in the HTML5 and XHTML5 members of
       the HTML family.
     * Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML, a first draft.
       Authoring a web app that needs to support both
       right-to-left and left-to-right interfaces, or to take as
       input and display both left-to-right and right-to-left
       data, usually presents a number of challenges that make it
       an especially laborious and bug-prone task. Some of these
       are due to browser bugs, but some can be traced to a gap in
       the specification of the bidirectional aspects of a given
       HTML feature. And some of these challenges could be greatly
       simplified by adding a few strategically placed new HTML
       features. This document proposes fixes for some of the most
       repetitive pain points.

   All documents were published by the HTML Working Group except
   the last one, published by the Internationalization Core
   Working Group.

   http://www.w3.org/wg/
   http://www.w3.org/International/core/

Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published

   05 March 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8734

   The Voice Browser Working Group has published a 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. See the "diff-marked version" of changes since
   the previous draft, and learn more about the Voice Browser
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Voice/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-voicexml30-20100304/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-voicexml30-20100304/diff
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Security Drafts Update: XML Signature Syntax and Processing 2.0;
Canonical XML Version 2.0

   05 March 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8733

   The XML Security Working Group has published two Working
   Drafts: "XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 2.0" and
   "Canonical XML Version 2.0." The first specifies XML syntax
   and processing rules for creating and representing digital
   signatures. XML Signatures can be applied to any digital
   content (data object), including XML. The second is a major
   rewrite of Canonical XML Version 1.1 to address issues around
   performance, streaming, hardware implementation, robustness,
   minimizing attack surface, determining what is signed and more.
   It also incorporates an update to Exclusive Canonicalization,
   effectively a 2.0 version, as well. Learn more about the
   Security Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmldsig-core2-20100304/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xml-c14n2-20100304/
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

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

Workshops

W3C Blog

     * W3C CEO blog – First posting – March 8, 2010
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/03/w3c_ceo_blog_first_posting_mar
       8 March 2010 by Jeff Jaffe
       http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
     * Interview: Paul Cotton on Microsoft Participation in the
       W3C HTML Working Group
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/03/interview_paul_cotton_on_micro
       5 March 2010 by Philippe Le Hégaret
       http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
     * Entity declarations without DTDs: yet another approach?
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/03/entity_declarations_without_dt
       ds
       4 March 2010 by Henry S. Thompson

Upcoming Talks

     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       XML Prague 2010
       Mohamed ZERGAOUI
       XML Prague 2010
       http://xmlprague.cz
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Multimedia XML
       by Robin Berjon
       XML Prague 2010
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Extending XQuery with collections, indexes, and integrity
       constraints
       XML Prague
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       How to avoid suffering from markup: A project report about
       the virtue of hiding XML
       by Felix Sasaki
       XML Prague 2010
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/index
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       XQuery in the Browser
       XML Prague
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       A Time Machine for XML
       by Daniela Florescu
       XML Prague
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/2010/www.xmlprague.cz/2
       010/index
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Web Fonts: The Time Has Come
       panel features Bert Bos
       SXSW
       http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5001
       Austin TX, USA
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Schema-aware editing
       by George Bina
       XML Prague 2010
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/index
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-14 (14 MAR)
       XQuery in the Cloud
       by Donald Kossmann
       XML Prague
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-14 (14 MAR)
       Automating Document Assembly in DocBook
       by Norman Walsh
       XML Prague 2010
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-15 (15 MAR)
       Aplicaciones Web: orden en el caos
       http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2010/0315-aplicacionesCPR-
       MA
       by Martín Álvarez
       Asesoría Formación Profesional Específica CPR Oviedo
       http://web.educastur.princast.es/cpr/oviedo/web/index.php?o
       ption=com_actividades&task=actividad&id_actividad=207
       Oviedo, Spain
     * 2010-03-22 (22 MAR)
       The semantic web and some Python based applications
       http://www.slideshare.net/ISOCIL/semntic-web-intro-eyal-sel
       a
       by Eyal Sela
       PyWeb-IL 13th Meeting
       http://groups.google.com/group/pyweb-il/web/pyweb-il-13th-m
       eeting
       Tel-Aviv, Israel
     * 2010-03-24 (24 MAR)
       Presenting Mobile Web Application Best Practices
       The second meetup of the Israeli W3C developers forum
       (W3CDF) - Mobile applications and websites development
       http://www.w3c.org.il/article/meetup_2_mobile_web
       Ramat Gan, Israel
     * 2010-03-25 (25 MAR)
       Building an Accessible Web Browser: W3C User Agent
       Accessibility Guidelines
       Annual International Technology and Persons with
       Disabilities Conference
       http://csunconference.org
       San Diego, CA, USA
     * 2010-04-07 (7 APR)
       Mobile Web Application Best Practices: Review workshop
       by Eyal Sela
       Mobile Web Application Best Practices: Review workshop
       http://www.w3c.org.il/article/mobile_application_review
       Petach Tikva, Israel
     * 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
     * 2010-04-23 (23 APR)
       Distributed Multimodality in the Multimodal Architecture
       by Deborah Dahl
       Mobile Voice Conference
       http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/
       San Francisco, USA

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