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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Call for Review: Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 Proposed
Recommendation Published
29 November 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9274
The Media Annotations Working Group has published a Proposed
Recommendation of "Ontology for Media Resources 1.0." This
document defines the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0. The term
"Ontology" is used in its broadest possible definition: a core
vocabulary. The intent of this vocabulary is to bridge the
different descriptions of media resources, and provide a core
set of descriptive properties. This document defines a core set
of metadata properties for media resources, along with their
mappings to elements from a set of existing metadata formats.
Besides that, the document presents a Semantic Web compatible
implementation of the abstract ontology using RDF/OWL. The
document is mostly targeted towards media resources available
on the Web, as opposed to media resources that are only
accessible in local repositories. Comments are welcome through
31 December. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-mediaont-10-20111129/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
W3C Invites Implementations of Media Fragments URI 1.0
01 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9280
The Media Fragments Working Group invites implementation of the
Candidate Recommendation of "Media Fragments URI 1.0." Audio
and video resources on the World Wide Web are currently treated
as "foreign" objects, which can only be embedded using a plugin
that is capable of decoding and interacting with the media
resource. Specific media servers are generally required to
provide for server-side features such as direct access to time
offsets into a video without the need to retrieve the entire
resource. Support for such media fragment access varies between
different media formats and inhibits standard means of dealing
with such content on the Web. This specification provides for a
media-format independent, standard means of addressing media
fragments on the Web using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI).
The Working Group also published today the first draft of a
companion document, "Protocol for Media Fragments 1.0
Resolution in HTTP," which describes various recipes for
processing media fragments URI when used over the HTTP
protocol. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-media-frags-20111201/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-media-frags-recipes-20111201/
http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/
Last Calls: Geolocation API Specification Level 2; DeviceOrientation
Event
01 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9279
The Geolocation Working Group has published two Last Call
Working Drafts: "Geolocation API Specification Level 2" and
"DeviceOrientation Event Specification." The former defines a
high-level interface to location information associated only
with the device hosting the implementation, 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,
as well as user input.
http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-geolocation-API-v2-20111201
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-orientation-event-20111201/
The DeviceOrientation Event Specification defines several new
DOM events that provide information about the physical
orientation and motion of a hosting device.
Comments are welcome on both specifications through 15 January.
Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Content Security Policy Draft Published
01 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9278
The Web Application Security Working Group has published the
First Public Working Draft of "Content Security Policy." This
document defines Content Security Policy, a mechanism web
applications can use to mitigate the broad class of content
injection vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting (XSS).
Content Security Policy is a declarative policy that lets the
authors (or server administrators) of a web application
restrict from where the application can load resources. Learn
more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-CSP-20111129/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Interest Group Note: Requirements for Home Networking Scenarios
01 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9277
The Web and TV Interest Group published today an Interest Group
Note of "Requirements for Home Networking Scenarios." This
document lists the design goals and requirements that potential
W3C recommendations should support in order to enable access to
services and content provided by home network devices on other
devices, including the discovery and playback of content
available to those devices, both from services such as
traditional broadcast media and internet based services but
also from the home network. Learn more about Web and TV.
http://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-hnreq-20111201/
http://www.w3.org/standards/webofdevices/tv
CSS Specifications Updated: Flexible Box Layout, CSS Template,
Regions, Paged Media
29 November 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9273
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
four Working Drafts:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
* CSS Flexible Box Layout Module, which describes a CSS box
model optimized for user interface design. In flexbox
layout model, the children of a box are laid out either
horizontally or vertically, and unused space can be
assigned to a particular child or distributed among the
children by assignment of "flex" to the children that
should expand. Nesting of these boxes (horizontal inside
vertical, or vertical inside horizontal) can be used to
build layouts in two dimensions.
* CSS Template Layout Module, which contains CSS features to
describe layouts at a high level, meant for tasks such as
the positioning and alignment of "widgets" in a graphical
user interface or the layout grid for a page or a window.
* CSS Regions Module Level 3, which allows content to flow
across multiple areas called regions. The regions are not
necessarily contiguous in the document order. The CSS
regions module provides an advanced content flow mechanism,
which can be combined with positioning schemes as defined
by other CSS modules such as the Multi-Column Module or the
Grid Layout Module to position the regions where content
flows.
* CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module, describes
features often used in printed publications.
Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Updated Requirements for Japanese Text Layout Draft Published
29 November 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9272
W3C has published a second version of "Requirements for
Japanese Text Layout," which describes requirements for
general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS,
SVG, XSL-FO and eBook standards. The document is mainly based
on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051, however, it also
addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. This
second version of the document contains a significant amount of
additional information related to hanmen design, such as
handling headings, placement of illustrations and tables,
handling of notes and reference marks, etc. This document was
developed by participants in the Japanese Layout Task Force,
with input from four W3C Working Groups: CSS,
Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL. A "Japanese version" is
also available.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-jlreq-20111129/
http://www.w3.org/2007/02/japanese-layout/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-jlreq-20111129/ja/
Last Call: Battery Status API
29 November 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9271
The Device APIs Working Group has published a Last Call Working
Draft of "Battery Status API." The Battery Status API
specification defines a means for web developers to
programmatically determine the battery status of the hosting
device. Without knowing the battery status of a device, a web
developer must design the web application with an assumption of
sufficient battery level for the task at hand. This means the
battery of a device may exhaust faster than desired because web
developers are unable to make decisions based on the battery
status. Given knowledge of the battery status, web developers
are able to craft web content and applications which are
power-efficient, thereby leading to improved user experience.
Comments are welcome through 20 December. Learn more about the
Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-battery-status-20111129/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Patent Advisory Group Recommends Continuing Work on Widgets Access
Request Policy
28 November 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9270
The Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for the Web Applications
Working Group has published a report recommending that W3C
continue work on the "Widgets Access Request Policy
Specification" without changes. 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. See the original announcement of the
PAG.
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/widgets-pag/
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/widgets-pag/pagreport
http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-access/
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/News/2009.html#entry-8662
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2011-12-06 ( 6 DEC) – 2011-12-07 ( 7 DEC)
Linked Enterprise Data Patterns: Data-driven Applications
on the Web
http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/
Cambridge, MA, USA
Hosted by W3C/MIT
Linked Data technology also offers a huge potential for
enterprise applications, e.g., for the integration and the
management of data within and across enterprises. The
distributed nature of Linked Data enables loose-coupling
for data sharing within and between organizations. With
Linked Data, enterprises have a unique opportunity to
cooperate in their use of shared data without the costs of
extensive coordination. Sharing a common data model (RDF)
allows us to establish design patterns for providing
dereferencable resource identifiers, migrating and cloning
data as business needs and data authorities evolve. These
will address issues such as data distribution, query
federation, access control, encryption and signature, legal
problems around the access of datasets and business models
in using open or closed linked data. Please join the W3C
Linked Data community at this workshop to air requirements,
share solutions and develop a healthy and scalable Linked
Enterprise Data infrastructure.
W3C Blog
* Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-11-29 - 2011-12-04
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/openweb-weekly-22
5 December 2011 by Karl Dubost
http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/
* Ben Schwarz joins CSSWG
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/11/ben_schwarz_joining_csswg
30 November 2011 by Ben Schwarz
* Interview: Roger Cutler on W3C and Chevron use of Semantic
Web Technology
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/11/interview_roger_cutler_on_w3c
28 November 2011 by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Upcoming Talks
* 2011-12-05 (5 DEC)
"International Panel on Policies and Programs to Promote
Accessible and Assistive Mobile Services for Seniors and
Persons with Disabilities" and "Designing Accessible Mobile
Websites and Accessible Mobile Apps"
panel features Judy Brewer
M-Enabling Summit
http://www.m-enabling.com/
Washington, DC, USA
* 2011-12-08 (8 DEC)
Domain names and persistence: a view from eGov
by Phil Archer
IDCC11 Workshop: Domain names and persistence
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/idcc_workshop
Bristol, United Kingdom
* 2011-12-18 (18 DEC)
Server-Client communication in HTML5
by Zohar Arad
Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and
HTML5 communication
http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
* 2011-12-18 (18 DEC)
Review of new W3C technologies
by Eyal Sela
Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and
HTML5 communication
http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
* 2011-12-18 (18 DEC)
HTML5 File API, File System API + NPAPI
by Nir Geier
Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and
HTML5 communication
http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
* 2011-12-18 (18 DEC)
Communicating between iframes using HTML5 postMessage
by Roee Sarusi
Israeli W3C developer forum meetup (#w3cil) - File API and
HTML5 communication
http://www.w3c.org.il/event/278
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
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