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The 2011-12-12 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementations of The WebSocket API, Web Storage
08 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9287
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
two Candidate Recommendations:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* The WebSocket API, which defines an API that enables Web
pages to use the WebSocket protocol for two-way
communication with a remote host.
* Web Storage, which defines an API for persistent data
storage of key-value pair data in Web clients.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Workshop: The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead
09 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9289
W3C announces today the fourth in a series of workshops to
ensure the multilingual success of the World Wide Web: The
Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead, 15 - 16 March 2012,
Luxembourg, hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation
(DGT) of the European Commission. The event is co-located with
the European Commission's Language Technology Showcase Days.
Anyone may attend and participation is free. W3C welcomes
participation from both speakers and non-speaking attendees,
but the total number of participants is limited due to space.
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop/lux
embourg-cfp
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/whoweare/
Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid,
Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring
together speakers and participants with an interest in best
practices and standards aimed at helping content creators,
localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of
the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for
networking across communities that span the various aspects
involved. We are particularly interested in speakers who can
identify gaps in current standards and best practices related
to the mutilingual Web, and propose opportunities for
addressing those. Registration is available online.
http://multilingualweb.eu/documents
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/register
RDFa Lite 1.1 Draft Published; RDFa 1.1 Primer Updated
08 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9288
The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft for "RDFa Lite 1.1" and an updated Working
Draft for the "RDFa 1.1 Primer."
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-lite/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-primer/
One critique of RDFa is that is has too much functionality,
leaving first-time authors confused about the more advanced
features. RDFa Lite is a minimalist version of RDFa that helps
authors easily jump into the structured data world. The goal
was to outline a small subset of RDFa that will work for 80% of
the Web authors out there doing simple data markup.
The RDFa Primer is a more in-depth introduction to RDFa and all
of the structured data markup features that it provides.
The release of these two documents as Working Drafts is an open
invitation to the general public to review and provide feedback
on the direction of these documents via the RDF Web
Applications Working Group mailing list. These documents are
intended to be the last Working drafts before RDFa enters Last
Call. You can learn more about similar projects to RDFa in
W3C's Semantic Web Activity.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
Call for Review: SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0 Proposed
Recommendation Published
08 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9286
The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group has published a Proposed
Recommendation of "SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0." The
work described in this and related documents is aimed at a set
of standards for the transport of SOAP messages over JMS [Java
Message Service]. The main purpose is to ensure
interoperability between the implementations of different Web
services vendors. This will also enable customers to implement
their own Web services for part of their infrastructure, and to
have this interoperate with vendor provided Web services.
Comments are welcome through 13 January. Learn more about the
Web Services Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/soapjms/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-soapjms-20111208/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Incubator Group Report: HTML Speech XG Final Report
06 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9285
The W3C HTML Speech Incubator Group has published their final
report. This report provides use cases, requirements derived
from those use cases and prioritized, and the following
proposals: a JavaScript API for use of ASR services, a new
<reco> html element that can be linked to the JS ASR API, a new
<tts> html element for use of TTS services, and a protocol for
how Web User Agents such as web browsers would communicate with
ASR and TTS services other than the default ones provided by
the Web User Agent. While the group has made astonishing
progress in its goals, the proposals are far from being
complete, Recommendation-level standards. The Incubator Group
expects that the contents of this report will be used as the
beginning of standards-track work in one or more W3C Working
Groups and/or that of other Standards Development Organizations
such as the Internet Engineering Task Force.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/XGR-htmlspeech/
This publication is part of the Incubator Activity, a forum
where W3C Members can innovate and experiment. This work is not
on the W3C standards track.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
Report: Status and Roadmap of Standards for Web Applications on
Mobile
06 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9284
[] W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web
Applications on Mobile , an overview of the various
technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web
applications, particularly in the mobile context.
http://www.w3.org/2011/11/mobile-web-app-state
http://www.w3.org/2011/11/mobile-web-app-state
A deliverable of the MobiWebApp project, this fourth edition of
the document highlights changes since August 2011, including
several new specifications in development at W3C ( "Web Real
Time communications," "Geolocation v2," "vibration API" ),
progress on many others, and new links to resources on mobile
accessibility.
http://mobiwebapp.eu/
http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/
http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API-v2/
http://www.w3.org/TR/vibration/
The next edition of the document is scheduled for February
2012, in time for Mobile World Congress. W3C invites attendees
to visit W3C's booth (Hall 2, 2A31) to learn more about these
technologies and how they are transforming the mobile industry.
Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices.
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3 Draft Published
06 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9283
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module
Level 3." In CSS Levels 1 and 2, image values, such as those
used in the 'background-image' property, could only be given by
a single URI value. This module introduces additional ways of
representing 2-dimensional images, for example as a list of
URIs denoting fallbacks, as a reference to an element in the
document, or as a gradient. This module also defines several
properties for manipulating raster images and for sizing or
positioning replaced elements such as images within the box
determined by the CSS layout algorithms. It also defines in a
generic way CSS's sizing algorithm for images and other
replaced elements. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-images-20111206/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Indexed Database API Draft Published
06 December 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9282
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Indexed Database API." This document defines APIs
for a database of records holding simple values and
hierarchical objects. User agents need to store large numbers
of objects locally in order to satisfy off-line data
requirements of Web applications. The Web Storage specification
is useful for storing pairs of keys and their corresponding
values. However, it does not provide in-order retrieval of
keys, efficient searching over values, or storage of duplicate
values for a key. Indexed Database API makes it possible to
perform advanced key-value data management that is at the heart
of most sophisticated query processors. Learn more about the
Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-IndexedDB-20111206/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR)
The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop
/luxembourg-cfp
Luxembourg
Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of
the European Commission.
Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid,
Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring
together speakers and participants with an interest in best
practices and standards aimed at helping content creators,
localizers, tools developers, and others meet the
challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further
opportunities for networking across communities that span
the various aspects involved.
http://multilingualweb.eu/
W3C Blog
* Web and TV IG note on Home Networking Scenarios published
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/web_and_tv_ig_note_on_home_net
12 December 2011 by Giuseppe Pascale
http://operabuffa.wordpress.com/
* 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/
Upcoming Talks
* 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)
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)
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)
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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