W3C Public Newsletter, 2012-04-23

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2012-04-23 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
  http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120423

A simplified plain text version is available below.

Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Early bird extension until 25 April: W3C Mobile Web Best Practices
Training Course

   23 April 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9427

   Get started in developing Web sites that work well on mobile
   devices by registering to W3C's "Mobile Web 1: Best Practices"
   online training course! The now 6-week long course starts
   Monday, 30 April. Read the course description and register
   before April 25 and save 30 Euros!

   http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac
   tices-training/
   http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac
   tices-training/
   http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=19

Call for Participation in The Graphical Web 2012

   20 April 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9426

   Developers and designers are excited by the ability to use the
   graphical features of all modern browsers - Canvas, SVG, CSS,
   WebGL, and HTML5 video and audio. W3C is proud to support The
   Graphical Web 2012, which is both the first in a new
   international conference series on Open Web Graphics and the
   10th conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, 11-14 September
   2012. This year, the conference returns to Switzerland and the
   site of the first SVG Open. ETH Zürich will be hosting the
   conference at its Hönggerberg campus. Members of the W3C SVG
   Working Group, including W3C Team members Chris Lilley and Doug
   Schepers, will be attending the conference. The SVG Working
   Group will also brief attendees on recent developments around
   the SVG specification, including SVG2 and integration with CSS3
   and HTML5. The conference includes a day of instructional
   courses. The deadline for presentation abstracts and course
   outlines is 7 May. Learn more about the W3C Graphics Activity.

   http://www.svgopen.org/2012/
   http://www.svgopen.org/2002/
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
   http://www.svgopen.org/2012/participate.shtml
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

W3C Invites Implementations of Web IDL

   19 April 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9425

   The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
   the Candidate Recommendation of "Web IDL." This document
   defines an interface definition language, Web IDL, that can be
   used to describe interfaces that are intended to be implemented
   in web browsers. Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of
   features that allow the behavior of common script objects in
   the web platform to be specified more readily. How interfaces
   described with Web IDL correspond to constructs within
   ECMAScript execution environments is also detailed in this
   document. It is expected that this document acts as a guide to
   implementors of already-published specifications, and that
   newly published specifications reference this document to
   ensure conforming implementations of interfaces are
   interoperable. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-WebIDL-20120419/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Incubator Group Report: Towards a Semantic Decision Representation
Format

   17 April 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9421

   The W3C Decisions and Decision-Making Incubator Group has
   published their final report. The mission of the Decisions and
   Decision-Making Incubator Group, part of the Incubator
   Activity, was to determine the requirements, use cases, and a
   representation of decisions and decision-making in a
   collaborative and networked environment suitable for leading to
   a potential standard for decision exchange, shared situational
   awareness, and measurement of the speed, effectiveness, and
   human factors of decision-making. The Incubator Group explored
   the question over the last year, including use cases,
   requirements and formats for representing decisions in a
   machine-understandable format. A standardized decision format
   would allow the decisions that occur everyday to be managed,
   archived, shared, and tracked. Two key benefits include the
   ability to expand and advance the meaningful use of web linked
   data, as well as the ability to tie-in domain knowledge to
   provide decision context. The final report captures the major
   accomplishments and results of the incubator group and ends
   with a recommendation to transition into a W3C Working Group
   for the establishment of a Decision Markup Language
   (DecisionML).

   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/decision/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/decision/XGR-decision/

   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/

W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module
Level 3

   17 April 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9423

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites
   implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "CSS
   Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3." CSS is a language for
   describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML
   and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This draft
   contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to borders and
   backgrounds. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS
   level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions
   compared to level 2 are borders consisting of images, boxes
   with multiple backgrounds, boxes with rounded corners and boxes
   with shadows. Learn more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-css3-background-20120417/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Image Values and Replaced Content
Module Level 3

   17 April 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9422

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites
   implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "CSS Image
   Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3." CSS is a language
   for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as
   HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This module
   contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to the <image>
   type and replaced elements. It includes and extends the
   functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The
   main extensions compared to level 2 are the generalization of
   the <url> type to the <image> type, several additions to the
   ‘<image>’ type, a generic sizing algorithm for images and other
   replaced content in CSS, and several properties controlling the
   interaction of replaced elements and CSS's layout models. Learn
   more about the Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-css3-images-20120417/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

Two File API Working Drafts Published

   17 April 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9420

   The Web Applications Working Group has published two Working
   Draft today:

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
     * File API: Writer. This specification defines an API for
       writing to files from web applications. This API is
       designed to be used in conjunction with, and depends on
       definitions in, other APIs and elements on the web
       platform. Most relevant among these are File API and Web
       Workers.
     * File API: Directories and System. This specification
       defines an API to navigate file system hierarchies, and
       defines a means by which a user agent may expose sandboxed
       sections of a user's local filesystem to web applications.
       It builds on File Writer API, which in turn built on File
       API, each adding a different kind of functionality.

   Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

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

Workshops

     * 2012-05-01 ( 1 MAY) – 2012-05-02 ( 2 MAY)
       Web Applications WG (WebApps) F2F meeting
       Mountain View CA USA
       Microsoft
       Participants MUST Register for this meeting by 16-Apr-2012.
     * 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) – 2012-06-13 (13 JUN)
       Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT
       Requirements
       http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dub
       lin-cfp
       Dublin, Ireland
       Hosted by Trinity College Dublin, with funding by the
       European Commission
     * 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) – 2012-06-20 (20 JUN)
       Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data
       journalism
       http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/
       Brussels, Belgium
       Hosted by the European Commission
       For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data,
       fostering a culture in which public administrations make
       their data available, ideally in machine-processable
       formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with
       enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of
       the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European
       Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of
       the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what
       is all the 'new' government open data being used for?

W3C Blog

     * Progress on HTML5
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/progress_on_html5
       23 April 2012 by Michael[tm] Smith
     * W3C Incubator Activity, a post-mortem
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/w3c_incubator_activity_a_postm
       ortem
       19 April 2012 by Coralie Mercier
       http://my.opera.com/koalie/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2012-04-23 (23 APR)
       Processes and technologies at the W3C
       http://www.w3c.org.il/news/296
       by Eyal Sela
       University course
       Be'er Sheva, Israel
     * 2012-04-23 (23 APR)
       Processes and technologies at the W3C
       http://www.w3c.org.il/news/296
       by Eyal Sela
       University course
       Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, Israel
     * 2012-04-30 (30 APR)
       Discussion Panel
       panel features Phil Archer
       Open standards for open government?
       http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/events/item/open-standards
       -for-open-government
       London, United Kingdom
     * 2012-05-02 (2 MAY)
       Color Management in SVG2
       by Chris Lilley
       Libre Graphics Meeting
       http://libre-graphics-meeting.org/2012/
       Vienna, Austria
     * 2012-05-10 (10 MAY)
       HTML5 Implementation areas – future internet, mobile,
       connected devices – current and future version
       keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       Future Internet Assembly 2012
       http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly
       /aalborg-may-2012
       Aalborg, Denmark
     * 2012-05-11 (11 MAY)
       Network/Device API Panel
       panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       Mobilism 2012
       http://mobilism.nl/2012/programme
       Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     * 2012-05-15 (15 MAY)
       Upgrade Your Website to HTML5
       http://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2012/Sessions/Tuesday/T07
       -Upgrade-Your-Website-to-HTML5.aspx
       by Rajesh Lal
       Visual Studio Live
       http://vslive.com/home.aspx
       Brooklyn, New York, USA
     * 2012-05-26 (26 MAY)
       CSS : hier, aujourd’hui et demain
       http://sudweb.fr/2012/talk/css-hier-aujourdhui-et-demain/
       by Bert Bos
       Sud Web 2012
       http://sudweb.fr/2012
       Toulouse, France
     * 2012-05-29 (29 MAY)
       W3C Open Web Platform, a platform for connected devices
       by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       Mobile web challenges workshop
       http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/agenda
       Paris, France
     * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY)
       Roadmaps for the open mobile web
       panel features Jiri Kupiainen
       Open Mobile Summit
       http://www.openmobilesummit.com/
       London, United Kingdom
     * 2012-05-30 (30 MAY)
       Mobile HTML5 training
       by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
       Mobile HTML5 Interop
       http://www.mosquito-fp7.eu/interop-events/paris/interop
       Paris, France
     * 2012-06-05 (5 JUN)
       Semantic Web and Related Work at W3C
       by Ivan Herman
       The 2012 Semantic Tech & Business Conference
       http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm
       San Francisco, USA

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