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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-10-16 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20121016 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Shadow DOM Draft Published 16 October 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9602 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Shadow DOM." This specification describes a method of establishing and maintaining functional boundaries between DOM subtrees and how these subtrees interact with each other within a document tree, thus enabling better functional encapsulation within DOM. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-shadow-dom-20121016/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ Patent Advisory Group Recommends Continuing Work on XML Security Specifications 15 October 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9601 The XML Security Patent Advisory Group (PAG) has published a report recommending that W3C continue work on the "XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1" without changes. The PAG did, however, recommend changes to the Candidate Recommendations of "XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1" and "XML Signature 2.0" enabling implementations to use alternative algorithms that are still interoperable. 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 terms. See the original announcement of the PAG. http://www.w3.org/2011/xmlsec-pag/ http://www.w3.org/2011/xmlsec-pag/pagreport https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmlenc-core1-20110303/ https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmldsig-core1-20110303/ https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-xmldsig-core2-20120124/ 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/2011.html#entry-9026 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard 15 October 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9590 Today W3C and JTC 1, a joint technical committee of ISO and IEC, announced formal approval of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as an ISO/IEC International Standard, ISO/IEC 40500. "This important accessibility standard, which is already widely deployed internationally, can now benefit from additional formal recognition from ISO/IEC national bodies," noted Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. "Such recognition is expected to increase internationally harmonized uptake of WCAG 2.0 by governments, business, and the broader Web community." http://www.w3.org/ ISO/IEC 40500 is exactly the same as the original "WCAG 2.0 Standard" from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Supporting resources that provide practical advice for meeting ISO/IEC 40500 / WCAG 2.0 are freely available from the WCAG Overview. Read the full press release, learn more about W3C's PAS Submitter status in the W3C PAS FAQ, and comment on the blog post. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag http://www.w3.org/2012/07/wcag2pas-pr http://www.w3.org/2010/04/pasfaq http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/10/wcag_20_is_now_also_isoiec_405 Implementing ATAG 2.0 Working Draft Published 11 October 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9595 The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of "Implementing ATAG 2.0: A guide to understanding and implementing Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0." Implementing ATAG 2.0 is a planned Note to support ATAG 2.0. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help developers produce accessible web content that conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. It also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20-20121011/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Call for Review: WOFF File Format 1.0 Proposed Recommendation Published 11 October 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9594 The WebFonts Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "WOFF File Format 1.0." This document specifies the WOFF font packaging format. This format was designed to provide lightweight, easy-to-implement compression of font data, suitable for use with CSS @font-face rules. Any properly licensed TrueType/OpenType/Open Font Format file can be packaged in WOFF format for Web use. User agents decode the WOFF file to restore the font data such that it will display identically to the input font. Comments are welcome through 08 November. Learn more about the Fonts Activity. http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-WOFF-20121011/ http://www.w3.org/Fonts/ Microdata to RDF Note Published 09 October 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9593 The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a Group Note of "Microdata to RDF." HTML microdata is an extension to HTML used to embed machine-readable data into HTML documents. Whereas the microdata specification describes a means of markup, the output format is JSON. This specification describes processing rules that may be used to extract RDF from an HTML document containing microdata. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-microdata-rdf-20121009/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ CSS Counter Styles Level 3 Draft Published 09 October 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9592 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "CSS Counter Styles Level 3" . This module introduces the ‘@counter-style’ rule, which allows authors to define their own custom counter styles for use with CSS list-marker and generated-content counters. It also predefines a set of common counter styles, including the ones present in CSS2 and CSS2.1. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css-counter-styles-3-20121009/ http://www.w3.org/Style/ Two Documents published by the XML Core Working Group 09 October 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9591 The XML Core Working Group has published two Documents today: http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/ * A First Public Working Draft of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.1.This document specifies a processing model and syntax for general purpose inclusion. Inclusion is accomplished by merging a number of XML information sets into a single composite infoset. Specification of the XML documents (infosets) to be merged and control over the merging process is expressed in XML-friendly syntax (elements, attributes, URI references). * A Group Note of Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0 (Third Edition). This document allows schemas using any schema definition language to be associated with an XML document by including one or more processing instructions with a target of xml-model in the document's prolog. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/ More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive Workshops * 2012-11-08 ( 8 NOV) W3C Workshop on Web Performance http://www.w3.org/2012/11/performance-workshop/ Mountain View, California Google There is a an industry-wide momentum towards adopting HTML5 and its series of companion specifications to deploy applications based on the Open Web Platform. Some of those applications are facing however challenges with regards to their performances. While Web browsers are improving their implementations on an ongoing basis, not all of those performance issues are due to the speed of the implementations. Participants will look at a broad range of performance issues and how to address them. * 2012-11-14 (14 NOV) – 2012-11-15 (15 NOV) Shift into High Gear on the Web: W3C Workshop on Web and Automotive http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/ Rome, Italy Hosted by Intel and Sponsored by Webinos W3C’s Open Web Platform (OWP) is driving this and other industry transformations. The promise of the early information superhighway is being fulfilled. Whether tethering a driver’s smartphone or tablet to work with a car--or embedding technology into the car itself--there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. The Web can take you there. Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to share their own perspectives, requirements, and ideas to ensure that emerging global technology standards meet the needs of the Web and Automotive industries. * 2012-11-26 (26 NOV) – 2012-11-27 (27 NOV) Do Not Track and Beyond http://www.w3.org/2012/dnt-ws/ Berkeley, California Hosted by UC Berkeley and TRUST Science and Technology Center This workshop serves as a forum for the W3C membership and the public to discuss the Consortium's next steps in the area of tracking protection and Web privacy. What have we learned from Do Not Track standardization and real-world implementations? Furthermore, undoubtedly support for privacy on the Web platform cannot end with Do Not Track: what should we look at next and beyond DNT? * 2013-03-12 (12 MAR) – 2013-03-13 (13 MAR) Making the Multilingual Web Work http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/rome-workshop/ro me-cfp Rome, Italy Hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The MultilingualWeb community develops and promotes best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing, and deploying the Web across boundaries of language. It aims to raise the visibility of existing best practices and standards for dealing with language on the Internet and on identifying and resolving gaps that keep the Internet from living up to its global potential. W3C Blog * WCAG 2.0 is now also ISO/IEC 40500! http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/10/wcag_20_is_now_also_isoiec_405 15 October 2012 by Shawn Henry http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/ * Celebrating World Standards Day http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/10/w3c_world_standard_day_blog 12 October 2012 by Daniel Dardailler http://w3.org/People/danield Upcoming Talks * 2012-10-17 (17 OCT) Introduction to Internationalization and Unicode http://inter-locale.com/demos/LW2012-seattle by Addison Phillips Localization World https://www.localizationworld.com/ Seattle, USA * 2012-10-19 (19 OCT) More CSS secrets: Another 10 things you may not know about CSS by Lea Verou Web Directions South http://south12.webdirections.org/ Sydney, Australia * 2012-10-22 (22 OCT) Internationalization: An Introduction http://inter-locale.com/demos/iuc36 by Addison Phillips 36th Internationalization and Unicode Conference http://unicodeconference.org Santa Clara, CA, USA * 2012-10-22 (22 OCT) Internationalizing the Kindle Paperwhite http://inter-locale.com/demos/iuc36 by Addison Phillips 36th Internationalization and Unicode Conference http://unicodeconference.org Santa Clara, CA, USA * 2012-10-26 (26 OCT) End-to-end W3C API support by Alexandre Morgaut JS.everywhere(2012) http://jseverywhere.org San Jose, CA, USA * 2012-11-08 (8 NOV) How recent approaches to metadata is improving the web http://www.w3c.se/resources/office/talks/20121108/ by Olle Olsson J.Boye12 - Web & Intranet Conference http://aarhus12.jboye.com/ Aarhus, Denmark * 2012-11-17 (17 NOV) End-to-end W3C API support by Alexandre Morgaut JS.everywhere(2012) Europe http://jseverywhere.eu Paris, France * 2012-11-20 (20 NOV) Why HTML5? http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/1120-owp-plh/ by Philippe Le Hégaret HTML5FEST 2012 http://www.w3c.org.il/HTML5fest/2012/ Kfar maccabiah, Ramat Gan, Israel W3C Membership Lear more about the benefits of W3C Membership. 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