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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Community Convenes in France for TPAC 2012
29 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9619
[] This week, the W3C community meets in Lyon, France for TPAC
2012 W3C's annual face-to-face Membership meeting. Participants
will coordinate technical directions for the Open Web Platform,
explore its impact across industries and devices, and discuss
organizational strategy. More than 450 people will participate
in Working Group meetings, an Advisory Committee meeting, and a
Plenary Day for breakout discussions on a a variety of topics.
Although participation in TPAC is limited to those already in
W3C groups, the TPAC proceedings are public and will be made
available shortly after the meeting. Follow the meeting on
social networking sites with tag #tpac. W3C also welcomes local
developers today to a Meetup at the Lyon City Hall.
http://www.w3.org/2012/10/TPAC/
http://www.w3.org/2012/10/TPAC/
http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2012
http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2012/SessionIdeas
http://www.w3.org/2012/10/TPAC/meetup-Lyon
Last Call: Publishing and Linking on the Web
25 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9618
The Technical Architecture Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "Publishing and Linking on the Web."
Publishing a page on the Web is fundamentally different from
printing and distributing a page in a magazine or book. This
document is intended to inform future social and legal
discussions of the Web by clarifying the ways in which the
Web's technical facilities operate to store, publish and
retrieve information, and by providing definitions for
terminology as used within the Web's technical community. This
document also describes the technical and operational impact
that does or could result from legal constraints on publishing,
linking and transformation on the Web. Comments are welcome
through 13 December. Learn more about the Technical
Architecture Group.
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-publishing-linking-20121025/
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
File API Draft Published
25 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9617
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "File API." Web applications should have the ability
to manipulate as wide as possible a range of user input,
including files that a user may wish to upload to a remote
server or manipulate inside a rich web application. This
specification defines the basic representations for files,
lists of files, errors raised by access to files, and
programmatic ways to read files. Additionally, this
specification also defines an interface that represents "raw
data" which can be asynchronously processed on the main thread
of conforming user agents. The interfaces and API defined in
this specification can be used with other interfaces and APIs
exposed to the Open Web Platform. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-FileAPI-20121025/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Filter Effects 1.0 Draft Published
25 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9616
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
the First Public Working Draft of "Filter Effects 1.0." Filter
effects are a way of processing an element's rendering before
it is displayed in the document. Typically, rendering an
element via CSS or SVG can conceptually described as if the
element, including its children, are drawn into a buffer (such
as a raster image) and then that buffer is composited into the
elements parent. Filters apply an effect before the compositing
stage. Examples of such effects are blurring, changing color
intensity and warping the image. Learn more about the Style
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-filter-effects-20121025/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Nine HTML5 Drafts Updated
25 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9615
The HTML Working Group has published nine updated working
drafts:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
* The HTML5 specification
* HTML5: Edition for Web Authors
* HTML5 differences from HTML4
* HTML Microdata
* HTML Canvas 2D Context
* HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives
* Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents
* HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide
* HTML: The Markup Language
There is a "list of the changes made to the HTML5
specification" since publication of the previous HTML Working
Draft (March 2012). The changes are essentially fine-tuning
refinements rather than major new additions, in keeping with
the progress of the specification toward greater stability, and
transitioning toward an upcoming Candidate Recommendation
draft.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-diff-20121025/#changes-2012-
03-29
Learn more about HTML.
http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/htmlcss
Linked Data Platform 1.0 Draft Published
25 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9614
The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published the
First Public Working Draft of "Linked Data Platform 1.0." A
set of best practices and simple approach for a read-write
Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources
that describe their state using RDF. Learn more about the
Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-ldp-20121025/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Last Call: Best Practices for Fragment Identifiers and Media Type
Definitions
25 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9613
The Technical Architecture Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "Best Practices for Fragment Identifiers and
Media Type Definitions." Fragment identifiers (fragids) within
URIs are specified as being interpreted based on the media type
of a representation. Media type definitions therefore have to
provide details about how fragids are interpreted for that
media type. This document recommends best practices for the
authors of media type definitions, for the authors of
structured syntax suffix registrations (such as +xml), for the
authors of specifications that define fragid structures, and
for authors that publish documents that are intended to be used
with fragids or who refer to fragments within documents using
URIs with fragids. Comments are welcome through 13 December.
Learn more about the Technical Architecture Group.
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-fragid-best-practices-20121025/
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
Web MIDI API Draft Published
25 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9612
The Audio Working Group has published the First Public Working
Draft of "Web MIDI API." This specification defines an API
supporting the MIDI protocol, enabling web applications to
enumerate and select MIDI input and output devices on the
client system and send and receive MIDI messages. It is
intended to enable non-music MIDI applications as well as music
ones, by providing low-level access to the MIDI devices
available on the users' systems. At the same time, the Web MIDI
API is not intended to become a semantic controller platform;
it is designed to expose the mechanics of MIDI input and output
interfaces, and the practical aspects of sending and receiving
MIDI messages, without identifying what those actions might
mean semantically. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webmidi-20121025/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is a W3C Recommendation
25 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9611
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group a W3C Recommendation
of "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces." This document
describes a loosely coupled architecture for multimodal user
interfaces, which allows for co-resident and distributed
implementations, and focuses on the role of markup and
scripting, and the use of well defined interfaces between its
constituents. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-mmi-arch-20121025/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/Activity
W3C Workshop: Electronic Books and the Open Web Platform
24 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9610
W3C announced today a Workshop on Electronic Books and the Open
Web Platform, 11-12 February 2013, in New York (USA). The event
is hosted by O'Reilly and collocated with the O'Reilly Tools of
Change for Publishing Conference (TOC 2013).Today’s eBook
market is dynamic, fast-changing and strong. eBooks compete
with printed versions, and there is a wide choice of hardware
and software available for eBook readers. Nevertheless,
publishers face major business and technical challenges in this
market, some of which could be reduced or removed by
standardization. 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 eBook industry. W3C membership is not required
to participate. All participants are required to submit a
statement of interest by 10 December 2012.
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/
http://www.toccon.com/toc2013
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0 Draft Published
23 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9609
The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0."
This document defines data categories and their implementation
as a set of elements and attributes called the
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. ITS 2.0 is designed to
foster the creation of multilingual Web content, focusing on
HTML5, XML based formats in general, and to leverage
localization workflows based on the XML Localization
Interchange File Format (XLIFF), and language technology
applications like machine translation or named entity
annotation. In addition to HTML5 and XML, algorithms to convert
ITS attributes to NIF is provided. Learn more about the
Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-its20-20121023/
http://www.w3.org/International/
Call for Review: High Resolution Time Proposed Recommendation
Published
23 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9608
The Web Performance Working Group has published a Proposed
Recommendation of "High Resolution Time." This specification
defines a JavaScript interface that provides the current time
in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject
to system clock skew or adjustments. Comments are welcome
through 20 November. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-hr-time-20121023/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: Server-Sent Events
23 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9607
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "Server-Sent Events." This specification
defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving
push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events. The
API is designed such that it can be extended to work with other
push notification schemes such as Push SMS. Comments are
welcome through 13 November. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-eventsource-20121023/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: An organization ontology
23 October 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9606
The Government Linked Data Working Group has published a Last
Call Working Draft of "An organization ontology." This
document describes a core ontology for organizational
structures, aimed at supporting linked data publishing of
organizational information across a number of domains. It is
designed to allow domain-specific extensions to add
classification of organizations and roles, as well as
extensions to support neighbouring information such as
organizational activities. Comments are welcome through 25
November. Learn more about the eGovernment Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-vocab-org-20121023/
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/
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
Hosted by 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?
* 2013-02-11 (11 FEB) – 2013-02-12 (12 FEB)
Electronic Books and the Open Web Platform
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/
New York (USA)
Hosted by O'Reilly Media
Today’s eBook market is dynamic, fast-changing and strong.
eBooks compete with printed versions, and there is a wide
choice of hardware and software available for eBook
readers. Nevertheless, publishers face major business and
technical challenges in this market, some of which could be
reduced or removed by standardization.
* 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
* None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
http://www.w3.org/QA/
Upcoming Talks
* 2012-11-08 (8 NOV)
La plate-forme Web
by Bert Bos
W3C Day 2012
http://www.w3c.org.ma/W3Cday/2012/
Rabat, Morocco
* 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
* 2012-11-08 (8 NOV)
Open Data et Linked Open Data
by Bert Bos
W3C Day 2012
http://www.w3c.org.ma/W3Cday/2012/
Rabat, Morocco
* 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
* 2012-11-20 (20 NOV)
Web Accessibilty Demystified
http://zohararad.github.com/presentations/accessibility-dem
ystified/presentation/#/step-1
by Zohar Arad
HTML5FEST 2012 - The Israeli Web Community conference
http://www.w3c.org.il/HTML5fest/2012/
Ramat Gan, Israel
* 2012-11-24 (24 NOV)
HTML5 and CSS
by Bert Bos
Web Standards Days
http://webstandardsdays.ru/
Moscow, Russia
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