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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Workshop: Smart Homes, Cars, Devices and the Web - Rich Multimodal
Apps
30 May 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9850
W3C announced today Get Smart: Smart Homes, Cars and Devices on
the Web, a W3C Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application
Development, 22-23 July 2013, Metropolitan New York/NJ, USA.
The event is hosted by Openstream.
https://www.w3.org/2013/07/mmi/
The goal of this workshop is to highlight the merits of HTML5
and the W3C Multimodal Interaction (MMI) Architecture and to
demonstrate the maturity of the MMI Architecture and its
suitability for developing innovative and compelling
user-experiences across applications/devices.
This Workshop is of particular interest to industries seeking
to leverage the dramatic increase in new modes of interaction,
such as speech, touch, gesture, handwriting, video cameras, and
other sensors. Industries including health care, financial
services, publishing, broadcasting, automotive, gaming, TV's,
and consumer devices will find this workshop especially
valuable as a way to learn how W3C standards support these new
forms of interaction.
W3C membership is not required for participation. The event is
open to all. All participants are required to submit a position
paper by 24 June.
http://www.w3.org/2013/07/mmi/participate
W3C Workshop Report on Open Data on the Web
11 June 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9863
W3C published today a report summarizing the Open Data on the
Web workshop that took place in April. The report summarizes
the major themes discussed and conclusions arising from them.
Participants discussed how to bridge the gap between the worlds
of tabular and linked data, and how to ensure the long term
growth of the Web as a platform for data.
http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/report
http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/agenda
Sponsored by Google, Adobe and Microsoft, the workshop was
organized by W3C in conjunction with the Open Data Institute
and the Open Knowledge Foundation, and hosted by Google at
Campus London. Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://theodi.org/
http://okfn.org/
http://www.campuslondon.com/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility
06 June 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9860
The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) invites
comments on a new draft document: Easy Checks - A First Review
of Web Accessibility. Easy Checks helps you assess if a Web
page addresses accessibility. It provides simple steps for
anyone who can use the Web; no accessibility knowledge or skill
is required. The checks cover just a few accessibility issues
and are designed to be quick and easy, rather than definitive.
Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO
http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/preliminary
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Mobile Accessibility Examples: Implementing UAAG 2.0 Updated
06 June 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9859
One aspect of mobile accessibility is how web browsers on
mobile devices support the accessibility needs of people with
disabilities. Accessibility of web browsers is covered in User
Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG). The User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) today published
an updated Working Draft of Implementing UAAG 2.0, which
explains how browsers, media players, and other "user agents"
should support accessibility for people with disabilities and
work with assistive technologies. The update provides a page of
" Mobile Accessibility Examples from UAAG " that show how web
browsers that follow UAAG benefit people with disabilities
using the Web on mobile devices. Learn more about W3C WAI's
broader work related to Mobile Accessibility and about the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/uaag
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-UAAG20/mobile
http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
HTML5 Image Description Extension Working Draft
06 June 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9858
The HTML Working Group has published an updated Working Draft
of the " HTML5 Image Description Extension." This
specification defines the "longdesc" attribute that enables web
authors to provide longer text descriptions for complex images.
It is developed by the HTML Accessibility Task Force in
coordination with the HTML Working Group and the WAI Protocols
and Formats Working Group (PFWG). Please see important
additional information in the call for review e-mail. This
Working Draft is available for review through 20 June 2013 to
determine if there are any outstanding issues before it
progresses to Last Call. Learn more about the HTML Activity and
the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-longdesc-20130606/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/html-accessibility-tf
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2013AprJun/0262
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Widget Updates Note, Introduction to Web Components Draft Published
06 June 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9851
The Web Applications Working Group has published two documents
today:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* A Group Note of Widget Updates. This specification defines
a process and a document format to allow a user agent to
update an installed widget package with a different version
of a widget package. A widget cannot automatically update
itself; instead, a widget relies on the user agent to
manage the update process. The working group reached
consensus to stop work on this specification. It is
published for archival reasons and no longer progresses
along the W3C's Recommendation Track.
* A Working Draft of Introduction to Web Components. This
document is a non-normative reference, which provides an
overview of Web Components. It summarizes the normative
information in the respective specifications in
easy-to-digest prose with illustrations.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
04 June 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9856
The W3C Advisory Committee has filled four open seats on the
W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board
provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy,
management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution.
Beginning 1 July 2013, the nine Advisory Board participants are
Ann Bassetti (Boeing), Jim Bell (HP), Tantek Çelik (Mozilla),
Michael Champion (Microsoft), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Charles
McCathieNevile (Yandex), Qiuling Pan (Huawei), Jean-Charles
Verdié (MStar Semiconductor), and Chris Wilson (Google). Many
thanks to Ora Lassila (Nokia) and Takeshi Natsuno (Keio
University) whose term ends this month. Read more about the
Advisory Board.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
HTML Working Group Updated HTML 5.1, Differences from HTML4, Canvas
2D Context Level 2, and Published Three Notes
04 June 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9855
The HTML Working Group has updated three Working Drafts and
published three Group Notes:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
* a Working Draft of HTML 5.1. This specification defines the
5th major version, first minor revision of the core
language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML). In this version, new features continue to
be introduced to help Web application authors, new elements
continue to be introduced based on research into prevailing
authoring practices, and special attention continues to be
given to defining clear conformance criteria for user
agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
* a Working Draft of Differences from HTML4. HTML is the core
language of the World Wide Web. The W3C publishes HTML5 and
HTML5.1. The WHATWG publishes HTML, which is a rough
superset of W3C HTML5.1. "Differences from HTML4" describes
the differences of the HTML specifications from those of
HTML4, and calls out cases where they differ from each
other.
* a Working Draft of HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2. This
specification defines the 2D Context for the HTML canvas
element. The 2D Context provides objects, methods, and
properties to draw and manipulate graphics on a canvas
drawing surface.
* a Group Note of HTML5: Edition for Web Authors. This
document, now discontinued and made available for
historical purposes, is targeted toward Web authors and
others who are not UA implementors and who want a view of
the HTML specification that focuses more precisely on
details relevant to using the HTML language to create Web
documents and Web applications.
* a Group Note of main element - an HTML5 extension
specification. This specification, now integrated into the
HTML specification and no longer developed separately,
defines an element to be used for the identification of the
main content area of a document. It also defines an HTML
element that embodies the semantics and function of the
WAI-ARIA landmark role=main.
* a Group Note of HTML: The Markup Language (an HTML language
reference). This document describes the HTML markup
language and provides details to help producers of HTML
content create documents that conform to the language. This
document has been discontinued and is only made available
for historical purposes. For an up to date reference on
HTML elements (and more) please consult Web Platform Docs.
Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
First Public Working Draft of URLs in Data Primer Published
04 June 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9854
The Technical Architecture Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "URLs in Data Primer." This document
describes how to define data formats and publish the
information necessary to support an application in determining
which mode is intended when it encounters a URL in data. Learn
more about the Technical Architecture Group.
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-urls-in-data-20130604/
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
Content Security Policy 1.1 Draft Published
04 June 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9852
The Web Application Security Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Content Security Policy 1.1." This document
defines a policy language used to declare a set of content
restrictions for a Web resource, and a mechanism for
transmitting the policy from a server to a client where the
policy is enforced. Learn more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-CSP11-20130604/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Come to the Internationalization Tag Set 2.0 Showcase
30 May 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9849
On 18 June the MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group holds a
showcase event in Dublin about the upcoming
"Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0" specification. Group
participants demonstrate implementations for authoring ITS 2.0
data categories, for using them in localization workflows, and
for improving machine translation or other language technology
processes with ITS 2.0. Participation is free, but registration
is required. Learn more about the Internationalization
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
http://phaedrus.scss.tcd.ie/CS3BC2/group1/tomcat/DublinShowcase
/
http://www.w3.org/TR/its20/
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/its20showcase-dublin/
https://www.w3.org/International/
W3C Launches Patent Advisory Group for Push API
29 May 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9848
In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a
Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to a disclosure related
to the "Push API" specification published by the Web
Applications Working Group; see the PAG charter.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/
http://www.w3.org/2013/papag/
http://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/2013/03/push-pag-charter
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. Public
comments regarding this disclosure may be sent to
public-push-pag@w3.org (with public archive). Learn more about
Patent Advisory Groups.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
ion
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-push-pag/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Except
ion
Register Now for W3C HTML5 Training Course - Starts 3 June
28 May 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9845
Registration is open for the W3C HTML5 training course that
starts 3 June 2013 and lasts six weeks. Experienced trainer
Michel Buffa will cover the techniques developers and designers
need to create great Web pages and apps. Topics include video,
animations, forms, and APIs to create location-based services,
as well as offline applications. Students receive a certificate
upon course completion. Register and learn more about
W3DevCampus, W3C's online training for Web developers.
http://classroom.w3devcampus.com/enrol/index.php?id=46
http://www.w3devcampus.com/html5-w3c-training/
http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/05/w3devcampus_-_a_trainers_persp
http://classroom.w3devcampus.com/enrol/index.php?id=46
http://www.w3devcampus.com/
Two Notes Published by the Government Linked Data Working Group
28 May 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9843
The Government Linked Data Working Group has published two
Group Notes today:
http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
* Registered Organization Vocabulary. The Registered
Organization Vocabulary is a profile of the Organization
Ontology for describing organizations that have gained
legal entity status through a formal registration process,
typically in a national or regional register.
* Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS). ADMS is a profile
of DCAT, used to describe semantic assets (or just
'Assets'), defined as highly reusable metadata (e.g. xml
schemata, generic data models) and reference data (e.g.
code lists, taxonomies, dictionaries, vocabularies) that
are used for eGovernment system development.
Learn more about the eGovernment Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/
Filter Effects 1.0 Draft Published
28 May 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9842
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group and the SVG
Working Group have published a 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 be
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.
Although originally designed for use in SVG, filter effects are
a set of operations to apply on an image buffer and therefore
can be applied to nearly any presentational environment,
including CSS. They are triggered by a style instruction (the
‘filter’ property). This specification describes filters in a
manner that allows them to be used in content styled by CSS,
such as HTML and SVG. It also defines a CSS property value
function that produces a CSS <image> value. Learn more about
the Style Activity, and the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-filter-effects-20130523/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
CSS Exclusions and CSS Regions Drafts Published
28 May 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9841
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
three Working Drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
* CSS Exclusions Module Level 1. CSS Exclusions define
arbitrary areas around which inline content (CSS21) can
flow. CSS Exclusions can be defined on any CSS block-level
elements. CSS Exclusions extend the notion of content
wrapping previously limited to floats.
* CSS Regions Module Level 1. The CSS regions module 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.
Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2013-07-22 (22 JUL) – 2013-07-23 (23 JUL)
Get Smart: Smart Homes, Cars, Devices and the Web -
Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development
http://www.w3.org/2013/07/mmi/
New York Metropolitan Area, US
Hosted by Openstream
HTML5 has paved the way for development of rich web
applications and has been widely adopted by application
developers. Ease of user-interaction (user experience) with
applications has become a prime focus world-wide, thanks to
the proliferation of new devices and platforms including
mobile phones, tablet devices, eBook readers, and gaming
platforms. In addition, traditional platforms such as TV's,
sudio systems, and automobiles are rapidly becoming capable
of much more intelligent interaction than in the past.
User-interaction through speech, touch, gesture and swipe
has become the key differentiator in the success of popular
applications today. One of the key advantages of the W3C
Multimodal Architecture (MMI) is its suitability for simple
to sophisticated applications across devices in creating
compelling user experiences, leveraging advances in i/o
methodologies, and supporting inter-operability among
multiple vendors' products.
* 2013-08-07 ( 7 AUG) – 2013-08-08 ( 8 AUG)
Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business
http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/
San Francisco, United States
Hosted by AppFusions and sponsored by IBM
* 2013-09-10 (10 SEP) – 2013-09-11 (11 SEP)
RDF Validation Workshop - Practical Assurances for Quality
RDF Data
https://www.w3.org/2012/12/rdf-val/
Cambridge, MA
Hosted by MIT
* 2013-09-16 (16 SEP) – 2013-09-17 (17 SEP)
Publishing and the Open Web Platform
http://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/
Paris, France
Hosted by the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation (IRI)
W3C Blog
* Meeting summary from W3C Automotive Business Group, Tokyo
face to face
http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/06/meeting_summary_from_w3c_autom
13 June 2013 by Andy Gryc
* CSS Flexible Box Layout gets Best New Web Technology 2013
NetAward!
http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/06/css_flexible_box_layout_gets_b
10 June 2013 by Daniel Glazman
http://www.glazman.org/weblog/
* W3C Workshop (industry consultation event) on Publishing
http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/06/w3c_workshop_industry_consulta
8 June 2013 by Liam Quin
http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
Upcoming Talks
* 2013-06-17 (17 JUN)
Collaborative governance panel
panel features Phil Archer
International Conference on Policy Making 2.0
http://www.crossover-project.eu/InternationalConferenceonPo
licyMaking20.aspx
Dublin, Ireland
* 2013-06-17 (17 JUN)
W3C Standards
http://w3c.es/Presentaciones/2013/0617-LOD_Valsain-MA
by Martín Álvarez
XII Seminario de Centros de Documentación Ambiental y
Espacios Naturales Protegidos
Valsaín, Spain
* 2013-06-19 (19 JUN)
HTML5 and The Open Web Platform for Automotive
by Philipp Hoschka
Content & Apps for Automotive Europe 2013
http://www.telematicsupdate.com/contenteu/
Munich, Germany
* 2013-06-21 (21 JUN)
The evolution of the eGov Core Vocabularies and ADMS
http://www.w3.org/2013/Talks/0621_phila_semic/
by Phil Archer
Semantic Interoperability Conference 2013
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/semic/event/semic-201
3-semantic-interoperability-conference-2013
Dublin, Belgium
* 2013-06-21 (21 JUN)
Achieving Interoperability with Core Vocabularies
panel features Phil Archer
SEMIC 2013 - Semantic Interoperability Conference
http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/semic/event/semic-2013
-semantic-interoperability-conference-2013
Dublin, Ireland
* 2013-06-26 (26 JUN)
Standardizing for Open Data
http://www.w3.org/2013/Talks/0626-Marseille-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
The Open Data Week
http://opendataweek.org/presentation-en/
Marseille, France
* 2013-06-28 (28 JUN)
CSS pour des livres (numériques)
http://www.w3.org/Talks/2013/0628-CSS-Strasbourg/
by Bert Bos
Kiwi Party
http://kiwiparty.fr/
Strasbourg, France
* 2013-07-31 (31 JUL)
What do we want from the web?
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/07-xx-web/
by Steven Pemberton
OHM 2013
https://ohm2013.org/
Geestmerambacht, The Netherlands
* 2013-08-05 (5 AUG)
Using XForms for interfaces to XML data
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/08-05-xml-interfaces/
by Steven Pemberton
International Symposium on Native XML user interfaces
http://www.balisage.net/XML-Interfaces/
Montréal, Canada
* 2013-08-07 (7 AUG)
Invisible XML
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/08-07-invisible-xml/
by Steven Pemberton
Balisage 2013
http://www.balisage.net/2013/Program
Montréal, Canada
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