W3C Public Newsletter, 2013-02-25

Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,

The 2013-02-25 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
  http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20130225

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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W3C at CeBIT 2013

   25 February 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9737

   W3C will be present at CeBIT 2013 and is looking forward to
   meeting you on 5-6 March, at the DFKI presence in hall 09,
   booth F50.

   http://www.cebit.de/
   http://www.dfki.de
     * On 5 March Bernard Gidon, EMEA Business Development leader,
       will be happy to discuss new areas of the open Web
       platform, including the recently launched Automotive
       Business Group.
     * On 5 and 6 March, Felix Sasaki, Head of the German-Austrian
       Office and staff contact for the MultilingualWeb-LT working
       group, will be happy to discuss W3C's engagement in the
       German speaking region and new technologies and business
       opportunities around the global, multilingual Web market.
       This will encompass demos of the upcoming
       Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0, including some by
       Cocomore, a W3C Member.

   You may already schedule meeting time with Bernard Gidon or
   Felix Sasaki.

   http://www.w3c.de/2013/02/meet-w3c-at-cebit-2013/

Selectors API Level 1 is a W3C Recommendation

   21 February 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9734

   The Web Applications Working Group has published a W3C
   Recommendation of "Selectors API Level 1." Selectors, which
   are widely used in CSS, are patterns that match against
   elements in a tree structure. The Selectors API specification
   defines methods for retrieving Element nodes from the DOM by
   matching against a group of selectors. It is often desirable to
   perform DOM operations on a specific set of elements in a
   document. These methods simplify the process of acquiring
   specific elements, especially compared with the more verbose
   techniques defined and used in the past. Learn more about the
   Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-selectors-api-20130221/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

CSS Counter Styles Level 3 Draft Published

   21 February 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9733

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
   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/2013/WD-css-counter-styles-3-20130221/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training: Resource
Material

   21 February 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9732

   The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) today published
   Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training, which
   provides materials for speakers, lecturers, educators, and
   other presenters to help their participants understand more
   about web accessibility. It includes a range of information
   from introductory slides for those new to accessibility, to
   updated statistics and demos for experienced trainers. To share
   your tips, guidance, and suggestions, see the WAI IG e-mail for
   links to the WAI-Engage wiki. Learn more about the Web
   Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/training/Overview
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2013JanMar/0072
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Automotive Industry Launches W3C Group for Bringing Web to Cars

   21 February 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9730

   Today, stakeholders in the automotive industry launched the
   Automotive and Web Platform Business Group to accelerate the
   adoption of Web technologies in the automotive industry. The
   group convenes developers, automotive manufacturers and
   suppliers, browser vendors, operators and others to discuss how
   to enhance driving, safety, and passenger entertainment with
   the Open Web Platform. The group will first focus on defining a
   Vehicle Data API that will create new opportunities for
   automotive services via the Web.

   http://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform

   W3C first explored the impact of the Open Web Platform on the
   automotive industry at the November 2012 Web and Automotive
   Workshop (summary). Participants discussed how location-based
   services, enhanced safety, entertainment, and integration of
   social networking will benefit drivers and passengers. In
   addition, they looked at business drivers for Web technology
   adoption such as the ability to attract customers with
   convenient and innovative services, maintain ongoing customer
   relations, address regulatory requirements, manage mobile
   payments, and lower development costs.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/
   http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/summary

   W3C invites organizations and individuals to join the
   Automotive and Web Platform Business Group to help ensure that
   the Open Web Platform meets the unique needs of the automotive
   industry. Read the press release and testimonials.

   https://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform/join
   http://www.w3.org/2013/02/autobg
   http://www.w3.org/2013/02/autobg.html.en#testimonials

Call for Review: Page Visibility Proposed Recommendation Published

   19 February 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9728

   The Web Performance Working Group has published a Proposed
   Recommendation of "Page Visibility." This specification
   defines a means for site developers to programmatically
   determine the current visibility state of the page in order to
   develop power and CPU efficient web applications. Comments are
   welcome through 19 March. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-page-visibility-20130219/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

W3C Invites Implementations of Turtle

   19 February 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9727

   The RDF Working Group has published a Candidate Recommendation
   of "Turtle - A Terse RDF Triple Language." This document
   defines a textual syntax for RDF called Turtle that allows an
   RDF graph to be completely written in a compact and natural
   text form, with abbreviations for common usage patterns and
   datatypes. Turtle provides levels of compatibility with the
   existing "N-Triples format" as well as the triple pattern
   syntax of the "SPARQL" W3C Recommendation. Learn more about the
   Semantic Web Activity

   http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-turtle-20130219/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#ntriples
   http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw

Last Call: Pointer Events

   19 February 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9726

   The Pointer Events Working Group has published a Last Call
   Working Draft of "Pointer Events." This document defines
   events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic
   pointer input from devices like a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.
   For compatibility with existing mouse-based content, this
   specification also describes a mapping to fire Document Object
   Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Mouse Events for pointer device
   types other than mouse. Comments are welcome through 19 March.
   Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2012/pointerevents/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-pointerevents-20130219/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

CSS Animations Draft Published

   19 February 2013 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9725

   The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
   Working Draft of "CSS Animations." This CSS module describes a
   way for authors to animate the values of CSS properties over
   time, using keyframes. The behavior of these keyframe
   animations can be controlled by specifying their duration,
   number of repeats, and repeating behavior. Learn more about the
   Style Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-animations-20130219/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/

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

Workshops

     * 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.
     * 2013-04-23 (23 APR) – 2013-04-24 (24 APR)
       Open Data on the Web
       http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/
       London, England
       Hosted by Google

W3C Blog

     * Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2013-02-11 - 2013-02-18
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/02/openweb-weekly-03
       21 February 2013 by Karl Dubost
       http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
     * W3C HTML5 Training
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/02/w3c_html5_training
       21 February 2013 by Marie-Claire Forgue
       http://www.w3.org/People/mcf/
     * Testing the Open Web Platform
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/02/testing_the_open_web_platform
       20 February 2013 by Tobie Langel

Upcoming Talks

     * 2013-02-25 (25 FEB)
       Mobile World Congress 2013
       http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
       Barcelona, Spain
     * 2013-02-27 (27 FEB)
       Open Web Platform: Mobile Accessible HTML5
       by Judy Brewer
       CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
       Conference
       http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/2013/sessions/index.php
       San Diego, CA, USA
     * 2013-02-27 (27 FEB)
       Training Resource Suite for Web Accessibility
       CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
       Conference
       http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/2013/sessions/index.php
       San Diego, CA, USA
     * 2013-02-27 (27 FEB)
       Managing Website Accessibility Conformance
       by Shadi Abou-Zahra
       CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
       Conference
       http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/2013/sessions/index.php
       San Diego, CA, USA
     * 2013-02-27 (27 FEB)
       Web Accessibility 2013 – A W3C WAI Tour
       by Shawn Henry
       CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities
       Conference
       http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/2013/sessions/index.php
       San Diego, CA, USA
     * 2013-03-10 (10 MAR)
       Copyright & Disruptive Technologies
       SxSW Interactive
       http://sxsw.com/interactive
       Austin, Texas, USA
     * 2013-03-14 (14 MAR)
       The Copyright Conundrum
       SxSW Music
       http://sxsw.com/
       Austin, Texas, USA
     * 2013-03-18 (18 MAR)
       Community Collaboration through W3C WAI: Working Together
       on Web Accessibility
       by Shawn Henry
       European e-Accessibility Forum
       http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/colloques/
       78_index_en
       Paris, France

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