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- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:25:49 -0400
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2013-10-28 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Geolocation API Specification is a W3C Recommendation
24 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3347
The Geolocation Working Group has published a W3C
Recommendation of "Geolocation API Specification." This
specification defines an API that provides scripted access to
geographical location information associated with the hosting
device. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-geolocation-API-20131024/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
CSS Writing Modes Level 3 Draft Published
24 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3345
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS Writing Modes Level 3." CSS Writing
Modes Level 3 defines CSS support for various international
writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic),
right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g.
mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g. Asian scripts).
Inherently bottom-to-top scripts are not handled in this
version. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-writing-modes-3-20131024/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Last Call: Custom Elements
24 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3343
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "Custom Elements." This specification
describes the method for enabling the author to define and use
new types of DOM elements in a document. Comments are welcome
through 21 November. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-custom-elements-20131024/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Call for Review: XQuery 3.0, XPath 3.0, Data Model, Functions and
Operators and XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0
22 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3337
The XML Query Working Group and the XSLT Working Group have
published five Proposed Recommendations today:
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
* XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language. XQuery is a
domain-specific language for querying collections of XDM
trees.
* XML Path Language (XPath) 3.0. XPath is a domain-specific
language for referencing parts of a tree represented as an
instance of the XPath and XQuery Data Model (XDM).
* XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0.This specification defines
the XPath and XQuery Data Model (XDM).
* XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0. The Functions
and Operators specification defines facilities for XPath
and XQuery.
* XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0. Serialization specifies
how to represent an XDM instance as XML, as HTML or as
text. The XDM is most often used to represent XML documents
as trees, but can also represent other data formats such as
JSON, RDF or relational databases.
Comments are welcome through 19 November. Learn more about the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Call for Review: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 (Second
Edition) Proposed Edited Recommendation Published
22 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3335
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a
Proposed Edited Recommendation of "Efficient XML Interchange
(EXI) Format 1.0 (Second Edition)." This document is the
specification of the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format.
EXI is a very compact representation for the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to
simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of
computational resources. The EXI format uses a hybrid approach
drawn from the information and formal language theories, plus
practical techniques verified by measurements, for entropy
encoding XML information. Using a relatively simple algorithm,
which is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a
small set of datatype representations, it reliably produces
efficient encodings of XML event streams. The grammar
production system and format definition of EXI are presented.
Comments are welcome through 20 November. Learn more about the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PER-exi-20131022/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Three Drafts Published by the HTML Working Group
22 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3333
The HTML Working Group has published three Working Drafts
today:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
* A First Public Working Draft of W3C HTML Ruby Markup
Extensions. The ruby markup model currently described in
the HTML specification is limited in its support for a
number of features, notably jukugo and double-sided ruby,
as well as inline ruby. This specification addresses these
issues by introducing new elements and changing the ruby
processing model. Specific care has been taken to ensure
that authoring remains as simple as possible.
* A Working Draft of Polyglot Markup: A robust profile of the
HTML5 vocabulary. A document that uses polyglot markup is a
document that is a stream of bytes that parses into
identical document trees (with some exceptions, as noted in
the Introduction) when processed as HTML and when processed
as XML. Polyglot markup that meets a well-defined set of
constraints is interpreted as compatible, regardless of
whether they are processed as HTML or as XHTML, per the
HTML5 specification. Polyglot markup uses a specific
DOCTYPE, namespace declarations, and a specific
case—normally lower case but occasionally camel case—for
element and attribute names. Polyglot markup uses lower
case for certain attribute values. Further constraints
include those on void elements, named entity references,
and the use of scripts and style.
* A Working Draft of Encrypted Media Extensions. This
proposal extends HTMLMediaElement providing APIs to control
playback of protected content. The API supports use cases
ranging from simple clear key decryption to high value
video (given an appropriate user agent implementation).
License/key exchange is controlled by the application. This
specification does not define a content protection or
Digital Rights Management system. Rather, it defines a
common API that may be used to discover, select and
interact with such systems as well as with simpler content
encryption systems.
Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Accessible E-Learning Online Symposium Call for Papers
22 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3328
The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) will hold an
online symposium to share e-learning experiences and research;
discuss different approaches to address accessibility issues in
e-learning contexts; and explore next steps to advance
accessibility in e-learning environments, including Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The Call for Papers is open until
15 November 2013. Learn more about the Symposium on Accessible
E-Learning and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD
http://www.w3.org//www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/e-learning/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Registration Open for JavaScript for Beginners Training Course; Early
Bird Rate through 28 October
21 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3323
W3C is pleased to launch its new online course, “JavaScript for
Beginners”, to help Web developers understand the basic
concepts of JavaScript. The course is 4 weeks long, to start on
11 November 2013. The main goal of this course is to make sure
that participants master good JavaScript practices and avoid
the pitfalls of the language. This course is a condensed set of
tricks, advice, tools and good practices built around
JavaScript, with a logical flow that is always illustrated by
examples and assignments. JavaScript is one of the three major
Web developer tools, along with HTML5 and CSS3, so register
before October 28 to benefit from the early bird rate. Learn
more about W3DevCampus, the W3C online training for Web
developers.
http://www.w3devcampus.com/javascript-for-beginners-w3c-course/
http://classroom.w3devcampus.com/enrol/index.php?id=44
http://www.w3devcampus.com/
More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/
Workshops
W3C Blog
* Interview: Avaya on WebRTC and the BYOD Olympics with Brett
Shockley
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/10/interview-avaya-on-webrtc-an
d-the-byod-olympics-with-brett-shockley/
28 October 2013 by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
* This week at W3C: DRM and HTML, Last Call: W3C TR Dev
Process revisions, a year of @webplatform, etc.
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/10/this-week-at-w3c-drm-and-htm
l-last-call-w3c-tr-dev-process-revisions-a-year-of-webplatf
orm-etc/
25 October 2013 by Coralie Mercier
http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
* New W3C Course on JavaScript
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/10/new-w3c-course-on-javascript
/
25 October 2013 by Marie-Claire Forgue
http://www.w3.org/People/mcf/
Upcoming Talks
* 2013-11-07 (7 NOV)
Web and Mobile
keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
MobiCASE 2013
http://mobicase.org/2013/show/home
Paris, France
* 2013-11-13 (13 NOV)
Cryptographic operations in the browser
by Nick Van den Bleeken
Devoxx
http://www.devoxx.be/
Antwerp, Belgium
* 2013-11-22 (22 NOV)
XForms: The Big Picture
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/11-22-xforms/
keynote by Steven Pemberton
XForms Today voor CIO’s en CTO’s
http://www.w3c.nl/xforms-seminar-november-2013
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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