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- Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:52:29 -0400
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2014-05-26 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20140526
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Upcoming Workshop on Web Cryptography Next Steps
20 May 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3848
Today the W3C announced a Workshop on Web Cryptography Next
Steps, focused on authentication, hardware tokens, and next
steps for cryptography on the Web. The workshop will be hosted
by Microsoft on 10-11 September 2014, and will be sponsored by
Google and Tyfone.
http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/webcrypto-next-workshop/Overvi
ew
Many projects and companies are now requiring high security Web
applications with improved authentication, and the W3C is
positioned to enable technologies ranging from multi-factor
authentication to smartcard-based authentication available to
Web Applications. For an example of new relevant work, the Web
Cryptography API will soon expose standardized cryptographic
functionality to Web Applications across all major browsers.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:
* Multi-factor authentication and Web Applications
* The use of smartcards and other hardware tokens (dongles,
SIM cards) with the Web Cryptography API
* Interactions of various identity systems with the Web
Cryptography API and other APIs
* National eID schemes and Web applications
* Use-cases in high-value environments such as the financial
industry and government
* Improving authentication using the Web Cryptography API
* Security analysis of APIs, including but not limited to the
Web Cryptography API
* Issues around safe and secure private key storage
* Making APIs in this area developer-friendly
W3C membership is not required to participate. The event is
open to all, but all participants are required to submit a
position paper or statement of interest by 18 July 2014.
http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/webcrypto-next-workshop/Overvi
ew.html#participate
Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation
22 May 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3861
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a W3C
Recommendation of "Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0."
As the Web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal,
technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors,
including emotions. The specification of Emotion Markup
Language 1.0 aims to strike a balance between practical
applicability and scientific well-foundedness. The language is
conceived as a “plug-in” language suitable for use in three
different areas: (1) manual annotation of data; (2) automatic
recognition of emotion-related states from user behavior; and
(3) generation of emotion-related system behavior. Learn more
about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-emotionml-20140522/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
vCard Ontology for describing People and Organizations Note Published
22 May 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3858
The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a new version of
the "Interest Group Note for the vCard Ontology." The document
describes a mapping of the vCard specification (RFC6350) to
RDF/OWL. The goal is to promote the use of vCard for the
description of people and organizations utilizing semantic web
techniques and allowing compatibility with traditional vCard
implementations. Learn more about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-vcard-rdf-20140522/
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Last Call: CSS Font Loading Module Level 3
22 May 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3856
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Font Loading Module Level 3."
This CSS module describes events and interfaces used for
dynamically loading font resources. CSS is a language for
describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML
and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Comments are
welcome through 30 June 2014. Learn more about the Style
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-css-font-loading-3-20140522/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
First Public Working Draft of Geometry Interfaces Module Level 1,
Last Call: CSS Masking Module Level 1
22 May 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3854
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group and the SVG
Working Group have published two documents today:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
* A First Public Working Draft of Geometry Interfaces Module
Level 1. This specification describes several geometry
interfaces for the representation of points, quads,
rectangles and transformation matrices. The SVG interfaces
are aliasing the interfaces in favor for common interfaces
used by SVG, Canvas 2D Context and CSS Transforms.
* A Last Call Working Draft of CSS Masking Module Level 1.
CSS Masking provides two means for partially or fully
hiding portions of visual elements: masking and clipping.
Masking describes how to use another graphical element or
image as a luminance or alpha mask. Clipping describes the
visible region of visual elements. The region can be
described by using certain SVG graphics elements or basic
shapes. Anything outside of this region is not rendered.
Comments are welcome through 19 June 2014.
Learn more about the Style Activity and the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
HTML Canvas 2D Context Returns to Last Call
20 May 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3850
The HTML Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
of "HTML Canvas 2D Context." 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. This draft introduces a
number of changes that improve accessibility of canvas
graphics; it adds support for binding regions of the canvas to
fallback content and the ability to visually indicate when a
region is in focus. Comments are welcome through 20 June 2014.
Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-2dcontext-20140520/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Two CSS Drafts published: Grid Layout Module Level 1, Generated
Content for Paged Media Module
13 May 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3843
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
two Working Drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
* CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1. This CSS module defines a
two-dimensional grid-based layout system, optimized for
user interface design. In the grid layout model, the
children of a grid container can be positioned into
arbitrary slots in a flexible or fixed predefined layout
grid.
* CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module. Books and
other paged media often use special techniques to display
information. Content may be moved to or generated for
special areas of the page, such as running heads or
footnotes. Generated content within pages, such as tab
leaders or cross-references, helps readers navigate within
and between pages.
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/
Report of the 4th Web and TV Workshop now Available
13 May 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3841
Today W3C published the final report of the fourth Web and TV
Workshop that was held 12-13 March 2013 in Munich, Germany.
Around 130 participants from 22 countries represented 84
organizations discussed hybrid TV, multi-screen and other web
media topics such as testing, audio, accessibility, metadata
and performance.
http://www.w3.org/2013/10/tv-workshop/report
The report summarizes the discussion of possible future steps
as follows:
* Synchronization of video and (meta) data, video & audio
* Testing devices based on web technologies
* Rendering and control of linear video using <video>
* Miscellaneous gaps around delivery & rendering of IP video
* Discovery and communication between two UAs or a UA and
another device/service
* Performance measurement (benchmarks) for web
technologies/animation
* Accessibility features
* Pluggable CDM for EME
Outcomes of the workshop and subsequent follow-up discussions
include the creation of the TV Control API Community Group and
work towards transitioning the Second Screen Presentation
Community Group to a Working Group to establish a new W3C
standard. There is also new activity around testing,
accessibility and performance requirements for the TV industry.
http://www.w3.org/community/tvapi/
http://www.w3.org/community/webscreens/
W3C is very grateful to IRT for hosting and helping with this
event, and NBCUniversal for additional sponsorship. This work
is also supported by the EU FP7 project MediaScape.
http://mediascapeproject.eu/
Those interested in following this work are invited to join the
Web and TV Interest Group or follow discussions on its public
mailing list.
http://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-and-tv/
More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/
Workshops
* 2014-06-25 (25 JUN) – 2014-06-26 (26 JUN)
Workshop on the Web of Things
http://www.w3.org/2014/02/wot/
Berlin, Germany
Hosted by Siemens
Participants in this workshop will examine the potential
for open standards as a basis for services, either between
devices, at the network edge, e.g. in home hubs, or in the
cloud. They will discuss the use of web protocols and
scripting languages for implementing services, the need for
APIs for implementing drivers for specific IoT
technologies, a shared approach to describing services as a
basis for interoperability, and the underlying use of
HTTP/COAP, Web Sockets, and EXI/JSON for RESTful services.
* 2014-09-10 (10 SEP) – 2014-09-11 (11 SEP)
Workshop on Web Cryptography Next Steps
http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/webcrypto-next-workshop/Ov
erview
Mountain View, USA
Hosted by Microsoft, sponsored by Google and Tyfone
The Workshop will focus on authentication, hardware tokens,
and next steps for cryptography on the Web.
W3C Blog
* Last week: Mozilla implements EME, Draft charter of Web
Payments Interest Group, W3C Advisory Board election, etc.
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/05/last-week-mozilla-implements
-eme-draft-charter-of-web-payments-interest-group-w3c-advis
ory-board-election-etc/
19 May 2014 by Coralie Mercier
http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
Upcoming Talks
* 2014-05-29 (29 MAY)
The Future of Standards for Digital Publishing
http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0529-NYC-IH/#talk
Digital Book 2014
http://idpf.org/digital-book-2014
New York, USA
* 2014-06-07 (7 JUN)
Live XML Data
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2014/xml-london
by Steven Pemberton
XML London
http://xmllondon.com/programme.jsp
London, United Kingdom
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