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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Announces Program, Opens Registration for 20th Anniversary
Symposium
18 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3898
[] W3C today announced the program and opened registration for
W3C20 Anniversary Symposium: The Future of the Web , which
takes place 29 October in Santa Clara, California.
http://www.w3.org/20/
http://www.w3.org/2014/06/w3c20.html.en
http://www.w3.org/20/Overview.html#program
http://regonline.com/w3c20
http://www.w3.org/20/
Confirmed speakers are:
http://www.w3.org/20/Overview.html#speakers
* Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web and W3C Director
* Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
at Google
* Fadi Chehadé, Chief Executive Officer of ICANN
* David-Michel Davies, Executive Director, The Webby Awards &
the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences
* Di-Ann Eisnor, Head of Platforms and Partnerships,
Community Geographer at Waze
* Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation
* Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, Knight Foundation
* Jun Murai, Dean and Professor at Keio University
* Sandy Pentland, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT
* Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet
& American Life Project
* Anders Wahlquist, CEO and Founding Partner of B-Reel
Please join Tim Berners-Lee and other global strategists,
business leaders and developers for an exciting afternoon of
insights and discussion about how to keep the Web strong,
followed by a gala dinner. W3C will also live stream the
Symposium.
W3C20 is made possible by the generosity of sponsors Intel
(Platinum), ICANN (Silver), and the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation (Silver).
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sponsor/org
Registration is open to the public for a limited number of
seats. Read the full media advisory and follow us in social
media with #W3C20.
http://regonline.com/w3c20
http://www.w3.org/2014/06/w3c20.html.en
Using WAI-ARIA in HTML Draft Published
26 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3933
The HTML Working Group has published an updated Working Draft
of "Using WAI-ARIA in HTML." Using WAI-ARIA in HTML is a
practical guide for developers on how to to add accessibility
information to HTML elements using the Accessible Rich Internet
Applications ( "WAI-ARIA" ) specification, which defines a way
to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to
people with disabilities. WAI-ARIA is introduced in the
WAI-ARIA Overview. Using WAI-ARIA in HTML is developed by the
HTML Accessibility Task Force in coordination with the HTML
Working Group and the WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group
(PFWG). Learn more about the HTML Activity and the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-aria-in-html-20140626/
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
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://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Last Call: Geometry Interfaces Module Level 1
26 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3930
The CSS Working Group and the SVG Working Group have published
a Last Call Working Draft of "Geometry Interfaces Module Level
1." This specification provides basic geometric interfaces to
represent points, rectangles, quadrilaterals and transformation
matrices that can be used by other modules or specifications.
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 7 August 2014. Learn
more about the Style Activity and the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-geometry-1-20140626/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
First Public Working Draft of IndieUI: User Context for web interface
preferences
26 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3928
The IndieUI Working Group today published a First Public
Working Draft of "IndieUI: User Context 1.0 – Contextual
Information for User Interface Independence." It defines a set
of preferences that users can choose to expose to web
applications, and an API for user agents to access the
preferences and listen for changes. Users can set preferences
for features such as screen size, font size, and color. Users
with disabilities can provide information about assistive
technologies in use, indicate that the display is in an
accessibility mode, and indicate what kind of subtitles and
audio descriptions they need. Web applications can use this
information to optimize the presentation without a requirement
to target a specific device, operating system, or locale.
IndieUI: User Context complements "IndieUI: Events 1.0" to
provide web application developers a uniform way to design web
applications that work in a wide range of contexts — different
devices (such as mobile phones and tablets), different
assistive technologies (AT), different user needs. Comments on
this Draft are encouraged by 1 August 2014. Learn more from the
IndieUI Overview; read about the Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-indie-ui-context-20140626/
http://www.w3.org/TR/indie-ui-events/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/indieui
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Linked Data Platform 1.0 Primer Draft Published
26 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3926
The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Linked Data Platform 1.0 Primer." This
primer provides an introduction to the Linked Data Platform
(LDP), with examples illustrating the principal concepts such
as the notion of an LDP resource and the LDP container and how
they can be used by Web clients. Two sample scenarios show how
an LDP client can interact with a LDP server in the context of
a read-write Linked Data application i.e. how to use HTTP for
accessing, updating, creating and deleting resources from
servers that expose their resources as Linked Data. Learn more
about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-ldp-primer-20140626/
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Last Call: Beacon, Resource Timing Candidate Recommendation Updated
24 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3924
The Web Performance Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "Beacon." This specification defines an
interoperable means for site developers to asynchronously
transfer small HTTP data from the User Agent to a web server.
Comments are welcome through 29 July 2014.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-beacon-20140624/
The group also updated the Candidate Recommendation of
"Resource Timing." This specification defines an interface for
web applications to access the complete timing information for
resources in a document.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-resource-timing-20140624/
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
RDF 1.1 Primer Note Published
24 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3922
The RDF Working Group has published a Group Note of "RDF 1.1
Primer." This primer is designed to provide the reader with
the basic knowledge required to effectively use RDF. It
introduces the basic concepts of RDF and shows concrete
examples of the use of RDF. Learn more about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-rdf11-primer-20140624/
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
W3C Invites Implementations of Linked Data Platform 1.0
19 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3920
The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group invites
implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "Linked Data
Platform 1.0." This document describes 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 the RDF data model. Learn more about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-ldp-20140619/
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Last Call: Vibration API, Ambient Light Events, HTML Media Capture
19 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3918
The Device APIs Working Group has published three Last Call
Working Drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
* Vibration API. This specification defines an API that
provides access to the vibration mechanism of the hosting
device. Vibration is a form of tactile feedback.
* Ambient Light Events. This specification defines a means to
receive events that correspond to a light sensor detecting
the presence of a light.
* HTML Media Capture. The HTML Media Capture specification
defines an HTML form extension that facilitates user access
to a device’s media capture mechanism, such as a camera, or
microphone, from within a file upload control.
Comments on these three specifications are welcome through 24
July 2014. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
W3C Invites Implementations of DOM Parsing and Serialization
17 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3912
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
the Candidate Recommendation of "DOM Parsing and Serialization"
. This specification defines various APIs for programmatic
access to HTML and generic XML parsers by web applications for
use in parsing and serializing DOM nodes.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-DOM-Parsing-20140617/
The group also published a Working Draft of "Shadow DOM." This
specification describes a method of combining multiple DOM
trees into one hierarchy and how these trees interact with each
other within a document, thus enabling better composition of
the DOM.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-shadow-dom-20140617/
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: HTML5
17 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3908
The HTML Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
of "HTML5." This specification defines the 5th major revision
of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are
introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are
introduced based on research into prevailing authoring
practices, and special attention has been given to defining
clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to
improve interoperability. Comments are welcome through 15 July
2014.
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html5-20140617/
The group also published a Working Draft of "HTML 5.1." HTML
was primarily designed as a language for semantically
describing scientific documents, although its general design
and adaptations over the years have enabled it to be used to
describe a number of other types of documents. The main area
that has not been adequately addressed by HTML is a vague
subject referred to as Web Applications. This standard attempts
to rectify this, while at the same time updating the HTML
language to address issues raised in the past few years.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html51-20140617/
Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 (Core-AAM) First Public Working
Draft and WAI-ARIA 1.1 updated Working Draft
12 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3896
The Protocols and Formats Working Group today published a First
Public Working Draft of "Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1"
(Core-AAM), which supports the updated Working Draft of
"Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1."
WAI-ARIA provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties
that define accessible user interface elements. WAI-ARIA is
designed to improve the accessibility and interoperability of
web content, particularly web applications. Core-AAM describes
how user agents should expose semantics of content languages to
accessibility APIs across multiple content technologies
(including much of WAI-ARIA). Core-AAM serves as the basis for
other specifications to extend the mappings to specific
technologies. Learn more from the call for review e-mail and
read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-core-aam-1.1-20140612/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-wai-aria-1.1-20140612/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2014AprJun/0190
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Three Specifications Published by the Web Applications Working Group
12 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3894
The Web Applications Working Group has published three
documents today:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* A First Public Working Draft of DOM Level 3 KeyboardEvent
key Values. This specification defines the values for the
KeyboardEvent.key attribute, which is defined as part of
the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events
Specification. The key attribute contains information about
the character generated by the key event.
* A First Public Working Draft of DOM Level 3 KeyboardEvent
code Values. This specification defines the values for the
KeyboardEvent.code attribute, which is defined as part of
the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events
Specification. The code value contains information about
the key event that can use used identify the physical key
being pressed by the user.
* A Working Draft of UI Events. This specification extends
the events and features defined in DOM Events Level 3.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Workshop Report: Linking Geospatial Data
6 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3892
Today the W3C announced the final report from the Linking
Geospatial Data workshop that was held in London 5 – 6 March
2014.
http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/report
The report contains a summary of each of the major themes
discussed and conclusions arising from them. The workshop was
supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Google, the
UK mapping agency Ordnance Survey and the UK government. W3C’s
participation was funded by the EU-funded SmartOpenData
project.
http://www.smartopendata.eu/
Participants included many geospatial experts from both the
government and private sectors, and the presented papers
focused on integrating geospatial information systems with the
Web of Data. Although carefully advertised so as not to promote
Linked Data to the exclusion of other methods, this emerged
strongly as the preferred technology to enable that
integration.
The Workshop report identifies several themes that recurred
throughout the discussion. A consensus of the participants was
that joint work between W3C and OGC should be pursued to
address the needs identified in these themes.
http://www.opengeospatial.org/
Web Animations 1.0 Draft Published
5 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3889
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group and the SVG
Working Group have published a Working Draft of "Web Animations
1.0." This specification defines a model for synchronization
and timing of changes to the presentation of a Web page. This
specification also defines an application programming interface
for interacting with this model and it is expected that further
specifications will define declarative means for exposing these
features. Learn more about the Style Activity and the Graphics
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-web-animations-20140605/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Activity
First Public Working Draft: Media Queries Level 4
5 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3887
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Media Queries Level 4." Media Queries allow
authors to test and query values or features of the user agent
or display device, independent of the document being rendered.
They are used in the CSS @media rule to conditionally apply
styles to a document, and in various other contexts and
languages, such as HTML and Javascript. Media Queries Level 4
describes the mechanism and syntax of media queries, media
types, and media features. The specification extends and
supersedes the features defined in Media Queries Level 3. 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/2014/WD-mediaqueries-4-20140605/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
First Public Working Draft: Data on the Web Best Practices Use Cases
and Requirements
5 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3885
The Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group has published
a First Public Working Draft of "Data on the Web Best Practices
Use Cases & Requirements." This document lists some use cases,
compiled by the Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group,
that represent scenarios of how data is commonly published on
the Web and how it is used. This document also provides a set
of requirements derived from these use cases that have been
used to guide the development of the set of Data on the Web
Best Practices and the development of two new vocabularies:
Quality and Granularity Description Vocabulary and Data Usage
Description Vocabulary. Learn more about the Data Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-dwbp-ucr-20140605/
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
Last Call Working Draft of Encoding, and two Authoring HTML Notes
Published
3 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3880
The Internationalization Working Group has published three
documents today:
http://www.w3.org/International/core/
* A Last Call Working Draft of Encoding. While encodings have
been defined to some extent, implementations have not
always implemented them in the same way, have not always
used the same labels, and often differ in dealing with
undefined and former proprietary areas of encodings. This
specification attempts to fill those gaps so that new
implementations do not have to reverse engineer encoding
implementations of the market leaders and existing
implementations can converge. Comments are welcome through
1 July 2014.
* A Group Note of Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left
Scripts. This document provides advice to content authors
using HTML markup and CSS style sheets about how to create
pages for languages that use right-to-left scripts, such as
Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Thaana, Urdu, etc. It explains how
to create content in right-to-left scripts that builds on
but goes beyond the Unicode bidirectional algorithm, as
well as how to prepare content for localization into
right-to-left scripts.
* A Group Note of Authoring HTML: Language declarations.
Specifying the language of content is useful for a wide
number of applications, from linguistically-sensitive
searching to applying language-specific display properties.
In some cases the potential applications for language
information are still waiting for implementations to catch
up, whereas in others it is a necessity today. Adding
markup for language information to content is something
that can and should be done as content is first developed.
If not, it will be much more difficult to take advantage of
any future developments.
Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/
First Public Working Draft: Non-element Selectors Module Level 1
3 June 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3878
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Non-element Selectors Module Level 1." This
specification extends Selectors Level 4 and allows selecting
other kinds of document nodes than elements. This is useful
when selectors are used as a general document query language.
Non-element Selectors are not intended to be used in CSS, but
only as a separate query language in other host environments.
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/2014/WD-selectors-nonelement-1-20140603/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/
Workshops
* 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
* This week: #663399, W3C comma tools, Firefox WebIDE, etc.
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/06/this-week-663399-w3c-comma-t
ools-firefox-webide-etc/
27 June 2014 by Coralie Mercier
http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
* This week: Picture Element, #HTML5 Last Call, #W3C20
Symposium, Tim Berners-Lee celebrated #web25 at #FENS2014,
#663399becca, etc.
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/06/this-week-html5-last-call-w3
c20-tim-berners-lee-at-fens2014-663399becca-etc/
20 June 2014 by Coralie Mercier
http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
* HTML5: On Our Way to Recommendation
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/06/html5-on-our-way-to-recommen
dation/
17 June 2014 by Philippe le Hegaret
http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
Upcoming Talks
* 2014-06-30 (30 JUN)
Efficient Reuse of Public Transport Information in the City
of Gijon
http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2014/0630-EfficientPSIReus
e_Samos-MA/
by Martín Álvarez
Share PSI 2.0 Workshop: Uses of Open Data Within Government
for Innovation and Efficiency
https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/workshop/samos/
Samos, Greece
* 2014-08-20 (20 AUG)
Develop Multimodal Applications with Free and Open Source
Tools
by Deborah Dahl
SpeechTEK 2014
http://www.speechtek.com
New York, USA
* 2014-09-04 (4 SEP)
Building the Web of Data
http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0904_phila_semantics/
keynote by Phil Archer
SEMANTiCS
http://www.semantics.cc/programme-1/
Leipzig, Germany
* 2014-09-25 (25 SEP)
Crafting User Experience for the Fastest Growing Web
Demographic: Older Users
by Shawn Henry
WebVisions Chicago
http://www.webvisionsevent.com/chicago/
Chicago, IL, USA
* 2014-11-05 (5 NOV)
What do we want from the web?
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2014/11-05-what-do-we-want/
keynote by Steven Pemberton
Aarhus 14
http://aarhus14.jboye.com/
Aarhus, Denmark
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