W3C Public Newsletter, 2014-02-03

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Reminder: Position Papers for W3C Workshop on Web Payments due 8
February

   28 January 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3613

   W3C invites the financial technology community to attend its
   Workshop Web Payments: How do you want to pay?, on March 24-25
   in Paris, France. W3C Member and non-Member participants will
   include banks, credit card companies, governments, mobile
   network operators, payment solution providers, technology
   companies, retailers, and content creators. W3C’s Workshop goal
   is to leverage the power of the Web to improve consumer payment
   choice and satisfaction, while easing the work of web
   developers to support all current and future payment solutions
   and empowering payment providers to easily reach across
   different solutions, devices and platforms. There is no
   Workshop fee, but interested parties should submit a
   presentation proposal or statement of interest to the Workshop
   Program Committee by 8 February. Read the media advisory and
   more information on participation.

   http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
   https://www.w3.org/2014/01/payments.html.en
   http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/participate

Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap

   3 February 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3623

   [] W3C has published the January 2014 edition of Standards for
   Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various
   technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of
   Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the
   mobile context.

   http://www.w3.org/2013/02/mobile-web-app-state/
   http://www.w3.org/2014/01/mobile-web-app-state/

   A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, this edition of the
   document includes changes and additions since September 2013,
   including 6 documents reaching Recommendation status (a
   record), which shows increased maturity of the platform; 4 FPWD
   and 4 new editors drafts illustrate it is still growing up
   nicely; and a lot of the changes are linked to performance,
   off-line support and packaging.

   http://html5apps-project.eu/

   Learn more about the Web and Mobile Interest Group.

   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/IG/

Call for Review: XQueryX 3.0 Proposed Recommendation Published

   30 January 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3619

   The XML Query Working Group has published a Proposed
   Recommendation of "XQueryX 3.0." XQueryX is an XML
   representation of an XQuery. It was created by mapping the
   productions of the XQuery grammar into XML productions. The
   result is not particularly convenient for humans to read and
   write, but it is easy for programs to parse, and because
   XQueryX is represented in XML, standard XML tools can be used
   to create, interpret, or modify queries. Comments are welcome
   through 25 February 2014. Learn more about the Extensible
   Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/PR-xqueryx-30-20140130/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM):
Final Review Draft

   30 January 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3618

   A complete Working Draft of "Website Accessibility Conformance
   Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 1.0" was published today by
   the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG
   WG) and Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG),
   through the joint WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force
   (Eval TF). WCAG-EM describes an approach for evaluating how
   websites, including Web applications and websites for mobile
   devices, conform to WCAG 2.0. Comments are welcome through 28
   February 2014. After the comments from this review period are
   addressed, WAI expects to publish this as an informative (that
   is, non-normative) W3C Working Group Note. Learn more from the
   WCAG-EM Overview and about the Web Accessibility Initiative
   (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/2011/eval/eval-tf
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/conformance
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

XMLHttpRequest Level 1 Draft Published

   30 January 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3616

   The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "XMLHttpRequest Level 1." The XMLHttpRequest
   specification defines an API that provides scripted client
   functionality for transferring data between a client and a
   server. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20140130/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Updated Drafts of Tracking Preference Expression (DNT), and Tracking
Compliance and Scope

   28 January 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3611

   The Tracking Protection Working Group has published two
   documents today.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/
     * A Working Draft Tracking Preference Expression (DNT). This
       specification defines the DNT request header field as an
       HTTP mechanism for expressing the user’s preference
       regarding tracking, an HTML DOM property to make that
       expression readable by scripts, and APIs that allow scripts
       to register site-specific exceptions granted by the user.
       It also defines mechanisms for sites to communicate whether
       and how they honor a received preference through use of the
       Tk response header field and well-known resources that
       provide a machine-readable tracking status.
     * A Working Draft of Tracking Compliance and Scope. This
       specification defines the meaning of a Do Not Track (DNT)
       preference and sets out practices for websites to comply
       with this preference.

   Learn more about the Privacy Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Privacy/

Encoding Draft Published

   28 January 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3609

   The Internationalization Working Group has published a 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. Learn more about the
   Internationalization Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/International/core/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-encoding-20140128/
   http://www.w3.org/International/

WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report Draft Published

   28 January 2014 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3607

   The WebFonts Working Group has published a Working Draft of
   "WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report." Web Open Font Format (WOFF) 2.0
   is a proposed update to the existing WOFF 1.0 with improved
   compression. This report lists requirements for successful
   deployment, evaluates how the requirement may be met, and
   examines the compression gains and tradeoffs vs. code
   complexity, encode and decode time. This document is
   non-normative. Learn more about the Fonts Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-WOFF20ER-20140128/
   http://www.w3.org/Fonts/

   More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/

Workshops

     * 2014-02-28 (28 FEB) – 2014-03-01 ( 1 MAR)
       W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against
       Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)
       http://www.w3.org/2014/strint/
       London, England
       The Vancouver IETF plenary concluded that pervasive
       monitoring represents an attack on the Internet. Pervasive
       monitoring targets protocol data that we also need for
       network manageability and security. This data is captured
       and correlated with other data. There is an open problem as
       to how to enhance protocols so as to maintain network
       manageability and security but still limit data capture and
       correlation.
       The overall goal of the workshop is to steer IETF and W3C
       work so as to be able to improve or "strengthen" the
       Internet in the face of pervasive monitoring. A workshop
       report in the form of an IAB RFC will be produced after the
       event.
     * 2014-03-05 ( 5 MAR) – 2014-03-06 ( 6 MAR)
       Linking Geospatial Data
       http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/
       London
       Co-organized by the UK Government, Ordnance Survey, the OGC
       and Google.
       Many data-driven applications have geospatial information
       at their core. Very often the common factor across multiple
       data sets is the location data, and maps are crucial in
       visualizing correlations between data sets that may
       otherwise be hidden. How can geographic information best be
       integrated with other data on the Web? How can we discover
       that different facts in different data sets relate to the
       same place, especially when 'place' can be expressed in
       different ways and at different levels of granularity? It's
       this desire to work with multiple data sets in different
       formats about different topics and link those with the
       powerful technologies used in geospatial information
       systems that is behind the linking geospatial data
       workshop.
     * 2014-03-12 (12 MAR) – 2014-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Fourth W3C Web and TV Workshop: Web and TV Convergence
       https://www.w3.org/2013/10/tv-workshop/
       Munich, Germany
       Hosted by IRT
       With HTML5 well on its way to standardization in 2014, and
       a new effort on HTML 5.1 recently launched, it is time to
       have fresh look at the current state of the art in order to
       identify remaining roadblocks for the use of Web technology
       in broadcasting and the TV industry. The goal of this
       workshop is to assemble key players from TV and the Web
       industry to discuss the important questions of Web and TV
       convergence, and how standardization can help across the
       globe.
     * 2014-03-24 (24 MAR) – 2014-03-25 (25 MAR)
       Workshop on Web Payments: How do you want to pay?
       http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
       Paris, France
       Hosted by Ingenico
       This workshop seeks to make it easier to monetize open Web
       applications, as an effective alternative to proprietary
       native app ecosystems. In essence, we would like to improve
       the end user experience and give users greater freedom in
       how they pay, to reduce the burden on developers and
       merchants, and to create a level playing field for
       competing payment solutions providers large and small.
     * 2014-05-07 ( 7 MAY) – 2014-05-08 ( 8 MAY)
       Seventh MultilingualWeb Workshop: New Horizons for the
       Multilingual Web
       http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/2014-madrid-worksho
       p/2014-madrid-cfp
       Madrid, Spain
       Hosted by UPM
       As with previous MultilingualWeb events, this workshop will
       bring together speakers and participants with an interest
       in best practices and standards aimed at helping content
       creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the
       challenges of the multilingual Web. This workshop will
       emphasize new technology developments that may lead to new
       opportunities for the Multilingual Web. A unique
       proposition of the workshop is that it brings together
       speakers and provides opportunities for networking across a
       wide range of communities to produce a holistic view of the
       problems faced in developing and deploying multilingual
       content and applications on the Web.

W3C Blog

     * This week at W3C: HTML Landscape diff, W3C nominated for
       net Awards, HTML for email Community Group, etc.
       http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/01/this-week-at-w3c-html-landsc
       ape-diff-w3c-nominated-for-net-awards-html-for-email-commun
       ity-group-etc/
       31 January 2014 by Coralie Mercier
       http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
     * W3C honoured in 2014 net Awards technology nominations
       http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/01/w3c-honoured-in-2014-net-awa
       rds-technology-nominations/
       30 January 2014 by Coralie Mercier
       http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
     * Creating the future of Web and TV
       http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/01/web-tv-future/
       29 January 2014 by Daniel Davis

Upcoming Talks

     * 2014-02-14 (14 FEB)
       XML, Semantic Web and Content Analytics
       by Felix Sasaki
       XML Prague
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2014-02-28 (28 FEB)
       失敗しない作戦〜テレビ用のWeb開発〜
       by Daniel Davis
       オープンソースカンファレンス 2014 東京/春
       http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-spring/
       Tokyo, Japan
     * 2014-03-05 (5 MAR)
       Technologies, Tools, and Standards for Multimodal
       Application Development
       by Deborah Dahl
       Mobile Voice Conference
       http://mobilevoiceconference.com/
       San Francisco, USA
     * 2014-04-03 (3 APR)
       Coloured glyphs in OpenType
       by Chris Lilley
       Libre Graphics Meeting
       http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/about/
       Leipzig, Germany

W3C Membership

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     * Ipedis
     * OpenSocial Foundation
     * Tyfone, inc.

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