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- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:16:35 -0500
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2014-02-17 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20140217
A simplified plain text version is available below.
Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Progress Events is a W3C Recommendation
11 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3660
The Web Applications Working Group has published a W3C
Recommendation of "Progress Events." The Progress Events
specification defines an event interface that can be used for
measuring progress; e.g. HTTP entity body transfers. This
specification is primarily meant to be used by other
specifications. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-progress-events-20140211/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Training: Early Bird Rates through 27 February for JavaScript and
HTML5 Courses
15 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3666
W3C is pleased to launch a new edition of its JavaScript online
course, to help Web developers master good JavaScript practices
and avoid the pitfalls of the language. The course is 4 weeks
long, to start on 17 March 2014. 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 February 27 to benefit from the early bird rate.
http://www.w3devcampus.com/javascript-for-beginners-w3c-course/
http://classroom.w3devcampus.com/enrol/index.php?id=66
Register now to the upcoming W3C HTML5 online course, to start
27 March 2014. Acclaimed trainer Michel Buffa will cover the
techniques developers and designers need to create great Web
pages and apps. This course edition features additional
advanced sections on time based animation, 2D geometric
transformations, Web Audio API, etc., all illustrated by
numerous examples. Register before February 27 to benefit from
the early bird rate.
http://classroom.w3devcampus.com/enrol/index.php?id=68
http://www.w3devcampus.com/html5-w3c-training/
http://classroom.w3devcampus.com/enrol/index.php?id=68
Learn more about W3DevCampus, the W3C online training for Web
developers.
http://www.w3devcampus.com/
CSS Masking Module Level 1 Draft Published
13 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3662
The CSS Working Group and the SVG Working Group have published
a 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. Typically, rendering an element via CSS or SVG can
conceptually be described as if the element, including its
children, are drawn into a buffer and then that buffer is
composited into the element’s parent. Luminance and alpha masks
influence the transparency of this buffer before the
compositing stage. 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. 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 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-css-masking-1-20140213/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 (Second Edition) is a W3C
Recommendation
11 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3658
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a W3C
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. Learn more about the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-exi-20140211/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Call for Review: MathML 3.0 (2nd Edition), XML Entity Definitions for
Characters (2nd Edition) Proposed Edited Recommendations
11 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3655
The Math Working Group has published two Proposed Edited
Recommendations today:
http://www.w3.org/Math/
* Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0 2nd
Edition. This specification defines the Mathematical Markup
Language, or MathML. MathML is a markup language for
describing mathematical notation and capturing both its
structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable
mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the
World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality
for text. Comments are welcome through 11 March.
* XML Entity Definitions for Characters (2nd Edition). This
document defines several sets of names, so that to each
name is assigned a Unicode character or sequence of
characters. Each of these sets is expressed as a file of
XML entity declarations. Comments are welcome through 11
March.
Learn more about the Math Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Math/Activity
Last Call: CSS Shapes Module Level 1
11 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3651
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Shapes Module Level 1." CSS
Shapes describe geometric shapes for use in CSS. For Level 1,
CSS Shapes can be applied to floats. A circle shape on a float
will cause inline content to wrap around the circle shape
instead of the float’s bounding box. 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 04 March. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-css-shapes-1-20140211/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Last Call: Vibration API
11 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3653
The Device APIs Working Group has published a Last Call Working
Draft of "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. Comments are
welcome through 04 March. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-vibration-20140211/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 Draft Published
11 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3648
The SVG Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2." This specification defines
the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Version 2, a language for describing two-dimensional vector and
mixed vector/raster graphics. Although an XML serialization is
given, processing is defined in terms of a DOM. Learn more
about the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-SVG2-20140211/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
Content Security Policy 1.1 Draft Published
11 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3646
The Web Application Security Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Content Security Policy 1.1." This document
defines a policy language used to declare a set of content
restrictions for a web resource, and a mechanism for
transmitting the policy from a server to a client where the
policy is enforced. Learn more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-CSP11-20140211/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Navigation Error Logging First Public Working Draft Published
11 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3649
The Web Performance Working Group has published a First Public
Working Draft of "Navigation Error Logging." This
specification defines an interface to store and retrieve error
data related to the previous navigations of a document. Learn
more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-navigation-error-logging-20140211/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Call for Review: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0
advances to Proposed Recommendation
6 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3638
The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) today published
"Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0" and the
"WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide" as Proposed
Recommendations. WAI-ARIA is a technical specification for
making dynamic, interactive Web content accessible to people
with disabilities. WAI-ARIA and supporting documents are
described in the WAI-ARIA Overview. Comments are welcome by 7
March 2014. More information is provided in the WAI-ARIA 1.0 is
Proposed Recommendation e-mail. Read about the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/PR-wai-aria-20140206/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/PR-wai-aria-implementation-20140206/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2014JanMar/0025
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
XML processor profiles Note Published
6 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3636
The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working
Group Note of "XML processor profiles." This specification
defines several XML processor profiles, each of which defines
how any given XML document should be processed, both
operationally and in terms of what information must be made
available to applications. It is intended as a resource for
other specifications, which can by a single normative reference
establish precisely what input processing they require as well
as what information they require. Learn more about the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-xml-proc-profiles-20140206/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Upcoming Workshop on Web Annotations: Footnotes, comments, bookmarks,
and marginalia on the Web
5 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3631
W3C announced today a workshop on digital annotations for the
Web, part of our ongoing effort on enhancing the Web
experience.
http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/index
Annotating is the act of creating associations between distinct
pieces of information. Annotation is a ubiquitous activity
online in many guises: comments on articles, footnotes, sticky
notes, “hot spots” on images, timestamped notes on video or
audio tracks, highlighted text passages in ebook readers,
evocative pictures attached to song lyrics, quotes and links on
social media, and even tagged bookmarks, are all forms of
annotation. One of the most common and engaging Web activities
for the average person is discussion of a document or piece of
media.
Many projects and companies are now turning to annotations to
solve a variety of issues with communication on the Web, and is
of particular interest to the education, research, and digital
publishing industries. To address these needs, W3C’s Web
Annotations workshop will focus on identifying standardization
priorities for chartering a potential Web Annotations Working
Group, on such topics as:
* Robust anchoring to dynamic third-party documents
* Styling selections and annotations
* Data models
* Federation and syndication
* Web storage and management of annotations
* Client side APIs and methods for the implementation of
annotation systems
* Practical experience with annotation systems
* Annotation of data
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 28 February 2014.
http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/index.html#participate
Five Documents Published by the HTML Working Group
4 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3627
The HTML Working Group has updated a Candidate Recommendation,
published two Last Call Working Drafts, updated a Working Draft
and a Working Group Note today:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
* Updated Candidate Recommendation 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.
* Last Call 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
either as HTML or when processed as XML. Polyglot markup
that meets a well-defined set of constraints is interpreted
as compatible, regardless of whether it is 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. Comments are
welcome through 25 February 2014.
* Last Call Working Draft of W3C DOM4. DOM defines a
platform-neutral model for events and document nodes.
Comments are welcome through 4 March 2014.
* Updated Working Draft of HTML 5.1. This specification
defines the 5th major version, first minor revision of the
core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML). In this version, new features continue to
be introduced to help Web application authors, new elements
continue to be introduced based on research into prevailing
authoring practices, and special attention continues to be
given to defining clear conformance criteria for user
agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
* Working Group Note 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.
Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Last Call: CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3
4 February 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3629
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module
Level 3" for the purpose of updating the previous Candidate
Recommendation. This module replaces two earlier drafts: CSS3
Backgrounds and CSS3 Border. CSS is a language for describing
the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on
screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This draft contains the
features of CSS level 3 relating to borders and backgrounds. It
includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which
builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2
are borders consisting of images, boxes with multiple
backgrounds, boxes with rounded corners and boxes with shadows.
Comments are welcome through 3 March 2014. Learn more about the
Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-css3-background-20140204/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
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.
* 2014-04-02 ( 2 APR)
Footnotes, comments, bookmarks, and marginalia on the Web,
A W3C Workshop on Annotations
http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/
San Francisco, USA
Hosted by Hypothes.is
* 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: Strengthening Web Security, EU ruling on
hyperlinks, @web25 Web’s 25th birthday, etc.
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/02/this-week-at-w3c-strengtheni
ng-web-security-eu-ruling-on-hyperlinks-web25-webs-25th-bir
thday-etc/
14 February 2014 by Coralie Mercier
http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/
* Automotive Business Group progressing
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/02/automotive-business-group-pr
ogressing/
13 February 2014 by Bernard Gidon
* Strengthen Web Security on The Day We Fight Back
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/02/strengthen-web-security-on-t
he-day-we-fight-back/
11 February 2014 by Wendy Seltzer
Upcoming Talks
* 2014-02-20 (20 FEB)
LOD, Where Are We?
http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0220_phila_lod2014/
keynote by Phil Archer
LOD2014, Linked Open Data: where are we?
http://www.w3c.it/events/2014/lod2014/
Rome, Italy
* 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
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