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- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 11:27:34 -0500
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The 2016-11-07 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20161107
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W3C Communications Team
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HTML 5.1 is a W3C Recommendation
1 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5932>
" " The Web Platform Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation 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.
<https://www.w3.org/WebPlatform/WG>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-html51-20161101/>
W3Cx opens CSS Introduction course
7 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5898>
Today, W3C announced the start of its new W3Cx MOOC: CSS Introduction, designed in cooperation with the Microsoft Corporation. This 5-week long course will teach how to style your Web sites like a pro, with fonts, colors, layout, etc.
<https://www.edx.org/course/css-introduction-w3cx-css-0x>
If you start now, you will be just in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of CSS with us on 17 December and create a cool design to say “Happy Birthday, CSS!”. Learn more about W3Cx courses.
<https://www.edx.org/course/css-introduction-w3cx-css-0x>
<https://www.edx.org/school/w3cx>
First Public Working Draft: Resource Timing Level 2
3 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5944>
The Web Performance Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of "Resource Timing Level 2." This specification defines an interface for web applications to access the complete timing information for resources in a document.
<https://www.w3.org/webperf/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-resource-timing-2-20161103/>
W3C Invites Implementations of Canonical EXI
3 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5947>
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of "Canonical EXI." This specification describes a relatively simple method for generating a physical representation, the canonical form, of an EXI document that accounts for the permissible differences. An example of the applications targeted by this specification is one that needs to guarantee non-repudiation using XML Signature yet allows certain flexibility for intermediaries to reconstitute the documents before they reach final destination without breaking the signatures. Note that two documents may have differing canonical forms yet still be equivalent in a given context based on more elaborate application-specific equivalence rules which is out of scope of this specification.
<https://www.w3.org/XML/EXI>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-exi-c14n-20161103/>
Tim Berners-Lee joins the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford as a Professor
3 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5936>
W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee joins the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford as a Professor, as announced by Oxford on Thursday. Sir Tim graduated from the University of Oxford with a first-class degree in Physics in 1976 and returns 40 years later to become a member of the Department of Computer Science and carry out computer science research.
<https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/>
<http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science>
Tim continues to shape the future of the web in his role as Director of both the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the World Wide Web Foundation. Tim also continues as a full-time professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he is based, and where he leads the Decentralized Information Group research.
<http://webfoundation.org/>
<http://dig.csail.mit.edu/>
Webmention is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
1 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5916>
The W3C Social Web Working Group is calling for review of "Webmention," which is now a Proposed Recommendation. Webmention provides a mechanism for a webpage to notify another webpage when it mentions its URL, and when the content around the mention changes or is deleted. From the receiver’s perspective, it’s a way to request notifications when other sites mention it. This mechanism is a core building block for a decentralized (social) Web, because it allows sites to automatically learn about connected content, without any prior setup or agreement. For users, an immediate benefit is cross-site comments. Comments on the PR are welcome until 30 November.
<https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/PR-webmention-20161101/>
W3C Invites Implementations of Linked Data Notifications (LDN)
1 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5919>
The W3C Social Web Working Group is calling for implementations of "Linked Data Notifications (LDN)," which is now a Candidate Recommendation. LDN describes how servers (receivers) can have messages pushed to them by applications (senders), as well as how other applications (consumers) may retrieve those messages for use, for example in a user interface, or an automated process. Any resource (like a blog post, or a user profile) can advertise a receiving endpoint (Inbox) for the messages targeted to that resource. The messages themselves are expressed in RDF, and can contain any data. Implementations can be any or all of senders, recievers or consumers. Existing "Linked Data Platform" implementations are already LDN conformant receivers – an LDN Inbox is just an LDP Container – so we particularly encourage testing and reports from previous implementors of LDP.
<https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/ldn/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/>
W3C Invites Implementations of High Resolution Time Level 2
1 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5922>
The Web Performance Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "High Resolution Time Level 2." This specification defines an API that provides the current time in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments.
<https://www.w3.org/webperf/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-hr-time-2-20161101/>
First Public Working Drafts: User Timing Level 2 and High Resolution Time Level 3
1 November 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5926>
The Web Performance Working Group has published two Working Drafts:
<https://www.w3.org/webperf/>
* User Timing Level 2: This specification defines an interface to help web developers measure the performance of their applications by giving them access to high precision timestamps.
* High Resolution Time Level 3: This specification defines an API that provides the current time in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments.
WAI-ARIA 1.1 is a Candidate Recommendation
27 October 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5912>
"Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1" has been published as a Candidate Recommendation and is now undergoing implementation finalization and testing. WAI-ARIA recommends approaches for developers to make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible to people with disabilities. WAI-ARIA 1.1 adds features new since WAI-ARIA 1.0 to complete the HTML + ARIA accessibility model and supports additional modules for digital publishing and graphics. The draft implementation report shows the progress of testing. Please send implementation information or comments by 16 December 2016. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-wai-aria-1.1-20161027/>
<http://w3c.github.io/test-results/wai-aria/all>
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/>
Pointer Lock is a W3C Recommendation
27 October 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5914>
The Web Platform Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of "Pointer Lock." This specification defines an API that provides scripted access to raw mouse movement data while locking the target of mouse events to a single element and removing the cursor from view. This is an essential input mode for certain classes of applications, especially first person perspective 3D applications and 3D modeling software.
<www.w3.org/WebPlatform/WG>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-pointerlock-20161027/>
Two Notes Published by Spatial Data on the Web WG
25 October 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5901>
The Spatial Data on the Web WG, a collaboration between W3C and the OGC , has today published two documents. The "Use Cases & Requirements" document is believed to be complete and underpins the WG’s considerable scope, motivating 3 standards in addition to today’s other publication, the "Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices." The latter has been rewritten substantially to build expressly on the more general "Data on the Web Best Practices," currently in CR. The aim is to provide guidance that bridges the gap between the practices and mindsets in the two communities so that the Web is better able to make sense of location and geospatial systems are better able to benefit from non-spatial data on the Web. A good example of this can be seen in yesterday’s announcement by Ireland’s mapping agency that their geospatial information is now available as Linked Data.
<https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/>
<http://www.opengeospatial.org>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-sdw-ucr-20161025/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-sdw-bp-20161025/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/>
<http://www.osi.ie/blog/linked-data/>
Driven largely by geospatial specialists, the Spatial Data on the Web WG is particularly keen to receive feedback from non-geo specialists in the Web community.
First Public Working Draft: CSS Table Module Level 3
25 October 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5903>
The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of the "CSS Table Module Level 3." This CSS module defines a two-dimensional grid-based layout system, optimized for tabular data rendering. In the table layout model, each display node is assigned to an intersection between a set of consecutive rows and a set of consecutive columns, themselves generated from the table structure and sized according to their content.
<https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-css-tables-3-20161025/>
More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>
Workshops
* 2016-11-30 (30 NOV) – 2016-12-01 ( 1 DEC)
Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc)
<https://www.w3.org/2016/11/sdsvoc/>
Amsterdam
CWI with support from the VRE4EIC project
The workshop will cover a variety of related issues: how to manage a vocabulary in a collaborative environment, how to define an application profile for human and machine consumption, how to request data using a specific profile and, as a prime example of all this - experiences of using "DCAT" that might lead to its extension.
<https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/>
W3C Blog
* None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
<https://www.w3.org/blog/>
Upcoming Talks
* 2016-11-16 (16 NOV)
Petroleum retail opportunities with the web
by Bernard Gidon
IFSF annual conference
<http://www.ifsf.org/sites/default/files/newsletters/ifsf_newsletter_august_2016.pdf>
Schiphol, The Netherlands
* 2016-11-16 (16 NOV)
The WAI to Web Accessibility: An Interactive Tour Through Resources form the W3C Web Accessibility
Accessing Higher Ground
<http://accessinghigherground.org/>
Colorado, USA
* 2016-11-21 (21 NOV)
W3C Now and Next
<https://www.w3.org/2016/Talks/1121_phila_semwebpro/>
by Phil Archer
SemWebPro 2016
<http://www.semweb.pro>
Paris, France
* 2016-11-21 (21 NOV)
XForms, the only Standard Web Framework
<http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2016/11-21-nluug>
by Steven Pemberton
NLUUG najaarsconferentie
<https://www.nluug.nl/events/>
Bunnik, The Netherlands
* 2016-11-22 (22 NOV)
Building the Web of Data
<https://www.w3.org/2016/Talks/1122_phila_mdm/>
keynote by Phil Archer
Marine Data Management & GIS Workshop
<http://www.oceanwise.eu/news/events/event-register/>
London, United Kingdom
* 2016-12-08 (8 DEC)
Making Sense of Big Data
<https://www.w3.org/2016/Talks/1208_phila_wef/>
by Phil Archer
The future of big data in the UK: growth, challenges and the policy context
<http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/event.php?eid=1328&t=20146>
London, United Kingdom
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