- From: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:19:52 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
22 December 2001 - 14 January 2002 from: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/2002JanMar/0000.html Farewell Jean-Francois Abramatic, Welcome Steve Bratt Dr. Jean-Francois Abramatic steps down as W3C Chairman. From 1996 to 2001, Jean-Francois led the Consortium with wisdom and insight. Many thanks and best wishes to Jean-Francois! Please join W3C in welcoming Dr. Steven R. Bratt, W3C's new Chief Operating Officer. Steve will oversee worldwide operations, the W3C Process, the Team, strategic plans, budget, legal matters, and major events. See a photo of our new COO and visit "People of the W3C." http://www.w3.org/2002/01/SteveBratt.jpg http://www.w3.org/People/ DOM Level 3 Working Drafts Published 14 January 2002: The DOM Working Group has released two updated DOM Level 3 Working Drafts, the Core Specification and the Abstract Schemas and Load and Save Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. Comments are invited. Read about the W3C DOM Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20020114/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-ASLS-20020114/ http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity W3C Team Talks at 20th International Unicode Conference 13 January 2002: W3C Team members will attend the Twentieth International Unicode Conference in Washington, DC, USA. On 29 January, Martin J. Duerst and Francois Yergeau give a tutorial titled "Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementations." On 30 January, Vincent Quint presents "Amaya: Towards an Internationalized Web Authoring Tool" and Chris Lilley presents "SVG: Vector Graphics meets Unicode." On 31 January, Martin Duerst gives a tutorial titled "UTF-8: Properties and Usage." http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc20/ SVG 1.1 and Mobile SVG Profiles Working Drafts Published 9 January 2002: The SVG Working Group has updated two Working Drafts. "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1" is a modularization of the SVG language used to build profiles. "Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic" defines SVG Tiny for highly restricted mobile devices, and SVG Basic for higher level mobile devices. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. Comments are welcome. Read more on the SVG home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-SVG11-20020108/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-SVGMobile-20020108/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ W3C Team Presentations in January 8 January 2002: Philippe Le Hegaret presented "A Short History of the Web" at the Faculty of Science, University of Nice, France on 8 January. On 10 January, Daniel Dardailler presented an "Update on W3C Technologies" and Vincent Quint spoke at Autrans 2002 "Internet au défi des usages" in Autrans (Vercors), France. On 22 January, Daniel Dardailler presents "Tools and standards: Evolution and perspectives" at the Benchmark Forum "Gestion de contenu Internet-Intranet" in Paris, France. On 23 January, Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk titled "Semantic Web: Toward Machine Processable Data on the Web" at the Cambridge-MIT Institute Distinguished Lecture Series "Innovation at the Boundaries" in Cambridge, MA, USA. On January 25, Ivan Herman gives a "W3C Overview" to employees of ETRI in Daejeon, Korea. On January 28, Ivan Herman presents "A Tour Around W3C XML Recommendations" at IDA in Singapore. http://www.autrans2002.org/index.php?rubrique=10 http://www.benchmark.fr/forumcontenu/ http://www.cmi.cam.ac.uk/ http://www.w3.org/Talks/2002/IH-ETRI/ http://www.w3.org/Talks/2002/IH-IDA/ W3C Device Independence Workshop Announced 7 January 2002: Registration is open through 11 February for the W3C Workshop on Delivery Context to be held at W3C/INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, France, on 4-5 March 2002. Participants will exchange ideas and develop a roadmap for the W3C Device Independence Activity work on delivery context, a term used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of their Web access mechanism. Position papers must be submitted by 11 February. http://www.w3.org/2001/12/2002-03-05-di-workshop -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative seattle, wa usa /--
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