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- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:36:23 -0500
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W3C Weekly News 16 October - 28 October 2002 Web Services Description Requirements Last Call Published 28 October 2002: The Web Services Description Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "Web Service Description Requirements." The document describes definitions and requirements for specifying application to application communication. Comments are welcome through 31 December. Read about the Web Services Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-desc-reqs-20021028/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity Working Draft of Authoring Challenges for Device Independence Published 25 October 2002: The Device Independence Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "Authoring Challenges for Device Independence." The draft describes the considerations that Web authors face in supporting access to their sites from a variety of different devices. It is written for authors, language developers, device experts and developers of Web applications and authoring systems. Read about the Device Independence Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-acdi-20021018/ http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Activity CSS3 Last Call Working Drafts Published 24 October 2002: The CSS Working Group has released two Last Call Working Drafts and welcomes comments on them through 27 November. "CSS3 module: text" is a set of text formatting properties and addresses international contexts. "CSS3 module: Ruby" is properties for ruby, a short run of text alongside base text typically used in East Asia. "CSS3 module: The box model" for the layout of textual documents in visual media is also updated. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-text-20021024/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-ruby-20021024/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-box-20021024/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases Published 24 October 2002: The first public Working Draft of "Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases" has been released. The draft illustrates correct OWL usage, the formal meaning of OWL constructs, and resolution of issues considered by the Web Ontology Working Group. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-owl-test-20021024/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ DOM Level 3 Core Working Draft Published 22 October 2002: The DOM Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification." The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. The draft introduces two new interfaces: 'TypeInfo' and 'DOMConfiguration'. Read about the DOM Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20021022/ http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Become a W3C Proposed Recommendation 17 October 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 14 November. Written for developers of user agents, the guidelines lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological). The companion "Techniques" Working Draft is updated. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-UAAG10-20021016/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20021016/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 447 Member organizations and 73 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________
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