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W3C Weekly News 3 December - 10 December 2002 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ XML Encryption, Decryption Become W3C Recommendations 10 December 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium today released "XML Encryption Syntax and Processing" and "Decryption Transform for XML Signature" as W3C Recommendations. The specifications have been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor their adoption by industry. Encryption makes sensitive data confidential for storage or transmission. Read the press release and testimonials. http://www.w3.org/2002/12/xenc-pressrelease First Amaya Welcome Page Competition 10 December 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the first Welcome Page Competition for Amaya, W3C's editor/browser. Design the start page using W3C technologies such as HTML, XHTML, CSS style sheets, MathML expressions, and SVG drawings. Enter as often as you wish. Deadline for submissions is 3 February 2003. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/contest.html http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema Last Call Published 9 December 2002: The HTML Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema." Comments are welcome through 31 January. The document provides a complete set of XML Schema modules for XHTML, and allows document authors to modify modify and extend XHTML in a conformant way. Visit the HTML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20021209/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ EARL 1.0 Working Draft Published 6 December 2002: The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the "Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0." The specification explains how to use EARL, a general-purpose language for expressing test results, and defines a basic vocabulary. Feedback is welcome. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-EARL10-20021206/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ W3C Announces Home Page Redesign 5 December 2002: W3C is pleased to announce a home page redesign and accompanying FAQ. Written for newer, standards-compliant user agents in XHTML 1.0 strict, the design features table-less columns and more navigation for accessibility, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for layout. W3C welcomes your comments. http://www.w3.org/2002/11/homepage http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/ Multimodal Interaction Use Cases Published 5 December 2002: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released "Multimodal Interaction Use Cases" as a W3C Note. Airline reservations, driving directions, and name dialing from mobile terminals are analyzed. They highlight device requirements, event handling, network dependencies, and user interaction. Read about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-mmi-use-cases-20021204/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ W3C Co-Hosts XML 2002 4 December 2002: W3C is pleased to co-host XML 2002 being held 8-13 December in Baltimore, MD, USA. Chris Lilley participates in a Town Hall panel on the W3C Technical Architecture Group on 10 December. Philippe Le Hégaret presents W3C Update on 11 December and DOM Level 3 on 12 December. Daniel Weitzner and Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, will attend. http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/ Amaya 7.0 Released 3 December 2002: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. New features in version 7.0 include user interface enhancements, migration to the Raptor parser, and improved support for XML, SVG, and CSS. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 446 Member organizations and 74 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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