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W3C Weekly News 25 December 2002 - 15 January 2003 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG Are W3C Recommendations The World Wide Web Consortium released "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1" and "Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic" as W3C Recommendations. SVG delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them optimized for cellphones and pocket computers. Read the press release and testimonials. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-SVG11-20030114/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-SVGMobile-20030114/ http://www.w3.org/2003/01/svg11-pressrelease DOM Level 2 HTML Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium released the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification" as a W3C Recommendation. DOM Level 2 HTML is a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents. Read the press release, the testimonials and more about the DOM Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109/ http://www.w3.org/2003/01/doml2html-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/DOM/ Web Services Choreography Working Group Created W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Web Services Choreography Working Group as part of the Web Services Activity. Choreography describes linkages and usage patterns between Web services. The group is chartered to create the definition of a choreography, one or more languages built on WSDL 1.2 for describing choreography, and rules for choreographed Web services. Read the Working Group charter and more about W3C work on Web services. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/chor/ http://www.w3.org/2003/01/wscwg-charter http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ W3C Workshop on XForms Implementation Announced Registration is open through 21 February for the W3C Workshop on XForms Implementation to be held in Waltham, MA, USA on 27-28 February 2003. Participants must be in the XForms Working Group or have an XForms 1.0 implementation. Attendees will exchange experiences, hints and techniques, compare functionality, and discuss XForms 1.0 Candidate Recommendation issues. Visit the XForms home page. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2003/ImplementationWorkshop/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ W3C Team Presents at PAGE2003 in Tokyo, Japan W3C Team members will speak at PAGE2003 to be held 5-7 February in Tokyo, Japan. On 5 February, Yasuyuki Hirakawa, W3C Communications Team, presents an "Introduction to W3C"; Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C Device Independence Activity Lead, presents "Device Independence Authoring Techniques and standardization"; and Masayasu Ishikawa, W3C HTML Activity Lead, presents "XHTML 2.0." Registration is open. (in Japanese) http://www.jagat.or.jp/page/ EMMA Requirements Published The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released "Requirements for EMMA" as a W3C Note. The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language (EMMA) is an exchange mechanism between input processors and interaction management systems. Recognizers can annotate data such as confidence scores, time stamps, alternative and partial recognition, and key stroke, speech and pen input. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-EMMAreqs-20030113/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ Multimodal Interaction Requirements Published The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released "Multimodal Interaction Requirements" as a W3C Note. Derived from use case studies, the Note covers general issues, input, output, architecture, integration, synchronization points, runtimes and deployments. Read about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mmi-reqs-20030108/ http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ XML Schema: Component Designators Working Draft Published The XML Schema Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "XML Schema: Component Designators." The document defines a scheme for identifying the XML Schema components specified by the XML Schema Recommendation Part 1 and Part 2. Read about the XML Activity http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xmlschema-ref-20030109/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ Jigsaw 2.2.2 Released Jigsaw version 2.2.2 is available for download. The new version fixes bugs, adds performance enhancements and HTTP compliance fixes and features SSL support contributed by Thomas Kopp. Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform implemented in Java. http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/ http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/Activity XPointer xpointer() Scheme Working Draft Published The XML Linking Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "XPointer xpointer() Scheme." Used with the XPointer Framework Proposed Recommendation, the draft allows full addressing of portions of XML documents. It is based on XPath, and adds the ability to address strings, points, and ranges in accordance with definitions in DOM 2 Range. Read about the XML Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xptr-xpointer-20021219/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ W3C Team Talks in January * Rigo Wenning participated in the panel "Securite et liberte sur les reseaux: des objectifs contradictoires?" at Autrans 2003 in Autrans, France. * Sandro Hawke speaks about the Semantic Web on the panels "So What's New in Your Lab," "Intelligent Machines," and "Memes, Networks, and Epidemics" at Arisia '03 in Boston, MA, USA. http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 438 Member organizations and 71 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 European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered 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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