W3C Weekly News - 8 November 2003

                             W3C Weekly News

                       2 November - 8 November 2003

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XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 Are W3C Proposed Recommendations

   W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Extensible Markup
   Language (XML) 1.1" and "Namespaces in XML 1.1" to Proposed
   Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 5 December. XML 1.1
   addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending issues.
   Namespaces 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a
   mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Read about the XML Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xml11-20031105/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xml-names11-20031105/
    http://www.w3.org/XML/

DOM Level 3 Core, and Load and Save Are W3C Candidate Recommendations

   W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of two Document Object
   Model (DOM) specifications to Candidate Recommendations. With "DOM
   Level 3 Core," software developers and Web script authors can access
   and manipulate HTML and XML content. "DOM Level 3 Load and Save"
   allows programs and scripts to dynamically load the content of an XML
   document into a DOM document and serialize a DOM document into an XML
   document. Comments are welcome through 30 November. "DOM Level 3
   Events" was published as a Working Group Note. Visit the DOM home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-Core-20031107/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-LS-20031107/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-Events-20031107/
    http://www.w3.org/DOM/

W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML: Report and Minutes

   The report and minutes have been published from the W3C Workshop on
   Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets held in Santa Clara,
   CA, USA on 24-26 September. All of the more than 40 position papers
   are publicly available. The workshop concluded that research is
   needed before W3C would produce any specifications in this area, and
   recommended that a Working Group be proposed to the W3C Membership.
   W3C thanks host Sun Microsystems, and all 60 attendees for their
   participation. Visit the XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/binary-interchange-workshop/Report
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/binary-interchange-workshop/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Working Draft: Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests

   The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released the first
   public Working Draft of "Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented
   Anti-Robot Tests." Requests for visual verification of a bitmapped
   image pose problems for those who are blind, have low vision, or have
   a learning disability such as dyslexia. The draft examines ways for
   systems to test for human users while preserving access for users
   with disabilities. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web
   Accessibility Initiative.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-turingtest-20031105/
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Working Draft: Authoring Techniques for Device Independence

   The Device Independence Working Group has released the first public
   Working Draft of "Authoring Techniques for Device Independence." The
   document provides a summary of several techniques and best practices
   that Web site authors and solution providers may employ when creating
   and delivering content to a diverse set of access mechanisms. Learn
   more about the W3C Device Independence Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-di-atdi-20031106/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/di/

Amaya 8.2 Pre-Release

   Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Available for testing,
   the 8.2 pre-release includes new features and enhancements for
   selection, CSS and CSS debugging, backup files, loaded objects and
   images, undo, structure and source view, SVG, HTML, and annotations.
   Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian
   and RPM packages. Source code is available. The final is expected
   about 12 November. Visit the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page.

    http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/

W3C Talks in November (continued)

   * Philipp Hoschka and Dave Raggett present at the ITU Workshop
     on Standardization in Telecommunications for motor vehicles in
     Geneva, Switzerland on 24-25 November.
   * Marie-Claire Forgue runs the W3C booth at Integration 2003:
     XML & Web Services in Paris, France on 26-27 November.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS
   channel.

    http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/

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