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- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:41:11 -0500
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W3C Weekly News
4 December - 11 December 2003
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Kofi Annan, Tim Berners-Lee Greet the World Summit Event for Schools
Students and educators participating in the World Summit on the
Information Society are laying the foundation for a global
infrastructure of school networks and a culture of peace. On
10 December in cooperation with the CERN SIS-Forum in Geneva,
Switzerland, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and W3C Director Tim
Berners-Lee sent an email to summit participants at 800 schools in 80
countries using the NeXT computer that was used to invent the World
Wide Web. The U.N. Cyberschoolbus and the European Schoolnet
co-organized the World Summit Event for Schools.
http://sis-forum.web.cern.ch/SIS-Forum/Public-v1/4Media_events/Media_top.htm
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=9157&Cr=wsis&Cr1=
C.M. Sperberg-McQueen Wins XML Cup 2003
Michael Sperberg-McQueen of the W3C and Adam Bosworth of BEA received
the XML Cup 2003 at the IDEAlliance XML 2003 conference today in
Philadelphia, PA, USA. The cup is awarded to industry visionaries and
pioneers for contributions to the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Visit the XML home page.
http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/
http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
XML Infoset Second Edition Is a Proposed Edited Recommendation
The XML Core Working Group has published the "XML Information Set,
Second Edition" (Infoset) as a Proposed Edited Recommendation. The
document updates the Infoset to cover XML 1.1 and Namespaces 1.1,
clarifies the consequences of certain kinds of invalidity, and
corrects typographical errors. The Infoset defines a set of eleven
types of information items in XML documents. Comments are welcome
through 15 January 2004.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PER-xml-infoset-20031210/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Last Call: Architecture of the World Wide Web
The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released a Last Call
Working Draft of the "Architecture of the World Wide Web, First
Edition." The document is written for Web developers, implementers,
content authors and publishers. It describes the properties that are
desired of the Web and the design choices that have been made to
achieve them. Comments are invited through 5 March 2004. Read the
press release and visit the TAG home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webarch-20031209/
http://www.w3.org/2003/12/tag-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
Working Draft: HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
released the first public Working Draft of "HTML Techniques for
WCAG 2.0." The draft provides information to Web content developers
who wish to satisfy the success criteria of "Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0," currently a Working Draft. Feedback is welcomed.
Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20031209/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Working Draft: Mobile SVG Profiles Version 1.2
The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released the
first public Working Draft of "Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG
Basic, Version 1.2." The draft defines two mobile profiles of SVG 1.2:
SVG Tiny 1.2, suitable for cellphones, and SVG Basic 1.2,
written for PDAs. Comments are welcome. Visit the SVG home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-SVGMobile12-20031209/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
SVG Tiny Version 1.2 Requirements Published
The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released the
first public Working Draft of "SVG Tiny Version 1.2 Requirements."
Delivering Web vector graphics, text, and images to mobile phones,
SVG Tiny 1.2 adds features from SVG 1.2 and is based on implementor
and designer feedback on SVG Tiny 1.1. Comments are welcome.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-SVGTiny12Reqs-20031209/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
W3C Talks in December (continued)
* David Booth presented at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Computer Science Colloquium in Worcester, MA, USA on 5 December.
* Tim Berners-Lee participated in the roundtable "Taking
Responsibility in the Information Age" in Geneva, Switzerland on
9 December.
* Tim Berners-Lee gave a lecture and participated in a panel at the
Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) conference held
at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland on 9 December.
* Tatsuya Hagino participates in a panel at OracleWorld Tokyo in
Tokyo, Japan on 17 December.
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS
channel.
http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 379 Member organizations and 69
Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international
industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) 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/
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