Leading the Web to its Full Potential... http://www.w3.org/ 2000-11-25T06:50:45Z 21 November 2000: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Designers use an XSL style sheet to express how source content should be styled, laid out, and paginated onto a presentation medium such as a browser window, a pamphlet or a book. Please send comments and reports of implementation experience to xsl-editors@w3.org (archive) by 28 February, 2001. Read more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xsl-20001121/ 2000-11-21 24 November 2000: The W3C Jigsaw team has released the first Jigsaw WebDAV package. Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform. WebDAV is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote Web servers. http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/Doc/User/webdav 2000-11-24 23 November 2000: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool, used to demonstrate and test new Web protocols and data formats. Version 4.1 is a bug fix release for XHTML, MathML, SVG, and annotation support, and other features. Download Amaya binaries for Unix and Windows NT/95/98. Source code is also available. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ 2000-11-23 20 November 2000: The W3C Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Natural Language Semantics Markup Language for the Speech Interface Framework. This markup language is intended for use by systems that provide semantic interpretations for input such as speech and natural language text. Discussion takes place on www-voice@w3.org (archive). Read more about the Voice Browser Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-nl-spec-20001120/ 2000-11-20 17 November 2000: Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, was featured today from 3-5:00 p.m. EST in the debut episode of the VisionQuest Series, a student organized, globally broadcast forum. Airing biannually from Binghamton University, New York, USA, VisionQuest is distributed by satellite transmission and Web streaming (archive). http://www.vqfoundation.org/ 2000-11-17 17 November 2000: Winie version 1.0.7 is available for download. Winie is a free network utility to put files on the Web using HTTP/1.1. Version 1.0.7 features basic support for digest authentication, keyboard shortcuts, and bug fixes. Winie discussion takes place on the public mailing list www-winie@w3.org (archive). http://jigsaw.w3.org/Winie/ 2000-11-17 15 November 2000: As part of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Activity, the DOM Working Group has released a Working Draft of the DOM Level 3 Views and Formatting Specification. The draft proposes two ways to give a DOM application access to a view's computed layout and presentation. Please send comments to the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org (archive). http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-3-Views-20001115/ 2000-11-15 13 November 2000: W3C today released the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 as a W3C Recommendation. The specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C membership, who favor its adoption by the industry. "The DOM Level 2 Recommendation builds on the solid work done in DOM Level 1, and gives Web authors the power to move to XML for dynamic content," says Lauren Wood, Chair of the W3C DOM Working Group. Read the Press Release, Testimonials, and more about the DOM Activity. http://www.w3.org/2000/11/dom-level2-pressrelease 2000-11-13 13 November 2000: W3C is pleased to announce advancement of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 to Candidate Recommendation. MathML is an XML application that describes the presentation and content of mathematical notation. It enables mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the Web, just as HTML enables this functionality for text. Please send your comments to www-math@w3.org (archive) by 14 December. Learn more about the W3C Math Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-MathML2-20001113/ 2000-11-13 13 November 2000: On 9 November, W3C opened a new Office in Rabat, Morocco, at L'Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingnieurs, a higher education engineering school celebrating its 40th year that day. Daniel Dardailler, Vincent Quint, Philipp Hoschka, Thierry Michel, Karl Dubost, and Stephane Boyera of the W3C Team gave presentations. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/ 2000-11-13 13 November 2000: Five parts of DOM Level 2 have been advanced to W3C Recommendation status. The sixth component, the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification, has been published as a Working Draft, to ensure backwards compatibility, and to allow the W3C Working Groups to review it with the goal of resuming the W3C Recommendation track. Comments are invited on the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org (archive). http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20001113/ 2000-11-13