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2007-09-04: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Policy 1.5 as a Recommendation. The Policy Framework defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction. Attachment defines how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. Read the press release, the testimonials and about the Web Services Policy Working Group and Web services. (Permalink)
2007-07-12: W3C has named Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
to the position of Mobile Web Initiative Activity Lead. The W3C Mobile Web Initiative is a joint effort
by vendors, providers, manufacturers and mobile operators to make Web access
from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a
desktop device. Dominique first joined W3C as Webmaster, did early work on
GRDDL,
contributed to QA at W3C, served as
Team Contact for the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, serves as
co-Chair of the MWI Test Suites
Working Group, and works on mobileOK. W3C wishes to thank
Philipp Hoschka who previously led the Activity and continues his roles as
W3C Deputy Director for Europe and Ubiquitous Web Domain Leader. Read more
about W3C. (Permalink)
2007-07-10: The W3C Emotion Incubator Group, which includes representatives from sixteen institutions in eleven countries on three continents, published its final report. The report contains scope, requirements and use cases for a general-purpose Emotion Markup Language. This publication is part of the W3C experimental Incubator Activity that develops new, potentially foundational technologies and Web-based applications in a rapid time frame. (Permalink)
2007-07-10: W3C is pleased to participate in The Days of Web Standards 2007, one of the largest Web-related events in Japan. Web developers and designers will gather on 15 July in Tokyo to discuss the usefulness and pleasure in using Web standards and how they are popular. Members of the W3C staff, Karl Dubost, Tatsuya Hagino, Olivier Thereaux present and Yasuyuki Hirakawa runs a booth. Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
2007-06-27: The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 as a Recommendation in three parts: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Adjuncts. "In addition to the rigorous interoperability testing, we're pleased to have given developers the HTTP binding, which provides simple Web-friendly access to a service," said Jonathan Marsh (WSO2), Working Group co-Chair. WSDL models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. WSDL SOAP 1.1 Binding, Additional MEPs and RDF Mapping have been published as Working Group Notes. Read the testimonials and press release and about Web services. (Permalink)
2007-06-12: The W3C Advisory Committee has filled four open seats on the W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG), Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don Deutsch (Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia) and Arun Ranganathan (AOL). Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board. (Permalink)
2007-06-08: The Web of Services for Enterprise
Computing Workshop Report is now available, recommending next steps for
the ways Web services and Web standards can meet enterprise software
requirements. In February, Web services and SOA experts met to improve enterprise
support. Read the results of the Workshop on Web of Services for
Enterprise Computing hosted by MITRE, about Workshops and about Web services. (Photo
credit: Paul Downey. Permalink)
2007-06-05: The W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of
Distributed Web Applications is underway 5-6 June in Dublin, Ireland.
"Attendees will discuss how developers can focus on applications and end-user
experience, leaving the details for how they are to be realized to tools that
deal with the capabilities and shortcomings of each device," said Dave
Raggett, W3C
Fellow. Declarative techniques promise to reduce the cost of building Web
applications for home, office and mobile environments. The Workshop is
looking at the role of XML and Semantic Web technologies in achieving that
goal, along with the challenges for dealing with security and privacy. The
Workshop is hosted by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State
Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Read the press release, about
W3C Workshops and about
the Ubiquitous Web. (Photo credit: Marie-Claire Forgue. Permalink)
2007-07-19: W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
2.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Implementation feedback is welcome
through 20 December. CSS is one of the Web's most widely implemented
languages. By separating the presentation of style from the content of
documents, CSS simplifies Web authoring and site maintenance. CSS 2.1 is
derived from and is intended to replace CSS Level 2. A snapshot of usage, the
specification brings the language in line with implementations, fixes errata
and adds a few highly requested features including the
inline-block value for the display property, the
color orange and the values pre-wrap and
pre-line for the white-space property. Visit the
CSS home page. (Permalink)
2007-07-16: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of GRDDL and GRDDL Test Cases to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 24 August. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is used to extract RDF statements from XHTML and XML content using programs such as XSLT. Read about the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
2007-07-16: The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0. EXI is a very compact representation for the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of computational resources. Using a relatively simple algorithm and a small set of data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of XML event streams. Learn more about XML. (Permalink)
2007-07-13: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XHTMLâ„¢ Basic 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. The specification adds four new features for small devices which are the language's primary users. Version 1.1 is intended to be the convergence of the XHTML Basic 1.0 W3C Recommendation for mobile devices, released in coordination with the WAP Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XHTML Mobile profile. Implementation feedback is welcome through 31 August. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)
2007-07-13: The SYMM Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0). This the third version of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile"), an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. This version will extend the functionality of SMIL 2.1, facilitate the reuse of SMIL syntax and semantics in other XML-based languages, and define new SMIL profiles. Comments are welcome through 14 September. Learn more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity. (Permalink)
2007-06-11: The Voice Browser Working Group released updated Working Drafts of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 and its Requirements. Version 1.1 improves on W3C's SSML 1.0 Recommendation by adding support for more conventions and practices of the world's languages including Asian, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern languages. Both documents follow discussions from the three W3C Workshops on extending SSML. See the January 2007 press release and visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)
2007-06-06: The CSS Working Group released an updated Candidate Recommendation for editorial changes to Media Queries, a module of Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Built on the mechanism outlined in HTML, a registry of media types is proposed to describe to what type of devices a style sheet applies, and expressions to limit a style sheet's scope. Presentations can then be tailored to a specific range of output devices without changing the content. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
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