Welcome to the July 2008 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office.
Your link to the latest Consortium news and events…
Events:-
1. W3C Australia - Building the Semantic Web (Cancelled)
Last calls:-
2. Last Call: CSS Color Module Level 3
3. Last Call: Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines
Reports & Working Drafts:-
4. Relationship Between Mobile Web and Web Content Accessibility Working
Draft Published
5. Note: Authoring Applications for the Multimodal Architecture
6. POWDER Formal Semantics First Working Draft Published
7. XML Entity definitions for Characters Draft Published
8. First Drafts of XQuery 1.1 and XQuery 1.1 Use Cases Published
9. Two Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Drafts Published: Format 1.0;
Evaluation
10.SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0 First Draft Published
1. W3C Australia - Building the Semantic Web (Cancelled)
Due to low registrations this event has been cancelled. We will still
be providing Mike Smith as a keynote speaker at Web Directions and we
will still be present at Web Directions South. So come along and learn
all about HTML 5 from the Co-Chair for the HTML 5 working group.
We intend to come back next year with some great activities. If you have
ideas or preferences for what sort of activities you would like W3C
Australia to host, please drop us a email.
2. Last Call: CSS Color Module Level 3
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the
Last Call Working Draft of “CSS Color Module Level 3.” CSS
(Cascading Style Sheets) is a language for describing the rendering
of HTML and XML documents on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. It
uses color related properties and respective values to color the
text, backgrounds, borders, and other parts of elements in a
document. This specification describes color values and properties
for foreground color and group opacity. These include properties and
values from CSS level 2 and new values. Comments are welcome through
01 September. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-color-20080721/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
3. Last Call: Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines
The Web Security Context Working Group has published the Last Call
Working Draft of “Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines.”
This specification deals with the trust decisions that users must
make online, and with ways to support them in making safe and
informed decisions where possible. In order to achieve that goal,
this specification includes recommendations on the presentation of
identity information by Web user agents. It also includes
recommendations on handling errors in security protocols. The error
handling recommendations both minimize the trust decisions left to
users, and represent known best practice in inducing users toward
safe behavior where they have to make these decisions. Comments are
welcome through 15 September. Learn more about the Security
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wsc-ui-20080724/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
4. Relationship Between Mobile Web and Web Content Accessibility Working
Draft Published
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education
and Outreach Working Group have published an updated Working Draft
of “Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)” “.” See the announcement
email. The groups encourage people to start by reading Web Content
Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for
People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices, which shows how
design goals for accessibility and mobile access overlap. A third
document, Experiences Shared by People with Disabilities and by
People Using Mobile Devices, provides examples of barriers that
people (without disabilities) face when interacting with Web content
via mobile devices, and similar barriers for people with
disabilities using desktop computers. Learn more about the Mobile
Web Initiative and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
http://www.w3.org/TR/mwbp-wcag
http://www.w3.org/TR/mwbp-wcag/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2008JulSep/0002
http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/experiences
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
5. Note: Authoring Applications for the Multimodal Architecture
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the Group
Note of “Authoring Applications for the Multimodal Architecture.”
This document provides a concrete illustration of a multimodal
application based on W3C’s “Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces”
(MMI Architecture) including the startup phase, how components find
each other and message transport. Learn more about the Multimodal
Interaction Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-mmi-auth-20080702/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-mmi-arch-20080414/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
6. POWDER Formal Semantics First Working Draft Published
The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
has published the First Public Working Draft of “Protocol for Web
Description Resources: Formal Semantics.” This document underpins
the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER). It describes
how the relatively simple operational format of a POWDER document
can be transformed through two stages, first into a more tightly
constrained XML format (POWDER-BASE), and then into an RDF/OWL
encoding (POWDER-S) that may be processed by Semantic Web tools. The
formal semantics of POWDER are best understood after the reader is
acquainted with the “Description Resources” and “Grouping of
Resources” documents. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-formal-20080709/
http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-dr/
http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-grouping/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
7. XML Entity definitions for Characters Draft Published
The Math Working Group has published the Working Draft of “XML
Entity definitions for Characters.” Many XML entity names are in
common use for mathematical symbols, and this specification aims to
provide standard mappings to Unicode for each of these names. Learn
more about the Math Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xml-entity-names-20080721/
http://www.w3.org/Math/
8. First Drafts of XQuery 1.1 and XQuery 1.1 Use Cases Published
The XML Query Working Group has published the First Public Working
Drafts of “XQuery 1.1″ and “XQuery 1.1 Use Cases.” The former
describes a query language called XQuery, which is designed to be
broadly applicable across many types of XML data sources. This
version of XQuery extends the version of the XQuery 1.0
Recommendation published on 23 January 2007; see the “list of
changes.” The latter document describes usage scenarios that will
impact the design of XQuery 1.1. Learn more about the Extensible
Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xquery-11-20080711/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xquery-11-use-cases-20080711/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xquery-11-20080711/#id-revision-log
http://www.w3.org/XML/
9. Two Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Drafts Published: Format 1.0;
Evaluation
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group published two Working
Drafts today: “Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0″ and
“Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation.” The former specifies the
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format. 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. The EXI format uses a hybrid
approach drawn from the information and formal language theories,
plus practical techniques verified by measurements, for entropy
encoding XML information. Using a relatively simple algorithm, which
is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a small set of
data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of XML event
streams. The latter document, a first public draft, is an evaluation
of the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 with reference to
the Properties identified by the (now closed) XML Binary
Characterization (XBC) Working Group, relative to XML, gzipped XML
and ASN.1 PER. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-20080728/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-evaluation-20080728/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
10.SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0 First Draft Published
The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of “SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0.” The work
described in this and related documents is aimed at a set of
standards for the transport of SOAP messages over Java Message
Service (JMS). The main purpose is to ensure interoperability
between the implementations of different Web services vendors. It
should also enable customers to implement their own Web services for
part of their infrastructure, and to have this interoperate with
vendor provided Web services. This document specifies bindings for
both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, using the SOAP 1.2 Protocol Binding
Framework. Learn more about the Web Services Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/soapjms/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-soapjms-20080723/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
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