Welcome to the August 2007 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. Your link to the latest Consortium news and events... 1. Events 2. New Australian W3C Member - BoaB Interactive 3. Patent Advisory Group Recommends W3C Stop Work on Remote Events for XML (REX 1.0) 4. Open Mobile Web Test Suite: Call for Contributions 5. New W3C Markup Validator Unveiled 6. Web Services Policy Primer and Guidelines for Authors: Working Drafts 7. Box Model and Advanced Layout: CSS3 Working Drafts 8. Distributed Web Applications: Workshop Report 9. Incubator Group Report: Image Annotation 10. Service Modeling Language (SML): Working Drafts 1. Events W3C Australian Office - W3C Special Interest Group Day 26 September 2007 This year, Web Directions are proud to be hosting the W3C’s Special Interest Group day, in conjunction with the W3C’s Australian Office. It’s a whole day seminar covering the latest developments from the World Wide Web Consortium. * 26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSS. Bert Bos gives a lecture at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day. * 27 September, Sydney, Australia: A new life for old standards. Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South. * 27 September, Sydney, Australia: Web Directions breakfast. Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South. W3CSIG web site: http://www.webdirections.org/program/workshops/#w3csig Writing for the Web Workshop, * Brisbane 11 September 2007 * Sydney 26 September 2007 Vision Australia is partnering with respected usability and accessibility expert Dey Alexander to offer a unique Writing for the Web workshops. Dey is co-convenor of the Web Accessibility Network of Australian Universities and is a regular presenter on useable and accessible web writing to the education, corporate and government sectors. Focusing on excellent content writing, this practical workshop complements the Vision Australia Web Accessibility Workshops. Workshop web site: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=46 http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=50 2. New Australian W3C Member - BoaB interactive Welcome to BoaB Interactive, an Australian company that has become a member of the W3C. To read about BoaB Interactive: http://www.boabinteractive.com.au http://www.w3c.org.au/newsletters/BoabProfile.pdf 3. Patent Advisory Group Recommends W3C Stop Work on Remote Events for XML (REX 1.0) A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for the WebAPI and SVG Working Groups has published its report, which suggests that W3C stop work on "Remote Events for XML (REX) 1.0." W3C launched the PAG when France Telecom excluded patent claims from the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Commitment. W3C continues work on a future, differently scoped version of REX in the Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group. W3C appreciates the cooperation from the patent holder, France Telecom, in helping the PAG reach their conclusion. http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rex-pag/rex-pag-report.html http://www.w3.org/TR/rex/ http://www.w3.org/News/2007/News/2006#item256 http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/Overview.html#se c-Requirements http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ 3. Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a Proposed Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata" to Proposed Recommendation. The specification is used to indicate support for the "Web Services Addressing 1.0 mechanisms" using the "Web Services Policy 1.5 framework" and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in "WSDL." Comments are welcome through 30 August. Read about the Web Services Addressing Working Group and about Web services. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-ws-addr-metadata-20070731/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/ http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-policy/ http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 4. Open Mobile Web Test Suite: Call for Contributions The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group is launching an Open Mobile Web Test Suite built by the community for the community to describe support for technologies in mobile Web browsers available today. Mobile Web developers can submit test cases (as described in the submissions guidelines) illustrating authoring practices. Submissions will contribute to a better understanding of the current limitations of user agents, which helps pave the way to better mobile Web browsers tomorrow. Read the Call for Contributions and about the Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/ http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/Open/submit http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/Open/submission http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mwts/2007Jul/0020 http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 5. New W3C Markup Validator Unveiled W3C's most popular service just got better, prettier, faster, and smarter. The W3C Markup Validator has a new user interface and a validation engine with improved accuracy and performance. Among new features are an automatic cleanup option using HTML Tidy, and checking of HTML fragments. Driven by W3C as an open-source software project, the markup validator is made by Web professionals for Web professionals, and aims to be a major step in any Web development quality process. Read the change log for a list of all changes and new features. http://validator.w3.org/ http://validator.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/Status http://validator.w3.org/whatsnew.html 6. Web Services Policy Primer and Guidelines for Authors: Working Drafts The Web Services Policy Working Group released two updated Working Drafts. The "Primer" introduces the policy language and policy attachment mechanisms. The "Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors" provide best practices for creating policy assertions. Both are companions to the Web Services Policy 1.5 "Framework" and "Attachment" specifications. Read about Web services. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/policy/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-primer-20070810/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-guidelines-20070810/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-20070706/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-attach-20070706/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 7. Box Model and Advanced Layout: CSS3 Working Drafts The CSS Working Group released two updated Working Drafts for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3. "The CSS basic box model" describes the basic layout of textual documents in visual media. The "CSS3 Advanced Layout Module" defines visual order independent of document order, position and alignment of user interface widgets, and page and window grids. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work.html http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-box-20070809/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-layout-20070809/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ 8. Distributed Web Applications: Workshop Report The report of the Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications is available. The report recommends that W3C create requirements for declarative modeling of Web applications, and a gap analysis that identifies where existing standards are insufficient. The Workshop was hosted in Dublin by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Read about W3C Workshops and about the Ubiquitous Web. http://www.w3.org/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/ http://www.w3.org/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/report.html http://www.w3.org/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/ http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ 9. Incubator Group Report: Image Annotation The Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group published their report on Image Annotation on the Semantic Web. The report describes the use of RDF and OWL to create, store, exchange and process information about images. The previously published Multimedia Vocabularies on the Semantic Web discusses a number of individual vocabularies that are relevant for image annotation. Both publications are part of the Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-image-annotation/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-vocabularies/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ 10. Service Modeling Language (SML): Working Drafts The Service Modeling Language (SML) Working Group released the First Public Working Drafts of the "Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1" and its "Interchange Format." SML is used to model complex services and systems including their structure, constraints, policies and best practices. Based on XML Schema and Schematron, SML allows inter-document references and user-defined constraints. Read more about XML. http://www.w3.org/XML/SML/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-sml-20070806/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-sml-if-20070806/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ ________________________________________________________________________ ____ For previous newsletters from the Australian W3C Office please visit http://w3c.org.au/newsletters/ If you are a W3C Member and would like to contribute relevant news please email us at w3c-australia@w3.org If you know of others who would like to receive this newsletter please direct them to http://w3.org.au