Australian W3C Office

Hello and Happy New Year! Welcome to the January ’03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on DOM; EMMA; Multimodal Interaction; Jigsaw and XML Schema.

1. New Generation of the W3C Markup Validator Released
2. EMMA Requirements Published
3. Multimodal Interaction Requirements Published
4. Jigsaw 2.2.2 Released
5. XML Schema: Component Designators Working Draft Published
6. Working Draft of QA Test Guidelines Published
7. W3C to Moved European Host to ERCIM
8. DOM Level 2 HTML Is a W3C Recommendation
9. About this newsletter

1. New Generation of the W3C Markup Validator Released

W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. Changes include improved result pages, accessibility fixes, restructured code and design, and more MathML, XHTML and SVG support. Feedback is welcome. The announcement names contributors and has release notes.

URL:

Markup Validation Service: http://validator.w3.org/
Feedback: http://validator.w3.org/feedback
Announcement: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Nov/0221

2. EMMA Requirements Published

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released Requirements for EMMA is an exchange mechanism between input processors and interaction management systems. Recognisers can annotate data such as confidence scores, time stamps, alternative and partial recognition, and key stroke, speech and pen input.

URLs:

Requirements for EMMA: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-EMMAreqs-20030113/
Multimodal Interaction homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

3. Multimodal Interaction Requirements Published

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released Multimodal Interaction Requirements as a W3C Note. Derived from use case studies, the Note covers general issues, input, output, architecture, integration, synchronisation points, runtimes and deployments.

URLs:

Multimodal Interaction Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mmi-reqs-20030108/

4. Jigsaw 2.2.2 Released

Jigsaw version 2.2.2 is available for download. The new version fixes bugs, adds performance enhancements and HTTP compliance fixes and features SSL support contributed by Thomas Kopp. Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform implemented in Java.

URLs:

Jigsaw version 2.2.2: http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/
Jigsaw: http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/Activity

5. XML Schema: Component Designators Working Draft Published

The XML Schema Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of XML Schema: Component Designators. The document defines a scheme for identifying the XML Schema components specified by the XML Schema Recommendation Part 1 and Part 2.

URLs:

Component Designators: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xmlschema-ref-20030109/
Recommendation Part 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/
Recommendation Part 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/
XML Activity: http://www.w3.org/XML/

6. Working Draft of QA Test Guidelines Published

The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released the first published Working Draft of the QA Framework: Test Guidelines. The document defines a set of common guidelines for conformance test materials for W3C specifications.

URL:

QA Framework: Test Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-test-20021220/
QA Homepage: http://www.w3.org/QA/
QA Activity: http://www.w3.org/QA/Activity

7. W3C to Moved European Host to ERCIM

W3C changed its European Host on 1 January 2003 from INRIA to the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). MIT in North America, Keio University in Asia and now ERCIM in Europe are W3C's three global partners and physical headquarters called "hosts." The move allows W3C to foster research relationships throughout Europe, while maintaining ties to INRIA, one of the ERCIM founders.

URL:

ERCIM: http://www.ercim.org/
MIT: http://www.lcs.mit.edu/
Keio University: http://www.keio.ac.jp/
INRIA: http://www.keio.ac.jp/
Press release: http://www.w3c.org/2002/11/ercim-pressrelease
Testimonials: http://www.w3c.org/2002/11/ercim-testimonial

8. DOM Level 2 HTML Is a W3C Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium recently released the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification as a W3C Recommendation. DOM Level 2 HTML is a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents.

URLs:

Level 2 HTML Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109/
Press release: http://www.w3.org/2003/01/doml2html-pressrelease
Testimonials: http://www.w3.org/2003/01/doml2html-testimonial
DOM Activity: http://www.w3.org/DOM/

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