Welcome to the August 2006 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. Your link to the latest Consortium news and events... 1. Events 2. CSS Module for Namespaces Updated 3. XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Workshop: Call for Participation 4. Web Forms 2.0: Working Draft 5. Web Applications Packaging: Working Draft 6. Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Advance Notice of Workshop 7. New Editions of Core XML Standards Published 8. Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles: Working Drafts 9. SVG Tiny 1.2 Is a Candidate Recommendation 10. Speech Experts Focus on Synthesis in More Languages 11. Web Services Policy 1.5: Working Drafts 1. Events Writing for the Web Workshop: Melbourne, 4 September; Sydney, 6 September; Perth, 20 September 2006 These practical workshops run by Vision Australia focus on enhancing the usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to communicate effectively with your readers. http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=685 Web Accessibility Workshop: Brisbane, 5 September 2006 This full-day workshop run by Vision Australia is targeted at web development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers. It provides a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to address them. It covers the World Wide Web Consortium's Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation and a consideration of assessment tools and techniques. http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/webworkshops/ Web Directions 2006: Sydney 26 - 29 September 2006 Web Directions 2006 will bring you another all star line up to inform, educate and inspire. With in depth, practical sessions on design and development with (X)HTML and CSS, user experience design, interaction development with Javascript and Ajax, information architecture, accessibly, RSS, user generated content and much more, this really is the conference to see this year, right here in Sydney Australia. http://webdirections.org/ W3C Talks Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events (also available as an RSS channel). http://www.w3.org/Talks/ 2. CSS Module for Namespaces Updated The CSS Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of CSS Module: Namespaces. The @namespace rule is used for declaring the default namespace and for binding namespaces to namespace prefixes. A syntax is defined that other specifications can adopt for using those prefixes in namespace-qualified names. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-namespace-20060828/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ 3. XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Workshop: Call for Participation W3C announces the Workshop on Gathering Requirements for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0 to be held 18 October in Heidelberg, Germany, hosted by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The Workshop will be held in conjunction with the Print Symposium at the same location. Participants will discuss the requirements, features and design of a future version of the formatting part of the Extensible Stylesheet Language also called XSL-FO. http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/2006-Workshop/ http://www.w3c.de/Events/2006/PrintSymposium_en.html http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ 4. Web Forms 2.0: Working Draft The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Forms 2.0. Extending HTML 4, XHTML 1.1 and the DOM, Web Forms 2.0 features include new strongly-typed input fields, attributes, declarative repeating of form sections, DOM interfaces, DOM events, and XML submission and initialization of forms. Web Forms 2.0 leverages the knowledge authors have gained with their experience with HTML. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-web-forms-2-20060821/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 5. Web Applications Packaging: Working Draft The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Applications Packaging Format Requirements. The document specifies design goals and requirements for packaging small client-side Web applications known as "widgets", "gadgets" or "modules," used to display and update remote data. Applications such as clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters are packaged to allow a single download and installation on a client machine. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WAPF-REQ-20060821/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 6. Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Advance Notice of Workshop W3C plans a Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries on 4-5 December in New Delhi, India, hosted by C-DAC, the site of the W3C India Office. Participants will discuss mobile Web access within developing countries, in terms of needs, blocking factors and potential uses. A Call for Participation for this Workshop is expected in September. Scholarships to cover travel costs will be available. http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 7. New Editions of Core XML Standards Published The World Wide Web Consortium today published new editions of four core XML standards: the fourth edition of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 and second editions of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1, Namespaces in XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML 1.1. These new editions incorporate corrections to all known errata. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names11-20060816/ http://www.w3.org/2006/07/xml-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/XML/ 8. Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles: Working Drafts Addressing Last Call comments, the Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four updated Working Drafts: Compound Document by Reference Framework, WICD Core 1.0, WICD Full 1.0, and WICD Mobile 1.0. The Web Integration Compound Document (WICD, pronounced "wicked") is a device independent Compound Document profile based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe behavior when single documents contain multiple formats. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CDR-20060811/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICD-20060811/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICDFull-20060811/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICDMobile-20060811/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 9. SVG Tiny 1.2 Is a Candidate Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 to Candidate Recommendation. With native support shipping in Opera and Firefox browsers on desktops, the SVG language describes interactive vector graphics, text, images, animation and graphical applications in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is designed for Web access by devices of all sizes from handhelds to desktops, automobile media centers and entertainment consoles. Two implementations of SVG Tiny 1.2 are already available, with more on the way. The Requirements document is also updated. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-SVGMobile12-20060810/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-SVGTiny12Reqs-20060810/ http://www.w3.org/2006/08/svgtiny-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2006/08/svgtiny-testimonial http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ 10. Speech Experts Focus on Synthesis in More Languages Participants in the second Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) have published their minutes and report. Speech and linguistics experts met on 30-31 May in Heraklion, Crete to study improvements to SSML for Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European languages such as Arabic, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Slovenian. W3C thanks FORTH for hosting. http://www.w3.org/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html http://www.w3.org/2006/02/SSML/minutes http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-voice/2006JulSep/0000 http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/ http://www.w3.org/2006/08/ssml-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join http://www.w3.org/Voice/ 11. Web Services Policy 1.5: Working Drafts The Web Services Policy Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of the Web Services Policy 1.5. 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. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20060731/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-attach-20060731/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ ________________________________________________________________________ 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