Welcome to the October 2007 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. Your link to the latest Consortium news and events... 1. Events 2. Last Call: CSS Mobile Profile 3. Last Call: XHTML Role Attribute Module 4. Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group Renewed 5. Policy Languages Interest Group Launched 6. Quality Assurance Activity Completes Its Work, QA Becomes the Q&A Weblog 7. Video on the Web: Call for Participation 8. XForms 1.0 Third Edition Is a W3C Recommendation 9. Enabling Read Access: Working Draft 10. Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 3.0: Working Draft 11. CSS Snapshot 2007: Working Draft 12. Behavioral Extensions to CSS: Working Draft 13. Selectors API: Working Draft 14. Language Bindings for DOM Specifications: Working Draft 15. Widgets 1.0: Working Draft 16. RDFa Primer: Working Draft 17. XMLHttpRequest Object for Ajax: Working Draft 18. Content Transformation Landscape 1.0: Working Draft 19. Progress Events 1.0: Working Draft 20. XML Signature and Encryption Workshop Report 1. Events W3C Technical Plenary Week Upcoming in Cambridge, USA W3C holds Technical Plenary Week on 5-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA. A record 39 W3C Working Groups plus the Advisory Committee and Advisory Board hold face-to-face meetings and network about the future of the Web. For the first time, members of the media are invited to join Plenary Day on Wednesday, 7 November, when program includes the developer community, discussion of HTML5 and XHTML2, and video on the Web. Read the media advisory. W3C thanks platinum sponsors BEA, Cisco, IBM and Nokia for their generous support of this meeting. Registration is required. Join W3C and attend the next Technical Plenary planned for October 2008 in France (tentative). http://www.w3.org/2007/11/TPAC/ http://www.w3.org/2007/11/TPAC/ http://www.w3.org/2007/10/tpac07-media http://www.w3.org/2007/03/ac-tp07-sponsorship http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35125/TPAC-Media/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join World Usability Day - 8 November 2007 World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. The focus for World Usability Day 2007 is healthcare. Whether it's new medical devices or technologies; drug research, approval, or delivery; patient forms or medical record sharing; emergency disaster planning; increasing the functionality of hospitals; or everyday healthcare delivery, EVERYONE is affected by usability in healthcare. For more information: * World Usability Day - http://www.worldusabilityday.org/ * Sydney - http://www.worldusabilityday.org/event/show/300 Tim Berners-Lee and One Web at Mobile Internet World Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) presents "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the Mobile Web with Open Standards" at Mobile Internet World, 13-15 November in Boston, MA, USA. W3C's Mobile Web Initiative holds a pre-conference Developers Summit on 13 November with initiative sponsors including Google, MobileAware, mTLD, Nokia, Opera Software, France Telecom Group and Vodafone to discuss the "One Web" vision and mobile standards. W3C hosts a media and analyst luncheon with the speakers on 14 November. Read the media advisory and about the Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/2007/10/miw-mediaadvisory http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ http://www.mobilenetx.com/media_contacts.shtml http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ http://www.w3.org/2007/11/mwi-boston http://www.w3.org/2007/10/miw-mediaadvisory http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ Writing for the Web Workshop, * Canberra - 16 November 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=108 Web Accessibility Workshop * Brisbane - 21 November 2007 These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements. They are targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals, business managers, along with content authors, web programmers, designers and web contract managers. Workshop website: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=51 2. Last Call: CSS Mobile Profile The CSS Working Group released a Working Draft of "CSS Mobile Profile 2.0." Comments are welcome through 15 November. This subset of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 is a baseline for implementations of CSS on constrained devices like mobile phones, written with "WICD Mobile 1.0" to ensure interoperability and for alignment with OMA's Wireless CSS Specification 1.1. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css-mobile-20071019/ http://www.w3.org/TR/WICDMobile/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ 3. Last Call: XHTML Role Attribute Module The XHTML2 Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of "XHTML Role Attribute Module." With the role attribute, authors can annotate XML languages with machine-readable semantic information about the purpose of elements. Use cases include accessibility, device adaptation, server-side processing and complex data description. The attribute can be integrated into any markup language based on "XHTML Modularization." Visit the XHTML2 home page. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-role-20071004/ http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ 4. Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group Renewed W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone) and Jo Rabin (mTLD) chair the group which is chartered to produce guidelines, checklists and best practice statements to enable the reach of the Web to be easily extended onto mobile devices. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/ http://www.w3.org/2007/03/MWBP-WG-charter.html http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/37584/join http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 5. Policy Languages Interest Group Launched W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Policy Languages Interest Group (PLING), chaired by Marco Casassa-Mont (HP Labs) and Renato Iannella (NICTA). The group is chartered to discuss interoperability, requirements and related needs for integrating and computing the results when different policy languages used together, for example, OASIS XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language), IETF Common Policy, and P3P (W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences). Participation is open to W3C Members and the public. Read about the Privacy Activity. http://www.w3.org/Policy/pling/ http://www.w3.org/Policy/2007/ig-charter.html http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List http://www.w3.org/Privacy/ 6. Quality Assurance Activity Completes Its Work, QA Becomes the Q&A Weblog We thank the thousands of people who participated in the QA Activity which has completed its work and closed as of 18 October 2007. However, we anticipate further developing the dialog with the community; we welcome your comments on the Q&A Weblog. W3C will continue to maintain and develop tools, the most popular resources on w3.org. We congratulate and thank Daniel Dardailler, Dominique Haza‘l-Massieux and Karl Dubost of W3C who led the Activity, Lofton Henderson (OASIS), Lynne Rosenthal (NIST), Patrick Curran (Sun Microsystems), and Karl Dubost and Olivier ThŽreaux (W3C) who served as Chairs. Read the QA Activity Statement and visit the Q&A Weblog. http://www.w3.org/QA/ http://www.w3.org/QA/Activity.html http://www.w3.org/QA/ 7. Video on the Web: Call for Participation Position papers are due 21 November for the Workshop on Video on the Web on 12-13 December 2007 in San Jose, California, USA, hosted by Cisco Systems. The Workshop goal is to help make video a first class Web citizen. Attendees will discuss topics such as the impact of video on the Web, user experience, search, accessibility, parental control, video production, description, digital rights, adaptation, mobile access, Web architecture, scalability, formats and delivery. Read about W3C Workshops. http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video-cfp.html http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ 8. XForms 1.0 Third Edition Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium today released "XForms 1.0 Third Edition" as a Recommendation. The document responds to implementor feedback, brings the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with second edition errata and reflects clarifications already implemented in XForms processors. XForms separates presentation and content, minimizes the need for scripting and round-trips to the server, and offers device independence. Visit the forms home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xforms-20071029/ http://www.w3.org/2006/03/REC-xforms-20060314-errata-diff-20070719.h tml http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_Implementations http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ 9. Enabling Read Access: Working Draft The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated Working Draft of "Enabling Read Access for Web Resources." Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20071001/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 10. Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 3.0: Working Draft The Math Working Group published an updated Working Draft of "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0." MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Version 3 adds features such as support for bidirectional text and elementary math. Learn more about the Math Activity. http://www.w3.org/Math/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20071005/ http://www.w3.org/Math/ 11. CSS Snapshot 2007: Working Draft The CSS Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007." All stable specifications that have been implemented for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language at all Levels are given in this single document as a guide for authors. The snapshot is not a guide to what features are implemented. The group expects it to be a future Working Group Note. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css-beijing-20071019/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ 12. Behavioral Extensions to CSS: Working Draft The CSS Working Group released an updated Working Draft of "Behavioral Extensions to CSS." Behavioral extensions provide a way to link to binding technologies such as XBL from CSS style sheets. Bindings thus can be selected using the CSS cascade and can transparently benefit from the user style sheet mechanism, media selection, and alternate style sheets. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-becss-20071019/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ 13. Selectors API: Working Draft The Web API Working Group released an updated Working Draft of "Selectors API." Widely used in CSS, selectors are patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. These methods are defined to retrieve element nodes from the DOM by matching against a group of selectors, and simplify the process of acquiring specific elements, especially compared with more verbose techniques used in the past. Visit the Web API home page. http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-selectors-api-20071019/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/ 14. Language Bindings for DOM Specifications: Working Draft The Web API Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of "Language Bindings for DOM Specifications." The draft specifies the IDL language for use by W3C specifications that define DOM interfaces and specifies conformance requirements for their ECMAScript and Java bindings. This guide for implementors of DOM specifications is also a reference for new ones, written to ensure conforming implementations of DOM interfaces are interoperable. Read about rich Web clients. http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-DOM-Bindings-20071017/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 15. Widgets 1.0: Working Draft The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0." Written for users to run in their Web browser environment, widgets are small applications that display and update remote data, for example, clocks, stock tickers, news casters, weather forecasters and games. The group is specifying widgets' packaging format, their configuration and processing model, launching by the user agent, version control, DOM APIs and events including communication between widgets, digital signing, accessibility, and discovery within HTML documents. Read about Rich Web Clients. http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-widgets-20071013/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 16. RDFa Primer: Working Draft The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML2 Working Group jointly published an updated Working Draft of the "RDFa Primer 1.0." The primer is an introduction to "RDFa," a method for embedding structured data in XHTML. Among changes in this draft are the term "chaining," previously called striping, and a new instanceof attribute. Visit the XHTML2 and Semantic Web home pages. http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20071026/ http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ 17. XMLHttpRequest Object for Ajax: Working Draft The Web API Working Group released an updated Working Draft of "The XMLHttpRequest Object." The core component of Ajax, the XMLHttpRequest object is an interface that allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20071026/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29 http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 18. Content Transformation Landscape 1.0: Working Draft The Content Transformation Task Force of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of "Content Transformation Landscape 1.0." This document identifies some issues surrounding the use of transforming proxies in the delivery of Web content. Discussion of these issues is expected to influence the (future) requirements document for Content Transformation Guidelines. Read about the Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/TaskForces/CT/ http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ct-landscape-20071025/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 19. Progress Events 1.0: Working Draft The Web API Working Group released an updated Working Draft of "Progress Events 1.0." These five events and their interfaces are used for data transfer in Ajax Web applications as described in "XHR" and for "media access events." When additional data is downloaded on demand, scripts can monitor progress, construct loading bars, and take action once data has been transferred. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-progress-events-20071023/ http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ http://www.w3.org/TR/MediaAccessEvents/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 20. XML Signature and Encryption Workshop Report The report of the Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML Encryption is available. The report shows strong interest in additional work on XML security at W3C. A basic signature profile, the referencing and transform models, updating the set of supported cryptographic algorithms, and revisiting XML canonicalization were seen as highest priority among the several topics identified by the participants. The Workshop was held in September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by VeriSign and chaired by Frederick Hirsch (Nokia) and Thomas Roessler (W3C). Read about W3C Workshops and about the Security Activity. http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/ws/report http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/ws/cfp http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/Security/Activity.html ________________________________________________________________________ ____ 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