Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Hello and welcome to the latest newsletter from the Australian W3C Office.
The CERN server went online on Christmas Day, 1990. When asked why, Tim said 'I wasn't thinking historically, but I had already been working on it for some time and it just seemed appropriate'. Tim's book 'Weaving the Web' is now available in paperback.
XHTML Basic is the minimal set of modules allowed in a profile of XHTML. It is aimed at Web clients that are unable to support all of XHTML (mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, settop boxes, vending machines, smart watches, car navigation systems, even Santa's sleigh). The aim is for XHTML Basic to be the common language supported by these devices. So what is in XHTML Basic? Well not too many surprises. The basic text facilities (paragraphs, headings, lists ) are included. Hyperlinking of course. The area which needed more thought is how complex should the facilities provided be for table handling and forms. The table handling provided includes <tr>, <th> and <td> and some of the alignment attributes but <col>, <colgroup> are not included. The forms facilities include <input> but not <button>.
The things not included are frames, scripting and the local <style> element (users are expected to use external stylesheets)
The complete set of tags allowed is:
a, abbr, acronym, address, base, blockquote, body, br, caption, cite, code, dd, dfn, div, dl, dt, em, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, head, html, img, input, kbd, label, li, link, meta, object, ol, option, p, param, pre, q, samp, select, span, strong, table, td, textarea, th, title, tr, ul, var.
Full details are at: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/
Dr Renato Iannella, Member of the W3C Advisory Board and Chief Scientist at IPR Systems Pty Ltd, will be giving a talk at the Online2001 Conference next week. The topic of Renato’s talk is Digital Rights Management issues for Libraries. Renato is also co-chairing the upcoming W3C DRM Workshop to be held on 22-23 January in Sophia-Antipolis, France
Online2001 Conference: http://www.csu.edu.au/special/online2001/
The W3C DRM Workshop URL is: http://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/
Mr Charles McCathieNevile will be joining Renato at the Online2001 Conference. Charles will be giving a presentation on the topic of Web Accessibility - present and future.
Online2001 Conference: http://www.csu.edu.au/special/online2001/
The Australian W3C Day will be held in conjunction with DSTC’s annual Evolve Conference in Sydney on the 7th May 2001 at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel at Darling Harbour. The W3C Day is sponsored by the Consortium and has attracted a number of high-profile speakers from the W3C Team and activity domain. Speakers include Dr Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices, Dr Hoylen Sue (XML), Dr Max Froumentin (XSL), Mr Dean Jackson (SVG), Dr Bert Bos (Styling), Mr Charles McCathieNevile (WAI) and Mr Graeme Innes (Australian Disability and Discrimination Act). These presentations will be complemented with appropriate tutorials.
More information on the event and sponsorship by contacting the conference co-ordinator Ms Kellie Shanahan (kellis@dstc.edu.au)
The registration fees for WWW10 have just been announced and Registration opens in the middle of January. The Early Bird date is 15 March. Information on registration fees and other aspects of the conference can be located at: http://www10.org/
The number of Members has risen to 487. We are approaching the 500 mark. New Members this month are:
Epesi Technologies: this Massachusetts based company provides XML-based technology to allow destination sites and portals to easily integrate commerce, content, and applications from other sites.
Gomid, Inc.: this Seoul-based company markets iConnector, a Java based Internet 2D / 3D Browser. Thousands of visitors to the stand at Comdex this year were able to browse the web in a 3D environment.
Ingine, Inc.: Ingine is a startup building high-performance profile and content data management products. Ingine uses caching and XML content management techniques to deliver infrastructure to Internet portals, B2B marketplaces, etc. Ingine's Active Edge technology provides high speed data delivery while its Ipedo Directory cache is aimed at fast directory searching.
Saba Software: this Californian company provides human capital development and management solutions. Internet-based learning, performance, resource and content management systems are some of its products.
Stilo Technology: this UK company provides a number of XML tools including XML Developer (a high-powered XML test message creation, editing and validation tool), WebWriter (an XML content authoring tool) and MathWriter (a MathML expressions editor).
Telera Inc.: this Californian company's Intelligent Communications Network (ICN) allows a standard Web server platform to deliver Voice XML messages. Its Interactive Voice Response Services were awarded Best of the Show at the ICCM Call Center Management Conference & Exposition this year.
Thinkpulse, Inc.: this San Jose company produces the smartX family of software products designed to simplify smart card-based application development and deployment.
TotalFinaElf: the oil company.
Volantis Systems Ltd.: based in the UK, Volantis offers a single content delivery platform optimising the presentation of content and services across many different kinds of devices, dynamically generating device-relevant content. The aim is to support a range of devices including mobile devices such as handheld PDAs, mobile phones, Interactive Digital Television (IDTV), information kiosks, games consoles, domestic home appliances and in-car systems.
Many thanks to the UK W3C Office for contributions.
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