Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Hello and welcome to the newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on regional activities, XML, Amaya, DOM and Xpointer.
W3C Team Member, Dean Jackson will give a talk on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): High Quality Interactive Web Graphics at the Open Publish 2002 Conference on the 31 July in Sydney.
Open Publish 2002: http://www.openpublish.com.au/
The Australian W3C Office, in conjunction with a number of W3C Members, presents a free seminar - W3C and Web Services. Web services is a hot topic today, because it promises to be the foundation of the Web tomorrow. We have all seen the impact and benefits of the Web. Web services will enable the Web to be even more powerful and useful. The W3C is developing the specifications for Web Services. It is a vendor neutral organisation and it is committed to keeping the Web open and interoperable - vital ingredients for the success of the Web. Building on the success of HTML, XML and other W3C technologies, Web Services will help us realise the full potential of the Web.
Locations:
Brisbane in conjunction with DSTC Pty Ltd, SEAQ and the Queensland Information
Industries Bureau
Venue: TBA
Date: 22 August 2002
Time: 5.30pm
Melbourne, POSTPONED until later in 2002
Adelaide in conjunction with education.au
Venue: TBA, Date: August
To register for any of the above seminars please complete the following and email to: w3c-australia@w3.org
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Further information: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
The Australian W3C Office invites you to attend our forthcoming W3C Day. The day will provide overviews and information on the topical activities in W3C domains and is open to all with an interest in the W3C and its technologies.
This year’s programme covers: TAG, XML Protocol, XML Encryption, Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), Accessibility and the Semantic Web. Presenters will include a number of high-profile W3C Activity and Team members and the day will be chaired by Ms Janet Daly, W3C Head of Communications. (Some presentations will be complemented by appropriate tutorials). A full programme will be available in due course.
W3C Day: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/w3c.html
The Australian W3C Office is pleased to sponsor OZeWAI 2002
There are a number of people who are concerned about the content on web pages being accessible only to those who have the 'right' browser, the 'right' model computer or whatever - and realise that most content on the web is not accessible to people who have alternative devices, especially people who are dependent upon alternative devices because they have a disability. Aussie web content accessibility information is for Australians concerned with this problem. The law is different in Australia from other countries, the needs of Australians are our major concern - so OZeWAI 2002 is about how to make sure that all Australians have equal access to Australian web content of interest to them. We also want to ensure that as Australians, we put content on the web in ways that will make it accessible to everyone, everywhere.
OZeWAI 2002: http://ozewai.org/2002/
The W3C announced the release of Exclusive XML Canonicalization as a W3C Recommendation. This specification augments the previous Canonical XML Recommendation to better enable a portion of an XML document (i.e., a fragment) to be as portable as possible while preserving the digital signature. It works in combination with XML Signatures, the W3C Recommendation produced jointly by W3C and the IETF in February, representing cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language for digital signatures.
Media Release: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/c14n-pressrelease
Exclusive XML Canonicalization: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718/
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 6.2 is internationalized and includes more encodings. New features include easier install on Windows; a choice of typical, compact, or custom installation; German documentation thanks to Rudolf Troeller; and CSS, SVG, STIX font, and Annotea icon enhancements. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
Amaya Homepage: http://www.w3c.org/Amaya/
Download Amaya: http://www.w3c.org/Amaya/User/BinDist
Source code: http://www.w3c.org/Amaya/User/SourceDist
Annotea Homepage: http://www.w3c.org/2001/Annotea/
W3C recently announced the Director's decision on the the Voice Browser Patent Advisory Group results. Based on two months of Advisory Committee review and the substantial number of comments received, the Voice Browser Working Group will be rechartered as a royalty-free (RF) Working Group. The Working Group will re-examine its specifications in order to arrive at RF core versions, removing features that require technology which is not available on a RF basis.
Voice Browser Working Group: http://www.w3.org/Voice/Group/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Media Queries to Candidate Recommendation. This module of the upcoming CSS3 specification proposes a registry of media types to describe what type of devices a style sheet applies to, and expressions to limit a style sheet's scope. Comments are invited.
Media Queries: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-css3-mediaqueries-20020708/
CSS homepage: http://www.w3c.org/Style/CSS/
The Web Services Description Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the Web Services Description Language 1.2 and bindings for use with SOAP 1.2, HTTP, and MIME. WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information.
Web Services Description Language 1.2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsdl12-20020709/
Bindings: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsdl12-bindings-20020709/
Web Services Homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Media release: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/wsdl12-pressrelease
The Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the DOM Level 3 Events specification. Comments are welcome through 16 August. Language and platform neutral, the system allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides context for each event.
DOM Level 3 Events: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20020712/
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/
DOM Activity: http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity
The XML Linking Working Group has released four Working Drafts, three in Last Call. Comments are welcome through 31 July. The XPointer Framework is an extensible system for XML addressing and underlies additional schemes. The element() scheme allows basic addressing of XML elements, the xmlns() scheme is for interpreting namespace prefixes in pointers, and xpointer() scheme allows full XML addressing.
Xpointer Framework: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xptr-framework-20020710/
element() scheme: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xptr-element-20020710/
xmlns(): http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xptr-xmlns-20020710/
xpointer(): http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xptr-xpointer-20020710/
XML Activity: http://www.w3.org/XML/
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/
The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of requirements for the Ontology Web Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management.
Web Ontology Working Group: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/
Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-webont-req-20020708/
Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Thanks to the W3C UK Office for contributions to this newsletter.
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