Australian W3C Office

Hello and welcome to the newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on SOAP, Amaya, Namespaces, XHTML and Accessibility.

1. Technology Awareness Briefing - Canberra
2. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Become a W3C Recommendation
3. SOAP Version 1.2 Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation
4. Namespaces 1.1 Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation
5. XHTML 2.0 Working Draft Published
6. Richard Ishida Co-Chairs Internationalization & Unicode Conference
7. Delivery Context Working Draft Published
8. Amaya 7.1 Released
9. MathML 2.0 Second Edition Working Draft Published
10. About this newsletter

1. Technology Awareness Briefing - Canberra

Recently the Australian W3C Office in conjunction with DSTC, The National Library of Australia, and The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) held a free Technology Awareness Briefing in Canberra. The session leveraged off the outcomes of our recent events in Sydney including the W3C Day.

URL:

Photos and presentations from the briefing are now available at: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Tech_Transfer/Events/present_cnb.html

2. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Become a W3C Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium recently released User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Written for software developers as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative, the guidelines explain how to design browsers and media players that lower barriers to the Web for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological) and improve usability for all users. Companion techniques are updated.

URLs:

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-UAAG10-20021217/
Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Companion Techniques: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-UAAG10-TECHS-20021217/

3. SOAP Version 1.2 Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SOAP Version 1.2 to Candidate Recommendation. The specification is in three parts: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Messaging Framework and Part 2: Adjuncts. Publicly developed, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralised, distributed environment. Comments are welcome.

URLs:

Primer: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-soap12-part0-20021219/
Messing Framework: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-soap12-part1-20021219/
Adjuncts: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-soap12-part2-20021219/
Web Services Activity: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

4. Namespaces 1.1 Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Namespaces in XML 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Identified by IRI references, namespaces qualify element and attribute names in XML documents. Version 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Comments are welcome through 14 February.

URLs:

Namespaces in XML 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xml-names11-20021218/
XML Activity: http://www.w3.org/XML/

5. XHTML 2.0 Working Draft Published

The HTML Working Group has released the third Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2.0 is a relative of the Web's familiar publishing languages, HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 and 1.1, and is not intended to be backward compatible with them. The draft contains the XHTML 2.0 markup language in modules for creating rich, portable Web-based applications. Comments are welcome.

URLs:

XHTML 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml2-20021218/
HTML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

6. Richard Ishida Co-Chairs Internationalization & Unicode Conference

Richard Ishida of the W3C Team has become co-chair of the Internationalization & Unicode Conference. The event (renamed from "Unicode Conference" to more accurately reflect its content) is the premier technical conference worldwide for both software and Web internationalisation. The W3C Internationalization Activity is pleased to be able to reaffirm in this way its longstanding and beneficial association with the event. The 23rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference (IUC23) is to be held on 24-26 March 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic.

URL:

Richard Ishida: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
Internationalization & Unicode Conference: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc23/
W3C Internationalization Activity: http://www.w3.org/International/

7. Delivery Context Working Draft Published

The Device Independence Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence. Delivery context is a term used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms.

URL:

Overview for Device Independence: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-di-dco-20021213/
Device Independence Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Activity

8. Amaya 7.1 Released

Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 7.1 is a bug fix release with SVG, MathML, and printing enhancements. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea homepage.

URLs:

Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Download Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist
Source Code: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/SourceDist
Annotea homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/

9. MathML 2.0 Second Edition Working Draft Published

The Math Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2nd Edition) . MathML 2.0 is an XML application that allows mathematical notation and content to be served, received, and processed on the Web. The 2nd edition contains clarifications and errata corrections. Comments are welcome.

URLs:

Version 2.0: 9. MathML 2.0 Second Edition Working Draft Published
Math homepage: http://www.w3.org/Math/

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