Australian W3C Office

Welcome to the July '03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, SVG, Amaya and CSS3.

1. Events
2. W3C Process Document and Publication Rules Published
3. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 Working Draft Published
4. SVG Print Working Draft Published
5. Amaya 8.1a Released
6. CSS3 Basic User Interface Last Call Published
7. W3C Advisory Committee Elects New Advisory Board
8. About this newsletter

1. Events

# Australian W3C Office - W3C Day - 18 August, Four Points Sheraton, Sydney

International experts at this year's W3C Day include Dr Ivan Herman (W3C Head of Offices), Dr Paul Cotton (W3C Technical Architecture Group and Microsoft), Dr Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C Architecture Domain Lead). The W3C Day is an annual opportunity for Australian IT professionals to hear from, and meet some of the driving forces in web standards today. Topics to be covered at the event include, XML Query, semantic web and web services.

This event is supported by the Federal Government and sponsored by Microsoft and DSTC. More information on the event is available at: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/w3c_day.html

# Free W3C Day spin-off talks

A number of the W3C Day talks will be repeated in various locations around Australia. For information on these talks and registration details please visit: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/

These spin-off talks are supported by the Federal Government, and sponsored by the DSTC, Microsoft, Monash University, Multimedia Victoria, National Library of Australia, the National Office for the Information Economy, The Distillery, The Learning Federation and the University of Technology, Sydney.

# Free W3C short workshop - Web Services

The Australian W3C Office, supported by the Federal Government, and sponsored by the DSTC, Monash University, Multimedia Victoria, National Library of Australia, the National Office for the Information Economy, TasIT, The Distillery, The Learning Federation and the University of Technology, Sydney is pleased to present a free, short workshop on Web Services in capital cities around Australia.

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 and 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 committed to keeping the Web open and interoperable - vital ingredients for the success of the Web. Building on the success fo HTML, XML and other W3C technologies, Web Services will help us realise the full potential of the Web. This talk will cover:

• What is Web Services?
• What is the W3C doing for Web Services?
• How Web Services can be used?
• How you can plan for Web Services?

For information on locations, dates and registration please visit: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/

# W3C - Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages

The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables Web sites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. P3P user agents will allow users to be informed of site practices (in both machine- and human-readable formats) and to automate decision-making based on these practices when appropriate. Thus users need not read the privacy policies at every site they visit. P3P adds transparency about privacy implications to the Web's Architecture. W3C has issued P3P 1.0 as a Recommendation on 16 April 2002. This Event gives the occasion for attendees of the 25th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners and all other interested parties to have a tutorial/introduction to P3P from inside W3C, to get some update about new developments and challenges for privacy enhanced technologies in the sector of web services and mobile applications.

URIs:

P3P 1.0 Recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/
Conference: http://www.privacyconference2003.org/
More info: http://www.w3.org/2003/09/09-sidney.html

2. W3C Process Document and Publication Rules Published

The 18 June 2003 W3C Process Document is operative effective today. Produced by the W3C Advisory Board and reviewed by the W3C, the document describes the structure and operations of the W3C. Among the changes are new document maturity levels, rules for amending Recommendations, and an enhanced liaison process for W3C work with partner organizations. The companion W3C Publication Rules have been updated and are public.

URIs:

Process Document: http://www.w3.org/2003/06/Process-20030618/
Process Changes: http://www.w3.org/2003/06/Process-20030618/
Publication Rules: http://www.w3.org/2003/05/27-pubrules

3. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 Working Draft Published

The SVG Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 outlining potential areas of new work. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group explicitly encourages public feedback on this draft.

URIs:

SVG 1.2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-SVG12-20030715/
SVG homepage: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
W3C Day SVG Presentation: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/w3c_day.html#herman2

4. SVG Print Working Draft Published

The SVG Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of SVG Print. The document assumes the reader is familiar with SVG 1.2, and is a guideline that explains how to use SVG 1.2 features for printing. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) describes two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. The Working Group invites public feedback on this draft.

URIs:

SVG Print: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-SVGPrint-20030715/
SVG Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
W3C Day SVG Presentation: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/w3c_day.html#herman2

5. Amaya 8.1a Released

Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.1a is a bug fix release with user interface, annotation, XHTML, HTML, MathML, SVG, and CSS enhancements. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available.

URIs:

Amaya homepage: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Download: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist

6. CSS3 Basic User Interface Last Call Published

The CSS Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Basic User Interface, a module of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. The document addresses user interface states and features, element fragments, forms, stylistic attributes in HTML, focus navigation, and styling elements as icons for accessibility. Comments are invited through 31 July.

URIs:

Basic User Interface: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-ui-20030703/
CSS homepage: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

7. W3C Advisory Committee Elects New Advisory Board

The W3C Advisory Committee has filled five open seats on the W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board participants are Ann Bassetti (Boeing), Jim Bell (Hewlett-Packard), Klaus Birkenbihl (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft), Carl Cargill (Sun Microsystems), Don Deutsch (Oracle), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Lauren Wood (Unaffiliated). Steve Zilles is the interim Advisory Board Chair.

URI:

W3C Advisory Board: http://www.w3.org/2003/06/Process-20030618/organization.html#AB

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