http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/441 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-05-14 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120514 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Community Groups Growing Source of Web Innovation 09 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9445 [] W3C announced today that eight months after the launch of Community Groups to speed Web innovation, more than 1200 people are participating in 80 groups with wide-ranging interests, including mobile profiles, Web games, and big data. "We wanted to encourage richer and more diverse conversations about Web technology at W3C, and we are off to a great start," said Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. "A number of design choices (such as the permissive copyright license) have made this an appealing work environment to important stakeholders. The program is young but promising, and will continue to impr</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-05-14T13:02:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/440 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-05-07 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120507 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Five Provenance Drafts Published 03 May 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9440 The Provenance Working Group published 5 Working Drafts today related to the PROV data model. Provenance information can be used for many purposes, such as understanding how data was collected so it can be meaningfully used, determining ownership and rights over an object, making judgments about information to determine whether to trust it, verifying that the process and steps used to obtain a result complies with given requirements, and reproducing how something was generated. The PROV model is used to represent provenance records, which contain descriptions of the entities and activities involved in p</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-05-07T22:24:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/439 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-04-30 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120430 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Call for Review: Media Queries Proposed Recommendation Published 26 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9430 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Media Queries." HTML and CSS support media-dependent style sheets tailored for different media types. For example, a document may use sans-serif fonts when displayed on a screen and serif fonts when printed. Media queries extend the functionality of media types by allowing more precise labeling of style sheets. Please see the Working Group's implementation report and the Media Queries Test Suite. Comments on the Proposed Recommendation are welcome through 23 May. Learn more about the</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-04-30T21:46:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/438 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-04-23 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120423 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Early bird extension until 25 April: W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Training Course 23 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9427 Get started in developing Web sites that work well on mobile devices by registering to W3C's "Mobile Web 1: Best Practices" online training course! The now 6-week long course starts Monday, 30 April. Read the course description and register before April 25 and save 30 Euros! http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-training/ http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=19 Call for Participation in The Graphical Web 2012 20 April 2012 | Arc</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-04-24T01:54:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/437 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-04-16 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120416 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Registration for W3C Online Course on Mobile Web Best Practices; Early Bird Rate Through 23 April 10 April 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9419 W3C is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the next edition of the most popular W3C online training course, Mobile Web 1: Best Practices. The 6-week course begins 30 April 2012. It will help Web designers and content producers who are already familiar with the desktop world to become familiar with the Web as delivered on mobile devices. It is based entirely on W3C standards, particularly the Mobile Web Best Practices. Along with the course description, read comments from past students and what they have achieved. An early </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-04-17T03:05:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/436 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-04-09 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120409 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Expands Presence at WWW 2012 to Increase Community Engagement 27 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9401 [] W3C invites developers, business, government, media, analysts, and all who attend the 2012 World Wide Web Conference to participate in the expanding W3C Track and learn how the Open Web Platform is transforming industry and society. W3C's activities at the conference this year, from 16-20 April at the Lyon Convention Center in France, include: http://www.www2012.org/ http://www2012.org/ http://www.w3.org/2012/04/w3c-track * Tim Berners-Lee Keynote (and participation in Workshops and a Panel) * W3C Tutorial Track (NEW!), four half-day presentations on </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-04-09T21:31:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/434 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-03-26 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120326 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Last Call: Widget Updates 22 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9396 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Widget Updates." This specification defines a process and a document format to allow a user agent to update an installed widget package with a different version of a widget package. A widget cannot automatically update itself; instead, a widget relies on the user agent to manage the update process. Comments are welcome through 19 April. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-widgets-updates-20120322/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ CSS Specifications Updated: Flexi</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-03-26T22:44:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/433 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-03-19 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120319 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Call for Review: Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic) Proposed Recommendation Published 15 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9391 The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic)." This document describes the Media Fragments 1.0 (basic) specification. It specifies the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs and explains how to handle them when used over the HTTP protocol. The syntax is based on the specification of particular name-value pairs that can be used in URI fragment and URI query requests to restrict a media resource to a certain fragment. The Media Fragment WG has no authority to update registries of all targ</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-03-19T22:09:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/432 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-03-12 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120312 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Launches Work to Simplify Creation of Content in World's Languages 07 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9377 [] Today W3C announced new work to make it easier for people to create Web content in the world's languages. The lack of standards for exchanging information about translations is estimated to cost the industry as much as 20% more in translation costs, amounting to billions of dollars. In addition, barriers to distributing content in more than one language mean lost business. Multinational companies often need to translate Web content into dozens of languages simultaneously, and public bodies from Europe and India typically must communicate with citizens in many lang</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-03-12T20:35:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/431 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-03-05 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120305 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Two Drafts Published by the CSS Working Group 28 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9375 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts today: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members * CSS Transforms. CSS transforms allows elements styled with CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. This specification is the convergence of the CSS 2D transforms, CSS 3D transforms and SVG transforms specifications. * CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3. This module describes the fragmentation model that partitions a flow into pages. It builds on the Page model module and introduces and defines </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-03-05T22:36:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/430 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-02-27 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120227 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- White House Supports Do Not Track Technology from W3C 23 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9372 Today the White House announces a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and support for W3C's Do Not Track technology. The announcement includes: "In response to calls from the Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), leading Internet companies and online advertising networks are committing to use Do Not Track technology from the World Wide Web Consortium in most major web browsers to make it easier for users to control online tracking." http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/23/we-can-t- wait-obama-administration-unveils-blueprint-privacy-bill-rights http:</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-02-27T23:40:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/429 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-02-20 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120220 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Opens Office in Russia 16 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9364 W3C announces today the opening of a new Russia Offices, as part of increasing inclusion and participation in W3C. The Office is hosted by the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (HSE), founded in 1992. As one of Moscow's leading Universities, HSE will work with W3C to strengthen ties to both industry and research in Russia as well as HSE's many international academic and industry partners. http://w3c.org.ru/ "I am happy to welcome W3C in Russia," said Victor Klintsov, Deputy Director of Institute of Information Technology at HSE and the head of the new Office. "It is very positiv</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-02-20T23:31:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/428 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-02-13 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120213 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- New Mobile Web 2 - Applications Course Open for Registration; Early Bird Rate through 1 March 10 February 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9359 W3C is pleased to announce that registration is open for a new W3C mobile Web course, "Mobile Web 2: Applications". Developed by the W3C/MobiWebApp team and taught by Robin Berjon, chair of the W3C Device APIs Working Group and recently elected as a TAG member, this mobile Web course gives developers all the tools and knowledge necessary to write mobile Web applications that can ship both online and in application stores, using today's advanced technologies. The 8-week course begins 12 March 2012 and costs 225 EUR. However, an early bird rate o</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-02-13T23:12:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/427 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-02-06 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120206 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Internet Society Board Approves Donation to Support W3C Stewardship of Open Web Platform 31 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9340 In its continuing efforts to foster an open Internet ecosystem, the Internet Society today announced a 1M USD donation to the World Wide Web Consortium. This donation, the final installment of the Internet Society’s 2009 pledge of 2.5M USD over three years, supports the continued evolution of W3C as an organization that creates open Web standards. http://www.internetsociety.org/ http://www.w3.org/2009/12/isocw3c-pr “The W3C is emblematic of the inclusive, multistakeholder approach that is critical to the continued development, operation, </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-02-07T03:08:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/426 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-01-30 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120130 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Launches Patent Advisory Group for Touch Events Specification 30 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9339 In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to disclosures related to the "Touch Events version 1" Specification. The Web Events Working Group develops this specification. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements. Public comments regarding these disclosures may be sent to public-te-pag&lt; at &gt;w3.org (with public archive). Learn more about Patent Advisory Groups. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-01-31T01:47:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/425 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-01-16 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120116 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- First Drafts of Two Provenance Specifications Published 10 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9314 The Provenance Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts: http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/ * PROV-AQ: Provenance Access and Query which specifies how to use standard Web protocols, including HTTP, to obtain information about the provenance of Web resources. This is part of the larger W3C provenance framework. Provenance refers to the sources of information, such as people and processes, involved in producing or delivering Web documents, data, and resources. * PROV Model Primer which provides an intuitive introduction and guide </pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-01-16T22:39:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/424 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-01-09 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120109 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Register for Mobile Web Best Practices Course; Early Bird Rate Ends 9 January 06 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9313 We invite you to register for the W3C Mobile Web and Application Best Practices (MWABP) course. Register by 9 January and save 60 Euros. This is the third edition of this online course, which begins 30 January for 8 weeks. Developed by the W3C/MobiWebApp team, this course will be taught by Frances de Waal and Phil Archer. Participants spend an average of 4-6 hours per week on the course material and assignments. Read the past students' feedback and find out more about the course. http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-train</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-01-10T03:30:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/424 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2012-01-09 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120109 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Register for Mobile Web Best Practices Course; Early Bird Rate Ends 9 January 06 January 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9313 We invite you to register for the W3C Mobile Web and Application Best Practices (MWABP) course. Register by 9 January and save 60 Euros. This is the third edition of this online course, which begins 30 January for 8 weeks. Developed by the W3C/MobiWebApp team, this course will be taught by Frances de Waal and Phil Archer. Participants spend an average of 4-6 hours per week on the course material and assignments. Read the past students' feedback and find out more about the course. http://www.w3devcampus.com/mobile-web-and-application-best-prac tices-train</pre> W3C Newsletter 2012-01-10T03:30:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/422 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2011-12-19 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20111219 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Seven Web Services Specifications are Recommendations 13 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9295 W3C is pleased to announce the publication of seven Web Services specifications from the Web Services Resource Access Working Group: "Enumeration (WS-Enumeration)," "Event Descriptions (WS-EventDescriptions)," "Eventing (WS-Eventing)" , "Fragment (WS-Fragment)," "Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange)," "SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions)" , and "Transfer (WS-Transfer)." Together, these specifications are designed to be composed with each other to provide a rich set of tools for the Web Services environment. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. http://www.w3.org/2002/</pre> W3C Newsletter 2011-12-20T03:59:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/421 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2011-12-12 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20111212 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- W3C Invites Implementations of The WebSocket API, Web Storage 08 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9287 The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ * The WebSocket API, which defines an API that enables Web pages to use the WebSocket protocol for two-way communication with a remote host. * Web Storage, which defines an API for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ W3C Workshop: The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead 09 December 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#</pre> W3C Newsletter 2011-12-12T23:02:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.announce/420 <pre>Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber, The 2011-12-05 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online: http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20111205 A simplified plain text version is available below. Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team ----------------------------------- Call for Review: Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 Proposed Recommendation Published 29 November 2011 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9274 The Media Annotations Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "Ontology for Media Resources 1.0." This document defines the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0. The term "Ontology" is used in its broadest possible definition: a core vocabulary. The intent of this vocabulary is to bridge the different descriptions of media resources, and provide a core set of descriptive properties. This document defines a core set of metadata properties for media resources, along with their mappings to elements from a set of existing metadata formats. Be</pre> W3C Newsletter 2011-12-05T22:47:14 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.w3c.announce